C53 In the Twilight Land

After a hard-won breakthrough to the Advanced Martial King realm, he found himself at the beck and call of the sect, bogged down with its daily trivialities. His faint glimmer of hope for ascending to the Martial Emperor realm was snuffed out before it could truly shine.

Age had crept up on him, and the fiery ambitions of his youth had long since dissipated. Now