Within Void Gate, everything was ancient and simple, magnificent and grand.
Clouds steamed and rosy mists gathered, brimming with immortal air.
A broad, long jade mountain path, like a stairway to heaven, led straight to the mountain peak.
With the mountain path as the center, cultivation buildings stood in rows on both sides—pavilions, terraces, towers, halls, palaces, and courtyards, all antique in flavor, soaked in white mountain mist, as if years had settled into them, making them seem all the more weighty.
As Mo Hua walked among them, he felt the dust of the mortal world washed clean from him, his mood turned tranquil, and his Divine Consciousness also settled much more peacefully.
Shangguan Xu led Mo Hua to some of the towers on the right, where they met several cultivators who might have been Instructors or Elders, exchanged a few words, and completed some formalities.
After that, Mo Hua had to undergo inspection by several Elders.
It included blood qi, meridians, cultivation arts, Divine Consciousness, and so on.
This kind of inspection used a Spirit Artifact like a Glazed Mirror, rather than the Elders peering in with their Divine Consciousness.
For disciples of aristocratic families, many of their cultivation arts and Dao Methods were ancestral inheritances, so naturally they could not allow others to pry into their foundations, especially Elders with such profound cultivation.
Otherwise, it would be very easy for their inheritances to leak.
The sect's purpose was to pass on the Dao and teach its craft, not to steal others' inheritances. If an Elder rashly pried into a disciple's roots, it would violate a great taboo of the sect.
In Ganxue Prefecture, where aristocratic families were numerous and inheritances were strictly guarded, this was especially emphasized.
So this sort of inspection could only be carried out with