Betray the Dead, Destroy the Altar

The Cloud Summit Purple Gold Hall—a sacred relic that has doomed more heroes than it ever saved. Generations of cultivators sacrificed everything to protect the world from darkness, only to meet bloody ends because of this cursed artifact. Yet without it, who would rise to become immortals and vanquish evil? When a junior sister hears an old man's cryptic warnings, her thoughts drift to her enigmatic senior brother—the one the world calls a "monster." He once spoke of the same artifact with obsessive hunger, declaring he'd pay any price to possess it. She doesn't understand his true intentions…