Longyun's Most Pressing Problem

Having untied the knot in their hearts and gained the rewards they deserved.

This batch of cultivators began making their own new decisions.

Some cultivators felt that their strength was still insufficient this time around. Longyun seemed like an excellent place to cultivate techniques, so they resolved to put down roots here once more and properly raise their cultivation to the next level.

Another portion of cultivators felt they had suffered enough hardship here. Since they had already received the rewards they were supposed to receive, all they needed to do was return to their sects and report in, then wait for their mountain gates to assign them where to go next.

There were even quite a few who felt that, after the tide of heaven-and-earth spiritual energy, opportunities lay everywhere across this land. They had originally been confined to one place within their mountain gates. Though they never lacked cultivation resources while meditating every day, without experience and tempering, their progress had been painfully slow.

After this trial was over, if they simply went back as before, wouldn't they just return to that old routine? If one's cultivation realm could be seen all the way to its end by merely following the steps, what would be the point?

Rather than that, they might as well travel the world properly. Though they could no longer encounter an opportunity like the Azure Dragon Legacy, perhaps they might stumble across the inheritance of some ancient exotic beast elsewhere?

There were no small number of cultivators with such thoughts.

At the very least, according to the statistics Ye Xiu had obtained, cultivators who neither remained behind nor headed back toward their own sects accounted for two-thirds of this batch.

"Every last one of them is proud and arrogant. They'll have to suffer a