Across Great Feng, countless people looked up at Huang Tian and Fu Huajie standing high in the sky, filled with both fear and longing.
"So Fu Huajie, the greatest under heaven, is actually one of the legendary Immortal Gods. He descended to the mortal world just to amuse himself... No wonder he's lived in seclusion at Moon-Resting Lake for years. Perhaps he's grown tired of worldly splendor?"
"Whatever brought him down here, he's in trouble now. The one who came striding across the sky looks even stronger."
"Could it be like the storybooks say? Immortals aren't allowed to descend and interfere in mortal affairs, so an immortal lord has come personally to arrest Fu Huajie?"
"Those are just storybooks, tales made up by mortals. How could there really be some heavenly rule forbidding immortals from meddling with mortals? That's as ridiculous as imagining an emperor carries manure with a golden shoulder pole. Utter nonsense!"
"So Fu Huajie was never a mortal..." In a lavish manor, an old man in brocade gazed into the sky and murmured in a daze.
He was Han Jiuzhang, the former greatest master under heaven, known as Heaven-Suppressing Pass!
Years ago, the grassland tribes had joined forces and ridden south, fifty thousand cavalry strong. They had swept through the land, burning, killing, and plundering, slaughtering the inhabitants of more than a dozen cities. Great Feng's border troops had suffered defeat after defeat, some fleeing at the mere sight of them and retreating hundreds of miles.
Han Jiuzhang had happened to be traveling through the north. Enraged by the news, he had faced the grassland army alone with his spear, charged through its ranks, and slain the great khan of the united tribes in a frontal assault!
Though he had taken six wounds and been gravely injured,