"After undergoing strict selection and trials, I was accepted as a disciple by the guardian elder of the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven. I was also to become the next guardian elder of the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven, which was why I was allowed to enter it. When disaster struck the Great Wilderness Sect, I was cultivating inside the grotto-heaven. Only one external avatar of mine was outside, so I narrowly escaped the calamity!"
"What about the guardian elder of the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven?"
"The guardian elder also attended the Great Wilderness Sect gathering that day and did not survive!"
"I heard that the Great Wilderness Sect was destroyed that day because someone worked from within and without, poisoning people during the sect gathering and leaving many in the Great Wilderness Sect unable to resist. Is that true?" Zhang Tie asked curiously.
"Yes. Those people had sent agents to infiltrate the Great Wilderness Sect as disciples long ago. The day disaster befell the Great Wilderness Sect was the day our sect held its grandest Great Wilderness Dharma Assembly. Nearly all elders and disciples attended, sharing and learning from one another about beast-taming, external avatars, and all kinds of information on magic beasts and exotic beasts discovered in the Southern Frontier. That day, those people slipped a colorless, odorless deadly poison into the food, drinks, and wine of the Great Wilderness Sect's elders and disciples. After the day-long Dharma assembly ended, the poison suddenly erupted that night. Aside from a handful of people, most of the sect's disciples and elders lost their fighting strength and were wiped out in one stroke!" Cloud Master said.
Zhang Tie understood. It seemed the Great Wilderness Sect of old truly had been a band of incurable romantics. The sect even regularly held Great Wilderness Dharma Assemblies, where everyone