Chapter 261
As the room settled, Lin Hui continued. "The true foundation of the Nine Skies Gate's power doesn't lie in its martial art—the Nine Skies Divine Wind Art—but in its Law Seals. In fact, the sect's martial art was itself derived by the grandmaster through his comprehension of the first and most powerful of these seals."
Sifting through his memories, he chose the most iconic grandmaster as his example.
Over the course of its history, the Nine Skies Gate had produced thirteen terrifying experts capable of destroying worlds—and yet each of those thirteen had also made extraordinary contributions to the peace of their respective realms. They were accordingly revered as the Thirteen Ancestors of the Nine Skies.
"Since our Clear Wind Dao inherited its legacy from the Nine Skies Gate, we are counted as one of its branch sects. I have never personally met the Nine Skies grandmaster, but I have long held him in reverence. Allow me to introduce the most distinctive figure in our lineage."
Lin Hui understood that to persuade Mistborn to genuinely commit to the Clear Wind Dao, he needed to establish absolute prestige. Leveraging the Nine Skies Gate's fearsome reputation as borrowed authority was merely the first step.
He met the crowd's curious, skeptical gazes and continued.
"This grandmaster’s given name was Yan Xiao, his courtesy name Jinping, and his title was Perfected Lord Seven Extinctions. Because of his fiery temperament and zealous pursuit of justice, he often acted on misunderstandings, striking without hesitation. On seven separate occasions, he realized his mistake only after completely exterminating his targets’ clans—and so he later swore a solemn vow never to kill again."
"This grandmaster was far too hard on himself," the twin-tailed girl spoke up again. "Exterminating a clan seven times over is just accidentally killing a few dozen or a hundred people. Binding his own hands over something so minor seems rather unwise…"
"Ah… well, about that…" Lin Hui hesitated, then decided to be honest. "The ‘clans’ Perfected Lord Seven Extinctions wiped out weren’t households—they were entire races. The smallest numbered in the billions… and the larger ones…"