A Decision That Defied Her Ancestors

Within a ring-shaped mountain range.

This mountain range had originally belonged to Sunset Forest within the Heaven Dou Empire, one of the two great gathering grounds for Soul Beasts.

But now, this mountain range had been assigned to the Soul Master Guild by the Heaven Dou Empire and had become the Soul Master Guild Headquarters.

Of course, the Heaven Dou Empire had not given it away for nothing.

In exchange, the Soul Master Guild was obligated to lend aid whenever Heaven Dou City came under invasion by foreign enemies.

Within the mountains, the original concave valley was gone, replaced by palaces built around the surrounding peaks.

The palaces were magnificent and lavish, most of them designed with European-style domes.

Only the main hall at the highest point of the ring-shaped mountain range, which nearly covered the entire mountaintop, was built in an ancient Huaxia style. Though it had only two floors, it held a world within.

The upper three levels were merely for show. The residences for the Soul Master Guild's upper ranks lay below, descending several hundred meters in height. The entire space resembled a massive cone.

Thick heat rose from the valley, damp and carrying the distinctive scent of sulfur.

This was Rakshasa Hall, the core of the Soul Master Guild. It also had another name—the Icefire Yin Yang Well. It was a forbidden ground within the Soul Master Guild Headquarters, and only the guild president and a select few others were qualified to enter.

At the lowest level of Rakshasa Hall, within the medicinal garden of the Icefire Yin Yang Well.

A graceful figure in gold and blue knelt at the center of a pavilion above the medicinal garden.

As her slender jade-like fingers intertwined, faint golden streams of light flowed around her fingertips. A golden wing