There were sixty-four courtyards here, arrayed around the central Taiji Dao Arena. They embodied the division of yin and yang, signifying how Taiji gave rise to Five-Elements Qi.
The Two Principles, Eight Trigrams, and sixty-four hexagram formation diagrams formed the architectural layout of the Chen Family Ancient Residence.
This place also represented Chen Xun's Five-Elements Immortal Path, Black Bull's formation Dao, and He Ling's Yin-Yang Dao. It was their own Dao Academy, utterly different from an ordinary residence, and all the more indicative of this place's importance.
Outside one of the courtyards.
Many people had gathered: disciples of the Five Aggregates Sect, members of the Chen Family, and mountain gods.
Yet Immortals such as Ke Ding could only stand far beyond the ancient residence. They had no right to enter, nor were outsiders permitted to set foot within.
Today, the skies above the ancient residence were particularly overcast.
They cast the entire ancient residence into deep gloom.
This place resembled an independent Grotto-Heaven Realm, utterly out of place with the world outside.
Beneath the courtyard's open sky stood a great cauldron for worshipping Heaven, with still-burning incense planted within it... The scent of incense was thick.
Chen Batian and Chen Yanshu were failing. Their final days had come.
They leaned weakly against their chairs, their faces deathly pale. Even their physical bodies were decaying, their cultivation slipping away. Their lips trembled, and dense sweat covered their foreheads.
"Old Master... Ox Ancestor." Chen Batian spoke with difficulty, his entire body trembling, yet his gaze remained clear and calm.
"Moo!"
Black Bull's eyes had reddened as it continuously poured its mana into them. Over the years, it had already tried countless methods—repairing their bodies, nurturing their divine souls, even sacrificing its own divine soul.
But it could only prolong their lives by