A Sect from a Spirit Vein

The Yunshan Sect has been established on Minglong Mountain for twenty years, and all our Foundation Establishment cultivators have already made progress.

Wu Yan has advanced to the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment. Calculating the time, in about ten years, she and Lu Qian will achieve Foundation Establishment Perfection around the same time.

Wang Yu, Xiao Tianci, and Ding Shu have all broken through to the Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment. They all possess Three Spirit Roots talent, progressing at similar rates, and will need another thirty-four or five years to reach Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.

Currently, at the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment in the sect are Jiang Qingfeng, Tao Boliang, Zheng Duan, and Xuu Yingcai.

In the subordinate sects, Zhuang Hui has already broken through to the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment, and Zhou Chao is not far from the Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment. Also, a significant number have achieved Qi Cultivation Perfection, and new Foundation Establishment cultivators are about to emerge.

This time, the mission to escort Tan Yunxing to Foundation Establishment sent out a duo of Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, Yang Jiye and Xiao Tianci, along with a hundred elite inner sect disciples, sufficient to handle general situations.

However, this journey, originally full of confidence and vigor, soon took on a tense atmosphere.

The reason is this journey north. After ten consecutive days of flying, Tan Yunxing’s perception of the Foundation Establishment Treasure Land was still very vague, indicating a considerable distance remained.

Originally, the group’s arrangements proceeded as usual, heading north by a rented Three-Headed Star-Winged Sky Ray. This Ray Beast could carry fifty cultivators, with enduring stamina, adept at long-distance travel, and without sacrificing speed. It could fly five hundred miles every hour, requiring only two hours of rest daily.

This was the most suitable Spirit Beast among the large Wind-Controlling Beasts from the Spirit Beast Sect.

In ten days, they had flown fifty thousand miles, passing through eight prefectures.

The first path naturally passed through their homeland, Qingzhou, where Yun Mountain resided.

Excited, Tan Yunxing initially wanted to propose a visit to the Yun Mountain ancestral land. Though regaining the homeland wasn’t possible at present, they could pay respect from afar, expressing a bit of loyalty.

Though Yang Jiye was tempted, he did not proceed under the persuasion of Li Da—given that Yang Jiye and Xiao Tianci tended to act rashly, Lu Qian specially appointed Li Da, who had achieved Qi Cultivation Perfection, as the captain of a hundred inner sect disciples, leading ten Yunshan Teams, to provide counsel for the two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

"Elder Yang, Junior Brother Xiao, Junior Brother Tan," Li Da said earnestly, "Right now, everything should focus on Junior Brother Tan’s Foundation Establishment. We don’t know how far the road ahead is, or how many dangers there might be, so it’s inadvisable to create complications. We now have three Spirit Rays and a large team. Although we’ve concealed our identities, we are certainly quite conspicuous."

"Although our sect isn’t afraid of the Qingling Sect, this is essentially just a small force, and we need to be cautious in everything."

"If you really want to pay respect to the ancestors, why not wait until after Junior Brother Tan successfully establishes his foundation, and we return smoothly?"

Thus, the team passed through Qingzhou directly, continuing northward.

As they neared Quyang County, Xiao Tianci left the team to discreetly deliver a batch of supplies to Bailu Mountain and the Yuehua Sect.

The Sect Leader of the Yuehua Sect, Bai Ling, had already successfully established a foundation and was now not far from reaching the Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment.

Over the years, with the continuous assistance of the Yunshan Sect, the Yuehua Sect has grown increasingly prosperous and has fully boarded the ship, with no chance of leaving.

What Bai Ling could do was to wait patiently in Quyang County for the day Lu Qian would call upon him.

After delivering the supplies and Lu Qian’s letter, instructing Bai Ling to continue developing and wait for further instructions, Xiao Tianci rented a small but extremely fast Wind-Controlling Beast and caught up with the main force continuing northward.

Initially, there was some disagreement with Li Da’s suggestion, but after crossing eight prefectures and still not having a clear perception of the Foundation Establishment Treasure Land, Tan Yunxing was instead grateful for Li Da’s roadblock; otherwise, time would have been even shorter.

Time was running short, as the call to the Foundation Establishment opportunity has a time limit of twenty-one days. If they could not reach the Treasure Land within these twenty-one days, the opportunity would be interrupted.

In the more than twenty thousand years of history of the Cultivation Realm, there have been some unfortunate cases where individuals failed to enter the Treasure Land due to excessive distance or various bizarre reasons, thereby missing the opportunity.

Now, with half the time having passed, the once confident Tan Yunxing was now praying every moment for his Foundation Establishment Treasure Land to be closer, hoping desperately not to become such an unfortunate individual recorded in history.

In response to the situation, Yang Jiye became anxious as well, and the party rented eleven additional small Wind-Controlling Beasts from other Beast-Taming Sects at a large marketplace in the area.

These flying beasts, named "Wind Rainbow Cranes," could carry ten cultivators each, with a flight speed twice that of the Starry Ray. Though expensive, Spirit Stones were not an issue to ensure Tan Yunxing’s successful Foundation Establishment.

Thus, they traveled day and night with great speed and even encountered another unique realm on the way.

The Life-Devouring Forbidden Land.

The origin and cause of each unique realm is a mystery, but they all form a world of their own, completely different from the peaceful, predictable Cultivation Realm outside, filled with danger, strange phenomena, and indescribable terror.

𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

For anyone below the Void Refining stage, entering is a life-and-death gamble. Even though great opportunities are hidden within immense horrors, none from the Yunshan Sect wanted to venture inside to test their luck.

Yang Jiye clearly understood that escaping successfully like Wang Yu was a rarity among rarities. The Yunshan Sect now had a substantial foundation and was flourishing, with no need to risk lives by entering.

After confirming that Tan Yunxing’s opportunity was not within, Yang Jiye noted the location of this unique realm and continued flying north.

Amid intensifying anxiety, it was not until the nineteenth day that they had spanned fifteen thousand miles, crossing over twenty-one prefectures, reaching the northwestern frontier of the Alioth Continent, Linzhou.