The autumn wind blew into Mystic Valley.
Gu An sat on a tree branch, looking down at the sparring in the woods. Jiang Shi and An Shengtian were exchanging fists, kicks, and movement techniques, master and disciple fighting back and forth.
Jiang Shi possessed an ultimate lifespan of four thousand eight hundred years, while An Shengtian's ultimate lifespan reached five thousand years. Judging by aptitude, the gap between them was not large.
After cultivating for many years, An Shengtian could be considered to have grown up. In terms of fists and kicks alone, he could fight Jiang Shi to a standstill.
However, their sparring was not interesting enough in Gu An's eyes. Though Gu An was watching them, his mind was actually on Li Ya.
Ever since escaping death last time, Li Ya had been hunted by the Heavenly Demon Great Sect. Fortunately, no especially powerful beings had set their sights on him yet; the strongest among those pursuing him was only in the Wandering Immortal Realm.
Right now, Li Ya was in the midst of slaughter.
The vast majority of the believers in the Heavenly Demon Great Sect were reincarnations of heavenly demons who had awakened their original souls, but there were also some who were originally heavenly demons from Beyond Heaven who had infiltrated this world. Those who could descend as heavenly demons were almost all at the Fourth Heaven of the Immortal Path or above.
After years of bitter war with the Immortal Dynasty, the Sacred Court's control over Beyond Heaven was growing weaker and weaker. When Gu An raised his eyes and looked, there were always figures entering and leaving the Heavenly Spirit Great World, and no one dared to stop them.
Under such circumstances, the Heavenly Demon Great Sect rose rapidly, sweeping across the whole