Li Lingtian, the Quasi-Holy Son of the Tianshui Sect five thousand years ago, had been only a hair's breadth away from reaching the level of a Holy Son.
Back then, the Tianshui Sect had placed great hopes in Li Lingtian. For a time, they even believed he was the one who would save the Tianshui Sect from its perilous predicament.
Yet no one had expected that Li Lingtian, who had once been at the height of his glory, would meet a bizarre death inside the Heaven and Earth Gate.
Back then, the Heaven and Earth Gate had challenged the Tianshui Sect, inviting its martial artists to the Heaven and Earth Gate to participate in a debate on the Dao and a martial competition.
It was during that very debate and competition that the Tianshui Sect's peerless prodigy, Li Lingtian, died inside the Heaven and Earth Gate.
The news announced by the Heaven and Earth Gate was... that Li Lingtian had trespassed into the Heaven and Earth Gate's forbidden grounds, attempting to steal its supreme treasure, and had been executed on the spot by an elder of the Heaven and Earth Gate.
But within the Tianshui Sect, everyone knew the truth. Li Lingtian had never trespassed into the forbidden grounds of the Heaven and Earth Gate, much less attempted to steal any supreme treasure.
The reason he had died inside the Heaven and Earth Gate was that the Heaven and Earth Gate had never intended to let him leave alive.
The blood debt from five thousand years ago remained vivid before their eyes.
And now, five thousand years later, the Heaven and Earth Gate was repeating its old trick, once again inviting martial artists from the Tianshui Sect to participate in a debate on the Dao and martial competition.
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