A month later.
These days, whenever cultivators throughout the Chu Kingdom's cultivation world met, the news they discussed most concerned the Dongyuan Sect.
That day, billowing demonic clouds had arrived, with nine Nascent Soul cultivators crossing the land straight toward the Dongyuan Sect.
Yet not long afterward, a sword had suddenly swept across the sky, scattering all the demonic clouds. Those nine Nascent Soul Realm cultivators had never appeared again.
Rumors had once circulated that Demon Ruins cultivators had invaded, and the Dongyuan Sect's sect master intended to disperse his disciples.
But after that day, everything in the Dongyuan Sect had plainly remained perfectly fine.
There was nothing unusual about its disciples. Some guarded the sect gates, while others traveled beyond the mountains. Lingyuan Marsh Market,
the Night Market-everything continued as usual.
Whenever anyone asked, they merely said that some blind fools of Devil Cultivators had invaded and been slain with a single stroke of the sect master's sword.
Slain with a single stroke?
How could that be possible? Those were nine Nascent Soul cultivators.
Could the Dongyuan Sect actually have a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator?
Yet the demonic clouds had dispersed, and the nine Nascent Soul cultivators had vanished without a trace. Those were facts laid out for all to see.
People had little choice but to believe them.
For a time, speculation about the Dongyuan Sect grew throughout the Chu Kingdom's cultivation world.
The small sects near the Yanran Mountain Range and Spirit Source Marsh needed only to look up to see that enduring streak of Sword Qi stretching across the heavens.
Several cultivators from other sects who had acquaintances in the Dongyuan Sect successively requested permission to visit.
Surprisingly, the Dongyuan Sect opened its gates wide. So long as visitors submitted a letter or spiritual note to