Wei State, Mount Guyang.
Since the sect's founding patriarch had established a sect in Wei State, the Carefree Sect had occupied Mount Guyang, a Grade 4 Middle-rank Spirit Vein, for more than four thousand years.
Over that time, the sect had developed through several generations of cultivators, rising and falling with the tides.
It was only under the previous patriarch, True Lord Daoxuan, that the sect had gradually stabilized and taken control of the entire Wei State Cultivation World.
After True Lord Daoxuan passed away, the sect had been left with only Li Mufeng, a Nascent Soul Cultivator who had only recently formed his Nascent Soul, to hold it up.
As a result, the Carefree Sect's overall strength had swiftly fallen from its formerly lofty position among the Nascent Soul Sects of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range Cultivation World.
It was surpassed one after another by neighboring Nascent Soul Sects such as the Heavenly Pole Sect, Hunyuan Sect, and Huoyang Sect. Even some of the smaller surrounding states that had once been under its wing had begun switching allegiance under the pressure of circumstances.
Under Li Mufeng's leadership, the entire Carefree Sect could be said to have been trudging through treacherous ground. Under the Demon Race's overwhelming pressure, it had once lost much of its northern territory.
Fortunately, the entire sect had pulled together as one. Only then had it barely managed to gradually stabilize itself amid the perils of the Cultivation World, preserving both its strength and Wei State.
It was only in recent decades, after Bai Yuxian and Song Qingming successively formed their Nascent Souls, that the sect had begun to recover its former glory.
It gradually began expanding outward, reclaiming from the northern Demon Race the territories it had lost in the past.
By now, the Carefree