"Hahaha! I really hadn't expected it—brother Li, your encounter that led you onto the immortal path was actually so bizarre. Interesting, interesting."
Jinchuan, who had been listening from the side, suddenly burst into laughter after hearing Li Qing's half-truthful account.
"Ah, not at all. All I can say is that life's fortunes are ever-changing." Li Qing sighed, then shifted the subject and asked, "Speaking of which, I heard before that fifteen years ago, there was a great war that swept through the entire Cultivation World. What was that about?"
Hearing this question, Jinchuan poured himself a cup of tea and said, "brother Li, I'm actually about the same age as you, so I didn't truly experience that war either. But I do know a little about it."
"This region of ours is called the Qingling Region, and collectively, it is known as the Qingling Cultivation World."
Within the Qingling Region, there were three mortal kingdoms and a vast expanse of grassland.
They were the Feng Kingdom and Liang Kingdom that Li Qing knew of, as well as the Mu Kingdom, located in the far south and separated from the other two nations by a great distance.
The three mortal kingdoms and the great grassland all had their own cultivation forces.
In the Feng Kingdom where Li Qing currently was, the leader of the Cultivation World was the Tianhe Sect. Meanwhile, in the nearby Liang Kingdom, there was also a major cultivation sect nearly equal in strength to the Tianhe Sect, called the Shangqing Sect.
Jinchuan lowered his voice and cautiously said, "I heard that twenty-four years ago, the Shangqing Sect took in an exceptionally gifted disciple. They seemed to have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and they even possessed an Exquisite Treasure Body!"
Upon hearing those two words, Li Qing's pupils