Returning to the Sect

Miko's words echoed throughout the now empty room as they both stood there in silence. First John had been assaulted by a long dead creature, controlled only by its lingering will, and then a hole was torn in space and the mysterious girl taken through it.

Both events were completely unexpected, and showed just how little both of them knew of the cultivation world.

"Well, whatever just happened, it no longer concerns us," John replied as he began to look around the room once more. 

His gaze rested on the lone skeleton standing on the platform, its sword still  outstretched in the same position as when it had been pierced into the four armed creature.

Other than the sword the man held, John did not see anything else of particular value within the room. The armor worn by the other long dead cultivators had deteriorated with time, and were no longer valuable. Only the sword emanated any aura worth noting.