Mists wreathed the mountain peaks, where pine forests swayed gently in the wind, the sound like music from the heavens.
Stone steps wound upward, flanked by endless verdant bamboo, lush and green. As one ascended the staircase, the mist thickened.
At the mountaintop, a vast array of ancient buildings half-revealed themselves through the clouds. Old trees and vines entwined around them, and wisps of blue smoke rose from the many Taoist temples, merging with the mist, creating an almost ethereal realm.
This was the Daluo Sect, one of the Taoist Three Sects, and acknowledged as the premier vein of Taoism, the ancestral home of the Taoist tradition!
There were no empires that lasted a thousand years in the world, but there were millennium-old noble families and sects.
For instance, the Buddhist sacred site, Pudu Temple, was a treasured monastery for a thousand years, and the Daluo Sect, as the ancestral home of Taoism, had existed for over eight hundred years!
