On Houtu Peak, a yellow-robed cultivator gazed into the distance at Tianwu Peak, shrouded in blue and purple poisonous mist, his face full of worry.
"Dangerous ground indeed, truly dangerous ground! Senior, this junior only prepared one bottle of Detoxification Pills. Is that perhaps not enough?"
Yu Ruoxi's eyes were calm as still water, utterly unmoved by Luo Hong's words. Along the way, she had grown accustomed to his excessive caution. Ignoring him was the best response.
"Please follow me, honored guests. The Clan Leader is already waiting in the reception hall."
The speaker was the Zhao Family member who had gone to announce their arrival earlier. Like Zhao Yushu, he was a dark-faced youth, though his cultivation was much higher.
"After so many years away, the Zhao Family has changed tremendously. It truly has not been easy for little sister Qingling to preserve the family estate."
As Yu Ruoxi walked up the mountain's stone steps, she looked at the Zhao Family's seemingly imposing halls and pagodas, which in truth revealed not a trace of Spiritual Qi, and sighed with some sadness.
Having just come from a great Cultivation sect like the Moon Concealing Sect, where every step held Restrictions and formations were everywhere, Luo Hong keenly felt the disparity between rich and poor in the Cultivation World upon arriving at a Cultivation Family that did not even possess a Mountain Protecting Great Formation.
A small family like the Zhao Family, with only one foundation establishment stage cultivator and a dozen or so Qi Refining Stage clansmen, could not withstand any storm. Once their Foundation Establishment-level Cultivators suffered a break in succession, the family's decline would come in an instant.
Upon reaching the Spirit Nurturing Hall, where the Zhao Family's young children first learned Qi refinement, they had entered the