Sword Pavilion, Extreme Heaven Cliff.
This was the secluded cultivation site of True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde. With a True Lord stationed here, its bearing was naturally extraordinary; from afar, it seemed to carry an intent that pierced the heavens.
At this moment, numerous Foundation Establishment True Persons were converging upon this place.
Among them were the Ancestor of the Yun Family and Xiu Xin True Person. Even Xiaohai True Person of the Coastal Li Clan had come. Neither side could stand the sight of the other.
Before long, the crowd streamed into a great hall.
At the head of the hall stood a sinister-looking Daoist with his hands behind his back, gazing at a map hanging on the wall. It depicted Jiangnan.
He wore a black robe, his beard unkempt, with a plain and ancient-looking treasured sword hanging at his waist. Yet little spiritual radiance showed from it, as though it were merely a piece of mundane iron. No aura leaked from his body either. At first glance, he looked like some down-and-out wandering swordsman one might find anywhere in a mortal kingdom.
He stood there, wholly focused on the map upon the wall.
And in one corner of that map, the region he had specially marked was none other than the Ten Thousand Man Pit. Its meaning needed no explanation.
"Greetings, True Person Demon-Queller!"
The Foundation Establishment cultivators landed inside the hall and immediately withdrew their radiance. One after another, they cupped their hands toward the Daoist at the head of the hall, not daring to reveal the slightest disrespect in their words.
After all, this man was no ordinary figure.
True Person Demon-Queller, Ye Guangji, was the foremost figure of the Sword Pavilion's Ye Clan beneath True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde. He had spent years cultivating at