In recent days, a rumor had spread through the martial world: the four disciples of the previous generation's Demon Sect Evil Emperor, Xiang Yutian—You Niajuan, the "Perverse One"; Ding Jiuzhong, the "Great Emperor"; Zhou Laotan; and Jin Huan Zhen, the "Enchantress"—four villains who had committed every manner of crime, from rape and pillage to murder, had been killed.
What was more, all four had been executed one after another within two days. Their bodies had been casually discarded in a small town, the wilderness, and beside the road, and to this day no one had even bothered to collect them. It was hard to imagine a more miserable end.
Word had it...
The person who had dealt with those four Demon Sect villains was none other than the woman who had once made a name for herself as a master of the xiao, and who was said to have attained perfection in her art. She was incomparably beautiful, like a forest sprite embodying all the world's spiritual energy, and had ties to many senior martial artists. She was Stone Qingxuan, the great Stone, whom the people of the world had honored as the greatest female talent under heaven.
However, it was no longer quite appropriate to call her "the great Stone."
According to eyewitnesses, when "the great Stone" killed You Niajuan, the "Perverse One"; Ding Jiuzhong, the "Great Emperor"; Zhou Laotan; and Jin Huan Zhen, the "Enchantress"—four villains who had committed every manner of crime—she had used some kind of exceptionally profound and wondrous "sound-killing" art.
It turned out that not only was "the great Stone's" skill with the xiao so masterful that its lingering notes could echo in one's ears for three days, but when necessary, it could also serve as an unparalleled killing technique.
And so!
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