The thousand-foot treasure ship moved through the sky, radiant light flowing around its massive hull. As it neared Nine Tripod City, it drew the attention of numerous cultivators on the ground.

Up on deck, when the golden-crowned, purple-haired, jade-robed young man gave his orders, a gentle female voice responded, “Young Master, thirty thousand years ago, the ancestor of the Xia Family placed the Nine Tripod Suppression Barrier Formation around Nine Tripod City. It was once the third-ranked peerless killing formation on the Azure Continent!”

A beautiful, dignified woman in a cloud and phoenix-patterned robe appeared. 

She wore a gilded crown and carried a golden jade ruler. She was reserved and elegant, and as she looked around, her eyes flashed with faint but utterly intimidating silver light.

“Besides, Nine Tripod City has always had a rule forbidding flight above the city. We’re guests from afar. It seems to me that we’d best descend and visit Mount Heavenbristle on foot.”

As the phoenix-robed woman spoke, she looked at the purple-haired young man next to her.

His eyes shone with a hint of wanton pride. “Rules are dead, while people are alive. To the best of my knowledge, after thirty thousand years...