Chapter 68: Artifact of the Upper Realm
The news shook the entire Mystic Gate world:
the long-vanished Qingyang Sect had returned to the mortal realm.
Within a single day, every cultivator knew. Though the Celestial Masters Hall had become the foremost public authority in recent centuries, no sect had ever surpassed Qingyang’s legacy. It was the wellspring of half the cultivation world’s techniques and scriptures.
True, in recent years impostors had claimed to be Qingyang disciples, swindling their way through the lands, leaving the orthodox sect’s name muddied. No one could be sure who was real.
But this time? No one doubted. Not after two people had summoned the Mystic Gate’s very founder—the Guangji Heavenly Venerable—down to earth in broad daylight.
If you can call the Ancestor himself to appear and bear witness, who dares say you’re fake?
Everyone also knew: every true Qingyang cultivator throughout history had been a peerless genius. Half of the world’s most profound manuals traced back to Qingyang. Even those later adapted by other sects started with Qingyang’s roots. To touch just a fragment of its teaching was to profit for life.
So wandering cultivators began stirring restlessly. Big sect disciples couldn’t easily defect, but the lone wanderers saw a golden chance.
Meanwhile, Hall Master Xu Qingfeng of the Celestial Masters Hall was thinking very differently.