“We... how did we come back?”
The Dingyuan Sect Ancestor cried out in a trembling voice.
The Haoran Sect Ancestor and the others were also pale, looking at each other in disbelief.
“Turn around, turn around quickly! We must have just lost our way and circled back without realizing it!”
Although he knew something was likely wrong, the Haoran Sect Ancestor continued to shout unwillingly.
“Yes, yes... that must be it!”
The Blood River Ancestor chimed in as well.
The group turned the spirit boat around once more and continued flying toward the Central Province.
A moment later!
The group arrived back at the shore once again!
“How is this possible?”
The Dingyuan Sect Ancestor screamed in shock.
The Haoran Sect Ancestor and the others were ashen-faced, their entire bodies shivering.
Without saying another word, they turned the boat around again.
The group spent the entire night struggling, only to end up spinning in circles along the coast of the Wuwang Sea...
The problem was, they didn't even see a single soul.
In the end, dejected and soul-crushed, they each went back to their respective homes.
It wasn't that they didn't want to run anymore, but they had discovered they simply couldn't get out.
Most importantly, they were terrified of the expert watching them from the shadows. If they annoyed him too much with their antics, he might just kill them outright!
“Why go through all that trouble? Just break their legs, and they won't be able to run!”
Hanyan watched their retreating figures and muttered to himself.
The Grand Elder rolled his eyes.
“If you break their legs, how can they serve as sparring partners for Diao San and the others? Do you want to run all the way to the Central Province to catch new ones?”
Hanyan choked on his words and went silent.
Fine, he had forgotten about that part!
A moment later, the two of them also vanished into the void.
...
“Sleep, my baby, sleep... sleep, my dear baby, sleep...”
Inside a pure white, boundless space, there were no sun, moon, or stars, and no wind or clouds flowed.
There was only an old and somewhat gentle voice, drifting and chanting softly.
The owner of the voice was the grandfather who had been teleported away by Lu Ming—the legendary but unseen current Sect Master of the Qingshan Sect.
At this moment, his face was tense, and his expression was solemn.
At the same time, he deliberately restrained his aura, cautiously humming a gentle lullaby.
In the void before him, on a reclining chair condensed from endless Heavenly Dao laws...
A woman with an indistinguishable face but an astounding presence lay in a deep sleep.
What was most terrifying was the Heavenly Dao aura circulating around her.
The supreme pressure of the order of the universe was invisible and intangible, yet it loomed heavily over the entire void.
This woman, this chair, and even this pure white space were all condensed from primordial Heavenly Dao rules.
The Sect Master of the Qingshan Sect hummed softly under his breath while glancing at her out of the corner of his eye, his heart in his throat.
It wasn't that he didn't want to look at her directly, but he didn't dare.
Because a single direct look might damage his soul.
Their Qingshan Sect was actually an ancient power passed down from the Immortal Ancient era.
There were likely more than just their one ancient power on the entire Xuantian Continent.
Where were the other ancient powers hiding?
The Qingshan Sect appeared to be the number one power on the Xuantian Continent.
In reality, he, the Grand Elder, and the others had deliberately hidden their cultivation levels.
During the Immortal Ancient era, the Xuantian Continent was actually a realm no worse than the Immortal Realm.
In the end, for reasons unknown, a great war broke out.
Cultivators suffered heavy casualties, and the entire realm was nearly destroyed by the fighting.
As for why they fought and who was fighting whom, that remained unknown.
After that war, the space of the entire realm was shattered, and immortal qi dissipated.
The Tianxuan Continent was nearly beaten down into a mortal realm.
It could no longer support the cultivation needs of high-level cultivators.
The few high-level cultivators who hadn't died either left the Xuantian Continent...
Or slowly died here because there wasn't enough immortal qi to sustain their cultivation.
Many Immortal Ancient powers left behind their legacies.
The Qingshan Sect was one of them.
Of course, all of this was information that the Sect Master and the Grand Elder had deduced from the inheritances of the Qingshan Sect.
Long after that great war, the Xuantian Continent finally began to recover slowly.
The spiritual energy gradually became denser as well!
As time passed, it seemed the Xuantian Continent was about to upgrade and return to its state from the Immortal Ancient era.
It was during that time that he and the Grand Elder were taken in as disciples by an old man from the Qingshan Sect.
Just when everyone thought the recovery of the Xuantian Continent was only a matter of time...
Another unexpected change occurred!
The Heavenly Dao of the Xuantian Continent seemed to have developed a problem.
It was also at this time that the Grand Elder suddenly divined that their Qingshan Sect faced a sect-extinguishing crisis.
The kind where the entire sect would be wiped out completely.
When the Grand Elder tried to calculate the cause, he was actually struck by backlash and nearly lost his life.
However, he did manage to calculate a few things in the end.
Their entire Qingshan Sect was ultimately meant to be someone else's stepping stones.
After fulfilling their purpose, they would all die!
And the one orchestrating all of this actually pointed faintly toward the Heavenly Dao.
After learning all this, the Sect Master and the Grand Elder directly disbanded the Qingshan Sect!
You want our Qingshan Sect to be a stepping stone?
We'll just disband. To hell with that!
In the time that followed, because the Sect Master's cultivation could no longer improve and his lifespan was nearing its end, he had no choice but to enter life-or-death seclusion!
The Grand Elder and the others had also been searching for a way to break the fate.
He just hadn't expected that while his seclusion wasn't going very well...
He would be dug out of a secret realm by his own dear nephew—the current Eldest Senior Brother of the Qingshan Sect, the Great Sect Master of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and the head of the family of the Huaguoshan lineage, Lu Ming.
This worthless brat not only snatched his coffin and stripped him of his cloak of invisibility, but he also carried him around to block lightning.
He did every single thing that invites a lightning strike!
As it turned out, he even struck up a friendship with the lightning, which eventually became willing to be his lackeys.
What kind of madness was that?
Finally, in the lands of the demon race, Lu Ming had inadvertently awakened him using a secret technique from the Southern Frontier.
But the moment he woke up, he found himself teleported away. That's right, he was dumped right here!
The Heavenly Dao's sleeping place!
When he first arrived, he nearly wet his pants. Fortunately, he reacted in time and held it in.
Otherwise, it would have been incredibly embarrassing, even if no one knew.
Although, if it weren't for Lu Ming awakening him...
He might have failed his seclusion and died anyway.
But then again, being teleported here was no different from being dead!
If the Heavenly Dao woke up, wouldn't she just slap him to death?
At the same time, looking at the Heavenly Dao before him, he felt something was strange.
Because the reason she was sleeping was that she was injured!
Thinking about how she was the one who had arranged for the destruction of the Qingshan Sect, the Sect Master wanted to take the opportunity to kill her!
But he discovered he couldn't even get close to the Heavenly Dao.
Not only that, looking at her too much made it easy to get injured.
Left with no choice, the Qingshan Sect Master decided to leave first and figure things out later.
But then he found he couldn't escape, which was extremely frustrating!
Even though he couldn't get out, he could see everything happening on the Xuantian Continent through the surrounding rules wall.
A few days ago, while he was studying how to escape...
He had also watched the scene of his dear nephew killing his fiancée on the rules wall.
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