Chương 495: Chapter 272: Contest of the Arrogant, Qingzhou's Yuling Mansion

Xu Yan and his companions, upon hearing this, couldn't help but sigh; it turned out that the Wanshi Martial Arts Institute had once been so formidable, yet it ultimately couldn't stand against the Spirit Sect and the ancestral families.

The Spiritual Realm is, after all, dominated by the Spirit Sect and the noble families; they forcibly erased the history of the Wanshi Martial Arts Institute from the memories of Loose Cultivators.

Wen Yong continued, "This is what the elders in our Wanshi Alliance said. After the calamity brought by the Blood Demon, following the competition for geniuses that shattered Wanshi, there was a time when the situation for Loose Cultivators in the Spiritual Realm was utterly miserable."

"The Spirit Sect issued an order, forbidding anyone to spread, promote, or possess anything related to the Wanshi Martial Arts Institute, including its symbols and the like. Anyone found disobeying would be killed without mercy."