Azure Mountain Sect Master—Death Announcement
Outside the Sword Ruins.
The third-to-last day before the Hundred Valleys Sword Ruins closed.
The soulmasters of the top factions responsible for maintaining order still tended to the World Solidifying Chaos Origin Array that stabilized the Sword Ruins.
Though the remaining people were no longer as numerous as when the Sword Ruins had first opened, there were still over a hundred soulmasters waiting there.
The vast majority had remained here for the very moment the Sword Ruins finally sealed shut. Besides joining in the excitement, they hoped some unexpected miracle might occur, sending the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures within surging out like a tidal wave.
Of course, such a notion was no different from waiting for pies to fall from the sky. The chances were exceedingly slim, though not entirely impossible. After all, in the long river of cultivation, there had indeed once been such an absurd phenomenon.
After that anomaly, the cultivation world gained a batch of opportunists like these.
But now that the Hundred Valleys Sword Ruins was anchored by the World Solidifying Chaos Origin Array, the likelihood of such an anomaly occurring was almost zero.
Aside from these opportunists, most of the remaining soulmasters were waiting for fellow disciples, relatives, and friends who were still inside the Sword Ruins.
For instance, the Sun Family, Illusory Willow Sect, Nine Ring Sect, Heavenly Wolf Sect, Medicine Valley, and other factions all had many elders and fellow disciples stationed here to receive their people. Some wore worry on their faces, while others brimmed with anticipation...
They worried because the Sword Ruins had been open for over ten days, and no one knew whether their fellow disciples still lived;
What they anticipated was whether, if they were still alive, they might have obtained some extraordinary