Merging Perfect Traits into One

Task World 119, Spirit Cloud Realm.

Mystic Spirit Dynasty, one hundred li outside the prefectural city of Cloud-Piercing Prefecture.

The crops in the fields, once growing splendidly, had all been uprooted and leveled. Square bluestone bricks had been laid into a flat, open plaza.

Directly facing the Mystic Spirit Tower stood an altar built in strict accordance with the specifications recorded in ancient texts.

The altar was entirely a deep, shadowy purple, similar in color to the exterior of the 'Profound Cloud Spirit-Splitting Tower.'

It rose in narrowing tiers, with five levels in total. Every level was exceptionally broad and massive.

The very top of the altar was not flat, but recessed into a bowl-shaped structure, like an enormous stone mortar.

Lacking the spiritual treasures meant for offerings, the altar currently held only gold, jade, pearls, treasures, and three sacrificial animals with five kinds of livestock.

Dignitaries and noble family descendants clad in brocade robes gathered around the altar, chatting among themselves. From time to time, they glanced at the portraits of the 'Mystic Spirit Tower' hanging on either side, painted by the finest artists in the world, their eyes flashing with longing.

Ever since Chi Jiuyu had gone to Spirit Cloud Mountain two months earlier and fought a great battle with Gu Xingyun, revealing the Mystic Spirit Tower hidden within the mountain to the eyes of the world—

The commotion had been so enormous that the small group holding the greatest power in the entire Mystic Spirit Dynasty had swiftly received word.

Perhaps they had come to behold an immortal miracle, or perhaps they hoped, as the legends said, to receive immortal teachings and seek immortality.

After all, they all knew that so-called cultivation and eternal life had truly existed many years ago.

Thus, many people had rushed to