Between Laughter and Conversation, the Outcome Was Already Decided

The Outer Court Calamity at Empty Mountain Sect lasted only seven breaths.

Yet those seven breaths sent the entire cultivation world of Chenping Continent into shock.

The Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul had appeared for a mere seven breaths, yet it had left more than ten thousand dead and wounded in Empty Mountain Sect's Outer Court.

Only after a Supreme Elder from Qingchan Peak intervened was the Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul finally wiped out.

This calamity had caused immense losses and repercussions for Empty Mountain Sect.

Both the Supreme Four Courts and the Sect Master's direct line on Kongyuan Mountain had ordered that the truth behind the Outer Court Calamity be uncovered at all costs.

There were even rumors that the Supreme Elder in charge of the Supreme Law Court, a cultivator at the peak of the Divine Ability Realm, would personally go to Qingchan Peak to conduct a thorough investigation.

Nine thousand years ago, the Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul had belonged to a ninth-realm great demon defeated by True Person Caiyun, Kong Yang, the Third Generation Ascension Realm Sect Master of Empty Mountain Sect. Its soul had then been sealed inside the Monster Suppressing Stone.

Nine thousand years had passed since then. The great demon's soul had completely lost its Spiritual Sense, leaving behind only a wisp of remnant soul at the level of a seventh-realm great demon.

By rights, that remnant soul should have been sealed inside Caiyun Tower on Qingchan Peak.

But how, exactly, had it been stolen?

Qingchan Peak, Cangwu Hall.

The half-line carved in Sword Qi above the doorway seemed more somber than ever today.

At the center of the frigid pool in the courtyard, an elderly cultivator in a blue-green daoist robe, his temples streaked with white, sat cross-legged on a