There were heavens beyond heaven, and people beyond people.
Fallen plum blossoms beneath the steps lay piled like snow.
Hearing this, Gao Jun did not think the other party was making alarmist threats to deliberately swindle her. She could only let out a faint sigh.
Over these years, she had practiced immortal family techniques with utmost diligence and devotion. Yet against this Banished Immortal who had returned to the Blessed Land, she still had only a ten percent chance of victory.
Since the other party had dared to come alone to Hushan Sect, he must have something to rely on—either his own strength was formidable enough, or helpers lay concealed in the shadows. Besides, during that encirclement in the capital of Nanyuan Kingdom, when every faction had taken the stage in powder and paint, this youthful Sword Immortal had been trapped in a tight siege. Yet he had ultimately risen above the rest, climbed the city wall to kill Ding Ying, and held down the capital, making Patriarch Yu afraid to set foot in the city. After that battle, his name shook the world.
Gao Jun issued an order through her thoughts, "Withdraw the formation."
Before Patriarch Yu ascended, he had left Hushan Sect a personally hand-drawn immortal formation diagram. However, Patriarch Yu had expressly instructed Gao Jun that this Mountain Protecting Formation could only remain an empty fancy for the time being. They had to wait for changes in the heavens, for a Heaven-sent sweet dew anomaly, before it could be put into practice. Gao Jun, always one to respect teachers and value the Dao, obeyed his decree. After emerging from seclusion, she traveled alone for several years, surveying the Five Mountains beneath heaven and entering mountains alone to seek immortals, hoping to find Fellow Daoists. At the same