Meanwhile, in the northern part of the Heavenly March Prince's Estate the Taiyu Divine Dynasty.
Green Mang Mountain Range.
This place, also known as the Green Mang Forbidden Zone, is home to countless sects, hordes of Demon Beast, and a diverse mix of people.
Compared to the major sects and powerful forces within the Divine Dynasty, the sects in the Green Mang Mountain Range are located in rather remote areas.
However, despite its remote location, it is also a bustling place.
It has a long history and a long duration.
The Green Mang Mountain Range, a vast expanse of mountains, bears the long historical marks of countless sects.
And it is located within the Taixing Mountain Range.
A woman in a long, cloud-like crimson dress leaned against the red building, drinking alone in a secluded pavilion, her expression filled with bitterness and reluctance.
She wasn't drunk, but her cheeks were flushed, giving her a touch of allure.
But those eyes, as pale as rosy clouds, immediately made it impossible to feel any disrespect towards them.
Like clouds and mist, just like crystal.
Her name was Yunli.
Heavenly Venerable Yunli... no, perhaps he should be called Great Emperor Yunli now.
The Spiritual Qi concentration in the Eastern Continent was much higher than that in Profound Domain. After Yunli returned here, she was basically unharmed and landed in a small secret realm within the Taiyu Divine Dynasty, where she obtained many fortuitous opportunity. As a result, she quickly advanced to the rank of Great Emperor in just a few years.
However, the joy of advancing to a higher realm couldn't ease the furrowed brow she had been keeping.
Sitting in the red mud pavilion, Yunli gazed at the distant sky, sighed inwardly, and propped up her head, which was already overwhelmed.
I'm so tired...
Before, she never imagined that she would be able to return to the Profound Domain after being stranded there.
More than a century has passed in between.
When she returned, she found that everything she used to know was gone.
Instead, the sect underwent a complete transformation, old friends left, and the once vibrant flowers withered.
Once upon a time, she was betrayed by her disciple and perished in the Eastern Continent. In her final desperate attempt, she sent her soul out of the Eastern Continent through a spatial rift.
The spatial rift is unstable and filled with turbulent currents.
Yunli even wondered if she might die directly in the spatial rift.
Fortunately, no.
But she didn't get a very good ending either.
Her soul was shattered, and she ended up in the Profound Domain —a small place she had never heard of before. The cultivators in this small place didn't even know that another continent existed, and their cultivation levels were ridiculously low, which made her utterly desperate.
However, fortune and misfortune are intertwined.
In that moment of despair, she met Qu Youmeng.
A determined and ambitious young girl.
Most importantly, Qu Youmeng possesses exceptional talent, enabling her soul to attach itself to the other's soul and slowly nourish herself.
Yunli had no intention of taking on any more disciples.
The betrayal of one disciple had already broken her heart.
But I don't know when it started, maybe it was because they saw that the girl had such good talent, but she was not valued in the sect, and everyone around her was a scoundrel, preferring to value a useless male disciple as the Holy Son, while ignoring the little girl.
Perhaps it was seeing the girl's sincerity towards him, simply because he had taught her some not-so-precious Cultivation Method, and her painstaking efforts to find herbs to rebuild her body.
Or perhaps it was because, watching that lone girl fight so fiercely, cultivate so desperately, all for the sake of a bright future for herself...
Perhaps it was because she saw her former self in the child named Youmeng...
She was tempted.
Therefore, she tacitly allowed Qu Youmeng to call her Master.
He also imparted all his knowledge to me without reservation.
Although he kept encouraging her, saying that she would avenge herself after she finished her studies, Yunli knew in her heart that no matter how well Qu Youmeng studied or how hard she cultivated, she would not be able to shake the beast who betrayed her within a hundred years.
And a hundred years later...
Her soul is almost gone.
How rare are elixirs capable of reshaping and restoring the body?
It is extremely rare even in the Eastern Continent, let alone in the Profound Domain.
Even if she could obtain it from the Profound Domain, how could she possibly reshape her original cultivation level and talent?
So it's all just empty talk...
However, back then, when she was still Heavenly Venerable Yunli, she never imagined that Qu Youmeng's original Peak Master, whom she considered useless, would actually be such a person...
Recalling the past, Yunli's eyes gradually softened, but when her gaze fell on the azure mountains in front of her, she couldn't help but feel disgusted again.
How wonderful life was in the Profound Domain.
She loathed life in the Eastern Continent.
When she returned to the Eastern Continent and the Green Mang Mountain Range, besides the great changes in her sect, she discovered that the traitorous disciple who had betrayed her had actually become a powerful figure.
He even transformed the sect she had founded, seizing it for himself and renaming it the Divine March Sect, thus ascending to the position of sect leader.
Yunli was furious when she discovered this.
However, she did not leave.
Instead, he found a mountain range and spent the next few years gathering many of the disciples who had been driven away by that wicked disciple, and rebuilt the Divine Departure Sect.
However, although she is Great Emperor and a figure of considerable importance in the Eastern Continent, the Green Mang Mountain Range has a different structure, and establishing a sect here is by no means an easy task.
For the past year or two, that rebellious disciple, along with members of the Divine Departure Sect, has repeatedly made things difficult for her.
If she hadn't broken through to the Great Emperor Realm and become comparable to that traitorous disciple in cultivation, she would likely have suffered another fatal attack from him.
Even so, Yunli did not leave.
Because she personally founded the Divine Departure Sect, every blade of grass and every tree was her creation, and she personally selected every disciple and elder. That traitorous disciple changed the sect's name and expelled those who had once been loyal to her, leaving them to live as rogue Rogue Cultivator in the dangerous Green Mang Mountain Range, and forbidding any sect from taking them in...
She couldn't stand idly by and watch them wander and suffer.
Especially when she saw those people looking at her with such expectant and longing eyes.
What's more, some of them even had their cultivation directly crippled by the traitorous disciple, almost turning them into useless people. Yunli didn't consider herself a good person, but she couldn't possibly watch her former friends and fellow disciples just fend for themselves!
Since I still possess some cultivation level sufficient to protect them, why not do it?
Therefore, she decided to establish a brand new Divine Departure Sect!
No matter how difficult the road ahead!
She will absolutely not give up!
Yunli tilted her head back and downed the wine in her cup in one gulp. She put down the cup, and on the mountain path before her, she saw the figure of a disciple.
He was extremely fast and had a solemn expression; he was also one of the expelled disciples.
When Yunli saw the expression on the other person's face, her heart skipped a beat.
Soon, the newly established grand assembly of the Divine Departure Sect would be held, and she had arranged for her disciples to deliver invitations to other sects, but...
"Greetings, Sect Master!" The disciple had already arrived, bowed, and then looked up with a somewhat strained expression, his lips pursed.
"Sect Master... all the invitations have been sent out, but... but..."
"None of the sect leaders are willing to come..."
Yeah...
Yunli lowered her eyes slightly.
"I see."
She had somewhat anticipated this.
After all, the Divine Departure Sect... no, it should be called the Divine March Sect, which is the sect of that wicked disciple. He has been operating in the Green Mang Mountain Range for a long time and can be considered a top sect. Other sects in the surrounding area cannot help but fear the power of the Divine March Sect, especially after the Divine March Sect declared that it is irreconcilable with the current Divine Departure Sect.
It's crystal clear which side they'll choose.
But Yunli still felt heartbroken.
You should know that some of those sect leaders were his close friends back then.
Some of them had even saved the other person's life...
Nowadays, however, they all avoid me like the plague, fearing that I might be affected.
It really is a matter of timing, luck, and fate...
Thinking of this, she smiled sarcastically and said:
"Regardless of the circumstances, the founding ceremony of my Divine Departure Sect will proceed as scheduled three days from now."
Even if no one comes to congratulate me.