Chapter 153
The Cloud Mist Mountain Range was an exceptionally vast mountain chain within the Azure Sky Region, stretching from the cultivation world all the way into the mortal realm and untamed primordial forests.
However, like many large mountain ranges, it lacked powerful spiritual veins to support it. Only specific areas had relatively denser spiritual energy, creating valuable spirit lands.
The Qingyuan Sect occupied precisely these areas.
Previously, these spirit lands brought the Qingyuan Sect enormous annual rental income while also supporting numerous rogue cultivators.
Apart from these minuscule pockets of spirit land, over 95% of the territory had extremely thin spiritual energy.
This area was home to many poisonous insects and fierce beasts enhanced by the sparse spiritual energy. Some of these creatures could even, in an unexpected ambush, kill a cultivator in the early Qi Refinement stage.
This was because early Qi Refinement cultivators had relatively weaker physical bodies and insufficient spiritual energy to maintain a spiritual energy shield indefinitely, leaving them vulnerable to deadly poisons or packs of fierce beasts.
Furthermore, since these poisonous insects and beasts were only slightly touched by spiritual energy, they held little value for cultivators. This was a major reason why few cultivators ventured deep into the Cloud Mist Mountains.
With insufficient spiritual energy, it was nearly impossible for anything truly valuable to arise. In simple terms, the potential reward was far outweighed by the risk.