Two Void Step cultivators from the Myriad Spirits Sect flew over. After circling the area, they saw only monster corpses strewn across the mountains and plains, along with a few monsters barely still breathing.
"Profound Yin Method—what enemy has come to our sect?"
"I don't know, but there's the aura of dragonkind here. They may have come from the sea."
One of them wore a towering crown and broad sash, though his face somewhat resembled that of a bird. The other was a pure Demon Cultivator, a massive black bear head sniffing at the air.
After surveying the surroundings, the two returned to the Myriad Spirits Sect.
The Myriad Spirits Sect was highly unusual, combining features of the Southern Wastes and the Hundred-Thousand Mountains. It too was built against a mountain, but over generations, the Myriad Spirits Sect had hollowed out the entire mountain from within, then used formations and artifact-refining methods to refine the whole sect into a single primal whole.
Within the mountain's belly, different areas had been laid out in sequence: artifact refinement, pill refinement, spirit-beast breeding, spirit-tree cultivation, all arranged in clear layers, along with elders' council halls, secluded cultivation zones, and more.
If the monsters outside the Myriad Spirits Sect were a tangled mess of hemp, then the sect's interior was in immaculate order.
Inside the council hall, a poorly dressed old woman held a cane. She stood no more than two feet tall, like a shriveled infant, and sat upon a lavish white-bone throne. Below her sat four Void Step cultivators of the Myriad Spirits Sect, including Hu Deyi, who had once met Su Che.
"According to the information we received, Yang Sui of the Longevity Sect was the one who acted."
The black bear-headed Demon Cultivator slowly said, "We offended the Longevity Sect