Heavenly Imperial Sect, Council Hall.
Over a thousand years ago, after Grand Elder Chen Qingxuan advanced to the Spirit Transformation Middle Stage and became the foremost expert among the human race in Eastern Phoenix Kingdom,
Heavenly Imperial Sect had firmly claimed the throne as the number one sect, becoming the leader of the human race across the entire Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent.
More than a dozen Nascent Soul Cultivators had gathered in the hall, all of them at the Nascent Soul Late Stage or above.
The person leading them below was none other than Heavenly Imperial Sect's Sect Leader, He Xiaofeng.
Yet unlike before, the one standing at the head of the hall was not the sect's Grand Elder Chen Qingxuan, but Song Qingming, who had rushed over from the Floating Cloud Mountain Range from thousands of miles away.
When Song Qingming first came to Heavenly Imperial Sect to attend the Eastern Phoenix Sword Convention, he had merely been an elder from a remote minor sect who had just formed his Nascent Soul.
At the time, he was not even qualified to earn a second glance from the many Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivators present.
But now, he could stand atop the raised platform and receive the bows of He Xiaofeng and the others.
"Sect Leader He, where exactly are Senior Chen and the others now? When did this happen?"
"Reporting to Senior Song, Martial Uncle Chen went to the Northern Frontier six years ago. The First Elder, Junior Brother Feng, and others went with him. They had answered an invitation to help suppress the Demonic Calamity.
"Who could have known that not long after Martial Uncle and the others arrived in the Northern Frontier, we lost contact with them?"
Before this, after Song Qingming returned to Taiyi Sect