Several thousand miles from Peacock City lay a mountain range stretching for thousands of miles. Sand and dust could scarcely enter the range, and its mountains were lush and verdant. This was the famed Five Fowl Mountains, where the Five Fowl Sect had established its sect. The range had not originally borne this name, but after the Five Fowl Sect founded itself here, it became known as the Five Fowl Mountains. No one called it by its original name anymore; everyone had forgotten it.
At the highest peak of the Five Fowl Mountains, Blood Phoenix Ridge, stood the residence of the Five Fowl Sect's chief Token Lord, the Blood Phoenix Token Lord. Within a palace sat a woman in a deep crimson robe, a Phoenix Hairpin tucked into her cloudlike coiffure, seated upon a broad white jade chair.
This woman was the Five Fowl Sect's chief Token Lord, the Blood Phoenix Token Lord. Normally, she did nothing but cultivate and rarely showed herself. But whenever she did appear, it was invariably because something of immense importance had happened within the Five Fowl Sect.
To the Blood Phoenix Token Lord's left sat a male cultivator in white robes, carrying himself with easy grace. He was the fifth Token Lord, the White Crane Token Lord. To her right sat a female cultivator, also dressed in red, though vastly different from the Blood Phoenix Token Lord's dark crimson. She looked like a living flame—the fourth Token Lord, the Vermilion Bird Token Lord. The Blood Phoenix Token Lord's phoenix eyes brimmed with majesty as she looked down at the three white-robed women kneeling below.
The three white-robed women were the Peacock Token Lord's three Origin Core Stage disciples. The female cultivator surnamed Wu said, "Reporting to the three Token Lords, our master pursued the