A piece of news suddenly sent shockwaves through the cultivation world of the Sparrow Plume Tower Region: seven clans there had seen the sky change overnight.
These seven clans had used thunderous methods to purge several branch lines within their ranks. From Golden Core Realm cultivators down to Qi Condensation Realm cultivators, corpses lay strewn everywhere. Each clan had lost at least a thousand people in a single night.
The seven clans had acted at the same time, slaughtering on a massive scale, with nearly ten thousand cultivators dying at once. This news undoubtedly stirred up towering waves throughout the Sparrow Plume Tower Region.
For a time, the seven clans did not reveal the reason behind it, which only made the matter all the more alarming and unsettling.
The outside world was rife with speculation over what earth-shattering upheaval had befallen these seven clans. Quite a few lineages and sects on good terms with the slain cultivators secretly sent people to inquire after the news.
Just then, the Giant Wood Clan received a special group of visitors. There were old and young among them, and while several were cultivators, most were ordinary mortals.
Yet these people looked utterly miserable, every one of them dressed in rags like beggars.
Whenever their eyes fell upon unfamiliar people nearby, they were filled with extreme vigilance, but even more so with terror and fear.
Only when these "beggars" saw Agu Xi, dressed in gray, did smiles of immense relief appear on their faces.
When most of the Giant Wood Clan saw all this, raging flames rose in their eyes.
Although they had already learned the reason, they still could not imagine that their own clansmen had been reduced to such a pitiful state, worse than dogs.
More than ten days earlier, a gray-robed old