Cautious, Ice Flame. 4k

Cautious, Ice Flame. 4k. The long years flowed through heaven and earth.

Azure Cloud Peak soared into the azure clouds.

The strife surrounding this peak never seemed to cease.

Blades flashed and swords danced. The victor took all, made a name for himself in the Longevity Sect, and soared into the azure clouds!

The defeated left the mountain in desolation, still watching like tigers eyeing their prey.

One Azure Cloud Peak set off storm after storm, sweeping through the Longevity Sect.

And amid those successive tempests, Lie Yan's name, like Azure Cloud Peak itself, soared straight to the Nine Heavens!

In merely a few years, with one man and one blade, he had surged from ninth in the Azure Cloud Peak sequence to third.

The offensive might of his Blade Intent was unmatched. He had all but been publicly acknowledged as a prospective direct disciple of the Peeking Truth Vein.

And indeed, that was precisely the case.

In the Nine Veins Grand Examination, within the Peeking Truth Vein examination—said to be the strictest of all nine vein assessments—Lie Yan, alone with his blade, forcibly cleaved through all three trials.

He became the first Inner Sect Disciple in several centuries to pass the Peeking Truth Vein examination.

The current Peeking Truth Vein, after Chu Yan's exceptional presence, gained another direct disciple.

After this examination, Lie Yan's formidable reputation, once confined to the Longevity Sect, spread beyond it. Some eager gossips even ranked him among the Longevity Sect's True Disciple seeds, hailing him as the direct disciple most likely to become a Longevity True Disciple.

Right and wrong, turmoil and strife—all gradually settled as the years passed.

Though the Peeking Truth Vein had gained another direct disciple, its day-to-day affairs seemed not to have changed much.

The Lineage Master had not emerged