Hou Niao assumed a different identity. Although Gu Sou had not specified one, he had not actually dared to turn into a bear-man and go over. Under Bai Qingqian's interference, he had been forced to choose the ugliest of all the human men, an unremarkable-looking man from beyond the civilized lands.
As the price, the woman dressed up as a Snake Spirit that night...
Tianxin Pavilion was a complex of buildings amid the Sea of Flowers, right inside Year-End City, tightly encircled by the Nine Towns of Sui Mo. A smaller sea of flowers nested within the larger one.
Although called a pavilion, its buildings were not tall. Most were two- or three-story structures that did not look out of place among the flowers. Judging by its architectural layout alone, Tianxin Pavilion was a very small cultivation lineage, perhaps comparable in size to a single prefecture of the former Shan Kingdom. This also suited its standing on the continent.
There were no entrance restrictions; anyone could come and go. Of course, to the True Disciples of the continent's various lineages who hoped to gain something here, no restrictions meant restrictions everywhere. No one would wander in and out at will and leave their hosts with a bad impression.
Such was Tianxin Pavilion's position on the continent: small in size, mysterious and unfathomable, yet harboring formidable strength within. The higher one went, the more this held true.
Who was the strongest Infant Transformation True Person on the Brocade Continent? Opinions varied, and no one could agree. But if there truly were a handful of strongest True Persons, Tianxin Pavilion's Infant Transformation Ancestor would certainly be among them.
No one dared treat them lightly.
A dark, gaunt, shriveled man with a slight hunch walked through the Sea of Flowers. His excessively ordinary