The Emei Sect had sealed its mountain for sixty years of secluded cultivation, and it had made thorough preparations for this reopening.
According to the original story's timeline, the Three Immortals and Two Elders would have achieved Ascension long ago, as would Li Yingqiong. By now, Shangguan Hong should have been the sect leader.
The Three Immortals and Two Elders had already reached the level of heavenly immortals. Their inner and outer cultivation were both complete, and they were only waiting to finish the Third Sword Duel before achieving Ascension to the Lingkong Immortal Realm to reunite with Elder Longbrow.
Their cultivation, magical power, and supernatural abilities had seen many more breakthroughs and improvements since those earlier years, bringing them almost to the pinnacle of this world.
The first thing the Emei Sect did after reopening its mountain was dispatch its junior brother, Perfected Jade Cave Yue Yun, with the disciples Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun to seek out Li Jingxu at Carefree Cave, Evergreen Rock, on Yunnan Lion Ridge. They also brought two letters written personally by Qi Shouming.
One of these letters was for Li Jingxu, and the other was for Shi Feiyang.
Qi Shouming asked Li Jingxu to intervene and help mediate between the Emei Sect and Shi Feiyang.
In his letter, he told Li Jingxu that the coming great calamity was imminent, and that he would achieve Ascension after the sword duel. He did not want to become entangled in any more grudges.
All their past enmities had been ordained by heaven. Life and death had their appointed fates, and fortune lay in heaven's hands; no single person could bear all the blame. If Shi Feiyang was willing, everything could be wiped from the slate.
Reading the letter addressed to him, Li Jingxu was filled with