The Sovereign of All Under Heaven (Part 2)

"Forget it. Let my true form worry about that."

Before long, Duan Lang had tossed the Turkic invasion to the back of his mind. As a Shadow Clone, he had no need to think so much about it. He turned his attention to the desert temple from Bi Xuan's memories.

"It really is very similar to the War God Hall inside Wild Goose Palace. I remember the Ten Absolute Pass seemed a lot like the War God Hall too. Could they all have been made by the same person? Same template and everything—this person was rather lazy."

Bi Xuan did not remember much about the desert temple. His deepest impression of it was its sheer size. It stood dozens of zhang high, and the first thing ordinary people felt upon entering was their own insignificance. That characteristic could not help but remind Duan Lang of the War God Hall within Wild Goose Palace.

Bi Xuan had not stayed in the desert temple for long. He had merely learned the Blazing Sun Skill from a stone carving on one of its walls before leaving. It was not that Bi Xuan had not wanted to continue exploring the temple, but that it had seemed ready to close at the time. Not wanting to be trapped inside until death, he could only leave.

Bi Xuan had still been young then. Naturally, he did not possess the resolve of Blood-Hand Li Gong from Shattering the Void's later days, to enter secluded cultivation until death within the desert temple.

Such death-seclusion was only used when there was truly no other way left, a desperate, all-or-nothing measure. In fact, among the Grandmasters throughout the ages who had failed to Shatter the Void, nearly all chose death-seclusion before their lifespan ran out. For instance, Ning Daoqi, Bi