The Qinling Mountains.
Several years had passed, and the Great Peace dynasty had brought the southern lands under its rule. From Ba-Shu to Wu-Yue, apart from the two Immortal Dao traditions of Great Peace and Dust-Sweeping, which it left untouched, all the remaining southern lands lay beneath the radiance of Wu Light.
Many Divine Envoys and Daoists had now gathered south of the Qinling Mountains, laying formations, cutting through mountains, and building roads to allow passage across the range into Guanzhong.
"Fellow Daoist Drought Maiden, how are matters with the Supreme Goodness tradition?"
Ji Tingyi stood in the Great Void, beside a woman wreathed in baleful intent.
"I went to demand their surrender as ordered. They knew better than to resist imperial might. Their tradition originally had two Purple Mansion cultivators. True Person Guangshan, who was at late-stage Kan Water, went out to sea years ago and was eaten by a dragon. The remaining one, Guangji, is at mid-stage Kan Water, and Dust-Sweeping has already abandoned him."
The woman's face was dark as blackened iron, and she breathed black fire. She resembled a monstrous corpse that had crawled out of the earth, clad only in an exceedingly primitive garment of coarse hemp.
As a True Person of the direct Sunken Abyss Great Dao lineage, she had already reached late-stage baleful qi. In combat prowess alone, she ranked among the foremost in all of Great Peace!
"Eaten by a dragon?"
Ji Tingyi looked toward the Great River and spiritual mountains of Thornwood Commandery ahead, considering this. "He was a late-stage Kan Water True Person, after all. I doubt it was so simple... Still, Supreme Goodness has now lost Dust-Sweeping's protection and borders Ancient Sun. Sooner or later, the Great Scarlet tradition will settle accounts with them. Joining our dynasty and serving