Chu Xingchen's gaze was calm. Behind him, his Nascent Soul manifestation still stood facing the opposition, sword in hand.
[Target: Lin Wei] [Cultivation: early Spirit Transformation] [Purple trait: natural intelligence] [Blue trait: social savvy] [White trait: steadiness] [Black trait: on the brink of old age] [Black trait: afflicted by a strange poison] [Black trait: severely wounded] [Black trait: dying body]
Before coming, Chu Xingchen had naturally first investigated the Skyglow Sect's exact circumstances.
Coming blindly would not have been picking a fight-it might very well have been courting death.
The Skyglow Sect had only managed to establish itself on the fringes of the Central Province by relying on a single Spirit Transformation cultivator.
When he gathered information, every source had been utterly certain of one thing.
Several years ago, this Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Skyglow Sect had participated in an expedition into a Secret Realm, then fled back severely wounded and invited a large number of medical cultivators to treat him.
With such a great fanfare, word had naturally spread extremely quickly.
The specifics had soon spread as well: no medicine could save him, and he had no more than three years.
For the first two years, the Skyglow Sect had constantly sought physicians, but after those two years, they had stopped calling for them altogether.
From then on, even in the face of repeated probing, this Spirit Transformation cultivator had never shown himself again.
Everyone had taken it for granted that the Skyglow Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivator had already reached the end of his life.
Ever since the news spread, the Skyglow Sect had seemed like a boat tossed by wind and rain. How could putting down roots in the Central Province be so easy?
Without a Spirit Transformation cultivator, they had lost their foundation.
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