Great Lake Spirit Domain, North Suppressing Pagoda.
Though they were one of the Seven Righteous Sects, their number of people was exceedingly small. They upheld an elite system, with master-disciple inheritance as their main line.
The sect's creed was to regard the Endless Ice Field as a realm that needed to be suppressed. This was also one of the reasons the Sword Sect had chosen this force when evaluating the seven great sects back then.
Unfortunately, times changed and power shifted.
The North Suppressing Pagoda of today had long since become completely different from the creed under which it had first been founded. Not only had it hooked up with the Ice Clan, it was even deeply bound to them, showing a tendency to become the Ice Clan's lackeys.
In this regard, they themselves were utterly unaware.
They still thought they were scheming to seize the Ice Clan's inheritances, and that this was why they treated the Ice Clan as honored guests. Problems had appeared among the upper ranks of the North Suppressing Pagoda, and only then had the present situation gradually formed.
Upon the vast frozen-soil plain, a thousand-zhang giant pagoda stood tall. Pale white flowing light poured down from the pagoda's top like a waterfall, thereby concealing the entire giant pagoda.
This was the [Ice Heaven Divine Concealment Restriction], specifically countering cultivators' Divine Sense. Even if a Nascent Soul Cultivator came within a hundred zhang of the giant pagoda, it would be very hard for them to discover this structure.
At that time.
At the very top of the North Suppressing Pagoda, this level had no walls on any side. Howling cold winds swept through it, and on the overlook platform at the edge, several cultivators were conversing.
One among them was precisely the North Suppressing Pagoda Master—Xue