For the vast majority of tribes in the Xuanling Domain, the most important matter was how to systematically produce Heaven Opening Realm cultivators within their clans.
After all, without Heaven Opening Realm cultivators to suppress a clan's fortune, the clan would inevitably decline, perhaps even falling into a vicious cycle and growing weaker without end.
For Eighth Order Tribes, however, the birth of Heaven Opening Realm cultivators was inevitable, and their numbers were considerable.
Besides the tribe itself possessing sufficiently high talent and refined, exquisite cultivation arts, all manner of spiritual materials that assisted breakthroughs were also extremely important.
Within the territories of Eighth Order Tribes, these Seventh Order Spiritual Materials used to assist breakthroughs were cultivated and planted in designated areas, then supplied in batches throughout the tribe.
They were rarely seen in the outside world because Eighth Order Tribes strictly controlled the outflow of these spiritual materials.
Back then, even the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword had contained none of these breakthrough-assisting spiritual materials. It was not that Gong Jingxiu's status was insufficient, but that he had no use for them. Keeping them in the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword would only have been a nuisance.
Yan Cuiping was different. Within the Rain Clan, she had managed one branch of the Rain Clan. She ordinarily needed spiritual materials to bestow as rewards, so the Nine Nether Sword held a vast assortment of spiritual materials she had collected.
Dao Yue Peak and the others sensed the surging origin energy contained within these spiritual materials. Most crucially, they sensed the Artistic Conception of the four Subordinate Rules—Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind—perfectly fused together.
Chen Fei did not need to say anything more for Dao Yue Peak and the others to understand that these were meant to assist in breaking through