Once the cultivator had left, Bi Dan's companion approached him with a wary look. "Brother Bi, who was that? Was he from Blackwing Island? Did he come looking for trouble?"

Bi Dan waved away his concern. "No, nothing like that. His name is Jing He. He used to be a rogue Initiate, but he didn't want to get caught up in the war, so he found somewhere remote and went into seclusion. He recently formed his Golden Core and came back after hearing about the ceasefire."

"Jing He?" His companion repeated the name, but he could not connect it to anyone he knew.

Bi Dan smiled. "His name doesn't matter. Rogue cultivators rarely use their real identities anyway. What matters is that one of his close friends was a member of Flying Cloud Ravine. When he heard the sect had been destroyed, he came to ask me what happened. You could say we have a common enemy."

His companion nodded in understanding. "I see."

Bi Dan sighed. "Who would've thought a sect as famous as Flying Cloud Ravine could be wiped out almost overnight?"

Had Flying Cloud not disappeared for several decades and left such a powerful sect without anyone...