Qi Tian Cave.
Inside a pure-white hall, elegant yet unadorned, three people stood within.
The three were Qi Tianmu Yu, Qi Tianmu Yue, and a man somewhat older than them. He carried a wine gourd on his back, his hair hanging loose and his face covered in beard, looking every bit like a crude brute. Yet sharp glints flashed wildly in his eyes; one look was enough to tell that he was no easy character to provoke.
He was the third Great Perfection Qu Realm expert of the Qi Tian Clan, named Qi Tian Baba. He was of the same generation as the Valley Master and counted among the younger members of the older generation's powerhouses. In his youth, his combat strength had not been particularly dazzling within the Qi Tian Clan. He was the type to bloom late.
He spent all year away from Myriadpath Valley, only returning today. The work he oversaw was precisely the Qi Tian Clan's "disciple training." Whenever Qi Tian Clan disciples entered the million realms and devoured beastmasters' lifebound beasts, it was all managed by him. By now, he had established "livestock farms" across tens of thousands of realms. In those realms, dedicated personnel imprisoned lifebound beasts together and fed them to the Qi Tian Clan's Myriadpath Origin Beasts, sparing Qi Tian Clan disciples the need to hunt personally.
Now that turmoil had broken out in Myriadpath Valley, he was the fourth person within the Qi Tian Clan to learn that the Valley Master had failed to fuse with the realm core and was putting on a brave face to hide his weakness.
Other than the Valley Master and the three of them, all Great Perfection Qu Realm experts, even the Qi Tian Clan's Lesser Perfection Qu Realm cultivators still believed that the Valley