Chenping Continent, Du Cang Mountain, Wanfa Platform.
Qin Qingyu stood at the highest point, dressed in a Plain White Daoist Robe, its sleeves hanging loose. Her long hair was pinned up with a jade hairpin, while a few stray locks beside her ears rose and fell in the wind.
The mountain peaks glowed pale gold in the morning light, and a sea of clouds churned at their feet.
Besides Qin Qingyu, more than a dozen other figures stood on the Wanfa Platform at that moment.
The young cultivator nearest her, dressed in a plain Daoist robe, stood with his hands behind his back and gazed toward the sky.
In the Chenping Continent of today, his standing was not necessarily beneath that of Qin Qingyu, the Moon Void True Lord and the continent's second-generation presiding cultivator.
Behind this young cultivator in a plain Daoist robe stood the Ascension Realm presiding cultivators of the Five Great Sects of Chenping Continent.
Two more figures stood on either side of these Ascension Realm cultivators from the Five Great Sects.
One wore a light blue Daoist robe, and the other wore a moon-white Daoist robe.
Qiu Siruo and Gu Jing.
These two Ascension Realm cultivators were presiding cultivators from two generations of Tian Ding Mountain, once Chenping Continent's sacred ground for immortal cultivation: the eighth-generation presiding cultivator, True Lord Ling Xuan, and the tenth-generation presiding cultivator, True Person Jingchen.
Before the Chaos of Immortals on Chenping Continent ended and the era of Du Cang Mountain began.
These two Ascension Realm cultivators had still stood on the same side.
But after the era of Du Cang Mountain arrived, everything changed.
Gu Jing remained Tian Ding Mountain's Ascension Realm presiding cultivator.
Qiu Siruo, however, had chosen to use her identity in this life as "Si Youyou" to