Twenty years had passed since the standoff between the two Venerables in the Sea of Nether Souls.
Over those twenty years,
the Star Luo Sea had undergone tremendous changes.
The two greatest events were Venerable Fuyou's death,
and Venerable Chuoyun's unification of the Heavenly Roc and Kun Cloud Sects.
He even changed the sect banner and renamed it the "Kunpeng Sect." After using great divine power to integrate the two sects, Venerable Chuoyun announced his seclusion, vowing to refine the inheritance and charge into the late Spirit Transformation stage.
The Kunpeng Sect had become a transcendent force in the Star Luo Sea in one stroke. No Star Luo cultivator dared contend with it. Though it had made no major moves and was only expanding slowly, it had already squeezed the surrounding great sects until they could barely endure.
The flood dragon clan of the Eastern Sea shrank back into the Eastern Sea and turned a blind eye to the loss of an entire domain.
Ever since the Beast Taming Sect's defeat a century ago, it had gradually begun to decline. In recent years, it had lost even its edge. Even if it could preserve its current foundation in the end, it would most likely only be because the Kunpeng Sect showed regard for the Eastern Wasteland's beast tamers. Otherwise, it would sooner or later be swallowed by the Kunpeng Sect.
As for problems within the Kunpeng Sect itself, there were quite a few.
After all, this concerned the two sides' cultivation philosophies. It all had to be resolved through the ancient Kunpeng inheritance.
Fortunately, they shared the same roots. Even though bloody storms had been stirred up, nothing went too far under the Venerable's control. These twenty years were said to be a period of seclusion and breakthrough, but how