Shooting Lanterns

Sage.

When Li Haowen heard those two words from the young man in the cold-white Daoist robe, who was currently sitting rather smugly atop a mountain of corpses piled from ten thousand remains, his heart trembled for a moment.

As a Guardian of the Dao of Du Cang Mountain, Li Haowen had, of course, heard of the so-called "Sages."

Just as the cultivation world of Chenping Continent called Ascension Realm cultivators True Persons, countless ages ago—before the era of Tian Ding Mountain, even before the era of Chenping Continent—cultivators of the second realm Above Immortal had been respectfully addressed as Sages by the people of the world.

But what frightened Li Haowen even more than the young man in the cold-white Daoist robe claiming to be a Sage atop that mountain of corpses was that he also claimed to be the founding Ascension Realm master of the Empty Mountain Sect, True Person Kongmiao Yan Yunhe.

Ancestor Yan.

There was no need to explain how important this man was to the Empty Mountain Sect. If the Empty Mountain Sect hadn't produced a Yan Yunhe eight thousand years ago, it would never have entered the ranks of the Five Great Sects.

Indeed, if Yan Yunhe hadn't created the Empty Mountain True Explanation, then without a complete cultivation system for the Nine Realms Below Ascension, the Empty Mountain Sect wouldn't even have qualified as a top-tier cultivation sect.

Was this young man in the cold-white Daoist robe before him really the Empty Mountain Sect's Ancestor Yan?

As a worshipful Attendant Elder of Qingchan Peak in the Empty Mountain Sect, Li Haowen certainly knew how Ancestor Yan had met his end.

He had passed away alone in the forbidden grounds on Kongyuan Mountain.

Of course, it wasn't impossible that the current Ancestor Yan had