Duan De and Dogs Not Allowed

The Wind Family had endured the Dark Turmoil of every era yet remained prosperous, growing into a colossal power that looked down upon the world. Few could rival its profound reserves.

Their pure land was not built atop immortal mountains and Dragon Veins. Instead, islands floated in the sky, immortal mist billowing around them like an exquisite Divine Land. Celestial flowers bloomed among cascading waterfalls and flowing springs, wreathed in five-colored radiance, transcending the mortal world.

Numerous palaces stood upon them, with carved beams, painted pillars, coiling dragons, and soaring phoenixes. Immortal clouds drifted through this divine kingdom beyond the mundane world, while cranes, colorful luan birds, and other spirit birds flew between the islands.

In its deepest reaches, endless mountains towered high in the heavens, majestic and imposing, their grandeur shaking the soul.

Among those mighty peaks stood a magnificent ancient city that never fell. Outsiders could not see it. Each of the most powerful sacred lands possessed one, said to be an ancient God City left behind by divine spirits.

"The Jiang Family, the Ji Family, Yaochi... they all have similar layouts."

The Big Black Dog grew unusually solemn and said with utter seriousness, "An unbroken expanse of heavenly palaces and a God City that never falls—only an emperor could establish something like this. The Wind Family must have had a Great Emperor among its ancestors."

"But why have I never heard of the Wind Family taking an Emperor Weapon into battle?"

The Black Emperor was thoroughly puzzled. An imperial family's greatest reserve was its Emperor Weapon, a continuation of the Great Emperor's life that could shelter its Dao Lineage for a million years without decline.

The Void Mirror, the Hengyu Furnace, the Western Empress Pagoda... each Emperor Weapon had shaken the Eastern Wasteland, giving rise to one