Ge Qingzhi remained composed as she began recounting the story from nine hundred years ago.

Shortly after becoming the Tuoba family’s head, Tuoba Encheng’s love life and career thrived. Under his leadership, the family expanded rapidly, seizing numerous resources and extending its influence. But this inevitably brought them into conflict with other cultivation families and sects.

One day, while hunting spirit beasts, a dispute arose between the Tuoba family’s cultivators and those from the Moonwatching Valley sect. The Valley had three elders present, who, in their wrath, slaughtered all thirty-seven Tuoba cultivators, including Tuoba Encheng’s nephew. Outraged, Tuoba Encheng led …