"Hun Yan? Venerable Hun Yan?"
Throughout the Ink Forest Mountains, everyone's minds buzzed. For a moment, none of them could react.
The Myriad Phenomena Hall had three Venerables in all.
Sea Ancestor, Venerable Canghai.
Stone Ancestor, Venerable Shi Yuan!
And then there was Venerable Hun Yan, respectfully known as Soul Ancestor!
However... Soul Ancestor had left to temper himself years ago and had not returned for over thirty years. There were even rumors that he had died abroad.
Yet now, he had suddenly appeared...
In truth, the Southern Reach did not have only the Eight Great Venerables.
The Limitless Sect, for instance, had another Venerable besides the Limitless Ancestor who had gone away to temper himself. He had not returned for over a hundred years, and even the Limitless Ancestor held little hope for him anymore.
The Northern Yan Dynasty, the Great Chu Dynasty, and the Red Feather Sword Sect had similar cases.
The Southern Reach was simply too remote and too barren. Producing so many Venerables was already exceedingly rare, and for someone in the Venerable Martial Realm to break through in the Southern Reach and become a Creation Great Expert...
It was all but impossible!
Most Venerables who still retained their devotion to the Martial Way would consider venturing abroad to temper themselves and advance further along their martial path.
Unfortunately, so far, Venerable Hun Yan was the only one of those Venerables to return.
"Hun Yan, it's actually you!" The Blood Demon Ancestor trembled slightly, his eyes reddening. "Impossible! I heard you entered a perilous land. Even if I went there, I would face ten deaths with no chance of survival. You should be dead! How could you possibly have returned alive?"
The woman with the graceful figure glanced indifferently at the Blood Demon Ancestor and