Three months later.
"Mr. Ye, you must have had a hard journey from the Central Land."
Within Longevity Sect's newly renovated Honglu Tower, Lü Zheng carefully served tea to the Martial Confucian elder before him.
Figures of the Void Step level had once been immortals only in his imagination, yet now he saw them regularly.
Having seen too many immortals, he could not help becoming somewhat unsurprised by the strange.
"Not at all. I have indeed been rather troubled of late."
Ye Yin accepted the hot tea and eased the weariness in his body slightly.
White Deer Grotto had not been having easy days recently.
Once the incident at Myriad Spirits Sect came to light, it ultimately stirred up a bloody storm. Several righteous factions of the Central Land and Southern Wastes, led by Jade Sun Mountain and supported by Azure King Valley, the South Sea Sect, and others, had invited the East Sea Sword Palace to act. Several Immortal Sword Cultivators rode the air like lightning, truly beginning their investigation.
Many hidden matters were immediately dragged into the open.
Myriad Spirits Sect had purchased people from the Central Land for so many years, while those great Aristocratic Clans of the Central Land seized slaves and sold them southward. Naturally, none of this could be concealed from others.
Three Ministers died in the Northern Dynasties, while two Aristocratic Clans were wiped out in the Southern Dynasty.
Yuwen Rui, Old Su, and Wei Huaiwen struck north and south alike, truly killing until blood flowed like rivers.
White Deer Grotto had already faced some difficulties in the Central Land. Now, many of its connections had been severed, and its days grew ever harder.
If that had been all, there would still have been room to turn things around.
The East Sea Sword