True Immortal's Fate
Several hours later!
Li Xiaoya left Qianshan's cave abode with a grave expression and slowly flew toward Tranquil Valley. During those hours...
Qianshan had told Li Xiaoya that, after piecing together his report from years ago about the Fourth Elder being possessed by a demonic beast and the news of Buddha Xuanmen's possession, the Heavenly Dao Sect had conducted a lengthy investigation in secret. They had discovered that cultivators from several other sects had indeed been possessed by demonic beasts. Those cultivators were all formidable, each at the Nascent Soul Realm or above.
Fortunately, the possessions had not yet fully succeeded. Still, all the signs suggested that the Demon Realm might truly be planning to invade the Human Realm within a thousand years. Another war between realms would follow, and who knew how many cultivators would perish? As the leader of the Righteous Path, the Heavenly Dao Sect would bear the brunt of it. In the several great wars over the past hundred-odd thousand years, the Heavenly Dao Sect had almost always been the first target. How could they not worry? Although the sect now appeared stronger than any other, that was only on the surface. It had just two Spirit Communion Stage cultivators, who represented the Human Realm's highest fighting strength-only a little better than when Qianshan had been its sole one. At the Heavenly Dao Sect's height, it had possessed more than a dozen Spirit Communion Stage cultivators. Only then had it truly been the Number One Sect Under Heaven.
And Li Xiaoya was the legendary Calamity-Bound One. Naturally, Qianshan placed particular importance on him and urgently demanded that he grow stronger. More precisely, he hoped Li Xiaoya would become even stronger than himself! After all, if Qianshan could resolve the Demon Realm's invasion himself,