By this point, the Xu Clan’s secret within the grotto-heaven had been fully revealed. Wei Yuan had also learned some old secrets through Xu Shiqi’s point of view.

When the grotto-heaven shattered, this particular fragment had fallen deep underground, making it difficult to relocate. Its value had also plummeted drastically after the infant with a natural Myriad Vicissitudes Sword Body was born. The tens of thousands of young boys and girls were little more than the living dead, and the Great Treasure Vase Unending Pure Land Reincarnation Array was irreversible once it was activated. Attempting to reverse it would only result in the complete annihilation of the children’s souls, so they could not be moved either.

They were merely tens of thousands of people. In the eyes of the Xu Clan, they could be discarded at any time.

Later, the girl’s resentment somehow transformed into the shadow monster. Xu Shiqi’s mystic body had also ended up in the Profound Heaven Star-Shifting Great Array somehow. Judging from the various arrangements left behind by the plain-clothed swordsman, he both possessed an independent consciousness and could at least recall parts of his past life. Naturally, it was impossible for him to continue serving the Xu Clan.

In any case, the combined might of the girl-turned-monster and Xu Shiqi’s sword-wielding mystic body was enough to give even a True Lord second thoughts, not to mention the grotto-heaven’s destruction had given rise to the void. Every second a True Lord lingered near a patch of void was a risk they might attract an immensely powerful monster residing within its depths, which was why they were unable to visit the grotto-heaven in person.

For all these reasons, the Xu Clan had no choice but to beat a hasty retreat, too slow to destroy even the underground altar.

One of the little girl’s posthumous...