After the Grand Competition of the Five Regions ended and disciples from every region returned to their sects, all kinds of news swept through the Cultivation Realm—every bit of it concerning the accident during the competition and the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers falling under the control of Evil Cultivators.
The few cultivators who had survived and emerged from the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had all advanced to Spirit Transformation stage. The one who had enabled so many cultivators to advance at once was Venerable Ranxi of the Haoran Sect. The breakthrough potion she had refined had forcibly pushed those originally in the Nascent Soul Realm into Spirit Transformation, ultimately preserving their lives and allowing them to break out of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
Once the news spread, cultivators across the Five Regions truly understood the significance of the Medicine Immortal Sect's sole inheritor. This was a potion that could forcibly bring about a breakthrough. In all of the Weiyu Realm, Venerable Ranxi was likely the only one capable of refining it. For a time, no one knew how many minds it stirred.
Even the number of cultivators visiting the Haoran Sect increased. Whenever Haoran Sect disciples went out to train, they would be questioned a few extra times. Some cultivators even beat around the bush, expressing their willingness to pay spirit stones for the Haoran Sect's internal potions. They wanted them even if they were not potions capable of forcibly raising one's cultivation, leaving the Haoran Sect disciples rubbing their foreheads in exasperation.
Lord Yuhuo hurried off to find Yugeng and asked where Ranxi had gone. When he learned that she had not returned to the sect at all and had instead changed course directly for the Northern Regions, he sighed for a long while, overcome