The contents of this series of murals were hard to make head or tail of, but they understood the general outline.
The Human Emperor had not died, and had even reached the realm of Shattering Void. Yet instead of ascending in broad daylight, he had boarded an enormous Dragon Boat and led a group of people through a strange gateway.
Something had apparently gone wrong within that gateway, causing countless severed limbs and several strange White Jade Tablets to fall from the sky. They were then picked up by those sword-bearing martial artists, who should have been people from the Nine-Layer Sword Pavilion.
Though the murals depicted something simple, the amount of information they contained was immense. Any single piece of it, taken on its own, would have been enough to shake the Jianghu.
For instance, the fact that the Human Emperor was not dead was enough to rock the Jianghu.
Almost everyone in the Jianghu believed that the Human Emperor of old had long since returned to the ruins and passed into nirvana. Yet he was alive and well, and had even broken through into the legendary realm of Shattering Void.
Moreover, why had the Human Emperor abandoned the First Dynasty at the height of its power and led a host of experts into that gateway? That was equally strange.
At any rate, the murals gave them no sense of what lay beyond the gateway. If it were an independent space like the Nine-Layer Sword Pavilion, it did not seem quite right either.
Furthermore, the White Jade Tablets that had fallen from the sky clearly contained some secret, and in the end, they had fallen into the hands of the Nine-Layer Sword Pavilion.
Later, the people of the other Eight Divisions of Weapons and War had jointly attacked the