Your Yang Family Doesn't Have That Kind of Strength

If there was one greatest difference between Bright City today and Bright City a hundred years ago,

it was not that the city had become more advanced and powerful, nor that it had a larger population, greater wealth, or denser spiritual energy.

It was its trade network!

This had to start with transportation from a long time ago.

Treasure Ships capable of reliably crossing the void and reaching the Twelve Dynasties required extraordinarily powerful artifact-refining techniques and special materials to construct.

Back then, the entire Cloudveil Spirit Sect had only two Treasure Ships, which they operated in rotation.

If people from the Twelve Dynasties wanted to visit the higher sect, they had to wait for a Treasure Ship to come and collect them.

The Cloudveil Spirit Sect held absolute control over passage. Whoever they allowed through could pass; whoever they refused could never reach Mystic Spirit Continent.

For the past thousand years, this had been strictly controlled. In theory, only genius cultivators who passed the Immortal Road Clash were qualified to enter Mystic Spirit Continent.

Later, when foreign races invaded and the Twelve Dynasties lacked manpower, the Cloudveil Spirit Sect sent a great number of disciples and recruited many Rogue Cultivators to the Twelve Dynasties. Only then did movement gradually resume, allowing cultivators from the Twelve Dynasties and Mystic Spirit Continent to have some contact.

They exchanged what each lacked and traveled back and forth.

Yet this was still under the Cloudveil Spirit Sect's control. Elder Yun, who managed the Treasure Ships at the time, had formed a good relationship with the Yang Family during a rescue operation, so he had also helped the Yang Family considerably in this regard.

But what truly allowed the Yang Family to undergo a complete transformation was what happened a hundred years ago, after