Haotian Mirror Fragment

For a great sect with a ten-thousand-year legacy, just how resplendent and magnificent, how dazzlingly gilded, would its headquarters and mountain gate be?

Here, were even the weeds by the roadside spiritual treasures, and could the stones on the mountains be used for Artifact Crafting?

Did those who lived here eat, wear, and use things brimming with Spiritual Energy, beyond the limits of mortal imagination?

Though it sounded rather like an emperor wondering whether his golden hoe was heavy, the truth really was exactly so.

Great sects that had endured for tens of thousands of years and weathered the changing of eras possessed precisely such confidence.

Beixuan Jizhou, Chenli Great Domain—the location of Mingjing Sect's Main Mountain.

Two towering, majestic peaks stood respectively to the east and west, forming a grand mountain gate. It was the gateway to the central Jiankong Mountain Range. The rolling mountain ranges extending westward from it would cut through Chenli's northwest, their end reaching the shores of the Extreme Northern Ice Plains, where they sank beneath the endless icy ocean. To the east, they stretched all the way to Da Chen's border, facing the Xishan ranges across the narrow Thunder Gate Gorge.

Behind that mountain gate lay Mingjing Sect's Main Mountain.

The Dao Court founded by the ancient Great Immortal Huaixu once governed the Five Colors, Five Directions, and Ten Continents of the Huaixu Realm. The Five Great Immortal Heavens circled the world, and the endless Heavenly River flowed without rest. In those days, every sect humbly referred to its headquarters as a "mountain," meaning that to all under heaven, the Dao Court alone was Heaven—the Divine Court's Dao nexus above the skies.

Hundreds of thousands of years later, "mountain" had become the customary term used by every sect in the Huaixu Realm for its