Not long before, at the Green Cliff Gate.
Inside a palace, Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang sat facing one another.
Several decades had passed since the two arrived in Great Zhou. Wei Yiling had already reached the pseudo Nascent Soul realm; she only needed to find a fourth-tier spirit vein where she could enter seclusion and attempt to break through to Nascent Soul.
Their original plan had been to join a Nascent Soul sect as guest elders so they could use its fourth-tier spirit vein.
To their frustration, however, although nearly two hundred years had passed since they accidentally killed Guan Qianzai, and the Immortal Alliance had subsequently become embroiled in a war against the foreign races of the Eastern Sea that continued to this day, occupying all its attention and leaving it no time for other matters...
Even under these circumstances, the Immortal Alliance had never withdrawn the wanted notices for them.
With those notices hanging over their heads, joining any Nascent Soul sect was naturally out of the question.
As rogue cultivators, the only places where they could use a fourth-tier spirit vein were Heavenly Dao City and Spirit Firmament City.
Heavenly Dao City was the Immortal Alliance's headquarters. They dared not go there.
Although Spirit Firmament City proclaimed itself a city of rogue cultivators, borrowing its fourth-tier spirit vein to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough required a guarantor from among the city's own cultivators.
In the end, they could only turn to the Sun Family of Medicine King Valley.
The two parties struck a deal: they would serve as the Sun Family's guest elders, while the family would act as their guarantor, allowing Wei Yiling to use Spirit Firmament City's fourth-tier spirit vein.
Originally, Wei Yiling could have gone to Spirit Firmament City to enter seclusion over