The Sacred Origin Sect was a major sect in the northern Chu Kingdom, built in the Xunlan Mountain Range of Dehong Commandery. Two True Persons resided there: True Person Qingliu, at the violet palace middle stage, and True Person Xiangrong, at the violet palace early stage.
With two True Persons holding the fort, the Sacred Origin Sect naturally wielded boundless prestige. Its territory spanned three commanderies, and it had over ten thousand disciples. Its might towered to the heavens: one decree set all three commanderies in motion. Every day, Qi Refining cultivators rode clouds out to seize children born in the year 721 of Chu Zhengyuan's reign, or in the year before or after it, and bring them to the Sacred Origin Sect.
Such scenes were perhaps less common in Minghuang Commandery. By the time Huang Tian flew into Dehong Commandery, he often saw dozens or even hundreds of children along the roads and up in the clouds, their hands and feet bound. They hung their heads, trembling and distraught, yet dared not speak.
Whenever he saw this, he cast a spell that made the cultivators escorting the children take them back the way they had come, then kill themselves.
Flying swiftly on to the Xunlan Mountain Range, he stood high in the sky and looked down.
The mountain range was rich in spiritual energy, its peaks layered in emerald green and waterfalls cascading one after another. Pavilions and halls stretched across hundreds of peaks. Many streaks of light darted through the mountain mist, and little spirits and monsters appeared from time to time.
It truly was a blessed land of the highest order!
Unfortunately, the brighter the exterior, the more filth it often concealed within. One sweep of Huang Tian's divine sense revealed tens of thousands of boys and