Southern Regions, Linjiang County.
If viewed from high above, this small city that used to keep to itself had now become the most dazzling pearl in the entire Southern Regions.
The city had expanded by more than threefold!
The original wild mountain path leading to the True Martial Temple had long been replaced by a Blue Stone Avenue ten zhang wide.
Both sides of the avenue were planted with spiritual pines and verdant cypresses transplanted from various places.
With lush branches and dense foliage, they shrouded the entire path in a serene and verdant shade.
Yet if one looked up again, everyone's gaze would be drawn in the exact same direction.
True Martial Temple!
That small Daoist temple that once possessed only three courtyards,
a few dilapidated halls,
and didn't even have a proper mountain gate.
Had now become a sprawling expanse of majestic architecture stretching for several li!
From the foot of the mountain to the waist, overlapping flying eaves and bracket sets extended upward following the contours of the terrain!
Vermilion corridor pillars and bright-yellow glazed tiles emitted a warm and solemn luster under the sunlight.
A nine-zhang-tall White Marble Archway stood before the mountain gate, with three gilded characters carved into its center-"True Martial Temple"!
The brushwork was powerful and vigorous, rumored to be the work of a contemporary master calligrapher; those three characters alone were worth ten thousand pieces of gold!
Two rows of eight disciples dressed in dark-blue Daoist robes stood on either side of the archway, each possessing a steady aura and eyes like torches, and they were at least experts of the First-rate Realm.
Some had long swords hanging at their waists, while others held horsetail whisks, standing as straight as pine trees and remaining completely motionless.
This demeanor alone was enough to