Beginning of autumn, the tenth day of the seventh month.
Auspicious for travel, moving into a new house, and breaking ground.
At the hour of the Dragon that morning, the Dingyang Bell rang throughout the inner and outer mountain gates.
The Yunyang Sect suddenly dispatched five flying ships and a hundred Purple Mansion cultivators, led by Mu Qingqiu, on an expedition to the Outer Region.
Several thousand elite Qi Condensation cultivators accompanied them as well.
Yet the entire Yunyang Sect possessed only a dozen-odd Magic Treasure Flying Ships, two hundred Purple Mansion cultivators, and three Golden Core cultivators.
Mu Qingqiu was known as the "Heavenly Cloud's Number One Sword." In terms of combat power, none in the sect could rival her.
It could therefore be said that this deployment represented half of the Yunyang Sect's strength!
Because the Yunyang Sect had made such a grand display without concealing anything, the news swiftly spread throughout the Land of the Mountain Gate.
Countless people were gripped by fear and terror.
Wang Chen cultivated the Five Elements Technique at home, striving to break through to the Fifth layer of Qi Refining.
Three days later, news arrived that Mu Qingqiu had led her army eight thousand li across the Outer Region, consecutively smashing four Gray-Eyed Bandit hideouts, destroying two sacrificial temples, and slaughtering over ten thousand Evil God believers.
Moreover, Mu Qingqiu had personally made a move and slain a Golden Core Evil Cultivator!
This battle was hailed as the Yunyang Sect's most glorious victory since it had wiped out the Three-Eyed Cult.
With this, the Yunyang Sect defended its honor as Heavenly Cloud's Number One Sect.
When news of the great victory returned to the mountain gate—
That night, Yunyang City blazed with lanterns and silver flowers, bright as day without