Luo Bingfeng? This familiar name appearing at such a juncture felt somewhat odd, and it finally caught Qianye’s attention. “Luo Beingfeng is your… third uncle’s good friend?”

“Yes, they were more or less the same age, and he taught third-uncle most of his secret arts.”

Qianye asked, “Was the person they saved a woman?”

“Yes, someone called Nan. What, you know her?”

“What happened afterward? What about your cousin?”

Zhang Xuance’s expression dimmed down. “My cousin’s talents were not below my third uncle’s at first, but after his death, she vowed to avenge him by killing that giant beast herself. She cultivated day and night, but one day, an accident destroyed one of her origin vortices and damaged her foundations.”

Qianye felt emotional after hearing this. Since the founding ancestor decided the human cultivation system, almost every cultivation art was built upon this path, the core of which were the nine origin nodes. These nine nodes, vortices, and crystals were condensed from nothingness and acted as pillars for all secret arts.

With one of them damaged, the...