Martial Forest Alliance.
With a great war imminent, under Fang Li's command, the entire Martial Forest Alliance was making tense yet orderly preparations for battle.
In the council hall, Zhao Chuanxiong looked at an invitation on the table, sighing at times and frowning at others.
"Senior Zhao, you sigh so heavily. Has another difficult problem arisen?" At some point, Fang Li had entered the hall and asked in confusion.
"It's Xiao Li!" Zhao Chuanxiong turned to look at Fang Li, welcomed him inside, then handed him the invitation on the table.
"Changliu Martial Trial?" The invitation bore no special secret art. Fang Li opened it, looked at the four words written upon it, pondered for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "This Heaven One Sect is?"
Fang Li was not a martial artist and knew little of the many martial sects across the Nine Provinces.
Zhao Chuanxiong paced slowly through the hall and recalled, "Before Great Yang, there was another dynasty called Li Yang. After Li Yang was founded, Heaven One Sect was revered as its state sect. At that time, both Tai Xuan Sect and the Martial Temple were martial sects at the height of the blazing sun, yet Heaven One Sect still overshadowed them.
"A hundred years after Li Yang's founding, the Heaven One Sect's sect master failed in his attempt to enter the Transcendent Realm. During that year's Jiazi Martial Trial Assembly, Tai Xuan Sect joined forces with numerous sects and dragged Heaven One Sect down from its altar. This matter planted the seeds of disaster that led to Li Yang's destruction.
"After that incident, Heaven One Sect sealed itself away for more than two thousand years. It did not even emerge during that era of turmoil. Yet now it has suddenly burst onto the scene and intends