Ling Pengyun then returned to the clan and first went to Ice Snow Valley, the clan's territory.
This place lay deep within the clan's domain, in an exceptionally advantageous location.
Moreover, through the clan's cultivation of the area, it not only possessed a fourth-rank Ice Spirit Vein but also many spirit veins of other grades. As a result, the clan had set up numerous grand formations here, turning it into a fortress of formations.
It could be called utterly secure.
And because the spiritual energy within was so abundant, the clan's cultivators called it a Cultivation Holy Land.
Many cultivators working outside for the clan dearly wished to return and cultivate peacefully within the clan, but unfortunately, they had duties upon them.
Thus, being able to cultivate in the clan's territory for long periods had become a luxury.
However, a small group of clan members with outstanding talent, higher cultivation, or important positions had been specially exempted from duties by the clan and could remain within the clan's territory for long periods.
Among them was the clan's Grand Elder, Ling Chengyuan, who oversaw all affairs within the clan.
Ling Pengyun had come here this time precisely because he wished to ask about the clan's current situation.
According to Ling Chengyuan, the clan was steadily improving.
Because the demon beasts slain during the great chaos several years ago had been truly numerous, the clan had refined them into many spiritual items.
Although the other forces of the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World had also obtained many Demon Race materials during that great chaos and refined many spiritual items, causing an oversupply of spiritual items on the market and a sharp drop in their prices—
At the very least, selling them still brought in some profit, merely less than before.
And even spiritual