Travelers Scattering in All Directions

"Even if you say that."

True Person Huai Jin's face carried a trace of wistfulness.

"I still cannot understand why cultivators from Northern Province would travel such a long distance to relocate here."

True Person Huai Jin was a native of Northern Province and had ten years of travel experience. He understood the local customs and ways of Northern Province exceedingly well.

For cultivators here, under normal circumstances, unless they had truly run out of options, they would absolutely never choose to leave their home province.

Take Empty Mountain Valley, the first to raise the banner of resistance against the Myriad Clouds Sect.

Their sect's original grounds lay in the northeastern corner where Northern Province met Yu Prefecture, with the subordinate sect territory of another major sect right beside them.

Empty Mountain Valley was not weak in itself. Under such circumstances, if they truly wished to become independent, the neighboring major sect would actually be quite interested in offering assistance.

With heaven, earth, and people all on their side, what did the cultivators of Empty Mountain Valley do?

Faced with the Myriad Clouds Sect's ever-increasing tributes, they quietly endured them time and again.

When did they finally choose to leave Northern Province?

Only when the tribute rate became so harsh that, even as the entire sect continued expanding and supporting more people, their expenses had exceeded their income to the point where they could no longer sustain themselves without generating new revenue, did they choose to go to Heyang City—a place they could have gone to long ago.

If Ye Xiu had not secretly provided aid, they had even planned to return directly after completing that trade run.

And these were already the most outward-looking group among all cultivators in Northern Province.

As for the other sects, even when they