Lei Zhenzi stared blankly at Ren, but he nodded without thinking. "Got it!"
He picked up Nezha and took him to Four-Unlike for treatment. Four-Unlike loved wine, but brewing required all kinds of ingredients, so he knew medicine too.
After Lei Zhenzi left, Yun Zhongzi shook his head. "My disciple might as well be one of your men now. Then again, he was never cut out to be a leader."
"Uncle-Master, don't change the subject," Ren pressed. "What happened?"
"Ahem..." Caught out, Yun Zhongzi coughed awkwardly. "Ren, the Primordial World changed too much while you were in seclusion! It used to go thousands of years without much changing. Now, barely a century has passed, and everything changes by the day. Even I can hardly keep up!
"First, the Sword Aura Inheritance sparked bloodshed. As the fighting went on, people began forming alliances that grew into small factions. At first, those factions only wanted to keep fighting over the inheritance. But some obtained it and lacked the resources to cultivate, so they turned their attention to the Heavenly Court.
"The Heavenly Court paid little heed to them. One faction slipped in and stole a great many cultivation resources. With those resources, it expanded rapidly, swallowed up other factions, and gathered more and more inheritances. In the end, it became a major power.
"When the Heavenly Court discovered the theft, it sent troops after them in a fury. Somehow, that faction joined forces with many smaller ones to form an alliance. Claiming to have inherited Saint Tongtian's teachings, they named themselves the Zhu Xian Alliance after the Zhu Xian Sword, one of the Four Zhu Xian Swords!
"They founded the alliance in the Interception Sect's name. Naturally, members of the sect serving throughout the Heavenly Court secretly helped them. In the end,