As one of the top-tier realms in the Spirit World, the Nailong Realm was boundlessly vast, divided into nine nines—eighty-one prefectural lands in all. Each prefecture was itself exceedingly expansive, likely not much smaller than the East Sea Cultivation World.
And each prefecture was further divided into hundreds or thousands of mortal countries.
The Cloud Hidden Sect was located in Chu State, where it was almost the sole dominant power, while the Heavenly Corpse Sect was located in Yue State. In terms of strength, it was not the least bit inferior to the Cloud Hidden Sect, and in its mysterious, treacherous ways, it was even a cut above.
Originally, as two of the five great sects of Tianshuang Prefecture, the Cloud Hidden Sect and the Heavenly Corpse Sect had no friendship, but they had also kept to their own wells and rivers, each minding their own affairs.
However, three hundred years ago, something happened between the two sects.
The Waste Pills accumulated over thousands of years by the Golden Core Peak line of the Cloud Hidden Sect were looted clean. Judging from the evidence left at the scene, the culprits were, in all likelihood, cultivators from the Heavenly Corpse Sect.
From then on, the two factions began to fall into enmity.
Though no great war broke out, the slaughter in the shadows had not ceased for these past few hundred years. Both sides had lost no small number of cultivators, and as time passed, their hatred only piled up deeper and deeper.
As for the truth of the matter, Lin Xuan naturally knew it in his heart, but what did that matter? In the cultivation world, who bothered dividing right from wrong? Strength was what mattered most. In order to use the Purple Heart Earth Fire, he needed to hunt