A place of pilgrimage

More than sixty thousand years ago, on the eve of Tian Ding Mountain's destruction.

Qinghong True Person, Tian Ding Mountain's twelfth Ascension Realm leader, sat within Tian Ding Palace.

In the prime of his life, this last Ascension Realm leader of Tian Ding Mountain ranked among the top three in strength out of all the mountain's Ascension Realm cultivators throughout history.

Under Qinghong True Person's governance, the cultivation world of Chenping Continent was moving toward a new era of prosperity.

Until a vast rift, tens of thousands of miles long, suddenly appeared in the sky.

The instant that rift appeared, Qinghong True Person had clearly realized something.

Although he had little time to think, he made the most decisive choice in an exceedingly short span of time.

He would use himself as kindling to power Tian Ding Palace.

Throughout the generations, Tian Ding Mountain's Ascension Realm leaders had spent most of their time stationed in Tian Ding Palace. One reason was that the palace itself was the highest symbol of Tian Ding Mountain's authority.

The other was that they had to remain ready to turn themselves into kindling at any moment.

After all, Tian Ding Mountain was the legacy left behind by the Imperial Void Saint, Bai Chen. When Tian Ding Mountain was first established, perhaps they, too, had known something of the truth.

For instance, roughly eight thousand years before the present, Chen Yan had sat in Tian Ding Palace and glimpsed the conversations of its successive leaders through the Tian Ding Mirror.

In the Tian Ding Mirror's visions, the scenes featuring the first, second, and third leaders had indeed given him much to ponder.

Qinghong True Person first placed a restriction on Tian Ding Palace, preventing cultivators above the Martial Spring Realm from entering, so that this palace,