Azure Waves Northwest, southern region, Yunchu Dynasty.
Since acquiring most of the Eastern Wilderness's territory ten years ago, the number of mortals and cultivators within the Yunchu Dynasty had surged.
New sects and new Lineages, large and small, had sprung up everywhere like bamboo shoots after rain.
The emergence of these new forces had injected vitality and vigor into the nation, while also driving the growth of the Yunchu Dynasty's overall national fortune.
Nurtured by such a flourishing scene, all manner of Secret Treasure Vault Lands and opportunity-filled cave abodes had also begun to brew into existence within the Yunchu Dynasty's borders.
These newly formed, unexplored lands of opportunity contained countless rare treasures, drawing cultivators from every direction like a flock of ducks.
"Is the information you obtained reliable? It wasn't just something you heard from some intelligence peddler, was it?"
In what had once been Eastern Wilderness territory and was now the Yunchu Dynasty's northern frontier, a group of young cultivators clad in robes of various colors had gathered amid a mountain forest.
They had lingered here for over ten days, searching nearly every corner of this forest, yet they had found neither the entrance to any hidden treasure vault nor the slightest trace of a cave abode.
Perhaps because they had searched for so long without finding any clues, one cultivator wearing blazing crimson robes began to complain. "How long have we been looking? Forget some secret treasure cave abode—even a single spiritual herb or plant with any value has yet to be found."
His words swiftly won the agreement of many others, and the dozen or so Qi Gathering Cultivators began discussing the matter one after another.
This group of cultivators came from three different factions.
One was a native aristocratic clan of the Yunchu Dynasty that