Love's first awakening

The Misty Cloud Sect was gone, so were they heading home next?

After some thought, the Gu Clan's Dou Zun decided to head to Wutan City for now and bring the young miss back to the clan to cultivate.

On the way to Wutan City, they did not sit idle, either. They took the opportunity to investigate why the Misty Cloud Sect had been destroyed.

Only then did they learn that its destruction had come without any warning. It had been utterly silent, with nothing unusual happening before or during the incident.

It was not until a day after the Misty Cloud Sect's destruction that word spread rapidly: not one of its several thousand disciples and elders had survived. Only then did the world learn that the Jia Ma Empire's foremost sect had been annihilated.

What had once been a paradise on earth had become a living hell. Buildings a thousand years old had been reduced to broken walls and rubble, and all several thousand disciples had died violent deaths.

After hearing this from passersby, the Gu Clan's Dou Zun mourned the Misty Cloud Sect's fate while wondering what force had struck.

Weak though the Misty Cloud Sect was, it was still a third-rate power. To destroy it without a sound and leave not a single survivor—as far as they knew, no force in the entire Northwest Region had that capability.

So the attackers had most likely come from the Central Plains. Could it have been the Soul Hall?

The Gu Clan's Dou Zun remembered that, before their departure, the Clan Chief had mentioned casually killing someone in the Misty Cloud Sect who appeared to be a Soul Hall Protector.

As the strongest publicly known force on the Dou Qi Continent, the Soul Hall certainly had the strength to wipe