Three days later.
A shocking piece of news swiftly spread throughout the Great Thousand World.
Recently, the rising star of the far south, the Martial Realm Lord, the Martial Ancestor, had suddenly visited the Ice Spirit Clan.
As it turned out, the Martial Ancestor's wife, Ying Huanhuan, the Martial Realm Matriarch, was a member of the Ice Spirit Clan's royal family who had been lost abroad. She had accidentally ended up in a Lower Plane, grown up alongside the Martial Ancestor, and ultimately perished to help him break through and fight the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
Fortunately, the Martial Realm Matriarch possessed the Ice Spirit Clan's royal bloodline and, in accordance with their traditions, had left a trace of her true spirit within their supreme treasure, the Ice Spirit Stele.
The Martial Ancestor had sought to reclaim that trace of true spirit to resurrect his wife, promising lavish gifts in return. It would have benefited both sides, yet the Ice Spirit Clan had refused and even subjected him to great humiliation.
Enraged, the Martial Ancestor had stormed the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land single-handedly.
As a newly advanced Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, he had not only shattered the Ice Spirit Clan's Clan Protection Array with a single strike, but had then fought three Heavenly Sovereigns alone: the Ice Spirit Ancestor, along with the Snow Demon Elder and the Dragon Venerable, who happened to be visiting the clan.
The three had joined forces against the Martial Ancestor, intent on driving him out of the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land.
The Martial Ancestor had faced all three Heavenly Sovereigns alone and severely wounded each of them. Out of consideration for the Ice Spirit Clan being his wife's homeland, he had not gone too far. Leaving behind twenty thousand Demon-Slaying Points, he had