Yue Wuhen and Murong Qingsheng's pupils contracted at the same instant.
Four hundred years ago, during the battle against the Netherworld Blood Demon, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy atop the entire Golden Summit had been thrown into utter chaos. Not only had the heavenly might unleashed by all manner of spells surpassed that of the heavenly tribulation, but at least several hundred Nascent Soul Realm cultivators—and even many Tribulation Stage cultivators—had released their most powerful spells without reservation. Many of those spells had left powerful true essence imprints upon the Golden Summit, even transforming countless ordinary stones into things that still rippled with chaotic magical fluctuations to this day. Thus, just as Kunlun's Ninth Ring Island, which possessed the strongest Heaven and Earth spiritual vein under heaven, was Kunlun's forbidden zone, the entire Golden Summit was also Emei's forbidden ground.
If spells were cast upon the Golden Summit, no one knew what changes might be triggered by the imprints and lingering effects of the beyond-Golden-Immortal-level spells unleashed with all their strength by Golden Immortal-level cultivators, and even many Tribulation Stage cultivators, at the moment of their deaths.
Cloud Meng Palace on the Golden Summit had been built upon the place where the imprints and remnants of spells and true essence were strongest. It was said that this was where the Netherworld Blood Demon had ultimately met the annihilation of both body and soul. Every stone beneath Cloud Meng Palace was saturated with fierce and chaotic elemental energy. Back then, Emei cultivators had set up an array here. Within Cloud Meng Palace, one could absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and meditate to cultivate, but the flow of true essence could only remain within the body. If one tried to release true essence externally, one would immediately suffer tenfold backlash.