Fallen Cloud Archipelago, within a small secret realm.
This was a Second-Order Secret Realm, capable of accommodating Foundation Building Cultivators at most.
Within the secret realm were some members of the Fallen Cloud Xu Family, along with many mortals.
The Xu Family was a Purple Mansion Faction that depended on the Feng Family. They were not particularly renowned in the Fallen Cloud Archipelago, but they lived quite freely.
This beast tide had erupted too quickly. Xu Xiuyuan had been outside carrying out the task of gathering clan members, and had become separated from the other Xu Family cultivators.
By the time he had wanted to reunite with the other Xu Family members, it was already too late. The beast tide had swept straight through, cutting off the road back to the Sky Horse Sea Region.
He had no choice but to hide in a Second-Order Secret Realm controlled by the Xu Family.
They had hidden there for three years. The only good news was that the Xu Family's Purple Mansion had already escaped into the Sky Horse Islands and was still within Lu Kingdom.
Without leaving the secret realm, he could keep track of the Human Race's situation at any time.
Together with the Spirit Stones and Grain Avoidance Pills he had stored in advance, the thirty cultivator clansmen and more than ten thousand mortals here could still survive.
They merely lived in extreme oppression.
The entire secret realm was not large, at most the size of two or three small islands.
In his daily life, apart from monitoring the entrance to the secret realm, Xu Xiuyuan maintained the formation and taught the clan members.
Over these three years, this was the period when he had taught the clan members the most.
After all, he was the only Foundation Establishment