The same events were playing out again and again in every corner of the Azure Crossing Continent.
Cultivation sects rose one after another, then fell one after another.
The Azure Crossing Continent still had a long road ahead before its cultivation world could settle into stability across the entire land, like those of the Chenping Continent or the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent.
It was the fortieth year since Chen Yan had descended upon the Azure Crossing Continent.
At last, the first qi sea realm cultivator emerged in this world.
It happened in Greenwood City, roughly 132.6 million li from the Yanggan Dynasty.
This city had a long history, having stood upon this land for more than seven hundred years.
Seven hundred years.
Perhaps that was insignificant in worlds where the Immortal Dao was well developed.
After all, in worlds where the Immortal Dao flourished, cities that had stood for centuries were nothing special. Even ancient cities a thousand or ten thousand years old were everywhere.
But given the level of mortal civilization, a city surviving for more than seven hundred years was already quite a remarkable feat.
The Xu Residence, Greenwood City.
The Xu Household's patriarch, Xu Hanzhong, had embarked upon the Path of Immortality forty years earlier, when the Immortal Dao first awakened.
Forty years ago, Xu Hanzhong had been nothing more than a hoodlum roaming Greenwood City's streets. Later, he happened to meet an escort master from the city's Thunderfire Escort Agency, and from then on, he followed that escort master around as a trail scout.
Yet those peaceful days lasted only half a year.
During one escort mission, the Thunderfire Escort Agency's convoy was ambushed by bandits and almost entirely wiped out. Only Xu Hanzhong survived, hiding among the corpses and playing dead to escape with his life.
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