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Taishu Qian was rather aggrieved. As an Immortal Master, she had personally lined the road to welcome me, yet had actually suffered my ire. But she couldn't afford to offend me, so she could only return to the Million Sword Pavilion with her daughter, sullenly, and then planned to lead the Calamity Flagship to the Ancient Immortal Dao's mountain gate.
The Ancient Immortal Dao's mountain gate was actually not far from the Immortal Court. The sects founded by the Three Pillars had divided up and occupied the regions with the densest immortal energy in the entire Ancient Immortal Realm. I had heard that when Li Guxian established the Ancient Immortal Dao, there had been as many as seven mountain gates. The Old Immortal Court had merely been an auxiliary mountain gate that had expanded from one of them, which showed how powerful the Ancient Immortal Dao had been in its heyday.
The largest main mountain gate had declined into ruins after being raided by Chen Taixian's Taixian Sect in alliance with several other minor sects. Now Li Xiangru was rebuilding it. Aside from the excellent foundation of the site, this also carried his intention to proclaim that the Ancient Immortal Dao would restore its former glory. Of course, there was another reason: according to rumor, what had been destroyed back then was only the surface of the Ancient Immortal Dao. Beneath it lay another level—the secret-realm city built by Li Guxian, which stored countless treasures, as well as mysterious Dao Artifacts from the Ancient God Realm that had never been opened back then!
Now that Li Xiangru dared to make such a grand show of building a new mountain gate, it was obvious that he had completely taken control of the secret-realm city! It was also said that he