"If it weren't for these five Heavenly Heart Swords, the other four Heaven-Punishing Divine Weapons would be nothing more than scrap metal..."
So the fifth Heaven-Punishing Divine Weapon had fallen into Qiu Shenjue's hands. This Heavenly Heart Sword was the foremost of the five great calamity weapons; its very existence symbolized the will of the Heavenly Dao.
Qiu Shenjue, like Young Master Su, came from the Western Continent and was a member of the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect.
However, the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect itself was divided into countless factions, with forces great and small emerging one after another.
One had to know that although the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect possessed only one path-entry method, the Sacred Dharma Qi, its doctrines and theories varied endlessly with its many factions.
Differences in doctrine gave rise to clashes of ideology. The Western Continent was thick with rival sects; wherever there were people, there was the martial world, and where there was the martial world, there was strife. The Ten Thousand Spirits Sect was no exception.
Young Master Su came from the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect's largest faction, the "Apocalypse Sect," a rising denomination whose power and status stood above all other sects. On Tianfang Continent in the Western Continent, the Apocalypse Sect commanded the overall situation. Over the past thousand years, most successive hierarchs had been served by the Apocalypse Sect's leader—the Lord of Revelation.
As for Qiu Shenjue's faction, it was an ancient and mysterious sect called the Heavenly Heart Sect. Even an expert of Young Master Su's venerable rank knew little of its affairs. He only knew that the Heavenly Heart Sect, along with another faction known as the "Doomsday Sect," was among the oldest internal sects of the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect.
The members of such ancient sects were