Liu Yu had made this journey to settle the karmic debt surrounding the Ruined Sword.
Although cultivators proclaimed, "My fate is mine, not Heaven's," in the end, those were only words.
How many people in this world could defy Heaven and truly escape the arrangements of fate?
With his Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation back then, if Tang Tianbao had not willingly given it to him, he might not have obtained the spirit treasure even if it had been placed right before him.
Had he tried to seize it by force, he might even have lost his life.
After all, a spirit treasure possessed a "spirit" and was nothing like a true treasure or an ordinary treasure.
Even the Ruined Sword, whose transformation had not yet been completed, might have acted on its own at a critical moment.
It was also Tang Tianbao's willing gift that had connected Liu Yu to the Sacred Fire Cult.
Although he did not believe in karma and predestination, he did not mind fulfilling his old promise now that he had sufficient strength.
After all, the gift of a spirit treasure was an immense favor.
Compared with that, merely preserving the Sacred Fire Cult's legacy was far too insignificant.
Over the years, his life had hung by a thread several times, and it was thanks to the Ruined Sword that he had turned danger into safety. He truly owed Tang Tianbao thanks for giving him the sword.
Thus, Liu Yu believed that taking Zhou Yunlong as his personal disciple, finding an opportunity to destroy the Divine Sand Sect, and restoring the Sacred Fire Cult's prosperity was a suitable course of action.
With his current strength, forcibly destroying the Divine Sand Sect was not beyond him.
But the Western Sands covered such a vast region, with cultivation