Mystic Azure Qi swirled within the Dao-Contemplation Hall.
Xu Xuan fell silent for a moment. His chest felt tight, and he stared dazedly at the entry belonging to his master.
Mystic Azure Qi flowed over that line of text, Sword Intent surging through it. Xu Xuan reached out to touch it and felt his consciousness sink, as though he had fallen inside. In an instant, a new memory appeared, and a scene unfolded before his eyes.
Demons ran rampant across the Great Scenery Plains. It was the scene of the Demon Calamity back then.
Even now, the sight made Xu Xuan's heart tremble. Demons packed as densely as a surging tide, ranging from Fetal Breath to Foundation Establishment, poured out of the Jade Flow Mountains and swept through Red Cloud South's territory.
High in the heavens, the Great Void opened.
A yellowed scroll manifested within the hazy Great Void. An ancient battlefield filled its surface, stretching across almost the entire sky. Ethereal clouds shrouded the scene, preventing those below from peering into it.
Xu Xuan turned his gaze toward that ancient battlefield. Boundless sands stretched beneath a mournfully howling wind, and countless cultivators crowded around an immortal mountain that towered between heaven and earth. A great banner rose into the sky, bearing the character for Shu.
Two Purple Mansion Dharma Bodies manifested beside the scroll, their forms indistinct. One turned his hand over, and a group of people appeared in his palm. Only then did Xu Xuan see his master.
There were Wen Fufeng, Zhu Yucheng, and someone who looked remarkably like Chen Weiyuan-presumably Chen Changqi. The others were former elders of the Hollow Sword Gate, the Liu Household, the Wu Clan, and the Duan Clan.
All of them had reached Foundation Establishment. Now their eyes were vacant, and they