On the western side of Red Cloud Valley, the spiritual energy here was rather thin, but the area was extremely vast, with green hills, lush and verdant, and even a lake several dozen mu in size scattered within it.
Exquisite pavilions and towers could be faintly seen. Cultivation families were different from sects; they used blood ties as their bond.
Although when male and female cultivators joined together, the children they bore were much more likely to have Spirit Roots, that was only relative.
Therefore, every cultivation family, no matter its size, certainly had no small number of mortals among them.
Although, in theory, one could cultivate without Spirit Roots, over thousands of years, aside from Lin Xuan, the other ordinary people who exhausted their whole lives in bitter effort had only reached the middle stage of Spirit Movement at most. There was no benefit of increasing their lifespan, so naturally very few people were willing to suffer for nothing.
As a medium-sized cultivation family, the Wei Family had, all told, a little over three thousand cultivators. However, the number of mortals far exceeded this figure.
There were around twenty thousand of them.
The reason it was like this also had to do with the polarization among cultivators.
As everyone knew, in terms of major realms, cultivation went from Spirit Movement to Tribulation Transcendence, for a total of eight realms.
With each advancement, the greatest excitement it brought was not the breakthrough in cultivation, but the great increase in lifespan.
In other words, every promotion meant death had moved farther away from oneself.
This was also the initial driving force of cultivation. Who would not hope to become an eternal existence, with a lifespan as long as the southern mountains?
However, the immortal path was difficult in the end. Aside