Over twenty years ago,
When Zhang Qingyuan, then in Yuzhou, decided to head to the Outer Continent through the ancient interrealm road Ning Bufou had taken, Dao Venerable Xuan Su and Old Ancestor Dan Yang from the Sect also expressed their hope of leaving Yuzhou with him to see the new heavens and earth of the outside world.
Zhang Qingyuan did not refuse. He brought the two of them across the Boundary Sea and arrived in Qingzhou.
After entering Qingzhou and staying for some time, gaining a general understanding of the situation across its lands, they went their separate ways.
After all, their goals differed, so there was no need for them to remain together.
Yet after parting, Zhang Qingyuan received no further news from them.
But not much time had passed since their separation then. For cultivators of the Myriad Transformations Realm, a single period of secluded cultivation could last decades or even a Hundred Years, so Zhang Qingyuan had not paid much attention to it.
Perhaps they had encountered some opportunity on this broader land and entered seclusion to digest it?
After all, Dao Venerable Xuan Su and Old Ancestor Dan Yang had been acting together.
Though neither had originally been particularly powerful Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable cultivators,
after Zhang Qingyuan had pointed out the road ahead, their many years of accumulated foundations had undergone a single-day sublimation and transformation. Their strength had greatly advanced, and together, they were in no way inferior to Heavenly Grade Myriad Transformations cultivators.
Such strength might not have allowed them to run rampant without restraint across Qingzhou, but looking across the entire Qingzhou Cultivation World, there probably would not be more than a handful of people capable of dealing with them, right?
Let alone the fact that they carried tokens capable of