Southern Mountain Region,
Nanfu Mountain.
As the site of Duke Nanshan's dojo—the only Half-step Myriad Transformations Venerable in the Southern Mountain Region's Cultivation World—Nanfu Mountain was unquestionably the holy land in the hearts of cultivators throughout the Southern Mountain Region. Though Duke Nanshan appeared so rarely that ordinary people might not glimpse the legendary figure even once in decades or centuries, this did not diminish its status in the slightest!
Though the Northern Eight Domains covered no small area, accounting for roughly one-twelfth of Yunzhou's Cultivation World, much of it consisted of barren mountains and wild ridges, where spiritual energy was meager. Further north lay endless frozen-earth plateaus, lands sealed beneath ice and snow year-round. Thus, no Myriad Transformations Realm Venerable had ever emerged there, and a Half-step Myriad Transformations was already a living legend standing atop the Northern Eight Domains!
The Southern Mountain Region, meanwhile, possessed Duke Nanshan, who had remained at the Half-step Myriad Transformations Realm for many years. Together with its proximity to the spiritually abundant central regions of Yunzhou and its abundance of powerful cultivators, it had always been the foremost of the Northern Eight Domains.
This period of time, wind and cloud had shifted across Yunzhou's Cultivation World. Even Myriad Transformations Realm cultivators, who had existed only in myths and legends, had died and fallen!
Great Sects fought over territory, while those at the bottom slaughtered one another over grudges. The unending flames of war had, without anyone noticing, spread across the whole of Yunzhou.
In a turbulent Cultivation World, strength alone was the foundation one could rely on!
As Nanfu Mountain stood at the pinnacle of the Southern Mountain Region's Cultivation World and led all its Great Powers, it naturally drew emissaries from every faction.
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