Chapter 1

The Northwest Continent.

The Jia Ma Empire, Yun Lan Sect.

Today's Yun Lan Sect was festooned with lanterns and decorations, bustling extraordinarily; vivid reds, like lanterns, adorned this massive mountain peak.

The reason for this was because today was the wedding day of Gu He, the Pill King of considerable renown in the Jia Ma Empire, and Yun Lan Sect's Yun Yun.

"Hehe, Gu He, after today, you will be one of my Yun Lan Sect's people!"

"I have never accepted a disciple in my life; Yun'er is Junior Brother Yun Yi's disciple, but for all these years I have always regarded her as my own. You must treat her well!"

Amidst waves of celebratory voices, on the wedding platform, an old man smiled at the middle-aged man beside him.

The speaker was Yun Shan, the former Sect Master of Yun Lan Sect, and the man beside him was the groom, Gu He.

"Rest assured, Old Sect Master. After the wedding, I will treat her ten times, a hundred times better than before!"

Gu He at the side declared excitedly.

Truth be told, regarding the name Yun Yi that Yun Shan mentioned, he also felt quite moved in his heart.

Back then, that person.

Had stunned an entire era.

Gu He understood that the person Yun Yun respected most in this life was her Master.

That man who had broken through to Dou Ling at fourteen and achieved Dou Wang at sixteen.

What a pity, a fleeting glory!

"The bride arrives!"

As a clear voice rang out.

On the plaza.

Those clamorous voices finally died down.

Gaze after gaze followed the sound.

In their sight, a woman dressed in a red wedding skirt, surrounded by many maids, walked slowly toward the wedding platform like stars surrounding the moon.

However, within the woman's steps, there was a slight stiffness, puppet-like.

Gu He went forward excitedly to meet her; though the red veil obscured the bride's expression, the excitement on Gu He's face was difficult to conceal.

"Master, today is your disciple's grand wedding. It would be wonderful if you could be present..."

With her face concealed by the red veil, Yun Yun felt a secret sorrow in her heart at this moment, absent-minded.

Although she was unwilling to marry Gu He.

But now she had no choice.

Her entire cultivation base had been sealed by her Martial Uncle.

No matter how she pleaded, her Martial Uncle was determined to marry her off to Gu He.

She couldn't help but think of her Master.

That man who had once shone with boundless radiance.

If he were still alive.

He would certainly not watch her suffer this grievance.

"The auspicious hour has arrived, the grand wedding begins!"

Yun Shan looked at the sky and announced loudly.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Just as Yun Shan's words fell, a sudden, urgent sound of air being torn apart came from the distant sky.

Everyone's gazes looked over in shock.

Soon, in that patch of sky, several dozen figures flew over; behind each person were dazzling Dou Qi Wings, truly astonishing.

Because this meant that among these people, the lowest cultivation base had reached the Dou Wang realm.

Several dozen Dou Wangs — what a massive force this was; even the current Yun Lan Sect could not field such a powerful lineup.

The leader was a young man.

The young man wore black robes, held a broad Black Heavy Ruler in his hand, and had a resolute face.

This person was very familiar to all the guests present.

It was precisely Xiao Yan of the Xiao Family, who had once caused a huge commotion at Yun Lan Sect several years ago and finally fled to Hei Jiao Yu.

"Unexpectedly, in just a few years, Xiao Yan has come to command such a powerful force!"

"Judging by Xiao Yan's aggressive arrival this time, I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle today..."

"Wonder if Yun Lan Sect can hold them off."

"It seems even the Imperial Family's Elder Jia has joined Xiao Yan's camp, and the Ice Emperor too..."

On the plaza.

The guests discussed, each with their own thoughts.

"Yun Shan, you old dog, I said it before: thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river!

Don't bully a youth because he's poor! Today, I, Xiao Yan, have come to take your dog life, Yun Shan..."

Xiao Yan stood proudly in the sky and spoke.

"A joke. A stray dog from back then — what can you do even if you've returned?"

Hearing Xiao Yan call him an old dog, the expression on Yun Shan's face turned extremely ugly.

"Do you think I'm still the Xiao Yan from back then?" Xiao Yan's voice was full of confidence.

Several years of life-and-death tempering.

He had long since become a completely different person.

Now leading numerous strongmen from the Black Corner Region to descend, today he must annihilate the Yun Lan Sect.

Both sides are at sword's drawn!

It seems battle will erupt the very next second.

However, just as Xiao Yan prepared to open his mouth to summon the many helpers he had invited behind him.

The sky above the center of the Yun Lan Sect plaza.

Suddenly violent spatial fluctuations appeared.

A pitch-black spatial crack appeared without warning, its pressure enveloping the entire Yun Lan Sect.

"This is?"

Seeing the spatial crack in the sky.

Xiao Yan's heart was incomparably surprised.

Behind him, Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and the Medusa Queen and others likewise frowned.

"Space Wormhole... Dou Zun?"

Inside Xiao Yan's ring, a wizened Soul Body's face also revealed gravity.

This Soul Body was precisely Venerable Yao Yao Chen.

He had once also been a Dou Zun strongman, so naturally he knew that only experts above Dou Zun could create such a huge commotion.

Right now.

He immediately gave a warning: "Xiao Yanzi, the situation has changed — be ready to retreat at any moment!"

In so many years, this was the second time Xiao Yan had seen Yao Lao this nervous; the first time was in the mysterious Scripture Pavilion of Canaan Academy.

Unexpectedly, here at the Yun Lan Sect, there was actually someone who could make Yao Lao treat things with such gravity.

"What situation is this?"

On the wedding dais, Yun Shan was equally panicked; at this moment he stared at the black crack, not noticing the panicked expressions of Xiao Yan's group.

He thought it was a trump card Xiao Yan had prepared.

Under the gaze of the many eyes on the plaza, a white figure slowly stepped out from within that enormous spatial crack in the sky.

It was a youth; the youth's skin was fair and clean, his cold cheeks filled with killing intent.

"Yun Lan Sect, I, Yun Yi, have returned!"

The youth was named Yun Yi; he was Yun Shan's Junior Brother, Yun Yun's Master, and even more a Heaven's Pride who had stunned a dozen surrounding empires several decades ago.

He transmigrated here; at three he cultivated Qi, at seven he successfully condensed a Dou Qi vortex, at fourteen he became a Dou Ling, at sixteen he achieved Dou Wang cultivation...

After that, he cultivated in seclusion for ten years, and under circumstances unknown to the outside world, he broke through to Dou Zong.

Not long after breaking through to Dou Zong, Yun Yi felt the resources of this small place, the Jia Ma Empire, could no longer satisfy his subsequent cultivation.

So he bid farewell to Senior Brother Yun Shan, entrusted his disciple Yun Yun to Yun Shan's care, and he alone left the Jia Ma Empire to seek opportunities.

According to his original plan, he should have returned to the Jia Ma Empire fifteen years ago.

Unfortunately, fate played a trick on him.

After going to an Ancient Dou Sheng Ruins in Zhongzhou to seize treasure, he was sealed by a seal left by an Ancient Dou Sheng strongman, barely escaping with his life.

He stayed inside for a full twenty-five years.

During these twenty-five years.

He killed all the remaining treasure-snatching enemies in that ruins, as well as all the fierce beasts in the ruins.

His cultivation also climbed to Nine-Star Dou Zun!

And after twenty-five years of time, the seal left by the Ancient Dou Sheng finally weakened a bit more under time's corrosion, and only then was he able to break the seal and leave that lifeless place.

Twenty-five years!

Yun'er has grown into a young lady by now, right!

(Chapter End)