A sword honed for ten years, its icy edge yet unused. Today I reveal it to you—who dares speak of injustice?
In the vast world, countless sacred mountains dotted the land, with tranquil seas and clear rivers, where miraculous traces of immortals often appeared, and the pursuit of immortality and the Dao flourished everywhere.
Among all these places, Bashu and Yuzhang stood out as the most splendid.
Yuzhang was a land of exquisite beauty and abundance, producing treasures and talented souls. Merely its renowned immortal mountains, celebrated even overseas, included Mount Lu and Mount Mingyue, home to the Sword Sect; Mount Dajue and Mount Zhenru, seat of the Zen tradition. Its Daoist mountains enjoyed even greater fame, boasting ancestral halls of great sects and secluded treasure mountains of talismans and scriptures.
Thus, Yuzhang was also called the Capital of Dao Under Heaven.
Yuzhang led the Daoist sects of the East, with Mount Longhu and Mount Sanqing reigning supreme.
Mount Longhu, founded during the Han dynasty, was the ancestral court of the Celestial Masters’ Way, standing for nearly eight thousand years, the longest among its contemporaries, leading all schools of alchemy and governing the Five Thunders. However, it was exceedingly strict in accepting disciples, its followers few and revered, and the Celestial Master’s residence strictly forbidden to outsiders.
Mount Sanqing, opened during the Eastern Jin, was the ancestral hall of the Myriad Methods Sect, standing for over six thousand years. Here, practitioners cultivated internal and external alchemy, swordsmanship, talismans, formations, astrology, thunder rites, body refinement,