Gathering Storm

There are no saints in the Hundred Saints Cave; the name Town Mountain is accurate enough, though.

Town Mountain, outside the Hundred Saints Cave, the leading immortal said to the others, "The Hundred Saints Cave should be called the Hundred Demons Cave. Back when the Earthly Immortal Realm was first opened, the Three Pure Realms could not refine the great demons, and could only suppress them, so a portion of those great demons was suppressed right here. The Three Pure Realms ordered people to guard this place, which is why the names Town Mountain and Hundred Demons Cave came to be."

This immortal possessed an extraordinary air, ethereal and detached from worldly things, and smiled. "The people who guarded this place died or left, and later generations didn't know the origin of the spot, so they renamed the Hundred Demons Cave to the Hundred Saints Cave, though the name Town Mountain remained."

The woman beside him smiled. "Senior Brother Congyun is exceptionally knowledgeable, truly living up to his origins in the Shangqing Realm."

That young immortal, Congyun, smiled. "That disciples of my Shangqing Realm can surpass other peers in knowledge is not due to any skill of our own, but rather because the Shangqing Realm records quite a few secret histories. These secret histories were recorded by the disciples who followed the sages of the Three Pure Realms back then, writing down what they saw with their own eyes, which is why we juniors are able to witness them today."

He was a disciple of the Lingbao Sage's lineage within the Shangqing Realm, studying under True Master Zuo Xuan.

The others also came from extraordinary backgrounds; the woman was named Fang Qianxue, a disciple of Madam Yuan Ling.

The youth on the left was named Tong He, and the young