Candle flames burned quietly.
Wisps of blue smoke spread silently in the ancestral hall filled with tablets.
Below,
an elderly man in yellow robes stood in the front row, his face filled with sorrow as he looked around.
Before him, rows of Nascent Soul practitioners stood silently with folded hands, filling the small hall.
His voice was heavy:
"...In this battle, our Sect's ninth-generation Sect Master Shao Yangzi, Great Elder Yan Wenzheng, Second Elder Xun Fugun, Third Elder Ren Xiao, Fourth Elder... and the Hall Masters of Tianyuan Hall Lv Zhuangmei, Diwu Hall Xi Kui, Rende Hall Du Wei, and the Chief Guardian of the southeast, Yao Wudi... all sacrificed themselves for the greater good, passing on through Metamorphosis!"
"Out of twenty-seven of our Immortal Ascension cultivators, only I, the Chief Guardian of the West Sea Xumi, and the Guardian of Myriad Library Pang Xiu, survive..."
