The Water Heavenly General's Inherited Cultivation Art (Seeking Monthly Votes and Subscriptions)

This final cultivation-art palace had been built on an even grander scale. Upon entering, they were greeted by two rows of shelves enveloped in spiritual light.

On these shelves lay jade slips, each resting on a special wooden tray.

Spiritual light extended from the depths of the palace like the branches of a spirit tree, connecting to the wooden trays and nourishing the jade slips.

A closer look revealed more than five thousand jade slips—a remarkably rich collection.

Behind the shelves stood a wall that seemed somewhat out of place. But when Zou Xingyun formed a hand seal, the wall vanished, revealing an elegant, old-fashioned side hall.

The side hall held a multitude of candles, before which stood a square table crafted from special spirit wood.

Behind the table were rows of memorial tablets.

Before the tablets stood incense burners filled with sandalwood incense, along with offerings of fruit and livestock. Wisps of fragrant smoke rose without end, sustaining the ancestral rites.

Yet contrary to the Zou surname he had expected, these were all memorial tablets of the Ye Family.

There were not many, only a little over three hundred.

But Ye Jingcheng knew that those enshrined here were far from ordinary, for the names of former Sword Heavenly Generals, Martial Heavenly Generals, Puppet Heavenly Generals, and Wood Heavenly Generals were among them.

The name at the very top was Ye Qixian.

He was the Ye Family ancestor who had come closest to reaching Mahayana.

At this sight, Ye Jingcheng did not examine the jade slips. Instead, he approached the ancestral shrine, took out spirit incense, and offered it with the utmost reverence before kowtowing.

Although more than ten thousand years separated the Celestial Pivot Ye Family from the present-day Ye Family, and those bonds of kinship could no longer