Great Ridge.
Mountains rose in endless layers, and azure clouds unfurled and curled.
This was the gateway into Shu, a strategic stronghold of the southwest. In the Ancient Era, it had been a blessed land, home to many practitioners of the Immortal Dao. Most famous among them was surely the third incarnation of the Profound-Enshrining Palace-the Dao Lineage established by True Lord Constant Light!
Great Mystery Mountain.
Thunder suddenly sounded in the Great Void beyond the mountain. A man stood quietly there, silver lightning spontaneously arising across the heavens in response to his will.
"Who might you be, fellow Daoist?"
A streak of emerald spell-light shot out from a treasured palace within the mountain, brushing against violet lightning as it abruptly rushed into the Great Void.
The Grand Formation guarding the entire sect grounds activated with it. Branches and leaves of azure wood spread outward, turning into barriers that blocked the newcomer. It was none other than the Autumn Clarity Dao Lineage's [Leaf-Blinding Formation].
The person who emerged was the current master of the Autumn Clarity Gate, Guiqing True Person, Xiao Dianqing.
This Dao Lineage was centered on the Xiao Clan. These Xiaos were not the Xiaos of Northern Liao, but a far older bloodline that had always belonged to the Hua Clans of the Central Plains.
Xiao Dianqing's expression was extremely grim. Her cultivation had progressed at a respectable pace; after more than twenty years, she had finally mastered her second Divine Ability. Yet the newcomer's cultivation had reached an utterly inconceivable level.
Purple Mansion late stage.
When she had met him in Kunwei Heaven years ago, this Calamity-Splitting True Person had possessed only two Divine Abilities. Though formidable, he had yet to amount to much. With an elder presiding over her sect and friendly ties to Huayin, she