Atop Beacon Mountain.
The estate sat halfway up the main peak, with a thousand buildings and no fewer than three thousand disciples. Now, plenty of wandering Jianghu folk had gathered inside and out to join the excitement, and fighting platforms had been set up within the mountain gates.
The sect leaders of Fengzhou and visiting Jianghu luminaries had all settled near Hidden Dragon Pool.
Hidden Dragon Pool was a treasure ground discovered by chance by the Fengshan Sect's founding Patriarch. Spiritual energy abounded around it, occasionally giving birth to spiritual treasures, and a few martial insights and verses were carved into the surrounding cliffs. After extensive investigation, it had been confirmed as the place where the Martial Ancestor had studied martial arts in ancient times.
The Duan Household Ancestor who discovered it had settled there and cleared the land, holding memorial rites every year. Through generations of effort, they had gradually become the leading power in the northwest.
As the last Righteous Path cultivator in two thousand years to establish a teaching and be honored as an ancestor, the Martial Ancestor had also left behind the Dragon-Steed Subduing Response Art as an introductory text for the Transcendent Grade. Later generations had long since deified him. Not only had the Southern and Northern Courts built Martial Ancestor Temples, but martial sects also acknowledged him as their Grandmaster.
Thus, most martial artists who came to Beacon Mountain to pay homage to the Martial Ancestor had not been invited by Duan Yuechou. Like Xie Jinhuan, they had come of their own accord to visit the Martial Ancestor's former home.
The Fengshan Sect could hardly claim the Martial Ancestor's old home as private property and bar outsiders from paying their respects, so it had become a joint memorial gathering for Fengzhou's major sects. This