Moyun Prefecture.
Zhenwu Hall.
Five thousand years ago, when the Great Gan Dynasty was founded, the nation was at the height of its power. To suppress the sects throughout the realm, Great Gan's Grand Ancestor established Zhenwu Hall.
At the time, Zhenwu Hall had been imposing and utterly unrestrained.
Yet after five thousand years of wind, frost, rain, and beating sun, the Great Gan Dynasty had already reached the twilight of its age, and Zhenwu Hall had lost its former splendor as well.
It had even been usurped by the various great sects, becoming a tool for them to control the imperial court.
In the main hall, smoke curled from a dark bronze incense burner, while three people sat facing one another.
One of them wore a white robe and carried a sword on his back. His hair was completely white, and his entire body radiated a chilling, icy aura.
This man was the current vice sect master of the Wuliang Sword Sect:
Chen Shuzhi.
Opposite him sat an unparalleled beauty whose charm had not faded with age and who radiated boundless allure. She wore a red robe, and her crystalline right hand lazily spun a red fan.
This person was the Great Elder of Huoyan Valley, Huangfu Meihua.
Across from the two of them sat an old man with a dark, weathered face. He was short, and even his back was somewhat hunched.
At that moment, the old man's eyelids drooped. He seemed half-asleep, as though utterly indifferent to everything around him.
Chen Shuzhi's expression was cold, like a block of ice that had remained unmelted for ten thousand years.
"Surely you two have already received word about last night's situation. In a single night, there were more than forty Anomaly incidents."
"Although they were all low-level evil spirits,