Judging from a map of the Southern Region in Jiang Qiang's possession, the Luo family, the Zhu family, the entire gathering place, and even the Jingxiu Workshop two thousand miles away—this entire ten-thousand-mile expanse—were merely a remote, peripheral corner near the northwest of the Southern Region.
All kinds of resources here were barren, and spirit veins were extremely scarce. Instead, because of the numerous mountains and forests where demon beasts ran rampant, it could well be called a barren wasteland within the Southern Region's cultivation world.
Even so, because the Southern Region inherently possessed a greater abundance of resources, its provisions were still considerably better than those of the eastern and northern regions, even in such a barren wasteland.
The Luo and Zhu families occupied this isolated corner not because they did not wish to go to places with richer resources, but because even if they went, they could not compete with those major lineages or cultivation sects. They had no choice but to stubbornly guard the frontier.
Apart from the Luo and Zhu families, within a radius of ten thousand miles, there were several other cultivation families and the Yin Ghost Sect, a sect that had already fallen into self-imposed seclusion behind closed mountain gates.
However, these cultivation families were sufficiently far apart from one another, and their spheres of influence were distinct, separated by clear boundaries. Without actual conflicts of interest, they minded their own business and did not cross paths.
Ever since the Yin Ghost Sect provoked the Curiosity Sect back then and was attacked so severely that its vitality was gravely wounded, forcing it to seal its mountain gates, the Jingxiu Workshop had replaced the ghost market to become the largest marketplace within a radius of ten thousand miles, bearing the reputation of the First-Rank Spirit