They Are the Profound Heaven Sect

All the lights that had previously rushed to the lone peak returned towards the peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect.

The young cultivator in white robes didn't say anything further and was taken away by a beam of sword light.

Wang Li still stood at the edge of the cliff, quietly watching the lights and the peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect. The chill in the slightly cold mountain breeze seemed to gradually accumulate on his face.

The lines of his face turned stern in the darkness.

He was a disciple of the Profound Heaven Sect.

When he was brought into the Profound Heaven Sect to cultivate, he trained among those peaks, just like the other newly admitted disciples.

Like many newcomers taken in by the various sects of the Lesser Jade Continent, their birthplaces were all on the Eastern Extremity Continent.

The Eastern Extremity Continent was the continent to the east of the Lesser Jade Continent.

It was just that the Eastern Extremity Continent no longer existed.

It had been destroyed in the Chaos Tide.

For countless years, various living beings had vied for better living environments, and cultivators gradually occupied the continents rich in spiritual energy.

As some powerful sects emerged, their enemies were squeezed out and found it difficult to survive in these resource-rich continents, forcing them to flee into continents with harsher living conditions.

Gradually, the continents occupied by sects under the protection or the Dao Precepts of those supreme sects became clearly distinct from those with harsh living environments.

Among the continents with harsh living environments and no absolute order, those with relatively decent spiritual energy were called the Chaos Lands. As for those with almost no heaven and earth spiritual energy, and even filled with a large amount of spiritual poison detrimental to cultivators, where cultivators could not even maintain their original realm after a long stay, they were called the Desperate Lands, meaning a dead land where even their original realm would be severed.

Those cultivators who hid in the Chaos Lands, forced to cultivate there, known as evil cultivators or demonic cultivators, were originally the failures from the endless process of the weak being preyed upon by the strong over countless years.

These people harbored a natural hostility towards all sects occupying continents rich in spiritual energy. Their descendants born in the Chaos Lands, and the sects they produced, naturally became enemies of these continents.

These cultivators from the Chaos Lands were completely incapable of confronting the powerful sects of the Central Divine Continent in terms of absolute strength. It was almost impossible for them to defeat and replace those most powerful sects.

However, their assassinations and plunders, by scattering and infiltrating the resource-rich continents, never ceased.

Similarly, to resist the enemies from the Chaos Lands, the Immortal Sects of various continents would send large numbers of cultivators into these Chaos Lands to purge these evil cultivators and demonic cultivators.

These cultivators from the chaotic continents were often at an absolute disadvantage, but inevitably, they would also produce some extraordinary individuals through special encounters. Sometimes, these cultivators from the chaotic continents would launch simultaneous attacks in many areas, carrying out retaliatory massacres and plunder.

Such times were called the Chaos Tide.

In the face of this Chaos Tide, led by the powerful sects of the Central Divine Continent, the Immortal Sects of various continents would immediately organize a strong counterattack.

The allied forces of the Immortal Sects from various continents would counterattack into the chaotic continents for a purge.

Then, the forces within these chaotic continents would suffer heavy losses, and the chaotic continents would become even more disordered. For many years afterward, they would lie dormant amidst more hatred, accumulating strength, and waiting for the next Chaos Tide.

Wang Li could actually understand this kind of killing stemming from the struggle for survival rights and deep-seated hatred.

He certainly supported the powerful sects of the Central Divine Continent and those around it gathering countless sects to attack the Chaos Lands to eliminate the threats there as much as possible, in order to maintain their status.

Because his own Eastern Extremity Continent had suffered a massacre by the allied forces of the Chaos Lands, until it completely lost order and became a chaotic continent.

Since the conflict was irreconcilable, for him who was caught in the middle, he strongly agreed with revenge.

But what he could not accept was the sacrifice demanded of others after those supreme sects had gained sufficient benefits.

For many years in the past, before that Chaos Tide, many cultivators from many sects in continents bordering the Chaos Lands were already engaged in constant battles with the enemies within the Chaos Lands.

The Profound Heaven Sect was also one of these forces.

Or rather, the Profound Heaven Sect of the past.

For generations, a considerable number of cultivators from the Profound Heaven Sect had entered the Chaos Lands for training. Some even stationed themselves in continents encroached upon by chaotic forces. Some of them had fought in the Chaos Lands for over a hundred years without ever returning to the Profound Heaven Sect.

But they were always disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect, and they always maintained contact with the Profound Heaven Sect through various channels.

Many cultivation resources were sent back from those places from time to time, and many deeds were recorded in the ancient texts of the Profound Heaven Sect, inspiring reverence in the younger generation of cultivators.

Many cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sect also yearned for it, aspiring to become like those predecessors. Even if they died in the continents controlled by chaotic forces, just like many predecessors of the Profound Heaven Sect, these people would surely feel it was worthwhile.

Because for them, the Profound Heaven Sect was their sect, and also their home.

To protect their home, to win better living rights for their home, and to inspire the younger generation to become like themselves, they would not hesitate even if they died.

His senior sister, Lü Shenliang, was one of the cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sect who was inspired by those predecessors and aspired to become one of them.

If nothing unexpected had happened, Lü Shenliang would also have entered the Chaos Lands, perhaps never to return.

If that were the case, he would not have met Lü Shenliang.

However, something unexpected happened.

Regarding those unexpected events, different sects had different interpretations, and different people had different views.

But for him and Lü Shenliang, the factual outcome was that those supreme sects, under the guise of punishing the Chaos Lands, had redivided their spheres of influence, ultimately forming the Three Sages, who now ruled the Immortal Sects of all continents.

All sects that acted according to the rules set by the Three Sages, that is, the Three Sages' Dao Precepts, were the orthodox immortal sects under the Three Sages.

The Immortal Sects of various continents were rewarded based on their merits during the campaign against the Chaos Lands, and their respective sect territories were demarcated.

Was this fair?

For some sects, it was very fair.

But for the Profound Heaven Sect, in the eyes of Lü Shenliang and him, it was certainly not fair.

At the end of that Chaos Tide, during the campaign against the Chaos Lands, a group of Profound Heaven Sect cultivators were completely annihilated in the chaotic continent for defying orders.

According to later historical records, that punitive expedition had achieved a great victory. The Three Sages believed that the various sects no longer had a need for frantic slaughter. In the continent where those Profound Heaven Sect cultivators were located, the evil cultivator sects had chosen to surrender, so the fighting could stop. However, those Profound Heaven Sect cultivators disobeyed the order and refused to cease hostilities.

But was that really the case?

As far as Lü Shenliang knew at the time, the truth was far from it!

She didn't know how the battles in the other chaotic continents were going, but according to the messages constantly sent back by those Profound Heaven Sect cultivators, the cultivators of the so-called orthodox immortal sects fighting in their chaotic continent had not gained an overwhelming advantage.

Furthermore, the subsequent ceasefire was due to some reason they were completely unaware of. The Three Sages and the rulers of those chaotic continents seemed to have reached some sort of deal or agreement.

It wasn't a negotiation for peace after a complete victory and the elimination of all threats, driven by mercy. Instead, it was a peace talk based on the exchange of secret conditions.

They hadn't even regained absolute control over some previously lost continents like the Eastern Extremity Continent. How could such a punitive expedition be considered a great victory?

Moreover, given the situation at the time, many obedient withdrawals would have put cultivators from some sects in extreme danger. Many cultivators who had ventured deep into the Chaos Lands would not have been able to withdraw in time.

However, as long as the stability of the Central Divine Continent and the surrounding seventy-odd continents under the rule of the Three Sages could be maintained, and as long as they continued to occupy the best cultivation resources, this seemed to be an acceptable peace settlement for the Three Sages.

It seemed as if they were using the blood of others to force the Chaos Lands to acknowledge the status of the Three Sages.

Therefore, those Profound Heaven Sect cultivators could not accept it.

"How many people have we lost here?"

"They want us to fight when they want, and stop when they want?"

"They want us to stop and go back to accept so-called rewards? Can they bring back to life those who died here?"

"I refuse."

On a certain evening, when the sunset was as red as blood, the Profound Heaven Sect cultivator who led them calmly refused the order to stop fighting, rejected such a peace settlement, and chose to continue the battle.

Then they were annihilated in the chaotic continent.

Wang Li later even felt that these Profound Heaven Sect cultivators had been besieged by both the power of the Three Sages and the power of the Chaos Lands.

News of these Profound Heaven Sect cultivators disobeying orders reached the Profound Heaven Sect.

Lü Shenliang felt that the entire Profound Heaven Sect would make the same choice as them.

But she was wrong.

The Profound Heaven Sect silently accepted the outcome.

The Profound Heaven Sect chose to obey.

The Profound Heaven Sect became one of the Seventy-two Immortal Sects of the Lesser Jade Continent.

At that time, she was only a cultivator at the sixth level of Foundation Establishment.

Because she possessed an immortal spiritual root, she was assigned the best elite cave dwelling in the Profound Heaven Sect. She was on Tongxuan Peak, only one peak away from Hezhen Peak, where the Sect Master and elders of the Profound Heaven Sect resided.

It was said that the moment she heard the Profound Heaven Sect's decision, her angry voice resounded throughout Tongxuan Peak and reached the entire Hezhen Peak!

"I am not convinced!"

She was restrained by several elders of the Profound Heaven Sect and forced into secluded cultivation.

Several years later, she successfully passed her Foundation Establishment tribulation and advanced to the Golden Core stage, but an accident occurred.

She was abandoned on a solitary peak.

She was not allowed to enter any of the other peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect.

In the same year, Wang Li, at the first level of Qi Refining, silently packed his belongings and entered the solitary peak.

Then, the solitary peak became the home for him and his senior sister, Lü Shenliang.

For Lü Shenliang, the Profound Heaven Sect was her sect, her home.

It was the same for Wang Li.

They had not betrayed the Profound Heaven Sect.

But for him and Lü Shenliang, the thirty-one peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect not far away, which still shone with colorful spiritual lights in the night and appeared as lively as ever, were no longer their home.

He and those who came to the solitary peak today, including those currently within the thirty-one peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect, were close in proximity but distant in heart.

The place he was now silently gazing at was where he had once stayed and where he had wanted to protect along with the true cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sect.

But now, that place was no longer the Profound Heaven Sect.

Those people on the thirty-one peaks had betrayed the Profound Heaven Sect.

This solitary peak was the Profound Heaven Sect.

He and his senior sister were the Profound Heaven Sect.