Clouds Over Imperial Homeland, a Dao Legacy for Protection, and the Rotation of the Five Virtues!

[You stared at the words on the tabletop: "Di Ku must die."]

[Di Ku's name was as familiar to you as thunder. One of Mount Fangcun's most celebrated sect masters, he still received more incense offerings than anyone else in the Founders' Hall.]

[Later generations of Mount Fangcun disciples lingered longest beneath his portrait, gazing up at it in longing.]

[During the years Di Ku led the sect, Mount Fangcun enjoyed a golden age without precedent or successor: its territory expanded to more than three times its present size, over a hundred small kingdoms served under it, and it dominated the southeast of Yu Province in the Central Lands.]

[Even a foremost sect like the Dao Dominion Sect had been forced to meet it as an equal.]

[More remarkable still, he had planned from behind the curtain, joining forces with the Dragon Spring Sword Sect and Western Kunlun while befriending Mount Zhongnan and making it an ally. For a time, Mount Fangcun had led the Righteous Alliance. The Struggle of the Three Houses, which changed the shape of this entire world, had been settled under Mount Fangcun's witness.]

[You thought of that glorious age, then looked at Mount Fangcun's present embarrassment: it sat at the bottom of the Righteous Nine Sects, and its disciples had to tuck their tails between their legs whenever they went out.]

[The contrast made you sigh.]

[You read the writing above it again: "Fourth day of the seventh month. Di Ku discovered what I intend and came expressly to warn me."]

[What had Di Ku discovered? Why had he warned him? That was the crux of what had driven Patriarch Dixiang to kill his younger brother.]

[Brother had turned against brother, blood against blood!]

[You knew how it had ended. Later records said Di Ku