The sprawling palaces and pavilions were mostly deserted.
Only a few areas still held scattered traces of cultivators and flickering formation light. They belonged to Chi Family members who had either refused to leave from the start or were responsible for the final cleanup.
Deep within the ancestral grounds stood a massive peak. The cliff at its summit was known as Dao-Unifying Cliff.
The Dao law patterns left behind by predecessors remained here, such that cultivators below the Immortal Platform realm would find only fierce astral winds upon reaching its summit.
Such an environment could temper a cultivator's will and draw upon the Dao laws of heaven and earth. It had always been a place where outstanding descendants of the Chi Family meditated on the Dao, cultivated in seclusion, or faced the wall in confinement to reflect on their mistakes.
Many years ago,
among the great powers now spread across the starry sky, there was almost no one who had not heard of Tan Lin, the Indestructible Golden Body.
Yet aside from those Chi Family members who had personally witnessed what happened back then, how many still remembered that when he had first arrived in the Northern Region and stayed temporarily with the Chi Family, he had once been "confined" here for a time because of an old matter?
At that moment, the astral winds still howled atop Dao-Unifying Cliff, yet two peerlessly beautiful figures stood by the precipice, gazing into the distance.
One woman wore a long emerald dress cinched at the waist. Her tall, graceful figure was exquisite, and her dark hair cascaded like a waterfall, unbound by any hairpin. It simply draped softly over her luminous white shoulders and back, fluttering in the wind.
This made her face appear ever more incomparably beautiful, her temperament ethereal and