Clear Skies, Gentle Breeze

Even Chen Yan, looking at Kong Yang now hovering on the brink of death, felt a faint sense of melancholy rise within him.

The erosion of Dao Rhyme was irreversible.

Another old acquaintance was about to drift away from him.

Though back then, Chen Yan had also wanted nothing more than to carve Kong Yang into a thousand pieces.

"True Person Chen, since you just mentioned the Empty Mountain Sect, there are some matters Kong wishes to tell you. They may be somewhat verbose, but I ask True Person Chen to bear with them. At this point of near death, they are Kong's final worries."

Kong Yang spoke calmly.

"Speak."

Chen Yan nodded.

"Among the Empty Mountain Sect's Three Mountains Four Peaks and Supreme Four Courts, there are more than five thousand three hundred Inner Sect Disciples. The Outer Court has more than twenty-three thousand five hundred Outer Court Disciples. If all disciples stationed at the Spirit Fields and mineral veins are included, the Empty Mountain Sect currently numbers more than ninety thousand people.

"Within the Empty Mountain Sect's Supreme Four Courts, the positions of Supreme Cardinal Elder of the Supreme Cardinal Court and Supreme Law Elder of the Supreme Law Court have remained vacant ever since Li Haoran and Huo Mu, thirty years ago.

"The Empty Mountain Sect's current Supreme Martial Elder, He Zongzhou, may be rather mediocre in ability, but he has always fulfilled his duties conscientiously in matters great and small within the sect. He also harbors no selfish motives. Before outstanding talents rise among the sect's younger generation, He Zongzhou may continue temporarily overseeing the Supreme Four Courts.

"Then there is the sect's current Sect Master, Yun Yichen. His talent and political acumen rank among the very best of the Empty Mountain Sect's disciples over the