Yanzhou, Maple Valley Dao Palace.
Maple Valley Dao Palace took its name from its location in Yanzhou's Ten-Thousand Maple Valley. For hundreds of thousands of li in every direction, red maple leaves carpeted the ground. Pavilions and towers appeared and vanished amid the forest sea, a landscape of breathtaking beauty.
Long winds stirred falling leaves across that sea of maples, and autumn breezes brushed through it. Beyond the halls and towers stood fragrant terraces and pavilions, waterfalls and flowing springs. Along the galleries and cloud-high platforms, winding streams carried wine cups past guests. There were maple groves and warm pools, spirit springs where fish leaped, and everywhere glimmering light and rosy clouds. It was an immortal paradise, a sacred land.
At that moment, two immortal maidens walked side by side through the forest sea.
"Sister, do you know how this Maple Valley Dao Palace came to be?"
The speaker's voice was gentle and warm. A gold-inlaid red-maple cloud hair ornament crowned her head, and she wore a crimson-cloud brocade robe embroidered with a thousand maples. An agarwood-colored brocade belt clasped her waist over a plain gauze underrobe of pale yellow. She was radiant and lovely, her eyes like morning clouds dyed by maple leaves. She truly had the bearing of an immortal and the beauty of jade.
The maiden held an Autumn-Mountain Thousand-Maple Warm Furnace in her hand. Rosy ribbons floated behind her as she gazed at the beauty of the maple sea, her face full of smiles and not a trace of worry.
She was the current master of Maple Valley Dao Palace: the Qiankun Dao Sect's Taiyi Cave Profound True Lord Autumn Jade Feng Yuan.
"This Red Maple Forest Sea is the hub of seventy million li of mountains and rivers. Spirit veins lie beneath it, linking the