Forming Good Karma (Monday: Please Vote for Recommendations)

Autumn had already deepened, and the grass had turned yellow. The vast sea of withered grass was a spectacular sight. Farther north, the wild grass grew sparse, and snow blanketed the ground. Stout evergreen trees rose here and there, joining into swathes of primeval forest that stretched for over a thousand li in every direction. Vast and boundless, their branches and leaves flourished, forming a snowy wilderness of forest and ice.

At the edge of a primeval forest, footprints had churned the snow into muddy slush. It seemed people came and went here often.

This was no uninhabited wilderness. Many tribes lived hidden deep in the mountains and old forests or in caves beneath the ice fields. There were even Martial Cultivators among them. They were often skilled in ice-cold techniques and had no interest in traveling south; they preferred exploring the far north and were almost entirely cut off from the martial world of the Central Plains. If Outer Scenery Experts did not frequently fly to the ice fields, frozen seas, and far northern reaches in search of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for refining weapons and pills, people might not even know they existed.

At that moment, a dozen or so imposing men and women stood on the muddy snow. They seemed to be standing on solid ground, but on closer inspection, their feet hung two or three sheets of paper above the snow and ice—not a fraction more or less, just enough to hover.

At their head stood a mature woman dressed in a lotus-colored gown. Her face was as lovely as a lotus rising from clear water, her hair thick, and her figure tall and graceful. She was "Ice Fairy" Ye Yuqi. Nearby stood the elegant and graceful "Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva" Mingfa and "Cold-faced Soul Reaper" He