The brilliant sword radiance naturally attracted many experts in the Ancient Wasteland Ravine area. However, due to the long-standing prestige of the Ancient Sword Sect, they dared not venture in to investigate.
However, soon, many experts noticed some anomalies. The brilliant sword radiance was extremely powerful, but there was no major movement for a long time. Even the overlord of the Ancient Wasteland Ravine, the Ancient Dragon Ape, was unusually quiet today.
Some experts familiar with the Ancient Wasteland Ravine could clearly see that the sword radiance had just come from the Ancient Dragon Ape's lair.
The people of the Ancient Sword Sect were attacking its home, but the Ancient Dragon Ape was uncharacteristically quiet. As the saying goes, something abnormal must be afoot. Such an abnormal move, coupled with the sword radiance that had not erupted, immediately aroused the curiosity of many people.
Despite the long-standing prestige and power of the Ancient Sword Sect, it still could not suppress the curiosity in the hearts of this group of people. Some of the bolder ones directly went deep into the Ancient Wasteland Ravine, wanting to find out what was going on.
Thus, the news that shook the Great Desolate Province spread.
All the elite disciples of the Ancient Sword Sect were killed with a single sword strike to the throat, and their bodies were surrounded by a strong aura of Death, making living people afraid to approach.
Not only that, along with the annihilation of the Ancient Sword Sect, there was also the news that the overlord of the Ancient Wasteland Ravine, the Ancient Dragon Ape, had disappeared into thin air.
A huge demon beast eight or nine zhang tall, a Creation Realm overlord-level demon beast, disappeared silently into thin air without any battle fluctuations. Combined with the annihilation of the Ancient Sword Sect, the whole thing became strange.
This kind of strange event naturally alarmed the three overlord-level forces of the Great Desolate Province: the Martial Alliance, the Yin Puppet Sect, and the Great Demon Gate.
It is said that the leaders of the three top forces joined forces to go deep into the Ancient Wasteland Ravine to investigate. The final conclusion was that the entire Ancient Sword Sect had activated the Guardian Stone Sword and launched a full-strength attack, but before it could be launched, they were annihilated with a single sword strike.
Moreover, the valley deep in the Ancient Wasteland Ravine had been personally cleaned up by the Ancient Dragon Ape. Only the Ancient Dragon Ape could have made such huge sweeping marks. In addition, there was no bloody smell, indicating that the Ancient Dragon Ape had not been killed.
In addition, there seemed to be an aura left by another kind of demon beast in the valley. It was neither strong nor weak, and it should have only stayed in the valley for a few days.
As for the stone sword of the Ancient Sword Sect, it was left in the depths of the Ancient Wasteland Ravine in a blatant manner. Everyone knew that it was a treasure containing a great formation, but no one dared to have any thoughts about the sword.
At this moment, some experts who had been active in the Ancient Wasteland Ravine area a few days before the annihilation of the Ancient Sword Sect suddenly spread two shocking news.
A few days before the annihilation of the Ancient Sword Sect, many people had personally seen two young men, one flying in the air and the other riding a Mystic Tiger Demon Beast, going deep into the Ancient Wasteland Ravine. A few days later, on the day of the annihilation of the Ancient Sword Sect, they left the Ancient Wasteland Ravine one after another in different directions.
Afterward, someone spread the news that the young man named Lin Dong, who had appeared in the Great Puppet City some time ago, had appeared in the Ancient Wasteland Ravine and that he had a Mystic Tiger Demon Beast.
Lin Dong, an unknown name, but this name has recently done a lot of amazing things. First, he killed Hua Zong, the son of Hua Gu, and left. Then, he fought Hua Gu without being defeated. This record can be described as quite fierce.
Hua Gu is a well-known expert in the Great Desolate Province, a great success in the Qi Creation Realm, and his strength is extremely tyrannical, but he failed to defeat Lin Dong, who was at the Shaping Realm Great Perfection, and was beaten extremely badly by the latter.
It is said that Hua Gu later specially invited Cao Zhen, a half-step Creation Realm expert, but Cao Zhen still failed to defeat Lin Dong. Instead, both were injured. Lin Dong escaped with serious injuries, while Cao Zhen lost an arm.
After that, the entire Yin Puppet Sect began to hunt down Lin Dong, seemingly because he had an Earth-Rank Spiritual Treasure that surpassed high-level Spiritual Treasures. It was that Spiritual Treasure that severed Cao Zhen's arm.
A young man and a Mystic Tiger Demon Beast seemed to indicate that he was one of the people who caused the annihilation of the Ancient Sword Sect. However, compared to this speculation, the experts of the entire Great Desolate Province were terrified by the figure of another person.
Lin Dong and an Earth-Rank Spiritual Treasure. If the two were separated, everyone would probably just gloat at the former, hoping to see the former severely injure the Yin Puppet Sect before being killed.
As for the latter, under normal circumstances, it is estimated that it would set off a bloody storm. After all, no one in the entire Great Desolate Province would doubt the temptation of an Earth-Rank Spiritual Treasure.
Of course, even if the two were simply combined, it would not cause much of a sensation, but would only arouse the greed of the experts in the entire Great Desolate Province.
But it just so happened that Lin Dong and another person suspected of annihilating the Ancient Sword Sect had gone deep into the Ancient Wasteland Ravine together!
A single sword strike annihilated the entire Ancient Sword Sect before they could even unleash their Swordplay, and directly took away the Creation Realm Ancient Dragon Ape. Everyone thought of a name in unison—
Sword Saint!
Sword Saint Lin Xuan, the Young Clan Leader of the Lin Clan, the number one expert of the Great Yan Dynasty!
More importantly, Lin Dong's surname is also Lin!
Not only that, but at the Martial Alliance's auction in Great Puppet City, Lin Dong had auctioned off some treasures from the Ancient Sword Sect, indicating that he had quite a few Ancient Sword Sect treasures in his possession.
Appearing together in the Ancient Wasteland Ravine, being able to take away a large number of Ancient Sword Sect treasures, and also sharing the surname Lin, this series of news undoubtedly pointed to one thing: Lin Dong was actually a member of the Lin Clan!
As soon as this news came out, the entire Great Desolate Province was shaken.
The Sword Saint appearing in the Great Desolate Province was naturally for the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet that was about to open. And Lin Dong causing a disturbance in the Yin Puppet Sect, successively killing or severely injuring Yin Puppet Sect experts, this matter was intriguing. Many people suspected that the Lin Clan wanted to start reclaiming the Great Desolate Province, thereby unifying the Great Yan Dynasty.
And the biggest instigator of all this, the man known as the Sword Saint, was in Eagle City, on the border of the Great Desolate Province, practicing swordsmanship in the forest with an innocent little girl.
"Oh, big brother, you're not practicing correctly."
Jiang Yinyin pouted and hummed, her big eyes carrying a bit of slyness. On a tree to the side, a Pointed Horn Ape, about two feet tall, was squatting there, watching curiously, occasionally waving the branch in its hand, gesturing twice.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Lin Xuan looked at Jiang Yinyin curiously, then looked at the long sword in his hand with some suspicion.