At that moment.
In the vast void.
A rift suddenly tore open in the emptiness!
An old man with an ashen face stepped out.
Gray mist swirled in his eyes. He wore gray clothes that seemed to have weathered countless ages.
A longbow was strapped across his back!
The bow was pitch-black from end to end, forged from some unknown material.
It had no arrows. A few small characters, etched in sharp, silvery strokes, adorned its upper limb.
"Chaos Sun-Shooting Bow"!
This bow... was none other than one of the ten divine artifacts said to belong to the guardians.
And such a divine artifact... was actually in the hands of this old man.
"Martial Wasteland Realm. That day, it brought forth the Ultimate celestial phenomenon..."
"A martial path capable of reaching the heavens. Once I obtain it... I can bypass the Nine Laws and walk the path to proving the Dao."
The old man murmured:
"Back then, Big Brother Yang of the Yang Family and Big Brother Jiang of the Jiang Family agreed to wait until we could all set out together, then sacrifice the world as one and fulfill the Old Covenant..."
"Who could have guessed that the rats in the Sacrifice World Temple had tampered with the Nine Laws? As a result, the three of us went mad as soon as we set out, and nearly had our minds devoured by the Gray Mist Origin..."
"Big Brother Yang and Big Brother Jiang had no choice but to sacrifice the world on their own, only to suffer a strange calamity and vanish along with their entire clans..."
He recalled events from ages past.
He had once been one of the most powerful experts of the Martial Clan, one of the Nine Great Long Life Ancient Clans—Wu Jianghe!
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