Since its establishment, the northern mountain gate had been situated on the front lines of the battlefield. It was only after more than one Immortal Lord and numerous True Lords lay their bones to rest here that it expanded to its current scale.

This place had always been a thorn in the side of the Liao. Over thousands of years, the two sides had fought countless life-and-death battles here. It was the graveyard of countless cultivators and Liao tribesmen.

The northern mountain gate boasted many unique features, such as Dao Soldiers and War Daoists.

To become a War Daoist, one must not only master combat techniques, but also study military tactics, battlefield formations, offensive and defensive strategies, as well as military equipment, logistics, troop maintenance, food supply management, and more. In addition, they must have some knowledge of metalworking, artifact-forging, pill-making, and apothecary. The study of all these skills was centered entirely on battlefield combat and differed significantly from general academic disciplines.

Take battlefield medicine, for example. For the same blade wound, a healer of the Xuanming Hall would first meticulously clean the wound, remove the residual mystic energy, repair the body’s muscles and tendons[1], and finally regenerate flesh and bone. Battlefield medicine, on the other hand, involved first stuffing a handful of medicinal powder into the wound to fill it up and stop the bleeding. That was the first priority and took precedence over everything else. If the bleeding still wouldn’t stop, then they would...