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Heavenly Pillar Peak was one of the three main peaks with the densest spiritual qi among the seventy-two peaks of Lingxiao Sect.

This peak hung alone to the southeast of the main peak, its terrain wondrous and sheer, surrounded on all four sides by thousand-zhang cliffs. Only at the summit was there a broad plateau, flat as if sliced clean by a blade, bathed all day between the sea of clouds and the light of heaven. Purple bamboo grew thickly on the peak, its joints vigorous as iron, every stalk suffused in the morning light with a faint purple-gold halo—the traces left behind after a hundred years of soaking in Heavenly Pillar Peak's unique Purple Extreme Spirit Qi.

Ever since Lingxiao Sect had founded its mountain and established its sect, Heavenly Pillar Peak had always been the secluded cultivation ground of the Grand Elders of each generation. Ordinary disciples were not even allowed near the foot of the mountain. But now, this cultivation holy land that symbolized the highest authority of the sect had become the residence of Lu Changsheng's group—this was an order personally issued by Lingxuzi, and not a single person in all of Lingxiao Sect objected.

Atop the peak, that Purple Jade Spirit Tree was Heavenly Pillar Peak's most eye-catching landmark. Its age was at least over five thousand years, and its trunk was so thick that several people would be needed to encircle it. Branches like coiling dragons stretched out in every direction, casting a vast, cool purple-gold shade over the summit platform.

The branches were covered in thumb-sized Purple Jade Spirit Fruit. Their skins were crystal-clear like the purest amethyst, and within the flesh, spirit patterns as fine as drifting silk flowed—fragments of law condensed inside the fruit from Heavenly Pillar Peak's unique Purple Extreme