In the Celestial Pivot Spirit Domain, the night lay bleak.
Atop a spirit mountain, an enormous jade disk slowly revolved.
Though the starlight overhead was faint, it streamed into the jade disk strand by strand, together with spiritual energy.
Before the disk, several cultivators in jade robes watched it with reluctance in their eyes.
"Let's leave once the new Star Jade clanspeople are born. After all, our branch has no Seventh Stage expert," a Sixth Stage member of the Jade Soul Race sighed softly.
"We still have to wait for clan elders Xingyuan Sha, Xing Jiqing, and the others to return..."
Another Sixth Stage Jade Soul clansman nodded as well.
Their branch had only seven Sixth Stage members in total. This was partly because their mother jade was a newly established offshoot that had not existed for long, and partly because the spirit mountain they occupied was mediocre.
As a result, their branch served as frontline cannon fodder within the Jade Soul Race.
In the recent assault on the Human Race's Soul-Repelling City, they had lost two more Sixth Stage members. Now, they had only one at the peak Sixth Stage, two at the late Sixth Stage, one at the middle Sixth Stage, and one at the early Sixth Stage.
Precisely because these two had lower cultivation, they had remained here to guard Yushan, while the other three, whose cultivation was higher, had gone to attend the night market.
"What's that?" Just then, one of the Jade Soul clansmen looked into the distance. The Jade Soul Race naturally possessed stronger divine senses, so although the Mortal Dust Night Market had caused them to relax their guard considerably, they still sensed something.
"No, it's an enemy attack!" Even as the cultivator spoke, he activated the array.
A beam from a mirror