Powerful cultivators had gathered in force; this was the greatest highlight of this year's Flat Peach Assembly, and at the same time, it had planted a hidden danger.
That was right—joy and worry were mixed together!
While people looked forward to all sorts of treasures appearing, they also worried that they had lost their competitive edge.
With the powerful cultivators of the Three Realms gathered at Yaochi, even if a treasure that truly stirred the heart appeared, how much confidence did they have of snatching it into their own hands?
Asking themselves honestly, they really did not have much confidence at all.
They worried over gains and losses!
Amid such uneasy feelings, time continued to pass without pause.
At last, the Flat Peach Assembly began.
This grand event, watched by all and eagerly awaited by countless old monsters of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, finally drew back its curtain.
That day, just as the morning sun rose, an ancient, simple bell tone drifted into their ears.
Tranquil, distant...
That bell tone was clearly vast to the extreme, filled with the simple, ancient aura of the Primordial Era, and yet it somehow made one's state of mind settle into peace, as if all worries had been washed clean.
It felt incomparably refreshing.
"Phew!"
Lin Xuan rose with a flick of his robes and exhaled a breath of turbid air from his chest.
He had long heard of this bell's great name as well. It was called "Qu Fan." Legend had it that hearing it once could wash clean the three thousand strands of worry; if a cultivator's cultivation of the state of mind had stagnated, then hearing twelve tolls of the bell might even allow them to break through a bottleneck.
It sounded somewhat mystical, yet there was absolutely no exaggeration in