Chongming Sect.
Deep within the Inner Sect, the clouds parted, revealing clear blue skies stretching for thousands of miles.
A majestic palace, like a mirage over the sea, suddenly appeared in projection high above the ninth heaven.
Then it slowly came into focus.
As the palace fully solidified, the Heavenly Vast Palace had returned from the battlefield at Jiuyi Mountain to the sect.
In the main hall, Su Lijing stirred his thoughts, and more than a dozen Sound Transmission Talismans immediately floated up around him.
He ordered his subordinates, one after another, to come to the Heavenly Vast Palace to receive the goods, register and catalogue them, and stock the storehouses... Once he had made all the arrangements, he straightened his robes, flew out of the Heavenly Vast Palace on an Escape Light, and headed for the ancestral grounds of the Zhen Shi Su Clan.
At the ancestral grounds, fierce winds howled atop a sheer cliff.
After landing, Su Lijing saw a brocade-robed old man standing there with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing down at the clouds shifting beneath the cliff. He seemed to have been waiting for quite some time.
Seeing the old man's back, Su Lijing immediately bowed. "Ancestor!"
The old man gave a slight nod and turned around. His face was deathly pale, like a paper effigy, without the slightest trace of life. Yet his aura was vast and boundless, unfathomable. He was none other than the Zhen Shi Su Clan's current Ancestor, Su Dai.
Su Lijing frowned deeply. "The battle on the front lines is at a stalemate. I wonder why you summoned me back in such haste, Ancestor. What urgent matter is there?"
Su Dai looked at him and said curtly, "There's been a change in the Eternal Night Desert. Ancestor Netherblood has