"Master Shou has returned!"
Like a plague, those four simple words swiftly spread through the Spirit Refining Realm across the Five Domains.
Everyone rushed to the nearest Dao Transmission Mirror, crowding around viewing platforms everywhere until not even water could pass through, setting off a tremendous uproar.
Of course! By now, after a month-long, blazing Seven Sword Immortal battle, even old Spirit Refiners who never left their homes had heard a little about the new Seven Sword Immortal roster.
Everyone had fought and contended fiercely, battling until the sky burned hot.
Yet after all this time, not one of them had been able to shake Master Shou's position—the position of someone who had slaughtered his way to the top shortly after the rankings opened.
"First Sword Immortal!"
How weighty were those four words?
Earlier, when the "Eighth Sword Immortal" had not yet entered the rankings and was merely acknowledged in the Eastern Region, it had already caused violent upheaval across the continent and rewritten the landscape of the next thirty years.
This generation of Seven Sword Immortals had rankings from the outset.
Under such circumstances, someone had still managed to defend the top spot through three battles for so long.
It could be said that its value was one hundred percent pure, with scarcely a drop of water mixed in!
Most crucially...
If one looked closely into "Master Shou," one would discover that "First Sword Immortal" was merely one of his titles, not all of them.
Before earning the name Sword Immortal, "Master Shou," as the foremost among the younger generation, had brushed aside all objections and seized the position of second-in-command in the hegemonic dark faction, Saint Slave.
Saint Slave's chief, Ba Zunan, was his backer...
The Lei family's lone survivor, Lei Xier, was his junior sister...
Sang Qiye,