The cultivators in the real world saw the bloody battle in Xianyang's Imperial Palace, missing not a single detail, including Bai Qianjun and Zhuo Rusui's final exchange.
Looking at the corpses strewn across the ground and Zhuo Rusui sitting among them, no longer breathing, those outside Echo Valley fell silent for a long time.
The cultivators silently pondered that exchange. The more they thought about it, the more sense it made. The Zhongzhou Sect and the Green Mountain Sect were the leaders of the orthodox Cultivation World, yet their ways of doing things were utterly different. The Zhongzhou Sect believed in engaging with the world, extending its influence into every corner of the mortal world through the Imperial Court, officials, and armies, seeking to lead the entire Human Race forward. The Green Mountain Sect, however, largely ignored worldly affairs, acting only when action was needed-for instance, sending the Twofold Forgetting Peak Disciples out to slay demons, vanquish fiends, and kill people...
The disciples of both sects followed these same habits in the world within the Azure Sky Mirror. There was little difference between the so-called illusion and reality. Many people found profound implications in this, and grew increasingly curious about which side would ultimately win this Dao contest and obtain that incomparably precious Longevity Immortal Register.
Zhuo Rusui had left the illusion, but Jing Jiu was still inside-after that great fire, the people within the illusion had all been speculating about whether he was alive or dead, while those in the real world naturally knew he still lived. Sitting beside the Azure Sky Mirror, he had yet to awaken, and the glass bell hung quietly behind him.
But no one knew where he had gone. Azure Bird had not found any trace of him for a long time, which was