In truth, the Yang Clan's so-called ceremony was likely a ritual passed down through generations.
In High Antiquity, cultivators had been very, very few. Never mind immortal arts-the early peoples had scarcely even seen an immortal.
But disease had existed since the birth of heaven and earth, and demons and uncanny beings showed ordinary people no mercy.
Death and loss, grief and pain drove people to do something, even if they did not know whether it would help.
Thus, to drive out ghosts and banish pestilence, they devised this ritual to pray for peace, hoping the "gods" of their imagination could dispel evil spirits and keep them safe.
As the years passed, such rituals had now all but vanished.
It seemed only the Yang Clan still upheld this ancient tradition.
This mask of the Yang Clan's was probably an antique passed down from long ago as well.
Speaking of which, in the legends concerning Dragon Pool Mountain, the two Golden Core Realm cultivators who had fought to the death here had deep ties to the local Yang Clan and Hu Lineage.
The Hu family had investigated and confirmed that one of those Golden Core cultivators was an ancestor of the Hu Lineage.
The other was very likely an ancestor of the Yang Clan.
Yet the Yang Clan refused to acknowledge this.
It truly was strange.
No one knew this Golden Core cultivator's origins, and everyone now believed he was most likely an ancestor of the Yang Clan. Even if he truly was not, there was no need to deny it so explicitly.
Even such a vague association would lend the Yang Clan's name greater renown.
After all, in a place as small as the Chu Kingdom, Golden Core True Persons were already the strongest.
Yet the Yang Clan had always