The five major sects secretly joined forces, wiping out quite a few Evil Cultivator groups in one fell swoop. Nightmare parasites, even the sinister places hidden away in the remotest nooks and crannies, were all dug out. Worth mentioning was that they really did trace the whereabouts of the Demon Seed in the far south beyond the far south.
Unfortunately, they arrived too late and let the thing escape. Even so, it had at least been severely wounded. It would take no less than two hundred years for it to recover.
While the outside world churned with turmoil, the three people in seclusion knew nothing of it.
That was right, Wen Xu had later entered seclusion as well. It was not because he had gained another sudden insight, but because the gift Lord Jun had given him was far too precious: handwritten Wind-Riding Insights. On top of that, his master had been in an excellent mood lately and kept calling him over for heart-to-heart talks. Wen Xu could hardly bear the disturbance, so he simply entered seclusion and focused on reading.
His original intention had been very simple, but the more he read, the more his hunting instincts were aroused. Before he knew it, he had begun a true period of seclusion.
When all of a person's thoughts were immersed in cultivation, no external thing could disturb them. Even when his cultivation broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Wen Xu did not feel much about it.
He only felt that Lord Jun truly deserved to be called an expert at playing with the wind.
What a Coincidence
The Prodigies Ranking had changed.
Naturally, the first person to discover this was the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's ranking keeper.
The matter of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's old pavilion master being "replaced" had