The Divine Saber Sect, in the Northwest of Ming.
Five years earlier, during the Demonic Cult Eastern Expedition, the Divine Saber Sect had returned to the Jianghu and displayed its might once more.
Then, with the successive destruction of powers such as the Raging Flood Dragon Gang and Snowmoon City, the Divine Saber Sect had risen to become one of the two top powers in northern Ming, standing alongside the Wudang Sect. Its prestige had been unrivaled for a time.
Although Bai Tianyu cared little for such empty fame, with him presiding over the Divine Saber Sect, no one could shake its standing in the Jianghu.
As a result, the Divine Saber Sect had also become one of northern Ming's two great sacred lands, a place countless saber wielders-and indeed countless people of the Jianghu-yearned to visit.
But now, white mourning silk hung throughout the Divine Saber Sect, and grief enveloped the entire sect.
The main hall had been converted into a mourning hall. A golden-thread nanmu coffin stood within, with a memorial tablet for Sect Leader Bai Tianyu displayed before it.
In front of the mourning hall, dozens of the Divine Saber Sect's core disciples and Bai Tianyu's old friends and relatives knelt in densely packed rows.
People from the various sects of the Northern Jianghu were also present.
As one of the Northern Region's two supreme figures, Bai Tianyu naturally held extraordinary standing in the Jianghu. When news of his death spread, all the major sects immediately sent people to offer condolences.
Among them was the other of the north's two great sects, the Wudang Sect.
Its current leader, Song Yuanqiao, had even come personally with his people.
At that moment.
The person overseeing the Divine Saber Sect was a young man in his twenties.
Ye Kai!
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