Leaving Seclusion - Please Vote!

Daoist Yan stood atop the ancient Azure Firmament tree, the heavenly wind whipping around her.

The ancient tree faced Shushan's mountain gate. When she raised her eyes, she saw Crimson Cotton Peak, streaked with falling lights and soaring spirit birds, so bustling it seemed unreal.

She froze for a moment.

How many years had passed during this seclusion? How had Shushan become like this? Could the seas have turned to mulberry fields?

Everything was so unfamiliar. Fortunately, the ancient Azure Firmament tree remained, and her own Azure Firmament Peak still looked as it always had. She did not dwell on it.

Because the instant she emerged from seclusion was when her edge was at its sharpest. Her Sword Qi pierced the heavens, reaching the celestial gate, and every powerful sword cultivator across the four seas and nine provinces sensed it.

Before three breaths had passed, a strand of Sword Qi condensed from white clouds came flying from the west.

Vast and mighty, its power cowed the nine provinces, as though it bore heavenly soldiers and generals upon it.

It came from the endless white clouds over the Western Sea, gathering into a sword that crossed seas and mountains, carrying the majesty of supreme swordsmanship. It was not difficult to guess who had struck.

The instant Daoist Yan emerged from seclusion, the Sword Dao trembled, and the Cloud-Cleaving Great Dao clashed even more violently. The Sword Emperor of the Western Sea had naturally sensed it as well. This sword was his probe.

The sword-cloud pressed down from the sky with howling winds, seemingly trying to suppress Daoist Yan's sharpness upon leaving seclusion.

Only one sword could stand above the Cloud-Cleaving Great Dao. No sharper person was permitted to exist!

Daoist Yan's response, however, was a faint smile.

She raised two fingers