The Immortal Cultivators from the Hidden Sects naturally knew how terrifying the young man in the plain white Daoist robe before them was.
After all, he had once shattered True Lord Wuxiang's tomb with a single sword strike, even cutting a breach in the Heaven and Earth Laws of this world.
They knew full well that even a True Person in the Ascension Realm could not accomplish such a feat.
So how had Chen Yan, who had not even entered the Upper Three Realms back then, managed such an astonishing achievement?
The answer was simple.
He had borrowed external power.
Only by borrowing external power could Chen Yan possibly cut a breach in the Heaven and Earth Laws of this world.
Just as he had already overturned many cultivation sects across Kunwu Continent in recent days.
In the process, he had naturally fought many Guiyi Realm cultivators who headed their own sects.
Not every Guiyi Realm cultivator serving as a Sect Master would willingly relinquish his position and hand the sect's authority over to a traitor.
Of course, those men had met tragic ends...
Though perhaps tragic was not quite the word.
After all, Chen Yan had not let them suffer any pain when he struck.
He had simply "crushed" his way through them.
And the Immortal Cultivators of the Hidden Sects had been watching Chen Yan's every move all along.
Chen Yan was powerful. Both his cultivation and his combat strength had reached an utterly unreasonable level.
And the jet-black longsword in his hand was also
a rather fine magical treasure.
But the Hidden Sects did not believe Chen Yan was so powerful that they were helpless against him.
Even if the True Lord had forbidden the Hidden Sects from sending Immortal Cultivators above the seventh realm to take