After smashing the entire Soul Lamp Pavilion to pieces, Song Wen headed for the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect's treasury.
The treasury lay beneath the foot of a mountain, with several Void Refinement cultivators guarding the cave entrance.
Song Wen easily dealt with the guards, but the treasury's defensive formation proved exceptionally sturdy.
It took him some effort before he finally forced his way through the formation.
Once inside the treasury, Song Wen discovered that most of its treasures were ghost-path spiritual materials.
He turned nothing down and swept them all away.
Then he flew toward the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect's main gate.
Although no one in the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect knew that its four Integrated Body Realm Cultivators were dead, the entire sect had descended into chaos, perhaps because Song Wen had caused such a commotion at the Soul Lamp Pavilion and the treasury, yet none of their four Body Integration Realm patriarchs had appeared.
Even the barrier at the main gate had inexplicably vanished.
Song Wen ignored the sect members scurrying about like headless flies. He went straight out through the gate and swiftly departed.
When he returned to the agreed meeting place with Rong Shao, the two coffins containing Jiang Linger and Lao Jian were already gone.
With Rong Shao nowhere in sight, Song Wen remained unhurried. He casually chose a large rock on the mountaintop and sat down cross-legged.
He waited for three days.
At noon, the blazing sun shone high overhead.
Rong Shao's figure finally appeared on the distant horizon.
While still far away, he broke into a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Gu Huang, you've done something that shook heaven and earth. All four of the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect's Integrated Body Realm Cultivators were killed. Left like a dragon without a head, the sect had its many enemies seize