Sincerity is the Ultimate Skill

Central Province, Daluo Sect, Eight Stars Embrace Moon Island.

This island lay within the White Sea. The largest central Moon Island spanned hundreds of thousands of li, surrounded by eight smaller islands that embraced it like eight stars clustered around a full moon—hence the name Eight Stars Embrace Moon.

The once-in-a-millennium Central Province Assembly was, as usual, held on Eight Stars Embrace Moon Island.

The great sects of the other eight provinces each had their corresponding islands. This had long since become the established custom.

At the center of Moon Island lay Water Moon Lake, its surface still and unruffled, clear and bright as a mirror. Around the lakeshore, strange black-gold stones formed three tiers of embankments, concealing the transformations of yin and yang trigrams within. The vast Water Moon Lake had thus become an enormous formation.

Only a formation this powerful and profound could connect the Nine Provinces.

By agreement, today was the day the formation would be opened to welcome the eight great sects.

Zhicheng accompanied He Feng, a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord, and the others as they waited by Water Moon Lake to receive their guests. Zhicheng was only two hundred this year. As one of the sect's most outstanding geniuses, she had already reached the tenth level of the Nascent Soul realm.

Zhicheng had bright eyes, pearly teeth, and strikingly beautiful features. Her apricot-yellow Daoist robe set off her snow-white skin, and as she stood against the wind, her sleeves drifted around her, her slender figure half-hidden and half-revealed.

As a genius much favored by the sect, Zhicheng was rather lively by nature and loved talking to people. He Feng in particular was a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord she knew well. Knowing that he was mild-tempered, she spoke with even fewer reservations.

"Martial Uncle, what are