Southern Bright Separation Fire. The hooded Immortal Cultivator in black froze where he stood.
Because until the gray-robed Immortal Cultivator standing on a branch of that withered old locust tree spoke, he had not noticed the other's presence at all.
This made him wary.
"Who are you?"
the black-hooded Immortal Cultivator asked.
He was a cultivator of the Southern Bright Sect, a member of one of the oldest and most mysterious sects upon this land.
About fifty million years ago, after the Southern Bright True Lord became a Sage, restless ambitions began stirring deep within his heart. He challenged the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage, seeking to contend for the authority of heaven and earth.
The Southern Bright Sage was the first True Purity Realm cultivator to challenge the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage's authority.
And before the Southern Bright Sage, the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage displayed more than enough arrogance.
He did not wield the authority of heaven and earth. Relying solely on his own cultivation realm, he heavily injured the Southern Bright Sage in fewer than ten moves, eroding nearly half of his Dao Rhyme.
After that, the Southern Bright Sage traveled far and wide across the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent. Only forty million years ago, when the Qingluo Sage erected the Great Dao Boundary Stele and attained the Heavenly Lord Realm, did he answer the summons and head for the Space-time Fault, roaming the River of Time.
And over those ten million years, the Southern Bright Sage had successfully left his own mark upon the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent.
One-twelfth of this realm's territory bore his name.
Moreover, upon this land, his fanatical followers established the Southern Bright Sect.
The Southern Bright Sect's greatest goal was that, one day in the future, when the Southern Bright Sage returned, he would be able to replace the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage and become