There were sixty-four residences here, guarding the central Taiji Dao Field. They embodied the division of Yin-Yang, signifying how Taiji gave rise to Five Elements Qi.
The arrangements of the Two Forms, Eight Trigrams, and sixty-four hexagram formations made up the architectural layout of the Chen Family Ancient Residence.
This place also represented Chen Xun's Five Elements Immortal Path, Big Black Ox's formation Dao, and He Ling's Dao of Yin Yang. It was their own Dao Academy, vastly different from an ordinary residence, and all the more indicative of its importance.
Outside one residence.
Many people had gathered: Five Elements Sect Disciples, Chen Family members, and Mountain Gods.
Yet immortals such as Ke Ding could only stand far outside the ancient residence. They had no right to enter, nor were outsiders permitted to set foot within.
The skies above the ancient residence were especially overcast today.
They cast the entire residence into deep gloom.
This place was like an independent blessed realm, utterly incompatible with the world outside.
Beneath the courtyard's open sky stood a Heaven Worship Cauldron, with incense that had yet to burn out still planted atop it... The scent of offerings was heavy.
Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu could no longer hold on. Their final limits had arrived.
They leaned weakly against their chairs, their faces deathly pale. Even their bodies were decaying, their cultivation realms dissipating. Their lips trembled, and dense sweat covered their foreheads.
"Old Man... Ox Ancestor." Chen Ba Tian spoke with difficulty. His entire body shook, yet his gaze remained clear and calm.
"Moo!"
Big Black Ox's eye sockets reddened as it continuously sent magical power into them. Over the years, it had already tried countless methods—repairing their bodies, nurturing their divine souls, even refining its own divine soul as an offering.