The Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was founded by Min Ren during the early years of the Emperors Era. Its emperor’s foundation could be said to be unshakable!
During the beginning of the Emperors Era, at the moment when the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was at its most prosperous state, it encompassed the whole Grand Middle Territory and commanded the entire Mortal Emperor World. One could only imagine how powerful it used to be.
A million years had passed, and the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect finally became weak. It no longer had the power to sweep through the world and rule over the Nine Worlds like before. However, the ancestral land of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect still remained.
The ancestral land of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect used to be extremely vast. Some said that when the sect was at its prime, it ranged around one million miles with thousands of ancient pavilions and countless disciples that were not just from the Mortal Emperor World! Even Charming Spirits, Heavenly Ghosts, and Stone Statues — these races that were favored by the heavens — joined the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect.”[1]
The Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect’s glory was a path with no return; in the end, the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect had to let go of its vast land and hide like a turtle in a corner of its old land.
Li Qi Ye’s group went on their trip with Protector Mo leading the way. Because he had been to the Ancient Land multiple times, he could be regarded as a light car traveling on a familiar road.
Today, there were only a few dozen main peaks and the area only spanned for a thousand miles. This was incomparable to the old scale.
They left the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect on a straight road to the Ancient Land. One could see the rolling mountains and high peaks like a Dragon Tiger that was entrenched in the middle of this grand earth.
The Ancestral Land of the sect used to be a beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, just like a land of immortals. However, today, from Li Qi Ye’s eyes, this was not the case.
Closing the distance to the Ancient Land, he only saw death: dried trees and withered forest, bare mountains and empty rivers, devoid of birds and beasts; a land of stillness.
Observing along the way, he found that there were ancient temples and high pavilions inside the mountain ranges and deep valleys. Unfortunately, these ancient temples and high pavilions were broken into pieces and surrounded by wild grass and a deathly aura.
From the delicate engravings of these broken ruins, one could imagine the prosperity of that year, the majesticity of that year.
Countless undulating peaks and many ancient structures were only ruins, today!
Traveling on this wretched ground, even Protector Mo gently sighed. A sadness and unwillingness to see the once invincible Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect falling into this state.
Li Qi Ye silently treaded on this familiar ground that had entirely transformed in today’s time. However, the decline of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was not why Li Qi Ye’s expression greatly changed. What moved him was that he was walking on top of a grand ground, yet he could faintly feel the evil aura under the earth!
Li Qi Ye had felt this evil aura inside the Ghost Pavilion, before. He was familiar with it, and he knew the origin of this evil energy, but he couldn’t imagine how this evil energy had appeared once again.