Leap from the Cliff

Clear skies, brilliant sun.

Green mountains painted like a picture, forests lush and verdant.

A man in a tattered gray Daoist robe, with thinning hair and the look of a walking corpse, walked along a forest path.

He raised his gloomy eyes slightly, his gaze settling on the back of the old man in a dark purple Daoist robe walking ahead of him.

"Back then, at the Hundred Sects' Dao Discussion, the most important topic was how to divide the eight hundred thousand mu of Spirit Fields on the eastern edge of Chenping Continent's northwest region. As I recall, Frost Sect and Meteor Sect, the two top cultivation sects, had already been fighting over those fields for decades."

The Xingtian Gate cultivator who called himself Fan Mowen walked ahead, speaking slowly to Li Haowen behind him.

"By rights, Frost Sect and Meteor Sect were both cultivation sects in the northwest region, so the dispute should have been arbitrated by Empty Mountain Sect. But Frost Sect refused, constantly dodging and evading Empty Mountain Sect's attempts to intervene—right up until the Hundred Sects' Dao Discussion began."

Fan Mowen paused for a moment.

"The Hundred Sects' Dao Discussion wasn't a conference jointly held by a hundred cultivation sects. It was an Immortal Dao gathering open to every sect in Chenping Continent with an Upper Three Realms cultivator at its helm, and it was jointly presided over by the Five Great Sects...

"Frost Sect took the opportunity of the gathering to bring this private matter from the northwest region out into the open. What that meant for Empty Mountain Sect went without saying.

"The Five Great Sects of Chenping Continent were naturally experienced in dealing with such matters. Once the issue had been raised, it had to be addressed. But the other Four Great