Marquis Tayan
He Ping tore through the void like an invisible, formless sword-light. Its edge ripped heaven and earth apart, pierced space and time, and darted like a shadow. This art of void-travel was exceedingly profound. His body moved as swiftly as a wisp of breeze—without form, without trace, without the slightest ripple, like a transformation that moistened all things in silence.
"Marquis Tayan, Yan Xilai, has always been the most mysterious and powerful expert among Great You's Twelve Marquises."
Yan Xilai and Marquis Xuye were fellow disciples. The two had originally belonged to a reclusive sect known as the Nether Valley Sect.
Like the Jade Immortal Sect, which possessed the Dragon Worship Sect's secret art Jade Flesh Immortal Bones, and the overseas Ice Chi Palace, the Nether Valley Sect was essentially a branch of the Dragon Worship Sect's lineage, though it conducted its affairs with greater secrecy.
The Nether Valley Sect's inherited Dao art was the Ghost Dragon Form-Swallowing Chapter. For many years, this sect had abducted children from among the common folk to refine a type of "Dragon Infant Pill."
Yan Xilai and Marquis Xuye had been children intended for alchemy. After entering the sect, although they were taught some simple arts, they were ultimately still meant to be refined into pills.
The Evil-Slaying Bureau had long set its sights on the Nether Valley Sect, an evil sect with such crooked practices. In fact, the Nether Valley Sect had been suppressed and wiped out during the early years of Great You's founding. Only a small number of loyal believers went into hiding around the Southern Frontier, and their rites and activities became ever more clandestine.
Later, they grew and flourished, secretly expanding several decades ago. Who could have expected Situ Haoxing to personally lead men to their door?