Sword Heart Studio, Sword Pillar Forbidden Ground.
Multicolored rosy light shrouded the area, misty vapors rising like layers upon layers of fog sealing it off. Only a single sword pillar stood soaring into the heavens, its vague outline faintly visible.
This sword pillar towered into the clouds, its sword intent stern and awe-inspiring, as though it could pierce the vault of heaven. It was the master of the eighty-one sword pillars.
Sword Heart Studio possessed the Nine Absolute Sword Formation, which covered the Jade Green Mountains where its Sect Gate stood. The formation possessed boundless power, integrating offense and defense. It was both a mountain-protecting grand formation and engraved with Sword Heart Studio's natural sword-dao inheritance. It could be called the sect's treasured cornerstone.
Because the matter was of great importance, a Grandmaster of the Spirit Communion stage personally stood guard to ensure nothing went wrong.
Sword Heart Studio had five Spirit Communion Grandmasters in total. Two had gone far away to Unrivaled Palace to compete in swordsmanship and exchange insights into the sword dao; two remained at Sword Heart Studio to guard the Sect Gate; the last, being male, had been dispatched to serve as principal of the new campus, responsible for managing the male disciples.
Of the two Spirit Communion Grandmasters remaining at Sword Heart Studio, one was Sword Venerable Su Ran, who remained in secluded cultivation and never emerged. Her cultivation was profound and her swordsmanship divine; she spent all year in seclusion, unconcerned with worldly affairs.
The other was her foremost disciple, Shang Qingmeng. At this moment, she was guarding the Nine Absolute Sword Formation and would not appear unless something important occurred.
Daoist Purple Duckweed emerged from distorted space with Xiang Yuan. She carried Xiang Yuan in one hand and formed a sword gesture with