Xumi Palace stood on Mount Xumi, in the Xumi Star Domain.
The mountain was towering and majestic, its grandeur overwhelming.
It was one of the few Immortal Mountains and divine peaks.
It was as old as Giant Spirit Mountain of the Giant Spirit Clan, one of the mountains born at the dawn of World Creation.
Mount Xumi had given birth to a Buddhist Immortal Emperor. Nurtured by the auras of generations of powerful cultivators from Xumi Palace, it was said that not a single pebble had ever fallen from the mountain.
It was one seamless whole, Invulnerable to Blades and Spears and Invulnerable to All Laws.
As Li Ye ascended Mount Xumi, he saw a vast mountain looming in the distance.
It stretched across tens of thousands of light-years and towered into the clouds, every inch of it suffused with Buddha-light.
Dense Sanskrit symbols flowed around the mountainside.
The other side had activated the Sect Protecting Great Formation and sealed off the mountain to avoid the world.
No one was allowed in or out.
But now, the place was awash with commotion.
"Divine Body?"
"It really is the Divine Body! He's arrived at Mount Xumi!"
The world erupted, and people began talking all at once.
Crowds gathered around Mount Xumi, one wave after another.
Some powerful cultivators watched from afar with their Divine Sense, their expressions grave. They sensed that something momentous was about to happen.
The people of Xumi Palace were also roused at once. One venerable monk after another opened their eyes from meditation.
Li Ye's cultivation was simply too powerful now. Though he kept every trace of his aura restrained, the force radiating from his physical body was still like the Eternal Azure Sky, pressing down on everyone until they could barely breathe.
"Amitabha."
"Xumi Palace has