Twenty-three years earlier, upheaval had struck Coiling Dragon Ridge in the Northern Desert. The Warrior titan Wu Lianyi had fallen at the hands of Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng, and many of his supporters and trusted subordinates, including E'e, Duoluo, and Zhuorou, had been killed one after another in the months that followed.
By then, the older generation of Warrior cultivators who had defected from the Azure Cloud Sect Warrior Hall had been all but wiped out.
But Elder Shang knew certain secrets. He was aware that a small contingent had escaped at the time. Those people were regarded as Warrior Successors who had inherited Wu Lianyi's mantle and ideals. Most were newcomers whom Wu Lianyi had cultivated and promoted from the grassroots, and they were practitioners of the Demonized Warrior Path.
Ye Tianming was a rather special member of their ranks. Back then, he had already enjoyed a fortuitous encounter and cultivated to late Earth rank. He was believed to have entered Wu Lianyi's service in pursuit of Emperor-Rank Ascension and protection, while Wu Lianyi had also been eager to recruit him and turn him into another great general under his command.
As time passed, however, many people had gradually forgotten this former young talent of the Demon Alliance. They believed he had sunk into mediocrity, changed his face and identity, and no longer dared operate under his old name-or perhaps had simply perished in an unfamiliar world in the Outer Domains, some perilous place such as the Demon Realm or the Asura Realm.
"'Black Dragon' Ye Tianming..."
The two expert attendants dressed as guards who had accompanied Elder Shang also looked toward him with some surprise upon hearing this.
But Ye Tianming had risen to fame twenty-three years earlier. They had never truly crossed paths with him and