Kunlun Mountain, also known as Kunlun Void, was China's foremost sacred mountain. It could also be called the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains in the Primordial World!
Thud...
At that moment, a clear, distant, yet resonant bronze bell rang out from within Kunlun Mountain, its sound echoing among the cliffs, ravines, forests, and clouds.
This was plainly the bell from the Jade Void Palace of Yuanshi Tianzun on Kunlun Mountain. As the saying went, "Morning bells and evening drums summon the spirits and magnify the majesty of the Jade Void Palace, bringing grandeur to the sacred mountain of Kunlun." The bells and drums had to be sounded every morning and evening, without fail!
Thud... Thud-thud...
In the main hall of the Jade Void Palace, twelve Daoists sat kneeling on twelve meditation cushions, each looking tense and uneasy. Without exception, they kept their heads lowered, not daring to meet the gaze of the Daoist seated cross-legged on the cushion atop the high dais, dozing with a horsetail whisk and a Jade Ruyi in his arms.
"..."
Ever since Yuanshi Tianzun, who presided over the Chan Sect's teachings, had shut the palace and stopped lecturing, this was the first time he had issued an order. He had done so because his twelve favored disciples had failed to sever their Three Corpses for fifteen hundred years, bringing upon themselves the tribulation of the mortal world and drawing down the Heavenly Dao's punishment. Now, he had summoned the Twelve Golden Immortals of Kunlun to gather in his Jade Void Palace.
"Alas..."
"You claimed your foundations were extraordinary, yet for fifteen hundred years you have failed to sever the Three Corpses and cast off the Six Energies. Thus, you brought upon yourselves the tribulation of the mortal world and invited a calamity of slaughter..."
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