The six Great Elders, the countless protectors, the Chief Disciple, the Supreme Elder, and the Holy Son of the Jade Cauldron Holy Land were all dead.
Their deaths had been brutally simple. Each was slain by a single slap from a disembodied palm. They were no more than ants, crushed underfoot without a second thought.
After its work was done, the gigantic black hand retracted back into the Blazing Heaven Ancestral Temple. The ancient structure