The true mountain gate of the Yuhua Family lay amidst nine ice peaks soaring a thousand zhang high, with a sprawling complex of halls stretching hundreds of miles across the ice plains.
The nine ice peaks were crystalline and translucent, formed entirely from mysterious ice. Faint radiant light flickered within them, as though the nine enormous frozen peaks were actually nine gigantic ice swords that could slash out at any moment.
Most of the palace halls extending for hundreds of miles were likewise constructed from ice and cold jade that had not melted for ages, making them dazzlingly beautiful and incomparably magnificent.
At the four corners to the east, south, west, and north stood four pyramid-shaped sacrificial altars, each entirely sheathed in ice. Yet above every altar floated a strip of violet radiance as tall as several people, like four enormous candle flames, illuminating all directions. At the same time, their auras faintly connected together, seemingly forming a grand formation of their own.
Such cultivation families with legacies spanning over ten thousand years generally began with a rogue cultivator of astonishing abilities, who gathered Dao companions, relatives, and friends around him. They developed from a rogue cultivator's cave abode. Their number of disciples was vastly inferior to that of ordinary super sects, but their internal reserves and inherited traditions were even more astounding than those of most super sects.
Such cultivation families especially valued bloodlines and studied the constitutions of a given bloodline with great thoroughness, often developing the most suitable cultivation methods for themselves. Thus, the cultivation progress of their younger descendants was often much faster than that of disciples from super sects.
The Yuhua Family, the Changsun Family, and other such cultivation families had produced great powers one after another over the past several thousand years for precisely