"It's Lu Yuan!"
"Lu Yuan, the young master of the Blood Crow Sect!"
Seeing the young expert rise, dressed in red-and-black brocade, his face as fine as polished jade and his bearing sinister yet alluring, the assembled young talents cried out in spontaneous wonder.
"He's finally willing to take the stage..."
Lu Yuan belonged to the Blood Crow Sect.
Founded forty years ago, the Blood Crow Sect was a rising sect with a very short history and no particularly powerful organization.
Yet no one dared look down on it.
For it was a sect founded by the Heaven Tier expert Blood Crow Ancestor, a power personally presided over by a peerless master!
According to rumor, Blood Crow Ancestor's original name was Lu Xingyuan. He had once been nothing more than an obscure rogue cultivator in the wilds. Before the age of twenty-five, like the vast majority of mediocre cultivators of humble origins, he had traveled between ruins and blessed lands, risking his life to explore hidden mysteries and toiling to make a living.
Fate had led him onto the path of cultivation, but had not given him the exceptional gifts and talents needed to rise above the crowd.
Nor had he found an opportunity in his youth to join a sect and become a disciple of a great school.
Such a man seemed destined for a lifetime of mediocrity. He might even die at any moment in some hidden realm or perilous land, or in one of the countless feuds of the cultivation world.
Yet fate was fickle. This wandering rogue cultivator, seemingly unremarkable in every way, had stumbled upon a treasure bearing the secret art legacy of an ancient mighty cultivator.
A mere rogue cultivator had obtained a treasure through a chance encounter, and from then on embarked on