"The Astral Image Sect?"
Many elders looked puzzled at those words.
Clearly.
News of the Astral Image Sect's destruction had yet to spread fully.
However—
Not everyone was unaware of it.
Xu Yuanming sighed. "I heard Elder Shi took Thousand Mountain Blood and destroyed a great sect in the Tranquil Water Spirit Domain of Baiyong Prefecture. It seems the news was indeed true!"
Elder Shi!
Everyone's heart jolted at his words.
The Origin Sect had many elders, but only one bore the surname Shi.
As for the Astral Image Sect, it was one of the fifty-three sects on which the Origin Pavilion had placed bounties.
What they had not expected was for a great sect of a spirit domain like the Astral Image Sect to fall at Shi Jianfeng's hands.
Combining Xu Yuanming's words with what Qin Shujian had just said,
The other elders could be virtually certain that the news contained no falsehood whatsoever.
At that thought,
Quite a few people silently drew sharp breaths.
The destruction of a great sect of a spirit domain was truly shocking.
Beside them, Xiang Haoqian was equally astonished.
It could be said that,
Among all the elders and hall masters present, he was the strongest, with cultivation in the divine martial realm.
Xiang Haoqian had always been very confident in his own strength.
Though he did not show it, deep down he vaguely felt himself a cut above the others.
After all, strictly speaking,
The Origin Sect's elders generally had rather low cultivation.
And yet—
Even Xiang Haoqian himself was not confident that he could destroy a great sect of a spirit domain.
The spirit domain's restriction was only a minor issue.
The real reason was that such great sects generally possessed a Dao artifact to safeguard their sect, as well as