Cloud Province, Beginning Metal Mountain.
The mountain stood on Cloud Province's northern border, right at the heart of the Long Geng Blessed Land. Ever since Li was founded, it had remained under the Supreme Truth Immortal Sect's control, an unwavering barrier that foreign tribes could scarcely cross, completely cutting off any possibility of the Xianbei tribes invading the Central Plains.
Tai Zhen was the immortal name of metal.
Several main peaks on the mountain stood in a Northern Dipper formation, radiating mysterious light, as though suppressing something. Visions of metal and stone breaking through the earth, of weapons and war, manifested here.
On Heavenly Metal Peak.
Several immortal palaces stood here. Within the central Main Hall, seemingly boundless golden and white Geng Metal light shifted and transformed. A man wearing a Golden Moon Robe of Law stood inside.
He looked middle-aged, his expression cold and stern, a grim aura of the battlefield about him. He was none other than the current master of the Grand Truth Sect and patriarch of the Mei clan, Zh Ya.
The Geng Metal divine ability shifted ceaselessly, while he quietly watched the immortal statue on the Offering Altar ahead.
The statue wore armor and rested its hands upon a sword, its features indistinct. It seemed the beginning of Metal Virtue, the origin of change. A White Tiger Mystic Banner fluttered behind it, displaying scenes of every war and armed conflict in the mortal world.
Beneath the immortal statue stood a bronze spirit tablet, inscribed with the honored name, [True Lord Geng Martial Zhengping Bai Yi].
"Sect Master."
Someone approached through the successive doorways outside the hall: a young man in a bright golden Robe of Law, a Golden Scale longsword at his waist. Hesitation seemed to linger in his eyes, but he finally entered the