Severed Thread

Artifact Cloud Sect was famously not to be trifled with in the cultivation world.

The Taishu Family bloodline was likewise renowned throughout the cultivation world, giving them an extraordinarily high chance of producing children with aptitude for cultivation. Artifact Cloud Sect was essentially one great family, with very few outsiders among them.

This family was ruthless not only toward outsiders, but toward its own as well. Children suited for cultivation were absorbed into Artifact Cloud Sect. Those unsuited for cultivation were thrown straight into the Jin Kingdom army to serve as soldiers, starting from the rank and file with no special treatment whatsoever. If they had the ability, they could climb their way up themselves.

As for women unsuited for cultivation, they were either arranged to marry civil officials at court or military commanders in the army.

Of course, the people of Jin Kingdom all took pride in being able to marry a daughter of the Taishu Family.

As a result, the entire Jin Kingdom was practically the Taishu Family's private domain, squeezing out all other cultivation factions until they had no way to compete.

From another perspective, that was precisely why the Jin Kingdom was so united from top to bottom.

The family's fierce style showed itself now. Though nightfall made searching inconvenient, Artifact Cloud Sect still led the Jin Kingdom cultivators through the darkness, pouncing toward the direction Ji Yude had indicated and searching everywhere.

"Alas! Artifact Cloud Sect really screwed us over this time."

Standing atop a mountain peak, Niu Youdao looked around and sighed heavily.

He had brought the others back to search for Spirit Sect, but they had found nothing.

Although they had previously found the Jin Kingdom party through Spirit Sect's people, for the sake of safety, when they had crept toward the