Jade Spring Lake Oasis and White Sand River Oasis lay more than six thousand li apart. If Zhou Yang had flown alone on his sword, even counting the time spent resting and replenishing his mana along the way, he could have arrived within a day.
However, with his mother Lin Yuting accompanying him on the sword, the journey had nearly doubled in length, taking over two days before they arrived.
Upon reaching White Sand River Oasis, Zhou Yang did not contact Chen Pingzhi immediately. He first sent his mother Lin Yuting to the newly constructed Ping'an Market Town to reunite with his father, Zhou Xuanhao, then headed to Green Ox Mountain, the Lineage branch stronghold the Zhou Lineage had established on White Sand River Oasis.
Green Ox Mountain had originally been the spiritual mountain of a small Qi Refining family on White Sand River Oasis. Its spirit vein was only low-grade second rank, and that small family had been established for less than a century. Including its patriarch, it had only eight Family Cultivators.
When the sand bandits had attacked the oasis last time, that small family had been exterminated outright, with only some of its mortal clansmen escaping disaster.
For small families whose entire clans had been wiped out like this, even if the Chen family had wished to help them, there had been nowhere to begin. They could hardly let a group of mortals occupy a spiritual mountain and slowly wait for their family to produce a child with spiritual roots to rebuild the family, could they?
That was simply unrealistic, and an enormous waste of resources.
Thus, after the Liu, Yang, and Zhou families had submitted petitions seeking to establish Lineage branches on White Sand River Oasis, Old Ancestor Chen had swept his brush and assigned Green