"Gu Yue."
Inside the quiet room, Chen Ping'an studied the Azure Silk Scroll closely, looking at the densely packed words of profound meaning upon it, his thoughts sinking deep.
As for the upheaval in the Gu Yue Clan of the Ancient Square Realm, these past few days, it had spread like wildfire through the Celestial Circle of the Azure Cang Realm. Even in the mainstream circles of Northern Mountain Pass, and among the Pseudo Celestial circles, the matter was often being brought up.
A Great Cultivator had fallen!
A Great Cultivator—even if one passed away naturally in seated meditation—was a hot topic current enough to shake every realm.
Let alone a death under abnormal circumstances, as with the Gu Yue Clan.
It was not merely the fall of one Great Cultivator; it also involved another Great Cultivator gravely wounded and unconscious, said to have injuries too severe to recover from.
Under such circumstances, if one were to say which affair drew the most focus among the surrounding realms, this matter would absolutely have a place on the list, and rank near the very top.
As the news continued to spread, Chen Ping'an learned more and more of the inside story.
It was said that on the day Gu Yuezhong returned, he flew into a thunderous rage, his angry roar startling like thunder, his voice surging like a tide, while within a hundred li, wind and cloud changed the heavens.
There were also rumors that when that mysterious swordsman attacked, it seemed he had only drawn a single sword stroke. Beneath that one stroke, a Great Cultivator's body perished. The other Great Cultivator, Gu Yueyuan, fought desperately, burning his essence blood and borrowing the might of a secret art to barely preserve his life, but he had no strength left to