For the Sect
Taian Commandery was home to several major cultivation forces. In the past, Orchid Valley had stood alone at the top, but after Former Valley Master Zhou Yun answered the call to enter the Forbidden Battlefield, Orchid Valley's influence had steadily declined.
At present, the most prominent force was the Sacred Ghost Palace.
The Sacred Ghost Palace possessed a unique inheritance, and its methods had always been ruthless. Not long ago, its current Palace Master had even broken through the shackles of the Great Adept realm and entered the Dao Integration realm, faintly becoming the number-one force in Taian Commandery.
The Sacred Ghost Palace stood amid a range of mountains, with astonishing formations arranged throughout it that gathered the spiritual energy of the surrounding peaks in one place.
Viewed from above, several rugged mountain ranges linked together, forming a clearly interwoven valley.
Within the valley stood row upon row of black-and-white buildings.
At the highest point stood a palace that looked like a coiled flood dragon. This was Sacred Dragon Hall, where the Palace Master of the Sacred Ghost Palace resided.
A chill pervaded the hall, and shadowy apparitions of the dead drifted about.
A human silhouette emerged from the darkness.
He wore black-and-gold robes, his face sharply defined and his eyes cold and indifferent.
"Earlier, you told me not to attack Orchid Valley."
"I followed your advice."
"You told me to give you a chance—to manipulate Elders Meng and Qin and support a puppet to control Orchid Valley."
"I followed your advice on that as well."
"But what about now?"
"Those two wastes, Meng and Qin, were not only captured by Orchid Valley; even the many spies the Sacred Ghost Palace had planted there have been wiped out."
"Do you know your crimes?"
The Palace Master of