Luo Chen studied the message in silence. The fact that the art was incomplete was obvious; he had recovered only fragments from Han Zhan's memories, and much of what he had reconstructed depended on his own deductions. What truly unsettled him was the tier displayed by the panel. Since the tiers of techniques corresponded to cultivation realms, a seventh-tier art belonged to a level beyond Void Refinement—the Dao Integration Realm, or even the Transcendence Realm.

Yet the more he thought about it, the less it made sense. The Falling Cloud Sect had once been nothing more than a major sect, and even at its height under Han Zhan, it had only just reached the level of an upper sect. It was hard to believe that such a background could produce a cultivation art of this level.

"Wait, no… That can't be right…"

According to some old rumors in the Jade Cauldron Domain, the Falling Cloud Sect had not been founded by an outcast from a Holy Land or by a powerful cultivator sent from an upper sect. Its founder had been a rogue cultivator who stumbled...