Northern Frost Sword Sect.
Inside the Council Great Hall, the atmosphere was oppressive and stifling.
News of what had happened at Celestial Cauldron Dao Field had already returned, triggering a massive upheaval.
Northern Frost Sword Sect's leader, Fu Yanzhen, immediately gathered the sect's prominent figures to discuss countermeasures.
Yet faced with the threat of an Immortal Lord, those great figures were all distraught and uneasy, as though sitting on pins and needles. For a time, they could not devise any good response at all.
Fu Yanzhen's brows knitted tightly, his face dark with gloom.
After a long period of analysis and discussion, someone suddenly said, "Sect Leader, all signs indicate that the young man named Su Yi is very likely the ascender Taiqing Sect is searching for!"
Everyone's hearts clenched.
Fu Yanzhen's gaze flickered. "What makes you say that?"
That person said gravely, "First, there is something wrong with his origins. In all the years before this, there had never been word of such a heaven-defying figure in Scene Continent."
"Second, Taiqing Sect's envoy once said that the ascender had not yet set foot on the Immortal Dao, yet possessed strength so heaven-defying that he was suspected of being able to contend against Immortal Realm figures. And this Su Yi has twice driven back Supreme Elder Zhan Changhu!"
"Finally, and most importantly, a great disaster once occurred at the ascension ground on White Deer Mountain. At that time, a group of Cosmic Realm Immortals and Void Realm True Immortals died miserably! According to Taiqing Sect, that great disaster arose because of that ascender."
"And at today's Celestial Cauldron Dao Field, it was also because of that Su Yi that a number of Immortal Realm elders from our sect met miserable deaths!"
...Those words sent everyone's thoughts surging, and none of