There was nothing special about Yu Mountain itself. Its height, scenery, and cultivation resources all seemed ordinary by the standards of the Great Blue Dynasty.
Yet this mountain was among the most famous in the Great Blue Dynasty, even beneath all the heavens.
Because Heaven One Pavilion stood atop its peak!
Heaven One Pavilion did not have many disciples.
Apart from the fortunate few Lin Tianyi accepted as personal disciples, everyone else could only be considered a guest elder of the sect.
In truth, "guest elder" was a rather polite way of putting it.
These people had failed their attempts to ascend the pavilion and had been forced to stay.
Under the rules Lin Tianyi had established, they could only be servants for life. Neither their lives nor their freedom belonged to them anymore.
But Lin Tianyi had no intention of finding himself so many servants, nor did he humiliate them.
So, as time passed, both they and the outside world came to regard them as guest elders of Heaven One Pavilion.
Du Yan was one such guest elder. He had entered the pavilion nearly forty years ago.
Forty years earlier, he had been the leader of a martial-world gang. With his Dao Foundation Stage cultivation, he had been a powerful figure in his own right.
Then an enemy destroyed his gang and hunted him down, leaving him almost nowhere to turn.
So he climbed Yu Mountain and chose to ascend the pavilion.
He failed on the second floor and stayed at Heaven One Pavilion from then on.
His enemies, of course, did not dare come to Heaven One Pavilion to kill him.
Unlike the martial artists who came seeking the Dao and hoping to improve themselves, Du Yan had no lofty purpose. He simply wanted to stay alive.
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