Rumors spread, claiming that the Celestial Master always carried an old injury.
All these years of seclusion were spent suppressing his wounds, but he still hadn't recovered, and lately the affliction flared up again.
What unsettled people even more was that this violent turn didn't just affect the Celestial Master himself, but dragged down all his direct disciples as well.
Aside from Xu Yuanzhen, who wandered abroad and whose condition was unknown, every true disciple still in the mountain was implicated—including the Celestial Master's own son, Li Zhengxuan.
"How could it be like this?"
The members of the Tianxu Sect were stunned.
"I heard it was a curse or voodoo from the Southern Wildernes shaman clan, like flesh-eating maggots—malicious and especially bizarre," someone whispered, "with fate interlinked, any direct disciple with a real master-disciple connection to the Celestial Master got dragged into it, even..."
