[Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Five Qi Returning to the Origin]

They stayed in Stone Stronghold for a day or two. The Yaochi Saintess chatted with Fifth Master Zhang, gazing thoughtfully at Purple Mountain, and even paid her respects before the spirit tablet of the Zhang Family's first patriarch, the fifth Source Heavenly Master.

Yang Yi, the Yaochi Saintess from ten thousand years ago, belonged to a lineage very close to hers, with only two or three generations between them. The current Yaochi Saintess ought to address Yang Yi as an ancestral master.

A few days later, the group set out. After traveling tens of thousands of miles, the Yaochi Saintess sensed something was wrong and said slowly, "Are we heading toward the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings?"

"That's right. We're going to the Yaochi Former Site," the Big Black Dog replied. "After the Western Empress finished her assault on the Underworld, trouble broke out again in the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings. She simply stationed herself at its entrance to suppress it and prevent the Supreme Beings from emerging. She stayed there for a thousand years and established her sacred land and Dao lineage along the way."

The Yaochi Former Site lay a little over ten thousand miles from the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings. For Great Emperors and Supreme Beings, that truly was right on its doorstep.

Not everyone was like Emperor Hengyu, who traveled far away to the Central Plains and entrenched himself at Yangtai.

"A true Great Emperor of the Human Race."

Ye Fan sighed with emotion. A sincere respect rose in him for the Western Empress, who had once suppressed a forbidden zone and safeguarded an entire era of peace.

"Will there be danger?" the Yaochi Saintess asked uneasily. After the Western Empress passed away, the Yaochi Sacred Land had suffered a catastrophic disaster and been