As one of the most powerful nations in all of the Nanchuan Barren Continent, the Great Qian Cultivation World covered an astonishing expanse, several times larger than the Great Qi Cultivation World. Its resources could only be described as obscenely abundant.
Aside from the leading Myriad Manifestations Palace, it also had seven great Golden Core Forces. In terms of overall strength, the Brocade Banner Song Clan, with its three Golden Core True Persons, could only rank third.
Ever since suffering a major loss in the East Sea, even that third-place position had become precarious.
Even so, it remained an old-established Golden Core Family no weaker than the Golden Crow Sect. Its territory spanned several provinces, vast and rich in produce, and it was Great Qian's largest supplier of warships.
More than a third of the warships and Sky Battleships of the Great Qian Cultivation World in the East Sea had been built by the Song Clan.
Its headquarters lay within the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, an immense mountain chain stretching for tens of thousands of miles, like a colossal dragon crouching upon the earth. Its main peak, Heavenly Dragon Peak, rose over five thousand zhang and stood precisely at the dragon's head, resembling an enormous dragon horn thrust straight into the heavens.
Upon the Spirit Peak, magnificent palaces flickered in and out of sight amid the woods. A soaring stairway of flawlessly pure white jade spiraled upward in layer upon layer from the foot of the mountain, stretching all the way into the sky before vanishing into the thick Sea of Clouds.
Beneath the Spirit Peak stood a cultivation city comparable in scale to Sunset City. Bustling and prosperous, it carried the weight of ages bestowed by its thousands of years of heritage.
Scattered around it were more than a