The Peerless Hall Reappears

The first light fell upon the dense sea of clouds, refracting into rich halos of radiance as two figures passed through the mist-shrouded cloudbank.

"Fellow Daoist Changsun, someone is following us." Jiang Heng cast a slight sidelong glance at Changsun Buhuo. The clouds settling upon his mana barrier made his complexion seem even more haggard—not from exhaustion, but from weariness of the heart.

Back then, their families had sworn a blood oath of alliance. Even after the Immortal Suppression Bureau was established, they had continued to cooperate closely, inseparable as one. Now that the Changsun Family had carelessly killed someone from Kunlun Immortal Mountain, he too had no choice but to run about on behalf of the Heavenly Lord Dao.

He had in fact already gone to the Sword Pavilion, only to find that its Sword Master had shut himself away and refused visitors. He heard that Sword Mountain of the Sword Pavilion had been robbed, and a divine sword called Disaster Avoidance had been stolen. This was indeed true—the day the divine sword tore through the firmament and vanished without trace, the whole world had known of it. Who knew what petty thief possessed such skill as to steal a divine sword from the very place where the Sword Ancestor was in seclusion?

When he arrived at the Immortal Sect, it was now caught in a generational lull. Blue Ancestor's two disciples could not even be considered members of the Eternal Immortal Sect and paid no heed to the matter at all. The grand Sect Master of the Immortal Sect was merely a junior at the Spirit Transformation realm, while all the older generation remained within the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array. How could they possibly help?

The Azure Cloud Li Family was in much the same state. Their old friends