A Peering Gaze

The news from the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect instantly set everyone's nerves alight.

The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect's current predicament lay in its lack of anyone to carry on into the Joint Aperture Realm. Every measure they had taken now was meant to continuously raise their disciples' cultivation, so that someone might break through to the Joint Aperture Realm.

As long as another Joint Aperture Realm expert emerged, the Divine Flame Sect would likely retreat at once and stay far away from Xianyun City. Otherwise, if they were besieged by two Joint Aperture Realm experts from the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, the Divine Flame Sect would probably become history.

Before this incident, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had possessed three Peak Aperture Refining Realm experts. But just as breaking through from the Organ Refinement Realm into the Aperture Refining Realm was exceedingly difficult, breaking through into the Joint Aperture Realm was even harder.

Moreover, if one failed to break through to the Joint Aperture Realm, there was almost no chance of trying again. It was not that there were no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures capable of healing such injuries, but that one simply could not obtain those treasures.

The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect possessed a spirit tree, something everyone knew. Part of the credit for the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect's prosperity belonged to that spirit tree.

Such spirit trees were already extremely rare. Spiritual treasures capable of remedying the damage from a failed breakthrough were several times rarer still. Even when the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had once possessed the strength of two Joint Aperture Realm experts, they had not managed to gather such spiritual materials.

Thus, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect's three Peak Aperture Refining Realm experts had not been in a hurry to break through before, wishing