Fellow Daoists…

These are most perilous times.

I am inscribing this letter, sending it far and wide across the great plain, in what may be my final moments. The hour draws near…

A calamity has befallen my Divine Heaven Sect.

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Many, to whom I am writing, are already aware…

The Demonic Underworld Sect recently declared war on my sect.

Though all had seemed lost, the heavens poured out their revelations to me. So I sought out help, receiving but one answer…

The Heaven Shattering Azure Turtle Archipelago responded!

But just as soon as hope had returned, a Heavenly Tribulation beset us once again…

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Just as soon as hope had returned, the Demonic Underworld Sect’s Sectmaster himself drew first blood with my sect...

In all of his unfathomable malice, he left a grave review on my scriptures…

A most perilous point-five star rating.

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You see, I’m not so young as I used to be when I was a child.

In those days, our sect flourished under the radiant light of the Dao. Not one green hat could be seen in all our pavilions, and every junior had three jadeskin dual cultivation partners.

Yet, while the heavens and the earth stay the same, the times do not. Everything is not what it used to be...

As sure as the heavens and earth are without end, all other things fall apart.

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Alas, my time has come.

I will be at war with the demonic underworld sect.

I write to you all, not in shamelessness, but in good conscience.

Yes, I am in good conscience

Though my moments may be numbered, and my strength wanes with each passing moment, I refuse to surrender to despair.

When I consider how my light is spent...

How fitting it is to die with the Divine Heaven Sect, and become one with the unending Dao - in good conscience.

Esteemed Elder from the Heaven Shattering Azure Turtle Archipelago… our brotherly kinship may soon be sealed in blood.