As the sun sank in the west, ten thousand rays of golden light spilled down, gilding Wuliang Mountain from top to bottom.
Five hundred years ago, the Wuliang Sword Sect had been only a second-rate sect in Moyun Prefecture. Huoyan Valley had been the true overlord, its might weighing down the entire prefecture.
But in that generation, the Wuliang Sword Sect produced an unparalleled swordsmanship prodigy. In less than a hundred years, his cultivation soared, and he stepped into the Extreme Realm.
He was only one step away from truly becoming a Jie Realm Great Being.
Under the leadership of this peerless swordsmanship prodigy, the Wuliang Sword Sect became the true overlord of Moyun Prefecture, pressing Huoyan Valley until it could barely breathe.
But to take that final step, the prodigy ventured into the wasteland in search of an opportunity—and never appeared again.
Some said he had obtained a heaven-defying fortune and was in seclusion. The moment he emerged, he would surely shake the world and become a Jie Realm Great Being.
Others said he had encountered unimaginable danger in the wasteland and died there, becoming food for some powerful anomaly.
There were many different accounts of what had happened to him, but no matter what, he had truly vanished for five hundred years.
Though the Wuliang Sword Sect sent experts every year to search along the route he had taken into the wasteland, they had never received the slightest news.
Still, even without the peerless swordsmanship prodigy, the Wuliang Sword Sect could no longer advance further. But the foundation he had built over a century had already established its supremacy.
Huoyan Valley had fought against it, but had never gained any advantage. Instead, it had steadily declined.
If Huoyan Valley had not once been the overlord of Hengshan Dao,