Great Sage Cultivation World, Zhou Tian Immortal Sect.
As one of the famous sacred lands, Zhou Tian Immortal Sect's mountain gate was a gigantic floating mountain.
A blue-green mountain peak hung in the air, casting a vast shadow and seeming to look down upon all living beings.
In truth, the entire mountain was a Primordial Rare Treasure surpassing immortal artifacts—the Xuan Zhong Peak! It was said to have been laid as the foundation by the sect's founding Old Ancestor, then refined by several Taiyi Great Powers in succession. It had once crushed a Primordial God and Demon to death!
Streams of light flew across Xuan Zhong Peak, and the lowest-ranked among them were all Golden Core cultivators.
Sacred lands had their own standards. Ordinary Golden Core cultivators were merely Outer Sect Disciples, while only Nascent Soul cultivators qualified as inner disciples. Even outsiders who were immortals had to pass an examination before they could become no more than Outer Sect Stewards.
One could say that anyone below the Taiyi realm did not even qualify to be acknowledged by a sacred land.
In the southern part of the Great Sage Cultivation World, Zhou Tian Immortal Sect was the undisputed overlord, with the final say in everything.
At that moment, on a certain peak of Xuan Zhong Peak,
above a sea of clouds, a stone statue stood so lifelike that it seemed to be gazing down over the cliffs.
Crack! Crack!
Suddenly, cracks appeared across the statue. Shards burst apart, revealing the figure of an old man.
"This time, I came out of seclusion a little earlier than expected!"
The old man's clothes were disheveled, and his eyes were pitch-black, like stars. He furrowed his brow and made a calculation, then took a jade pendant from his Storage Bag and smiled. "So