More than a month had passed since the Wind Flower Sect was destroyed and the news of it had shook the entire Qing Empire. It was one of the fifty Tier 2 Sects and a destruction of such a Sect was a huge blow to not only the Empire, but even humanity itself.
There were only around a 100 Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators in the Qing Empire and a loss of one of them was great, not to mention the many Core Formation Realm Cultivators under them.
It had shaken the whole Empire and the relationship between the many Sects and especially the Major Sects had worsened. A destruction of such level could only be done by either the Major Sects or the Empire itself. There was also the third option that some Sects had banded together to destroy the Wind Flower Sect, but it was unlikely as others believed.
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