"Indeed. Since that person left, Hidden Star Peak had produced one expert after another. With the True Martial School's head supporting it as well, it was hardly strange that it possessed its current strength!" Someone clearly agreed with this view.
"Alas, but precisely because of that, it had instead become a path to calamity at this time!" someone sighed. "It was precisely because of Hidden Star Peak's glory over the past century that it had become a force the Demon Worship Sect focused on striking. Furthermore, Hidden Star Peak now ranked among the ten strongest inheritances and charged at the very front in every battle. Its losses were now devastating. In every sip and peck, fate had its decree—it was as though all its fortune had been spent in a single night!"
"There were too many heroes under heaven to count, yet there were probably not many who could compare with that person. Even before heaven and earth changed, that person would surely have been a towering figure!"
"Exactly. I heard that person went to another world. Who knew what kind of sights lay there? Perhaps he had long since carved out a world of his own there. Alas!"
"A hurried century passed; things remained, but people had changed. Back then, I could be said to have watched that person grow step by step from a mere newcomer into a figure who held up heaven and stood upon the earth!" An old man sighed. A century was enough for generations to be replaced, for countless newcomers to emerge. To the younger generation, it had long become an entirely new world.
Yet to old men like them, it was not such a long time. The memories remained as vivid as ever.
"Great-grandmaster, who was that person you keep mentioning?" A girl