Immortal Realm, Taiji Domain.
Three thousand members of the Jiang Clan stood in orderly ranks on the square before the main hall of the Longevity Palace, their expressions solemn.
Inside the hall, its interior glowing pale blue and white, a Jiang Clan guard addressed the old man within from the doorway: “Patriarch Yangming, the youths in our clan who have reached the age to cultivate this year and possess the aptitude for cultivation have gathered outside the hall.”
The old man placed incense in the burner on the altar, which was covered in spirit tablets. As wisps of blue smoke rose, he slowly made his way to the steps at the hall entrance.
He began slowly, “Our Jiang Clan began cultivating when our First Ancestor entered the cultivation world. It took nine generations of Li Jing and nine hundred and sixteen years before we arrived in the Taiji Immortal Domain. Today, you are about to embark on the path of cultivation. Let me tell you about the origins of our clan. We came from the Nanshan Domain, where we were once just a small, insignificant family...”
