The Road Ahead

War raged across Xue Province, shattering the peace it had known for years beneath endless slaughter.

Though the Heavenly Chasm Sect had occupied Xue Province for many years, with deep roots and great power, how could it withstand the strength of the entire Longteng Cultivation World?

The moment the cultivators of both sides clashed, the Heavenly Chasm Sect's forces collapsed like a landslide. Defensive lines were breached one after another, and cultivators perished one after another.

By this point, even if these Heavenly Chasm Sect cultivators wanted to flee, there was nowhere to go.

The Heavenly Chasm Sect's headquarters had already been surrounded so tightly by cultivators of the Dragon Ascent World that not even water could pass through.

Wei Zhongze looked utterly panicked. He deeply regretted joining the Heavenly Chasm Sect, and regretted even more believing the lies fed to him from above. Now he had reached the end of the road and could only wait for death.

He came from the Yellow Maple Gate of Zhang Province and had been the sect master's most prized disciple. He had once been expected to inherit the sect master's mantle and carry on the Yellow Maple Gate's legacy.

But when the sect master who had been both teacher and father to him discovered his affair with one of his concubines, everything changed.

Pursued by the Yellow Maple Gate's cultivators, he had nowhere left to turn and joined the Heavenly Chasm Sect.

For the past two years, he had kept thinking: when his affair had been exposed, if he had honestly admitted his mistake to his master, then given his master's temperament, he would at most have received a harsh lesson. His master might not truly have done anything to him.

Yet at the time, he had been terrified, and on instinct,