The sudden, shocking development caused faces to fall throughout the various sects that made up the coalition.0

Patriarch Soaring Cloud immediately turned and left the river behind as he rushed back to the city. He looked at Master Shengyun hovering in the sky, arms outstretched as he looked up at the broken face of the god. Expression very unsightly, the patriarch then looked down at the blood tree growing up from within Seven Blood Eyes. There were only three people who could control the Soaring Cloud Sword Sect’s taboo treasure. He was one of them. Another was the sect leader. And third was his own son, who had already been appointed to serve as the next sect leader.0

That was Master Shengyun’s father!0

“Chu Tianqun!” growled Patriarch Soaring Cloud as he looked in the direction of his sect’s headquarters. [1]0

“Father.” A middle-aged man stepped out from the Soaring Cloud Sword Sect headquarters. Floating up into the sky to stand next to Master Shengyun, he looked in the direction of Patriarch Soaring Cloud and bowed respectfully. This was the very same person whose fleshly body had been destroyed by Master Seventh back in Seven Blood Eyes in South Phoenix. [2]0

“Why are you doing this?” Patriarch Soaring Cloud asked.0

“You really don’t know, father?” Chu Tianqun smiled mysteriously,...3