Lunar Essence Shi Yi left, taking Xiang Feng's remains back to the Sacred Academy.
The Sacred Academy was now cold and deserted, no longer as lively as before. Most of its elders and disciples had gone to the Great Red Heaven frontier or the Imperial Pass.
Lunar Essence Shi Yi encountered no obstacles along the way. He reached Xiang Feng's secluded cultivation grounds and buried him in an inconspicuous spot on the mountain behind them.
Not long afterward, Shi Yi dug up several jars of fine wine, precisely where Xiang Feng had told him they were before his death.
He sighed, sat cross-legged before the grave, and drank with the tombstone as his companion.
Buzz!
The void rippled, and two figures stepped out. The Sacred Academy First Elder and Sun Stone Shi Yi had returned. After learning what had happened on the Great Red Heaven frontier, they had hurried back to the Sacred Academy ahead of the others.
"Xiang Feng?"
Seeing the name on the tombstone, the Sacred Academy First Elder swayed involuntarily.
This was his eldest disciple. He had always treated Xiang Feng as his own child, as one of his own descendants. Now, seeing his disciple dead and reduced to a cold mound of earth, he naturally found it difficult to accept.
Lunar Essence Shi Yi recounted everything that had happened on the Great Red Heaven frontier.
The Sacred Academy First Elder raised his face to the sky and let out a long sigh.
"Perhaps this was his destiny."
At a moment when someone had to step forward and shed blood, Xiang Feng, as his foremost disciple, had reasons that left him no choice but to act.
When he heard that Lunar Essence Shi Yi had struck in fury and slain the prodigies of ten King Clans from