Green River Sect, Yanqing Commandery, Green River Peak.
Peak after towering peak stretched endlessly, while surging white clouds flowed like a river across the mountainsides.
Beyond the mountains lay the vast Yanqing River, winding downward to form Green River Peak's greatest moat.
The mountain gate of Green River Sect was situated atop Green River Peak.
At this moment, within the sect's ancestral hall, a cultivator stumbled and rushed straight toward the sect's main hall inside the mountain gate.
"Sect Master, something terrible has happened!" The sect master of Green River Sect was Qingxi True Person.
He was also one of the Nascent Soul candidates and had spent these past years cultivating his character and nurturing his spirit within the sect.
Seeing the disciple's panic, he immediately frowned.
"What has you so flustered?"
"Reporting to Sect Master Ancestor, the soul slips of West King Ancestor, Cloudwood Ancestor, and even Ancestor Zheng have all shattered unexpectedly!" The reporting disciple was speaking so quickly that his words were nearly unintelligible.
Even during the last beast tide, when Heavenly Horse Pass fell, Green River Sect had lost only one Golden Core cultivator.
Yet this time, three had suddenly fallen. Something momentous had clearly happened to the sect.
In particular, West King True Person had been one of Green River Sect's Nascent Soul candidates.
"Impossible. Even if Junior Brother West King cannot be counted among the strongest at the Golden Core peak, there is absolutely no Golden Core cultivator in Heavenly Blade Sect capable of killing him—unless Heavenly Blade True Lord personally intervened!" Qingxi True Person's face was filled with disbelief.
Yet he also knew that this disciple would not dare lie to him.
He immediately flew out, arriving at the ancestral hall shortly afterward.
Within the brightly illuminated soul-storage altar, the soul slips of