Anyun Protectorate.
Under the protection of layer upon layer of formations, four Dao Children sat cross-legged. At their center was the Congfa Dao Heir, the legitimate son of the Anyun military governor and a descendant of a collateral branch of the Immortal Dynasty's imperial family.
The other three were the Myriad Leaf Dao Heir of the Myriad Leaf Immortal Sect, the Willow Leaf Dao Heir of the Fallen Immortal Willow Clan, and the Heavenly Horse Dao Heir of the Heavenfall Northern Star Sea Horse Pasture.
Of the four, only the Congfa Dao Heir and the Myriad Leaf Dao Heir had reached the limit of seven-step Dao Integration.
The remaining two had undergone only six Dao Integration nirvanas.
More than ten other Dao Children stood solemnly around them. They, too, had reached only the limit of six-step Dao Integration nirvana. All were cultivators from collateral branches of their lineages, younger sons of the main branches, and the like.
The Dao Children's morale was low.
Through years of fighting, they had suffered defeat after defeat. Every one of them had lost to the Dao Children who called themselves beings of the present age. Unable to contend with them, they had seen their entire sects fall under the enemy's control. Now they could only sit trapped inside the small formation at Anyun Protectorate, not daring to venture out.
"Have we still been unable to contact the Supremes?"
The Heavenly Horse Dao Heir could not help asking.
Ever since these so-called present-age Dao Children had appeared, he had called out to his father again and again, but had never received a reply. It was as though his father had vanished completely.
"We can't contact them."
"My father has never answered me. I've seen him cultivating in seclusion inside the protectorate many times. Sometimes he