Beauty Hidden Away

(This chapter was a little late...)

Across Tongye Continent, immortal graves lay in heaps. The Mountain Sects still able to hold off the Demon Race with Mountain Water Formations could be counted on one hand.

The Three Enclosures Four Symbols Great Formation, built jointly by Jade Guizong, Tongye Sect, Taiping Mountain, and Fu Ji Sect, grew dimmer by the day. Seen from the Sky Curtain, the lights of the human world seemed to go out one after another. Each extinguished light marked the destruction of an immortal family's mountain and the loss of Tongye Continent's fortune to the Demon Race. As this diminished and that grew, courage shattered both on and off the mountains. The outcome was settled.

The Yuanju School was a southern immortal family with many female cultivators. Its ancestral mountain was Konghou Mountain, and its Patriarch Hall was called the Hall of Winding Thunder.

It was not a particularly large mountain establishment. But its location was so remote, and its value so slight, that the Demon Race Army had yet to attack it.

More than a dozen groups of cultivators from displaced Mountain Sects had gathered at the Yuanju School. Genealogy Immortal Masters who had once looked down from on high were now homeless dogs, every one of them.

Among them was a green-robed swordsman from a small sect. Earlier, he had presented his sect's Patriarch Hall jade token and paid a sum of Immortal Money to gain refuge in the Yuanju School.

Today, he went alone to a scenic spot on Konghou Mountain: the Water Viewing Platform at Xizhu Rock. Beneath the rock lay a pool of unfathomable depth. The green-robed swordsman climbed the platform and, by the light of a rhinoceros-horn lamp said to be ten thousand years old, watched the creatures below. The realms