Spring gave way to autumn, the cycle repeating without end. In the blink of an eye, another three years had passed. Amid the surging struggle between righteous and demonic factions and the confrontation between the Daoist Sect and Xuanmen, the world's fortunes shifted, with not a single day of peaceful rest. Over those thousand-odd days and nights, many more events of far-reaching consequence took place across the Divine Land. Of these, none was more widely discussed, stirred greater public controversy, or attracted more attention than the Emei School of Western Shu, whose reputation and prestige had plummeted a thousand fathoms.
Although more than three years had passed, people still periodically brought up and debated the former Emei disciple Li Yingqiong of the Violet Ying Sword, her sudden attack and defection three years earlier, her killing of Xuanzhenzi, and her destruction of the four territories of Ba and Wu. And whenever this matter came up, there was no avoiding the torrent of abuse the Northern Faction's founding patriarch, Blood God Child, had hurled at the Emei Sect Leader on Mount Wudu three years earlier, or the fierce battle between the two sides.
Many had suspected that Blood God Child was an Emei traitor, but out of fear of Emei's prestige and petty vindictiveness, few had openly discussed it in public. As for his true identity as Emei's former Vice Sect Master, True Person Long Eyebrow's junior brother and True Person Miaoyi's martial uncle-a figure of such illustrious standing and considerable influence-many lower- and middle-realm cultivators genuinely knew nothing of it. Thus, over these three years, the matter remained widely discussed and had spread throughout the Divine Land.
Yet compared with the exposure of Blood God Child's identity, the earthshaking abuse and accusations this demon fiend had leveled at True Person Long