More than three hundred miles east of Heaven Dou City, amid mountains that encircled the land.
There was a secluded village.
Chickens and dogs could be heard from one household to another; men farmed while women wove, and everyone lived in harmony.
It looked like an utterly ordinary village.
However, most of the people living in this village possessed hammer-type tool Martial Souls.
Because this unremarkable village was where the Clear Sky Sect, once renowned across the world as the number one sect, had secluded itself after closing its gates.
Everyone in the village, regardless of age or gender, was a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect.
However, this was merely the Clear Sky Sect's outpost. The true Clear Sky Sect was hidden within the castle atop the mountain behind the village.
In the middle of the fields, several idle disciples had gathered together to chat.
"Hey, did you hear? It looks like our Clear Sky Sect will soon be able to leave the mountains."
"Idiot, you're thinking too much. How could that be possible? Do you think leaving the mountains just means walking out of these mountains?"
"Exactly. Back then, the Sect Master's younger brother personally beat Spirit Hall's previous Pope to death. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been forced to close the sect."
"His name was Tang Hao, right? It's all that guy's fault. If it weren't for him, why would we be stuck farming in the mountains like this? We're the Clear Sky Sect, the number one sect in the world!"
"That's right. If I remember correctly, that guy also angered the previous Sect Master to death because he got together with a Soul Beast, didn't he?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. He really was a jinx. First, he angered our Clear Sky Sect's previous Sect Master to death, then