Great Xian Dragon Sparrow Island.
After a century of development, this island had been fashioned into a sea-bound kingdom. At its center stood an imperial palace, surrounded by several spirit peaks. These peaks guarded the palace of the central Great Xian imperial clan, while lush green trees flourished all around them.
He Ping and the others arrived here and looked down from above. With their Dharma Eyes, they could see that the island was covered in all manner of formations that drew in spiritual energy.
The nine great spirit peaks were rooted in a dragon vein beneath the sea, rich in spiritual energy. Formations sealed them off, and their interiors had been hollowed out into cave residences, where many cultivators practiced.
The island had more than ten thousand inhabitants, but only fifteen hundred of them were descendants of the Tantai Family. Their numbers were not large.
The rest were slaves, servants, and captured cultivator slaves of the Tantai Clan. Their sole purpose in existing was to serve the Tantai imperial clan.
A vast number of servants attended each imperial descendant, with everything from clothing, food, lodging, and travel specially provided; there were serfs dedicated to tilling fertile fields and growing grain; others wove cloth, made brocades and silks, smelted iron, and forged weapons. The entire island was a nation in miniature—though the sparrow was small, it had all five organs.
Moreover, the island was a natural place for cultivation. It possessed several mineral veins that could be mined, and its cultivation resources were abundant.
The Tantai Clan members on the island did not engage in production. They cultivated every day, devoting themselves wholeheartedly to cultivation in hopes of attaining the Dao Entry realm.
Among the Tantai Family's fifteen hundred members, there were currently twenty-one Dao Entry-level experts. All of them