CHAPTER 5: EIGHT CONTINENT SUMMIT

As the first ray of sunlight emerged clearing the thunderclouds in the sky after a night of fear for the mortals and cultivators of the eight continents, everyone heaved a sigh of relief from their hearts.

Mortals went out of their houses to work in the fields without any further thoughts about yesterday's anomalies. Still, the immortal cultivators observed the thunderclouds clearing in the sky with fearful expressions.

After a long time, the sky was cleared only then did the cultivators scramble out of their houses to get the information about yesterday's anomalies.

The individual cultivators reached out to their friends and information dealers for any potential news, while family sect disciples contacted their families and sect higher-ups for the information.

While the individual cultivators were still scrambling for information, the family and sect disciples received emergency return orders from their respective organizations.

Many were perplexed and some showed tensed expressions on their faces after receiving the orders.

Without any further instruction, many disciples set out from markets and cities to their respective organizations.

Many individual cultivators hesitated, but none dared to stop and question the disciples of the families and sects.

Only after returning to their respective holy lands did they realize that heaven's wrath had descended upon all the cultivator organizations on the human continents, lowering the grade of their spirit and causing casualties in the sect and family lands.

Henceforth, all members from entering or leaving the cultivation holy lands from this moment until further notice is issued by the top brass of their respective organizations.

As soon as the orders were received the insiders in the sect immediately sold the information to the information dealers for extra income.

The news soon reached the independent cultivators through the information dealers.

Soon, upon receiving the news, the independent cultivator world jubilantly celebrated the events, as only those without family or support knew the oppression they had endured from the organization for cultivation resources.

----------------- Cultivator city near Sky sword sect-----------

It's a busy day today as all the cultivation world is in mess due to the heavenly punishment rained the previous night.

The Cultivators near the Sky continent were all gathered at the Sky city near sky sword sect.

Those who weren't present were likely on their way, as this city has become prominent in this century as a place for individual cultivators above the nascent soul realm.

For the past century the family cultivator faction, led by the Red Phoenix Clan and the Blue Dragon Clan, has become extremely hostile towards individual cultivators while drawing the family clans closer to them.

The Sky Sword sect neither supported nor opposed the individual cultivators on the Sky Continent. It maintained a neutral stance and absorbed as many individual cultivators as possible into its branch sects.

On the other side of the Sky Continent lies the Dark Continent, which had expelled all individual cultivators through the efforts of the Blue Dragon Family and the Alchemy League.

Meanwhile, the Five Elemental Sect on the Dark continent took other small sects under its protection and closed their mountain gate to outsiders.

Which lead to the Sky city on the Sky continent became famous for the individual cultivators.

Cultivator A: "Have you heard, Yesterday's Thunder punishment has fell on all the family and sect mountains in this continent which led to the spirit vein Deterioration in their sect's spiritual energy reserves.

Cultivator B:" Good, this is all result of their own karma, instead of the world prosperity they hogged all the cultivator resources and only let some loose sand slip out of their hand which result in decrease in world cultivator levels".

Cultivator C: "Shh! Do you want to kill all of us, don't drag us into mud with your talk, even if it's true don't speak loudly, right now we are in the sky city belongs to the sky sword sect. Don't let sect disciples them hear it or we will be expelled/killed in the city.

A swordsman who was seated in the corner was listening to the talk of the cultivators and enjoying his drink.

After drinking and paying his fee he went straight out of the city and shot into the air on his sword and disappeared into the sky.

No one in the city paid attention to him as swordsman were too common in the city.

----------- SKY SWORD SECT---------

Today, the typically bustling mountain gate, once filled with disciples moving in and out of the sect, is completely deserted except for the guards who were guarding the sect gate.

As the guards maintained strict surveillance of surroundings, the guard captain keenly detected a swordsman approaching the sect and alerted the others.

As the guards arranged themselves on both sides of the gate, they performed a welcoming ceremony for the sect leader returning to the sect.

The swordsman smiled at the guards, praised them for their efforts, and encouraged them with a few words Then, he flew into the sect and disappeared into the sect's formation.

As the Swordsmen reached the meeting hall resides at the center of the sect. Every elder of the sect gathered and were waiting outside the sect hall for the sect leader.

As the swordsman reached the hall everyone stood up and welcomed him with smiles and relief on their faces.

Soon the swordsman entered the hall and seated at the center of the hall at the main seat while the elders sat at the right and left side of him.

"What is happening? Why does the way of heaven seem so restless these days, and why are individual cultivators being expelled from the dark continent?" asked the swordsman.

In response to this question, the elders present in the hall remained silent and turned their heads towards the sect deputy leader.

After noticing that the elders were all looking at the deputy leader, the sect leader also turned to face the deputy leader and waited for a response.

"Sect leader, regarding the expulsion of individual cultivators, the family clans and the alchemy hall have sent an envoy declaring that they will not tolerate individual cultivators in their domain. They are actively expelling them and have requested us to do the same," the deputy leader replied.

"But we did not heed any of their requests and declared that we would not respond to any of them until you return from the closed-door training," said the deputy leader.

"The envoy threatened an all-out war against their families if we did not heed their warning, leaving us gasping for clues." Concluded the deputy leader.