Luofu Immortal Mountain stretched across far more than ten thousand li.
Its mountains and rivers were embroidered splendors, radiant with the light of the sun and moon. One glance at its appearance alone revealed a magnificent immortal vista.
The Luofu Immortal Sect's trial formation spanned three hundred li of mountains, from Ascension Town on Luofu's outskirts to the foot of the Ninth Main Peak.
Seven days earlier, nearly three hundred thousand seekers of immortality had entered Luofu's great formation. Along the way, most had gradually been eliminated.
After seven days, the number who had endured the three great trials of spirit, body, and heart and reached the foot of the Ninth Peak, before the gates of the Luofu Immortal Sect, was neither more nor less than exactly three thousand!
Now, such a perfectly rounded number could not possibly have come about without some fine adjustments.
But Xu Beiyou, a seeker of immortality, knew nothing of this.
He had entered the formation alone, praying to step through the immortal gates.
After enduring raging floods, worlds of ice and snow, infernos of blazing fire, extraordinary and perilous peaks, savage beasts and monstrous birds, and ordeals in which he confronted the good and evil of human nature, he had finally passed this incomparably arduous trial, emerged from the Immortal Formation, and arrived at the foot of the immortal mountain.
The immortal mountain towered high and precipitous, its visible lofty peaks rising even above the Sea of Clouds, where mortals could not look directly upon them.
At this moment, although his body felt utterly exhausted, his heart was filled with boundless relief and excitement.
He, Xu Beiyou, was merely a young hunter from a small mountain village in the southwest of a little country in the eastern Luofu Immortal Domain.
One year, while hunting