The Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds Summons Order!
Su Bai looked over. An ancient token, its age almost impossible to discern, hovered silently above the Heavenwatch Tower Master's palm.
It was neither metal nor jade, and its material was unknown. Its entire surface bore a deep, dark-gold sheen.
No vast aura radiated from it, no dazzling light. Only an indescribable weight and sense of ages past spread through the air, as though it carried the rise and fall of the world.
At the token's center, two characters so ancient they were barely legible flickered in and out of sight: "Slay Demons."
"The Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds Summons Order was also known, in the distant past, as the 'Demon-Slaying Order.'"
The Heavenwatch Tower Master's voice held a note of remembrance, as though he had returned to a time long, long ago.
"When the armies of the Demon World descended upon the Immortal Realm, they swept across the eight wastes and six directions, slaughtering countless living beings."
"Everything was destroyed. Immortals fell in droves and became nourishment for the Devil Race."
"At first, the great powers of the Immortal Realm retreated again and again, avoiding battle with the Devil Race to preserve their strength."
"But the Devil Race's appetite only grew. They even sought to destroy the entire Immortal Realm and wipe out every immortal."
"Left with no choice, the great powers formed an alliance and went to war against the Devil Race."
"Yet even at its peak, the Immortal Realm was no match for the Demon World, let alone a loose alliance hastily thrown together."
"The Immortal Realm lost ground at every turn. The exalted kings withdrew. Then, at that moment of crisis, someone stepped forward."
"I have forgotten his name, for afterward, he came to be known