Chapter 1290: Exposed! Another Dao Master!
Eldritch Progenitor Hou Tu and Dao Zenithel Wan Yu divined the existence of the Samsara Sword? Wu Yuan's mind reeled at this revelation.
He recalled Senior Tian Xu's assertion that the Samsara Sword had never manifested in the world and remained unknown to all. Clearly, this wasn't entirely accurate. While the sword's capabilities remained shrouded in mystery, its existence wasn't completely a secret.
Xuanhuang Dao Treasures truly are rarer than I imagined. Wu Yuan reflected. Besides those wielded by the ten Dao Masters, only a handful have ever emerged throughout history.
The list of owners was short but illustrious: Eldritch Progenitor Hou Tu, the Heavenly Imperator, the Eldritch Progenitor Di Jiang, Great Emperor Yan Tuo, and Dao Zenithel Wan Yu.
Even without a Xuanhuang Dao Treasure, they already stood at the apex of the cosmic sea; with them, their might eclipsed all other Dao Zenithels.
Since the Primordium, through hundreds of samsara cycles of heaven and earth, if we exclude those obtained by Dao Masters...That means only one Xuanhuang Dao Treasure emerges approximately every hundred cycles? The realization struck him forcefully. No wonder Eldritch Progenitor Hou Tu warned that missing this opportunity might mean never encountering another.
A perplexing question surfaced in his mind. In terms of raw strength, the Dao Masters rank among the weaker Dao Zenithels. Was there such upheaval when their Xuanhuang Dao Treasures appeared?
Could they have prevailed against other Dao Zenithels in a large-scale conflict?
More curious still, from everything Wu Yuan had learned, most Dao Masters maintained low profiles. The process of them acquiring their Xuanhuang Dao Treasures seemed remarkably discreet, with scant information reaching the broader world.
Why was his situation so dramatically different?
Perhaps when the Dao Masters claimed their Xuanhuang Dao Treasures, it was during the earliest dawn of the Primordial Era. That was an age when Dao Zenithels were scarce, let alone True Saints. Wu Yuan thought of a possibility. They may well have been the only Dao Zenithels in the entire cosmic sea at that time.
Soon afterward, Wu Yuan's avatar bid farewell to Eldritch Progenitor Hou Tu.