Knowing the Mountain Holds Tigers

After returning to his own inn, Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family was still discussing the so-called "raising gu" mentioned by Baili Shouxi, an elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, with Gray Robe Jiang Lao, Jiang Haifei, and Granny Yu of the Black Market.

The Great Yu Immortal Dynasty covered an exceedingly vast territory. In the Southern Border region of Cloud Dream Marsh, there were also borderfolk, and throughout the river of their history stretching back countless millennia, their most renowned Daoist Magic was the legendary "Gu Arts."

In the Southern Border, in order to raise the gu creatures within their Gu Arts to the most formidable realm, those borderfolk planted and nurtured many different kinds of gu creatures within the environment used to raise them. Then, once those gu creatures had matured, the gu masters would have the creatures they raised fight one another within that environment.

Until, in the end, only one gu creature remained alive—and that gu creature would be the strongest of them all.

It was exceedingly similar to the "raising gu" described by Baili Shouxi, elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family. The Empress, who had long resided deep within the immortal palace of Chaoge, the imperial capital of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty, had used this very method. She allowed newly risen Ranked Families such as the Xinghua Village Meng Family to establish themselves in Qinghe Commandery City, then had numerous Sixth-Rank Cultivation Families secretly assist such newly risen Ranked Families. With her own imperial favor added to the mix, she could make a newly risen Ranked Family like the Xinghua Village Meng Family flourish at breakneck speed in Qinghe Commandery City. In the end, it would become the perfect "gu creature" in her heart.

Of course,