Tianluo Continent, Ancient Heavenly Palace.
In this ancient world, countless cultivation halls rose from the earth, their sect buildings vast and imposing.
Floating spirit islands hung high in the sky everywhere, white mist steaming from them as spiritual energy swirled. Scattered like stars across the heavens, they linked together like the nodes of an array, forming the Grandmaster Spirit Array.
If enemies ever invaded, they would cast aside their friendly façades and reveal their hideous true forms, transforming into impregnable fortresses of war.
The towering Heavenly Pool flowed through the air like a vast, brilliant river, radiating an immense and exceptionally pure spiritual energy that stirred the winds and clouds.
Countless cultivation platforms stood packed along both banks.
The Heavenly Palace disciples were like busy, diligent little bees, coming and going through the Heavenly Pool's self-contained realm. They held tokens, spent their merit points, and began cultivating.
The Heavenly Pool wound through the air like a giant dragon, seemingly suspended above all living things. In truth, it lay far away in the endless Starry Sky, sealed by the Master of the Heavenly Palace and linked to the heavenly essence beyond the Outer Realm.
Apart from the twelve ranks of wolf, eagle, flood dragon, and dragon, the disciples of the sect were also divided into different grades.
There were the personal disciples of the Five Halls and Nine Prefectures' leaders, the elders' direct disciples, the inner-domain disciples taught by the Guardian Generals, and the registered disciples who had yet to be entered into the sect's records.
Then there were the Demon Sect's Hong Yu, All-Saint Mountain's Saintess Su Biyue, the Giant Spirit Clan's Ding Xuan, and other Dragon Phoenix Record experts and Tianluo Ranking prodigies, such as Su Qingyin and Qin Jingzhe.
Some were reincarnations of ancient heroes, while others were