Mu Yong now deeply regretted not redeeming himself earlier.
And so he had been sent to "hunt down" this group of absurdly powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators.
Qi Refining cultivators hunting down Spirit Transformation cultivators...
Was this fucking a hunt?!
This was plainly sending them here to die!
But as seedling-grade disciples who were, in essence, sect property, they possessed not the slightest bit of autonomy and had to obey the sect's orders completely.
That made things exceedingly miserable.
Where the hell did this group come from?!
This was what Mu Yong found hardest to understand. Nothing like this had ever happened in the memories of his previous life.
It could even be said that, under the suppression of the major sects and the "Heavenly Track Spirit Absorption" system, the cultivators of the entire Xuanxiang World had remained like a pool of stagnant water, with scarcely any change.
Until seven hundred years later, when numerous Void Return Immortal Venerables led by Immortal Venerable Xuan Xing sought to join forces and break through the Heavenly Track, seize the cultivation contained within it from all living beings, and advance further—only to be refined by the Heavenly Track instead...
From then on, all Void Return Immortal Venerables in the world perished. The remaining cultivators rose with the tide, establishing one "cultivation black market" after another and studying the ritual-pattern runes engraved upon the nine six-tier bronze Armillary Spheres.
He had been one of those who rose with the tide. After the Void Return Immortal Venerables of the major sects had all died out, he had weathered countless twists and turns before finally attaining the rank of "Immortal Venerable."
After painstakingly studying the ritual-pattern runes upon the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track for three hundred years, he had finally comprehended the Spirit Herding Self-Nourishing Cang True Scripture.