Due east of Tianyuan City stood the Tianyuan Yu Clan.
As a Dao Venerable Immortal Clan renowned throughout the Immortal Alliance, the Yu Household had countless powerful cultivators. Not only Nascent Soul True Lords—even Spirit Transformation Venerables were far from rare. Yet even the Alliance's Spirit Transformation Venerables yielded a measure of deference before the Yu Household's current patriarch, Yu Yuanhuang, unwilling to offend him lightly.
The reason was simple: those whom the Alliance's many cultivators honored as titans of cultivation were all terrifying figures at the perfected True Venerable realm, standing at the pinnacle of Spirit Transformation, some even having glimpsed half-step Void Refinement.
Unless a Void Refinement Dao Venerable intervened, almost no cultivator in the Immortal Alliance could match such beings!
Precisely because of this, although the Dao Venerable ancestor of the Tianyuan Yu Clan had long ceased concerning himself with worldly affairs and devoted himself to the Immortal Dao, Yu Yuanhuang alone was enough to uphold the Yu Household's prestige, placing the Yu Household vaguely first among Tianyuan's four great Dao Venerable Immortal Clans.
At that moment, misty purple qi swirled inside a massive three-legged cauldron in the Yu Household's meditation chamber.
A lean-faced middle-aged man with frost at his temples opened his eyes and inhaled gently. Like rivers flowing into the sea, the purple qi in the cauldron streamed into his mouth and nose. His daily cultivation finished, Yu Yuanhuang willed it, and the numerous jade slips outside the chamber flickered before appearing neatly on his desk.
"The progress of the Cangyuan Realm campaign... the exploits of the Five Great Grotto-Heavens' True Lord prodigies... the Nascent Elixir Method... the awakening of a Dao Venerable's will... Void Refinement aptitude... a forty-five-thousand-zhang Dharma Form... True Martial True Lord... guiding someone to a first-grade golden core..."
In an instant,