The Moon Mound Alliance, Council of Elders Deliberations, and Three Methods of Core Formation

The Moon Mound Alliance's headquarters.

It stood on the Wei Household's former clan grounds.

Now, not a trace of its former appearance remained.

An upper-grade second-tier grand formation enveloped the entire headquarters, covering it like a pale golden dome.

This was the Sun-Moon Mystic Firmament Formation, a composite grand formation that combined spirit-gathering and defense.

By day, it absorbed dawnlight and transformed it into entwining rosy cloudlight; by night, it drew in moonlight essence, condensing it into hanging silver threads. Even the concentration of spiritual energy here had risen considerably.

At the entrance to the headquarters, a hundred bluestone steps wound upward from the shores of Moon Lake. Nourished by spiritual energy, their surfaces were as smooth and lustrous as jade, with ancient native woodland on either side.

Spirit birds sang among the trees, and occasionally green deer trod over the fallen leaves. Scattered spirit plants could be seen clinging between the trees.

At the end of the stone steps lay the alliance plaza, paved with bluestone slabs and covering a hundred mu.

The heart of the headquarters consisted of staggered palaces and pavilions, magnificent towers of jade. Spirit-jade wind chimes hung beneath their upturned eaves, sending clear notes far into the distance whenever the wind stirred.

On the western side of the headquarters stood the academy built by the Xu Household.

Not far behind the academy were spirit fields and a medicine garden. The spirit fields comprised nine ridges, planted with blood rice, yellow millet rice, and crystal rice.

The grain heads swayed gently in the spiritual energy, shimmering with flecks of golden light.

Low jade walls divided the medicine garden into an inner and an outer garden.

The outer garden mainly grew medicinal herbs for the martial way, while the inner garden cultivated a wide variety of spirit