Several years after Su Hong returned, a heaven-shaking piece of news suddenly emerged and shocked the cultivation world. The news was so powerful that it directly shook the four great regions of the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
The spread of such a momentous report was almost no different from a True Immortal descending upon the Immortal-Spirit Realm. For a single piece of news to spread across one great region was already terrifying enough, let alone for all four great regions to receive similar news one after another.
When cultivators throughout the various regions heard this news, they all wondered whether they had received false information. Soon afterward, some curious people immediately headed to nearby marketplaces or cultivation cities.
There, they truly saw the colossal entity they had heard of before—"Return Home"—either closing outright or temporarily halting all transactions in its shops across many marketplaces and cultivation cities.
The content of this news was that the Second Ancestor of "Return Home" had directly defected from "Return Home." This Second Ancestor was an ultimate powerhouse of the Mahayana Realm.
However, it was said that the Yang clan to which he belonged had suffered grievous casualties. Yet despite the Second Ancestor's overwhelming strength, even under the joint siege of "Return Home's" First and Third Ancestors—
The Yang Ancestor still ultimately escaped successfully with a portion of his clan's core members!
As for the reason behind his defection, this Second Ancestor had long ago established a force outside, which had secretly been infiltrating "Return Home" all along.
On one hand, he used "Return Home's" various resources to extensively cultivate his own force. On the other, he slowly eroded "Return Home's" internal structure...
"Return Home" was renowned throughout the Immortal-Spirit Realm. So long as cultivators did not live in excessively remote places, they would have seen this