Cangming Realm.
This was a towering mountain that pierced the clouds.
Clouds and mist wreathed the mountain year-round. If the people of the Land of Shining Stars were to sense the density of spiritual energy here, they would surely never bear to leave again.
And that was merely the density of spiritual energy on the mountain itself.
At the mountain's summit stood a magnificent complex of buildings.
At least in the eyes of the people from the Land of Shining Stars, it would surely be regarded as an immortal palace in the heavens.
Within the great hall atop the mountain, the spiritual energy was at least ten times denser than elsewhere on the mountain.
This was the true core of the Four Symbols Sect.
The Four Symbols Sect of the Cangming Realm.
Though the Four Symbols Sect was a mid-tier force in the Cangming Realm, and its combat strength was hardly worth mentioning, the techniques cultivated by its people all belonged to strange and unorthodox paths. Thus, few dared to provoke them recklessly.
Over the past thousand years, the Four Symbols Sect had enjoyed calm seas and tranquil winds.
Even when certain major forces had fallen, the Four Symbols Sect had remained unchanged.
But today, a thousand years of peace had vanished in an instant.
The reason was that the soul jade of a core member of the Four Symbols Sect, enshrined within the sect's Attendant Hall, had shattered.
Soul jade was something unheard of in the Land of Shining Stars.
Yet it was not particularly rare in the Cangming Realm.
At the very least, the Four Symbols Sect had once possessed some, though all of them had been used on the upper ranks of the Lineage.
After the events of thousand years ago began.
Several hegemonic forces had specially