Yellow Sand Mountain—beneath an abandoned mine tunnel at the summit—was where the Heavenly Sand Sect's transmission array was located.
This had once been a second-order Sandshadow Stone vein, and also the Heavenly Sand Sect's most important mining ground.
At its height, the cultivators guarding it had all been Purple Palace cultivators, and the formation laid here had been fourth-order as well.
But later, the Heavenly Sand Sect declined. Purple Palace cultivators gradually vanished, and the fourth-order formations were destroyed one after another.
Later still, they lacked even a qualified formation master. Moving the transmission array became a distant dream, and now that the mine vein had been exhausted, they had still failed to use the transmission array to reach the Heavenly Sand Sect's sacred grounds.
When Xiao Congrong arrived with a Heavenly Sand Sect disciple, he saw that there were already two people standing atop the transmission array.
"Senior, are you a member of our Heavenly Sand Sect?" Xiao Congrong asked.
"No, but I obtained the Heavenly Sand Sect's inheritance. I suppose that makes me half a member of the Heavenly Sand Sect," Ye Jingcheng answered directly.
At first, he truly had intended to fabricate an identity. Then, just as in the Azure Cloud Sea Region, the Ye Family could simply prop up a Purplewood Sect.
But the facts had proven that a Purplewood Sect like that was too prone to problems, and it was not stable either.
The Azure Cloud Sea Region could do that because it was already chaotic to begin with, and the Ye Family had not needed to pay much of a price.
But in the Central Region, steady development would naturally be better for the Ye Family.
That way, even if Spirit-Inquiring Talismans were used to question them in the future, there would not be