One year after the Cloudtreading Sect's founding ceremony.
Meng Wanjun successfully broke through to the Core Formation middle stage, becoming the second of Li Ping's many old acquaintances in the Western Wasteland to advance.
Ji Shuwen, Qi Hanmo, Bai Qing, and Yan Jing, who had all reached Core Formation before her, remained at the Core Formation early stage.
The main reason she had advanced so quickly was the Dragon-Tender Bloodline within her.
Whenever she drew on the special power within her bloodline to use the Dragon-Tapping Art on a dragon-blooded spirit beast, she received a mysterious feedback in return.
That was precisely why her cultivation progressed faster than Yan Jing's, despite his variant spiritual root.
Yan Jing had reached Core Formation before her, yet he was still stuck at the bottleneck to the Core Formation middle stage.
Another three years passed.
Bai Qing returned from Great Zhou and came to see Li Ping, beaming with delight.
As soon as the Cloudtreading Sect's founding ceremony ended, he had taken the supplies collected by the Seven Immortals Sect, the Academy, and the Cloudtreading Sect through the Teleportation Formation to Great Zhou.
Before he left, Li Ping had made a point of telling him about the situation in Great Zhou.
Bai Qing had no elaborate plans. As soon as he arrived in Great Zhou, he headed straight for Spirit Firmament City.
Prices for cultivation resources differed markedly between Great Zhou and the Western Wasteland.
With the Immortal Alliance's rule firmly established, everyone in Great Zhou had their spirit roots tested upon turning twelve. As a result, its concentration of low-level cultivators was far higher than the Western Wasteland's.
Moreover, the Immortal Alliance was now at war with the foreign races of the Eastern Sea, and its consumption of supplies increased by the