After settling the family's affairs, Aaron set down his spirit tea and looked at Li Linghai, the family head. "Though our family's profits are considerable, small details cannot withstand the greater tide... The Far Western Lands are now surging with storms and clouds. You must all be exceedingly careful."
"We shall heed the ancestor's command..."
Li Linghai and the others bowed. "Speaking of this... Ancestor, there is now news regarding the matter you instructed us to investigate last time."
"Oh? Tell me."
Aaron narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Over these years, the cultivation world of our Far Western Lands has never been peaceful. The crucial point is that a force invaded from the Great Qian cultivation world... This is now the consensus of all the major immortal sects."
Li Linghai said, "Over the past several decades, those once top-secret pieces of information have finally leaked out... The force invading our Far Western Lands was a Nascent Soul power from Great Qian—the Black Demon Sect. Having failed in its expansion within Great Qian and suffered suppression, this sect sent out a branch to develop in the Far Western Lands... The moment it arrived, it defeated the Vast Righteous Sect and forcibly seized the entire territory of Yuanchen Kingdom. It has continued expanding outward, forcing the Vast Righteous Sect to retreat westward into Martial Kingdom, while the Black Blood Sect was consequently exterminated..."
He was speaking of events from decades ago, yet Aaron, who had experienced them firsthand, was still here. Hearing this, his expression remained calm, neither pleased nor angered. "Continue!"
"The cultivation worlds of the various Far Western nations also rose in resistance, and great battles continued without end... Countless cultivators died or were wounded. Only Forest Kingdom was able to remain somewhat quiet, but even now, chaos is beginning to