From Liao Liren, Ye Xiwen also learned that not everyone had come looking for trouble. At least a considerable number had come because of Gao Chengye's reputation, to lend a hand—Liao Liren before him was one such person.
"Though I, Liao Liren, have cultivated the Dao for only a short time and never met Senior Gao, I have long been familiar with his deeds. Two years ago, I was in closed-door cultivation and knew nothing, but this time, I absolutely cannot let these petty villains have their way. Such things that pain loved ones and delight enemies must never happen again!"
Once they entered the mountain, it was not entirely an ancient and quaint scene. There was also much modern atmosphere, including communication towers, streetlights, and more. Equal emphasis on science and martial arts was vividly displayed here.
Martial artists nowadays naturally could not be like those from a thousand years ago. They had to keep pace with the times and continually advance.
Although the entire mountain gate had undergone repairs, crumbling walls and broken ruins could still be seen in some corners.
The Pilgrimage Palace's decline was plain to see. It no longer even had the energy to keep up appearances at its own gate.
"A grand Pilgrimage Palace has actually fallen to such a state!"
At the mountain gate, many who had arrived earlier and later were gathered there.
"We of the Pilgrimage Palace are deeply grateful that all of you have come to attend our reopening ceremony!"
Not long after Ye Xiwen arrived, two figures emerged from deep within the mountain gate, one old and one young. The elder was an old man who appeared seventy or eighty years old, while the younger was a little girl of only five or six, exquisite as if carved from