"Chapter 2005: Holding a Treasure, Veiling the Void, Returning"
"The three from the Vast Yang Dao Lineage?"
Zhang Yu had previously asked Controller Zhuang about the whereabouts of those three. The answer had been that no one knew how they had been dealt with. Yet now, the five Controllers had taken the initiative to tell him of this matter.
He asked, "Since the five Controllers already joined forces to drive these three away, how were they found again now? If they are driven away this time, will they return once more?"
Daoist Tai Shi replied, "This is also not unrelated to the changes between Heaven and Earth. Earlier, Origin Xia used the treasure True Ring of Heaven and Earth to shift the heavenly momentum, causing lost remnants such as the Vast Yang Dao Lineage to appear frequently in the world once more. The people of the Vast Yang Dao Lineage followed this and found their way back, so they must be driven away again."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu understood. The Vast Yang Sect had been expelled primarily through a method that used the qi-intents of mighty beings of the Upper Layer to evade one another.
So long as one side gathered qi-intent powerful enough, it could seal out the comparatively weaker side, leaving the two unable to make contact or have any intersection at all. That was equivalent to driving them away.
Though this would not harm either side, the expelled side would then have no way to interfere with what the expelling side intended to do.
The reason those people could return this time was chiefly because items belonging to the Vast Yang Sect had returned within the Celestial Xia Domain. Once they appeared, the three would become aware of them. Even if every related object were eliminated