Amidst the Calamity, there was destruction, but there were also opportunities. Major powers with deep foundations often prepared retreat paths for themselves in advance, choosing all manner of strange destinations. At its root, it was all about preserving the fire seed.
A considerable portion of them hid within Small Worlds or Secret Realms.
In the short term, this was undoubtedly the safest option, but it also carried many hidden dangers. Take the branch of the Eastern Heaven Chen Clan left behind in a Small World: because its laws were incomplete, cultivation was exceedingly difficult even with abundant spiritual energy.
Had Song Changsheng not opened a Space Teleportation gate, that branch would have been trapped within the Small World for the rest of their lives, gradually degenerating as the ages flowed away until they could no longer cultivate.
This was absolutely not alarmist talk, but a fact proven by history.
This gave rise to a second danger of hiding within Small Worlds: once the Spatial Tunnel connecting them to the main world developed a problem, they would face the predicament of a slow death.
Thus, some forces chose to establish their retreat paths in remote, desolate places seldom visited by people. They might be snowy plains or vast deserts, or perhaps the ends of the earth.
The mysterious and vast Distant Sea was naturally not overlooked.
Cut off from the world and lacking contact with the Cultivation World, these forces that had survived the Calamity gradually became the Hidden Sects spoken of by others.
The Treasure Bottle Sect was a relatively famous Hidden Sect in the Distant Sea.
No one had known the origins of its inheritance for a long time. The world only knew that its alchemical legacy stood unrivaled in its region. Many of its Pill Recipes were groundbreaking,