As Senior Sister Zhao spoke, the figure of the former Great Dao Sect leader, Ji Changxi, appeared before Li Fan, and the tale began.

"Back then, we were simply too young. We thought we had hidden our secrets well enough, never imagining that a true expert could discern the techniques we cultivated from a single drop of blood.

"The techniques of the Xuantian Sect are ranked in four tiers, from highest to lowest: Xuan, Heaven, Earth, and Huang. The four techniques we obtained from those ruins were all of the highest Xuan tier.

"Not only were they profoundly mystical, in no way inferior to the true inheritances of the Great Dao Sect, they also possessed a quality so remarkable it stirred desire even in Ji Changxi himself.

"It...