Jiuling Mountain lay west of Cloud Province, stretching for ten thousand li. In terms of the quality of its Spirit Vein, it could hardly be called enviable, but its geographical position was extremely important.
To the east, it faced the Huai River; to the north, it also bordered the Demon Race; and farther east, it extended right into the heartland of Cloud Province, where several superpowers such as Spirit Control Sect, Li Soul Valley, and Separation Medicine Palace were located.
Simply put, it sat at a vital throat, a place every strategist would fight to seize.
Unfortunately, cultivators did not value such things, so Jiuling Mountain had always been occupied by Blood Shadow Sect, a not particularly large sect.
A sect like this, with several thousand cultivators, could not be said to be as plentiful as ox hairs across Cloud Province, but they were countless all the same, without the slightest thing to make them stand out.
So when, more than a hundred years ago, Blood Shadow Sect was destroyed by Baisuan Pavilion, it was like tossing a pebble into the sea; the little ripples it caused drew no attention at all.
Moreover, though Cloud Province was full of rising winds and scudding clouds, what people cared about was the struggle between Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, Li Soul Valley, and Horizon Sea Pavilion. The rise and fall of a few small powers was only too normal in the cultivation world. Who would take it seriously?
Yet as the saying went, Heaven's will was hard to fathom, and the affairs of this world were just as difficult to predict.
Baisuan Pavilion was an overlord in You Province, but once placed in Cloud Province, it had nothing eye-catching about it at all. Not to mention the great sects and clans—even those second-