Zhang Qingyuan had naturally seen it before.
About ten years ago,
before returning to the sect to participate in the Inner Sect Grand Competition, Zhang Qingyuan had accepted a Sect Mission to head out and eliminate Mad Saber Nangong Bantian, who had once formed a grudge against him.
After a fierce battle,
he had ultimately slain him.
Yet the scene of that battle that day remained vivid in his memory even now.
Had he not possessed a trump card at the time, and had the Spirit Tool Sword Pellet not inexplicably resonated and killed him with a single strike, what followed might not have turned out well.
Later, when reporting the completion of the mission, he had learned from the somewhat mysterious Steward Zhou within the sect about the existence of monsters known as Abyssal Demons.
And from him, he had learned that
Cloud Water Sect's rise to become one of Yuzhou's great overlords thousand years ago had much to do with those Abyssal Demons whose traces had been erased.
It seemed that thousand years ago, a great upheaval had swept through the entire Cultivation World.
It had caused many Great Powers to reshuffle.
And the instigators of that upheaval had been precisely these Abyssal Demons, unrecorded by history!
His first contact with the dark current hidden beneath the surface of the Cultivation World had left a profound impression on Zhang Qingyuan.
And after returning to the sect,
he had relied on the Proficiency Panel in his mind to copy all kinds of records within Cloud Water Sect. Yet amid that copying process, vast as the ocean,
Zhang Qingyuan noticed that regarding the upheaval thousand years ago, only a few vague and fragmentary words remained concerning the Abyssal Demons.
There were no formal records at all regarding that change thousand