There were Five Great Heaven Capitals in the Eternal Heaven Domain.
Xuan Li Heaven Capital was one of them.
The ruler of Xuan Li Heaven Capital was the Xuan Li Sect, whose founding grandmaster was Ling Tian Di, one of the Nine Emperors.
All cultivation forces throughout Xuan Li Heaven Capital regarded the Xuan Li Sect as supreme and Ling Tian Di as their highest ruler.
This day, at the Xuan Li Sect.
Halfway up a towering divine mountain.
Luo Yan stood by a cliff, her robes fluttering and her dark hair flying. Beneath the heavenly light, her delicate and beautiful face shone with a clear, ethereal radiance.
She was slender and wore only a simple, plain light-blue robe. Though unadorned, she possessed the beauty of a lotus rising pure from clear water.
The snow-white sword sheath on her back added a streak of sharp, intimidating heroic spirit to her bearing.
"A man lives but one lifetime, as grass and trees endure but one autumn."
Luo Yan sighed softly.
A mountain wind blew past, lifting her robes and revealing a pair of snow-white ankles. A long, icy-black chain shackled them, already embedded deeply into her flesh, where the grinding had formed a horrifying crust of blood.
The other end of the chain was fastened to a black stone monument before a thatched hut not far from the cliff.
For countless years, Luo Yan had never left the area within thirty zhang of this place, all because of this divine chain used to confine her.
"A Yan."
A gentle voice sounded from afar.
A white-haired young man in black strode over, carrying two saber sheaths on his back—one crimson as burning flame, the other black as ink.
Ling Wenxuan!
Ling Tian Di's only child.
Throughout Xuan Li Heaven Capital, he was