The battle Li Xiaoya, Heavenly Venerable Daoling, and their companions fought at the Fire Dragon Palace directly secured the Heavenly Dao Sect's unshakable supremacy and prosperity on the Great Illusion Continent for tens of thousands of years to come. Yet when news of the battle first spread a few days later, few cultivators believed it. They all dismissed it as a rumor. Seven Nascent Soul Realm cultivators had dared to storm the Fire Dragon Palace and killed dozens of its Golden Core Stage cultivators and seven or eight Nascent Soul Realm cultivators? No one would believe that even if they were beaten to death. Seven Spirit Communion Stage cultivators might have managed it, but the entire Heavenly Dao Sect had only one cultivator at that stage. Naturally, there could not have been seven...
The major sects all had disciples planted undercover in the Fire Dragon Palace, and naturally, they had sent the news out early. Even so, the sects remained doubtful. Only after cultivators from quite a few sects spent months investigating was the news gradually confirmed. For a time, the entire Great Illusion Continent was shaken. Seven Nascent Soul Realm cultivators had battered the foremost Demonic Path sect, the Fire Dragon Palace, into such a sorry state-something utterly unprecedented! Unfortunately, the cultivators of the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Fire Dragon Palace who knew the truth all kept silent. Still, people slowly pieced together the whole affair. The Heavenly Dao Sect's prestige soared to unprecedented heights, and the names of Heavenly Venerable Daoling, Li Xiaoya, and the others naturally spread throughout the Great Illusion Continent. The celebrated tale of the Heavenly Dao Sect's seven Great Cultivators storming the Fire Dragon Palace continued to circulate throughout the Cultivation World, becoming an incredible legend. Naturally, as always, plenty of false rumors