"Undying... Ye Po?!"
At the sound of that voice, and the words "Undying Night Soul,"
a look of horror immediately appeared in Qiu Shanyuan's eyes.
This was a name that had vanished entirely from today's cultivation world, yet remained hidden in the classified archives of every major power-a name that made readers pale no matter how many times they encountered it.
Whenever he recalled this name, Prefecture Lord Qiu Shanyuan would remember the sole scene associated with it preserved in Youyun Prefecture's Moonshadow Stone-
On a canyon battlefield strewn with the corpses of Human Race cultivators, thousands upon thousands of demonic beasts poured into the canyon. The Human Race stood on the brink of defeat and annihilation.
Just then, a woman clad in iron armor crawled out of a mountain of corpses.
With a sword in one hand and the Human Race's Xuanhuang Banner in the other, she roared in a voice like thunder:
"Even if I alone remain, you demon marauders shall not set one foot upon our Land of Yanhuang!"
Amid her furious roar, the armored woman raised her banner and wielded her sword, charging alone toward the army of countless demonic beasts.
The images in that Moonshadow Stone ended there.
The archives, however, contained a detailed account of the battle's outcome-
In this battle, Huangting Dao Palace led three hundred thousand cultivators from the Daoist sects of the Three Realms and slaughtered nine hundred thousand troops of the Nine Abysses Demon Army. Our side likewise suffered devastating losses: more than half the Daoist cultivators were killed or wounded, and every disciple of Huangting Dao Palace died in battle.
Among them, the master of Huangting Dao Palace held up the collapsing heavens at the last moment, single-handedly slaughtering all one hundred thousand reinforcements from the Nine Abysses.
But