Time flowed on.
Ji Ning continued his journey through the world of the Prime Reaches, going through the various battlefields and scars that had been left upon the land.
While doing so, Ning came to realize that there were actually thirty-nine different types of scars! It must be understood that even Eternal Emperors who had gained eternity through the Dao of the Sword would all have followed different paths and interpreted their Daos in unique, special ways. Thus, there were differences in the 'Dao vestiges' they left behind through their attacks, making it fairly simple to differentiate the scars and markings into multiple 'types'.