Slay the Strange Entities, Subdue the Yin Spirits, Take Command of the Abbey, Assault the Black City

"": 200,

"": "",

"": ""Mr. Xu's bloodline, Taoist Bai Xian's life-these are our most urgent concerns, Jade Clarity Peak Master." Luo Bin bowed slightly, his tone carrying a note of urgency as well.

"First Ancestor Peak is usually deserted. There should be medicinal herbs on the offering table in the Main Hall. Let's fetch them first and deal with the immediate crisis."

Bai Xiaoshan spoke gravely and headed toward the Side Hall's doors.

Soon, the group circled around to the Main Hall in front.

The Main Hall exuded a deep solemnity. Its overall coloring was dark, but not gloomily so. The doors were the yellow of peach wood, their fine grain covered in a web of lightning-strike patterns.

Two vertical plaques stood on either side of the doors. The one on the left read, "Those of utmost loyalty and filial devotion who become Underground Masters at the end of their lives shall, after one hundred and forty years, receive the teachings of a Lower Immortal and be granted the Great Way."

The one on the right read, "Those whose forebears earned merit, who refine themselves through successive lives and are reborn anew, whose seven generations of hidden virtue extend from root to leaf, shall, after two hundred and eighty years, enter the path of the Earth Immortal."

There were also two horizontal plaques above the doors. The lower one bore a lengthy inscription.

"Those with white markings upon their bellies have their names in the Jade Register; those with green veins in their eyes have their names in the Golden Red Book; those with concealed bones in their private parts have their names in the Jade-Green Register; those with reclining bones in their chests have their names in the Star Book; those with the Four Rules of the Eye