The Highest Peak Realm

Torrential rain poured down, and a man walked out of the thatched cottage by the river, striding through the rain curtain without his clothes getting wet.

Zuo You stood by the riverbank, where raindrops the size of yellow beans beat rapidly against the river's surface, creating an incomparably noisy din.

With the rain curtain compounding the night curtain, heaven and earth grew increasingly deep and gloomy.

In the heyday of the Tongye Sect, its territory was vast, spanning twelve hundred li in all directions, all of it belonging to the Tongye Sect. It was much like a mortal dynasty, primarily blessed with abundant spiritual energy suitable for cultivation. After that great upheaval, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered; over a dozen vassal forces successively broke away from the Tongye Sect, causing the territory under its jurisdiction to shrink drastically. They had three choices: the first was to directly establish their own mountain and alter the earliest mountain-covenant treaty with the Tongye Sect patriarch hall, transforming from vassals into allies, occupying a piece of auspicious land previously carved out by the Tongye Sect without having to hand over a single sum of immortal money—this was still considered quite generous. Other immortal sects threw in their lot with the Jade Tablet Sect or signed agreements with nearby dynasties to serve as patrons who helped their rulers ascend to power.

The rain gradually eased. Three guests arrived at the thatched cottage by the river: a purple-robed immortal who was none other than Fu Lingqing, the Tongye Sect master who had crossed blows with Zuo You several times in the past. An Immortal Realm cultivator, he belonged to the Jade Purity Realm bottleneck that had been forcibly broken open, causing his Great Dao to be damaged and his life to stop forever at