After flying out of Red Lotus Lake, however, Liu Changxu had the Azure Cloud Eagle slow to its lowest speed. He wanted to find a prime piece of land for his son, Liu Han.
His son Liu Han was already sixteen that year. Since he had no spiritual roots, the household rules required him to go and live among mortals. Even as the son of a Golden Core cultivator, he had to obey this rule.
In truth, this rule of the Liu Household was already quite humane. Many cultivation lineages sent their children to the mortal world as soon as tests revealed that they had no spiritual roots.
Children of only seven or eight were forced to leave their parents and live on their own. Though cruel to both the children and their parents, this was standard practice among the vast majority of cultivation lineages. Very few were like the Liu Household, which extended the age limit to sixteen.
Moreover, in ordinary cultivation lineages, the mortal wives and concubines whom cultivators married also had to be settled in the mortal world. Since the Liu Household had many spirit veins but relatively few cultivators, it had imposed no strict requirement.
However, after visiting his uncle's home, Liu Changxu felt that the Liu Household's rules needed changing too. Cultivators' mortal wives and concubines had to be settled in the mortal world, or they could all too easily interfere with the household cultivators' cultivation.
As he pondered, searched, and observed, Liu Changxu soon found an excellent piece of land for his son Liu Han.
It was a valley nestled among the mountains, spanning several dozen li. A small river flowed down from the high mountains and passed through it. Dense woodland filled the valley, home to many gazelles and wild deer, with tigers