It had been years since anyone on the Cangluo Continent had heard news of "Old Devil Qiu," but that did not mean he had faded from their minds.
Quite the opposite. The events of the past two or three years
had only made Old Devil Qiu's name ring louder.
First came the great battle at the Water Dragon Sect Ruins, a little over two years ago—nearly three.
Rumor had it that Young Master Jiang, who already bore a grudge against Old Devil Qiu, had personally led a force to surround and kill him. Not only had Old Devil Qiu escaped, he had even killed a Core Formation Cultivator on the spot.
Old Devil Qiu fled, and Young Master Jiang gave chase.
Few knew what happened after that.
For the first two years, the story was that Qiu Qianhai and Young Master Jiang had fought for three days and three nights over the eastern Endless Sea. In the end, Young Master Jiang had supposedly relied on his supreme cultivation and methods to slay the fiend.
For a time, quite a few cultivators in Shangdong were moved to tears.
They even forgot that Young Master Jiang was a fiend himself.
A great fiend, at that.
Of course, another account circulated in smaller circles: Jiang Hong had still been no match for Qiu Qianhai and had nearly been beaten to death.
His mother had been the one to rush over and save him.
Plenty of cultivators had witnessed the great tsunami stirred up when a Nascent Soul cultivator made a move, so the account had no shortage of vivid details.
Some even speculated that the Blood Luo King, the Cangluo Continent's foremost cultivator, had gone there in person.
Those two rumors alone kept Shangdong buzzing for ages.
After all, "the poor love to