The palace was quiet.
Jiang Ding dismissed the maids and watched the sea of stars in his Sea of Consciousness that represented the Northern Plains maids.
With a slight movement of divine sense, the scenes of the past sixteen years began to rewind.
At the beginning, there had been 51,200 Spirit Imprints, each with a slightly different aura.
As time passed, the Spirit Imprints slowly increased. Four years later, they had risen from 51,200 to 53,000.
In the fifth year,
A stretch of the star sea suddenly dimmed.
Six thousand had been lost, representing the deaths of over six thousand maids. Their numbers fell to 47,000.
Jiang Ding reviewed the information within.
At the Battle of Yu Family Mountain, Holy Son of Six Paths Sect Yin Dao led fifteen thousand people out to ambush six thousand Tushan Maids passing through the area on their way to Rainfall Mountain.
Yin Dao had learned from his previous lessons. He set up an illusion array within the main camp to conceal everything inside and out, selected all his direct-line subordinates to form an elite force, and used a secret treasure to tightly block all communications. They secretly marched tens of thousands of miles to the ambush site.
At the time, this force was commanded by Kan Yu Maid, True Person Yu Luo, a female cultivator at Golden Core Peak who was renowned throughout the Northern Plains.
Facing Holy Son of Six Paths Sect Yin Dao personally leading troops to encircle and kill them, she held out for ten days, repeatedly attempting breakouts and suffering grievous casualties.
She was thus disheartened.
In her despair, she secretly contacted the Six Paths Sect, wishing to surrender.
At the critical moment, the Green Skirt Maid sensed Kan Yu Maid's unease and ordered her encirclement and execution, killing