Twenty Years

Ten years passed swiftly.

For cultivators, it was no more than a single closed-door cultivation session.

Yet these ten years were anything but ordinary for the Qian Yuan Realm. Countless cultivators had gone forth, spreading across the various Realm Domains.

Qian Yuan Divine Halls had likewise spread through seventy-six Exquisite Realm Domains. Some of those realms sincerely wished to befriend the Qian Yuan Realm, hoping for a chance to enter it and cultivate. Others simply did not dare offend the Qian Yuan Sect and had no choice but to comply.

The remaining realms remained silent, merely saying that their sects still needed to deliberate. The Qian Yuan Realm did not press them.

At the same time, North Spring Grotto-Heaven had gained many new residents, all visiting cultivators from other Realm Domains.

For this reason, Gu Yuanqing once again marked out three thousand li within the Grotto-Heaven for the Qian Yuan Sect's use.

As the once loosely organized Qian Yuan Sect took on ever more responsibilities, it gradually developed a complete structure and set of rules.

For Li Chengyi, who had once been an emperor, this was familiar territory.

From internal sect rules, divine hall management regulations, and preaching guidelines, to arrangements for visiting cultivators and standards for exchanging merit points, everything was orderly and properly arranged.

Once the wondrous sights of the mountains and the many benefits of cultivating within them spread by word of mouth among those cultivators, they naturally became far more enticing than anything the Qian Yuan Sect could say for itself.

This was especially true for Void Heaven Peak cultivators from smaller Realm Domains. Their inheritances at the Heavenly Human level had always been incomplete, making it difficult for them to break through into the Heavenly Human Realm within their own domains. Yet after arriving at