The Yao Clan was located in the Shennong Mountain Range at the southernmost edge of the Middle Continent.
In a strict sense, this region could already be considered beyond the bounds of the Middle Continent, like a fragment standing apart from the world, quietly embedded in the continent's southern frontier.
For that very reason, this place was rather remote, far from the prosperity and clamor of the Middle Continent. Though the Shennong Mountain Range was a savage land, with ancient trees towering into the sky and miasma curling through the air, Poisonous Insects ran rampant within it, while countless Ancient Fierce Beasts rarely seen in the Middle Continent lurked among the forests, their roars shaking the Mountain Forest.
Yet precisely because of the Yao Clan's existence, this perilous land had miraculously become a sacred place yearned for by countless alchemists of the Middle Continent.
In addition, deep within the mountains, nourished by the Yao Clan's thousand years of cultivation and the Spirit Qi of heaven and earth, all kinds of rare medicinal herbs that were hard to find in the outside world grew in abundance, their ages so ancient they left one speechless.
Thus, every year, countless alchemists, carrying their fervor and pursuit of the alchemical path, traveled ten thousand miles and risked their lives to enter these mountains, all to find a Heavenly Earth Spirit Item capable of refining their ideal pill.
Therefore, although the Shennong Mountain Range was a dangerous land, it was also exceedingly popular and bustling with activity.
The Medicine Ceremony was the most important and grandest event within the Yao Clan.
The time at which it was held was not completely fixed. It would often undergo subtle changes because of major events within the clan, or the changing of top figures in the continent's alchemy