Amid a stretch of frozen highland soil stood a cluster of temples built along a mountainside.
Most of these temples had white walls and golden roofs. Apart from their gilded rooftops, their walls looked somewhat dilapidated. Coupled with the fierce winds of the plateau and the near-total absence of human habitation, the whole temple complex carried a particularly bleak, bitter chill.
The occasional figures appearing among the temples and walking between mountain paths and halls were all lamas wearing yellow lama hats.
Judging from the temple structures, this did not look at all like a cultivation sect with great magical power. There were no Formations on any of these halls; everything was utterly ordinary.
Yet the lamas in yellow hats who occasionally emerged instead all exuded magical power fluctuations of varying strength.
And among these temples, which stretched for dozens of miles with only Vultures flying overhead, there were at least a thousand lamas.
Regardless of their cultivation, a thousand disciples alone made them at least a medium-sized major sect.
By rights, a major sect should not have appeared so rundown, without even a mountain-protecting formation. Yet in truth, this was indeed a major sect.
This temple complex was Lunsa Temple, the largest temple of the Flower Cult. The Flower Cult was one of the foremost branches of Esoteric Buddhism. Over the past thousand years, most cultivators outstanding in the cultivation of Esoteric Buddhist arts had come from the Flower Cult. The Flower Cult was a vast lineage divided among many temples, all emphasizing cultivation and self-sacrifice to attain Buddhahood, practicing arts of external incarnations.
At present, Lunsa Temple was the largest in the Flower Cult. Some of its grand masters had also become the publicly acknowledged masters and leaders of the Flower Cult.
The arts of external incarnations emphasized