Five thousand feet beneath the rear forbidden cliff of Supreme Sword Mountain. Inside a pitch-black underground tomb cavern carved into the deepest root of the Earth-Dragon vein, four ten-ton Black-Jade Sarcophagi violently split down the middle!
CRACK—GRIND—SHATTER!
A foul, suffocating stench of four-hundred-year-old embalming mercury, dried blood-clots, and stagnant coffin-rot hissed out of the cracked stone lids.
Four centuries ago, when the previous generation’s four supreme rulers of the Four Great Sects—Grand Ancestor Jian Chen (“Sword-Tomb”) of Supreme Sword Sect. Grand Ancestor Poison-Core of Myriad Pill Sect, Grand Ancestor Lotus-Bone of Jade Lotus Sect. Grand Ancestor Thunder-Skull of Thunder-Clap Sect—had reached the absolute lifespan limit of Rank 5 Peak.
At Half-Step Golden Core, after failing to condense a true Rank 6 Golden Core, they had refused to accept natural death.
Instead, the four selfish old monsters had hollowed out this secret underground crypt at the convergence point of all four mountain Spirit Veins, sealed themselves inside four black-jade coffins. Plugged four thick Jade Spirit-Siphon Tubes directly into their throats and dantians!
For four hundred years, like four giant underground ticks. They had sucked thirty percent of the continent’s purest liquid Spirit Vein essence straight into their rotting bodies day and night—staying in comatose turtle-breathing stasis. Waiting to accumulate enough stolen origin energy to force a four-person Rank 6 Golden Core Breakthrough!
