Cloud Glow Sect, The Grandmaster's Fury

Yun Province.

This place is one of the eighteen provinces of the Great Gan Dynasty, boasting some of the most abundant spiritual energy.

Cloud Glow Mountain, in particular, is the premier blessed land within Yun Province.

The entire mountain range rolls and undulates, its peaks soaring into the clouds.

Mist swirls around the summits, making them appear and disappear, like a fairyland on earth.

Deep beneath Cloud Glow Mountain lies a massive spiritual vein.

This vein provides a constant stream of pure spiritual energy; for martial artists below the level of Grandmaster, practicing here allows their cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds.

Even for ordinary people, spending time here and being nourished by the dense spiritual energy is highly beneficial.

This is the fundamental reason why the Cloud Glow Sect has endured for a thousand years and become one of the three great sects of the Great Gan Dynasty.

The main gate of the Cloud Glow Sect is established at the very peak of Cloud Glow Mountain.

Set against the backdrop of dense spiritual energy, the entire Cloud Glow Sect, with its jade towers and ornate pavilions, exudes an ethereal, immortal atmosphere.

At this moment, inside an inconspicuous side hall of the Cloud Glow Sect—the Life Tablet Chamber.

Wang Xiaohu, the disciple responsible for guarding the life tablets, has just drifted awake from his slumber.

He yawns, stretches, and begins his daily routine inspection as usual.

The Life Tablet Chamber is one of the most important areas of the Cloud Glow Sect.

It houses the life jade tablets of all inner disciples, core disciples, and even the elders.

Each jade tablet is bound when a disciple enters the sect by dripping a drop of their essence blood onto it.

If the person lives, the tablet glows; if the person dies, the tablet shatters.

Wang Xiaohu's job is to check these tablets daily and report any abnormalities immediately.

This is usually a leisurely task; after all, the Cloud Glow Sect's prestige shakes the world, and when its disciples walk the pugilistic world, who would dare to provoke them lightly?

It is rare for a single life tablet to shatter even once in decades.

Wang Xiaohu first checks the top row of elder tablets; those rows of warm, lustrous jade remain as bright as ever.

Next are the life tablets of the core disciples, the most outstanding young generation within the Cloud Glow Sect.

To become a core disciple, one requires at least the cultivation of a Martial Master, which shows how stringent the requirements are.

Wang Xiaohu glances over them lazily as he always does, preparing to move to the next area.

But when his gaze sweeps over a certain spot, he suddenly freezes.

In the very corner, two jade tablets that should have been perfectly intact are now shattered!

The jade tablets have crumbled into countless tiny fragments, scattered across the shelf, having lost all their luster.

"Clatter."

The rag in Wang Xiaohu's hand drops to the floor.

His face turns deathly pale in an instant, drained of all color.

Beads of cold sweat drip from his forehead.

"Dead... people are dead! And they're two Martial Master brothers at that!"

He scrambles out of the Life Tablet Chamber, using every ounce of his strength to sprint toward the residence of the local elder.

"Bad news! Something terrible has happened! Grandmaster Luoxia! The tablets... the tablets have shattered!"

Luoxia Peak is one of the twelve peaks of the Cloud Glow Sect with the most concentrated spiritual energy.

Yet today, this usually tranquil mountain is completely shrouded by a terrifying pressure.

Grandmaster Luoxia, who was in seclusion, is startled by the shrill cries of his disciple.

Upon hearing the news of the shattered life tablets, he rushes to the Life Tablet Chamber.

Grandmaster Luoxia is a renowned Grandmaster powerhouse within the Cloud Glow Sect, known for his fiery temper and his tendency to be extremely protective of his own.

Managing this Life Tablet Chamber is one of his specific duties.

When he steps into the Life Tablet Chamber and sees the two shattered jade tablets, his body jolts violently!

He knows very well that those two positions held the life tablets of his disciples.

They were Zhou Fengyu and Zhao Wuji, both his personal disciples.

In his entire life, he had only taken in these two personal disciples, both of whom possessed decent talent.

He treated them as his own, pouring all his skills into teaching them, hoping they would inherit his mantle in the future.

But now, these two disciples in whom he had placed such high hopes have both died on the same night?!

"BOOM—!"

An uncontrollable, violent aura erupted from within Grandmaster Luoxia.

The terrifying pressure belonging to a Grandmaster surged across the entire mountain peak like a tsunami.

The sea of clouds in the sky was churned into a frenzy by this momentum.

The trees on the mountain peak were all forced to bow in unison.

Every jade tablet inside the Life Tablet Chamber began to hum, as if trembling in fear.

"Who?! Who exactly is it--!"

Grandmaster Luoxia let out a thunderous roar, his voice echoing across nearly the entire Cloud Glow Sect.

Wang Xiaohu, the disciple who had delivered the news, had long since collapsed to the ground in terror, fainting dead away.

Ignoring the unconscious Wang Xiaohu, Grandmaster Luoxia's eyes turned blood-red as he strode to the two shattered life tablets and picked up a fragment.

He closed his eyes and injected a trace of true qi into the shard, sensing the final breath his disciples had left behind.

A moment later, he snapped his eyes open, murderous intent shooting from his gaze.

"Qing Province... this location appears to be a remote village..."

Through the life tablet, he had already pinpointed the final resting place of his two disciples.

"No matter who you are! Daring to kill my, Grandmaster Luoxia's, disciples! I will tear you into ten thousand pieces and ensure you never find peace in any afterlife!"

Grandmaster Luoxia could no longer contain the killing intent and fury in his heart.

With a flicker of his figure, he rushed out of the Life Tablet Chamber, transforming into a streak of light that shot into the sky.

He did not report to the Sect Master, nor did he bring any disciples with him.

He would go himself!

He would personally avenge his two disciples!

He soared through the air, moving as fast as lightning, speeding toward Qing Province.

The fury of a Grandmaster was about to burn fiercely upon that distant land.

Shortly after Grandmaster Luoxia departed, several elders hurried over one after another.

Although they were unaware that two core disciples had perished, the Grandmaster-level pressure from moments ago had been undeniable.

"Hm? What happened? Why is that old fellow Luoxia throwing his weight around like that?"

"What? Core disciple life tablets have shattered? It seems they were Luoxia's disciples; no wonder he is so enraged."

"Hmph, I don't know which blind fool dared to kill core disciples of our Cloud Glow Sect, but that person has already invited their own death."

"Let's notify the Sect Master first. Losing two core disciples is a significant blow to our Cloud Glow Sect."

On the other side, within the borders of Qing Province, Lin Hanzhou remained completely unaware of the events unfolding inside the Cloud Glow Sect.

He was currently sitting in a carriage heading south, leisurely eating a freshly bought roasted chicken.

In his last trip to the Dream World, he had been the emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, reigning over the world.

This time, playing the role of a carefree martial artist in the pugilistic world also had its own unique charm.