For ten thousand years, perhaps apart from the summit councils of the Sword Qi Great Wall, no one had ever made four Sword Immortals like these seem willing to serve as green leaves beside a flower.
Qi Tingji.
Sect Master of the Dragon Elephant Sword Sect in Southern Posuo Continent, head of the Qi clan at the Sword Qi Great Wall, and an old Sword Immortal who had once carved his name into the city wall. He stood at the peak of the Ascension Realm. He had drawn his sword across three battlefields in a foreign land and won the respect of all Vast Heaven and Earth by his strength alone.
Lu Zhi.
She was the only female Great Sword Immortal on the Sword Qi Great Wall. Rumor had it that she was originally from Vast Heaven and Earth, but Lu Zhi had always considered herself a native sword cultivator of the Great Wall. Her killing power was immense. Though she was not in the Ascension Realm, she could certainly be regarded as an Ascension Realm sword cultivator; otherwise, she would not have ranked above Old Deafy, who was in that realm. Nalan Shaowei, one of the ten peak Sword Immortals on the city wall, had even said it himself: as the sword cultivator at the bottom of that ranking, he stood not far ahead of Yue Qing and Mi Hu, those peak-level candidates. Between them and Lu Zhi, however, lay the distance of two Nalan Shaoweis.
A Liang was a descendant of a Sage's household, yet he had spent a century wandering the Sword Qi Great Wall. He had once been its most famous scholar.
Before A Liang appeared, the sword cultivators of the Sword Qi Great Wall had held a simple impression of Vast Heaven and Earth: they