A month earlier, the Four Directions Gate had undergone a major upheaval.
A breathtakingly beautiful woman carrying a spear had ascended the mountain with a young man in fine robes and a gray-robed man.
The woman had swept aside everything in her path, fighting her way straight to the Four Directions Gate's headquarters.
With a single thrust of her spear, she had subdued its master, Yan Sihai, a Source Sea Realm cultivator.
The incident had shaken the entire Four Directions Gate.
Every member had thought their sect would suffer utter destruction and cease to exist.
Unexpectedly, things had taken a turn in the end.
The three had ultimately departed with Alliance Leader Yan Sihai seeing them off with earnest deference.
Afterward, Yan Sihai had assembled the sect's core members and announced that the Four Directions Gate's crisis was over.
A patron had helped them avert disaster and would help the Four Directions Gate grow stronger.
But from then on, they would also need to serve that patron.
Yan Sihai had also ordered a strict seal on news of Gu Yanshuang and her two companions fighting their way into the Four Directions Gate.
The members who learned of the order had been dubious.
They wondered whether their master, to conceal the disgrace of the Four Directions Gate nearly being wiped out and his own forced kneeling,
had deliberately fabricated the story.
Then, half a month earlier, a group of martial artists with considerable cultivation had arrived at the Four Directions Gate disguised as a merchant caravan.
They had delivered a shipment of cultivation methods and martial techniques.
There had been dozens of yellow-grade cultivation methods and martial techniques alone, and more mortal-grade manuals than they could count.
For the Four Directions Gate, whose entire sect had only a single yellow-grade cultivation