Dew of the Skies (1)

Fifteen years ago, two earth-shaking events occurred in the cultivation world.

The first was when Devil cultivators secretly used the Immortal Sects Assembly as bait to gather a large number of high-level Devil cultivators, intending to use the power of a formation to wipe out everyone from the Mystic Sect in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, every sect still had a Grand Elder holding down the fort. A brutal battle with the Devil cultivators broke out at the Immortal Sects Assembly. In the end, although the Mystic Sect won by a narrow margin, it paid a terrible price for the Devil cultivators' treachery. Countless cultivators fell, and the major sects were all severely weakened.

The second was the simultaneous massacre of a city by the Devil cultivators. Compared with the earth-shaking battle at the Immortal Sects Assembly, this incident had slightly less impact on the cultivation world, but it involved an entire town being slaughtered to the last soul, and the news spread like wildfire through the mortal world.

Fifteen years ago, Skyward City, within the territory of the Profound Heaven Sect, was ambushed by Devil cultivators, and the entire city was sealed off tight.

On the eve of the city's fall, the city lord desperately sent a distress signal to the Profound Heaven Sect. At that time, the sect's Fifth Elder, True Person Yu Qing, had remained behind to serve as acting sect master. Most of the other elders had gone to the Immortal Sects Assembly, leaving only the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Elders—three young elders—to guard the sect besides the sect master.

Everyone knew how dangerous the trip would be. It was clearly a trap laid by the Devil cultivators, and they firmly opposed the sect master risking himself. In the end, they decided that the three elders would