Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Deep within the Glazed Sword Sect, in an extremely secluded cave.

In the very center of the cave, there was a crystal-clear ice coffin.

The ice coffin occasionally shimmered with a faint blue light, like a galaxy flowing in the night sky, illuminating the entire cave in a dreamlike manner.

Inside the ice coffin lay a woman.

She wore a plain white dress, and even after sleeping in the ice coffin for countless years, her skin remained as white as jade, and there was even a faint smile on her lips.

Before the ice coffin, a woman dressed in a light blue robe gazed at the peaceful face inside, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

There is longing, there is reluctance, but even more than that...

Disappointed that they are not living up to their potential.

"Senior sister..."

She spoke, her voice very soft.

"Why were you so foolish back then? You ended up like this because of that madman Xiao Xuan."

"Do you know that every time I come here to see you over the years, I think to myself, if only you hadn't met that bastard back then? With your talent, the position of sect leader of the Glazed Sword Sect should be yours now, and even... you could have gone much further, and it might not have been impossible for you to even touch the legendary Holy Realm."

She paused, a hint of regret flashing in her eyes.

"What a pity, that Ten Thousand Year Soul Grass is too hard to find."

"Although this ice coffin can protect your scattered soul from dissipating, it can only barely maintain it. Without the use of the ten-thousand-year-old soul herb to refine the Soul-Stabilizing Pill and reassemble your scattered soul... even if another ten thousand years pass, you will not wake up."

She sighed deeply, her voice tinged with weariness.

"Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Grass... Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Grass... There are only a handful of these in the entire Mirage Cloud Realm, so how could they be so easy to find?"

The woman in the light blue robe stood silently, staring at the ice coffin before her, as if this had become her daily routine.

Thump~ thump~ thump~

The dull tolling of a bell came from afar, penetrating through layers of arrays and reaching this hidden cave.

The woman's brows furrowed suddenly.

Her gaze shifted from the ice coffin to the direction from which the bell tolled. The gentle look in her eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a chilling aura capable of freezing one to death.

"Has someone trespassed?"

Her voice was eerily calm, but the calmer it was, the more one could sense the raging anger surging beneath. She was already feeling resentful because of her senior sister's situation and was looking for a place to vent her frustrations.

Now, someone has conveniently delivered themselves to our doorstep.

"Which bastard dares to trespass on my Glazed Sword Sect?!"

After a ripple, her figure disappeared into the cave.

......

At the mountain gate.

Xiao Xuan stepped into the Glazed Sword Sect, with Xia Jin and Shen Jinghan following behind, but their expressions were rather strange.

Shen Jinghan certainly knew what the Glazed Sword Sect was, and he also knew what kind of person the sect leader was.

"Master..." Shen Jinghan wiped the beads of cold sweat from his forehead, then lowered his voice and said, "Shouldn't we...be a little more polite? After all, this is their territory... Although you are very strong, if the entire Glazed Sword Sect attacks you, even if you manage to escape, Junior Brother Xia and I might not be able to leave either!!"

"Hmph! If you can't leave, you can't leave. You two are still my disciples. If they really want to kill you, they'll just leave you to do some hard labor as repayment." Xiao Xuan looked at the somewhat timid Shen Jinghan and kicked him in a huff.

Just as Shen Jinghan was in pain and rolled to the side, before he could stand up, a sharp aura descended from the sky.

The aura was so strong that even from a distance of hundreds of feet, it made Shen Jinghan feel suffocated.

Xia Jin's expression also changed. This kind of pressure was many times stronger than the crippled elder he had encountered in the Hall of Wrathful Souls.

A figure in cyan landed in front of Xia Jin and the other two.

The current sect leader of the Glazed Sword Sect is Leng Wushuang!

Leng Wushuang's gaze swept over the two female disciples lying on the ground, a flash of anger in her eyes. Then she looked up, and when she saw Xiao Xuan,

With just one glance, an even more intense rage erupted from her eyes.

"Are you crazy?!" Leng Wushuang's voice was as cold as ice, chilling to the bone.

"How dare you come to my Glazed Sword Sect?!"

Before Xia Jin and Shen Jinghan could react, Leng Wushuang had already made her move.

She didn't utter a single unnecessary word, and didn't even give Xiao Xuan a chance to speak.

Suddenly, she raised her right hand and made a grasping motion towards a sword-shaped peak not far away.

boom!!

The sword peak trembled violently, and a blood-red sword light burst forth from the mountain, carrying a devastating and fierce momentum, slashing down towards Xiao Xuan!

"Damn it! Junior Brother Xia! It's one thing for this woman to target Master, but how did she end up dragging us into this too!" Shen Jinghan's expression changed drastically.

"Hmph! You wicked disciple!!"

Xiao Xuan glared at Shen Jinghan, annoyed.

With a gentle push of his right hand, a soft force surged from his palm, directly shoving Xia Jin and Shen Jinghan away.

The two were instantly sent flying hundreds of meters away.

Shen Jinghan was stunned for a moment after landing, then realized that it was his master who had made the move, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Xia Jin stared intently in Xiao Xuan's direction, her eyes filled with seriousness.

The blood-red sword was already upon them.

But Xiao Xuan didn't even take a step back when facing his target.

He simply stood there.

Just as the blood sword was less than a foot away from him,

A strange sound rang out.

A strange force field suddenly appeared three inches in front of Xiao Xuan.