When Daoist Xiantian dispersed his cultivation to start anew and fled to the outside world, learning for the first time of the concept of the "Five Great Immortal Sects" and discovering that one of them was the sect he had founded, he had been stunned for quite a while. At one point, he had even suspected it was merely a coincidence of sharing the same name.
Only after confirming the location was he convinced that it wasn't just a shared name, but genuinely the very sect he had established back then.
Rumors in the outside world claimed that the Five Great Immortal Sects either possessed Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators or methods comparable to them—claims that had already astonished him.
After all, that was the lofty, exalted Tribulation Transcendence stage!
Yet now, having arrived at Prison Peak and witnessed the great figures imprisoned here, Tribulation Transcendence was one thing, but there were actually two half-immortals!
These were legendary half-immortals—cultivators who hadn't even existed in his era.
No matter how one looked at it, Dao Seeking Sect didn't seem like it had only Tribulation Transcendence stage power!
"Heh heh, Qi Tongtian, you've built quite a sect, haven't you?" A cold, sinister laugh rang out. Daoist Xiantian found it oddly familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.
Tracing the sound, he spotted its owner in a corner: a withered old man with a hunched back and a face covered in deep wrinkles.
"True Monarch Yehuo?!" Daoist Xiantian recognized the withered old man's identity.
This was a Body Integration True Monarch from his era. He had committed countless evil deeds, yet managed to withstand three days of scorching from the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, ultimately subduing it and founding the renowned Supreme Karmic Fire Sect.
Though both were in the Body Integration stage, Daoist Xiantian could hardly be mentioned in the same breath as True Monarch Yehuo. What was more, the Supreme Karmic Fire Sect had been an important member of the largest cultivation organization back then, the "Demonic Alliance."
Back in those days, even if Daoist Xiantian took the initiative to greet True Monarch Yehuo, the man wouldn't have spared him a second glance.
Who could have thought that upon seeing him again, the man would be reduced to a prisoner.
"Old Seventh ran into him and dragged him back while out looking for pill-refining ingredients," the child Grandmaster said, having jogged his memory before recalling who True Monarch Yehuo was.
"Daoist Xiantian, to think we would meet here."
A frigid voice sounded from the adjacent cell. The speaker was a middle-aged man with a crestfallen, defeated expression.
Daoist Xiantian scrutinized him closely for a moment before finally matching the middle-aged man to someone in his memories.
"Are you True Monarch Wanjian?"
In his memories, True Monarch Wanjian had been sharp and radiant, possessing the appearance and dashing spirit of a proud youth. A solitary swordsman who acted purely on impulse, he slew both righteous and demonic cultivators alike if they crossed him.
Once, while thoroughly drunk, he had inadvertently killed the only daughter of a Body Integration cultivator. That Body Integration cultivator was a long-established veteran of great renown and an important member of the Demonic Alliance. Furious upon learning the news, the father had vowed to kill True Monarch Wanjian for revenge.
Yet unexpectedly, True Monarch Wanjian ran him through the heart with a single sword thrust, ending his life on the spot.
Only then did people realize that True Monarch Wanjian had already reached the peak Body Integration stage.
He had been captured too?
"Old Nine brought him back," the child Grandmaster said, curling his lip. "Probably saw Daoist Buyu's swordsmanship, had his Dao heart shattered, and never recovered."
Daoist Xiantian was about to say something when his peripheral vision caught sight of another heavyweight who had summoned wind and rain in his era.
"Blood Demon Venerable?"
This was the Imperial Preceptor of his era. Emperor Yu had been nothing more than a puppet; he was the emperor who held absolute power.
The Demonic Alliance that had shaken the world was founded by him!
Lu Yang was all too familiar with Blood Demon Venerable. He and Old Meng had run into a band of Great Yu Body Integration cultivators in Buyi Town. After capturing them, the cultivators had confessed the location of their treasure grotto-heaven. Eldest Senior Sister had taken Lu Yang and Old Meng to that grotto-heaven and inadvertently awakened Blood Demon Venerable, who was sleeping within.
And then, Eldest Senior Sister had casually hauled him back.
Blood Demon Venerable's eye twitched. He turned around silently, pretending not to recognize Daoist Xiantian.
Daoist Xiantian had never imagined that the figures imprisoned here were either legendary heavyweights or illustrious grand cultivators from his own era.
Chapter 732