"This place is indeed desolate enough—perfect for our rendezvous!"
One of them was clearly a cultivator. He raised his hand and cast a Daoist Arts spell.
In the hazy gloom, a layer of mist rose from all around, cutting off the inside from the outside.
He entered the Buddhist hall and gazed at the statue in the Buddha Niche at the center. Then he suddenly sneered. "This sort of minor shrine is just right for dismantling and replacing with an idol of my Hun Tian Yuan Zun!"
"Hun Tian Yuan Zun? So they're people from the Seven Bamboo Sect..."
Jiang Liuer hid nearby. These two cultivators' powers were so weak that neither could detect him.
Listening to their conversation, he gradually pieced things together.
The Seven Bamboo Sect originated in the southern part of the Yanhan Empire. Its tradition was half shamanic and half Daoist, with some Martial Arts mixed in as well. Its followers were a motley crowd, and it was a notorious heretical sect. The Curse-Breaking Colonels had massacred them countless times.
However, it was said that the several deities worshiped by this sect were remarkably efficacious. The Sky-Mixing Ape Demon in particular had only joined them in recent years, yet possessed boundless power and supreme divine might.
According to rumor, this Hun Tian Yuan Zun had been born an unusual creature—a monkey that had cultivated into a spirit. His innate talent and Root Bone were so profound as to be inconceivable. In merely a dozen or so years of cultivation, he had surpassed many Great Cultivators who had cultivated for decades or even centuries.
He had even unified the chaotic Seven Bamboo Sect and stirred up trouble throughout the southern reaches of Yan Han.
Now, he had extended his reach into the imperial capital of Yan Han—Changluo!