Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 419 - 411: Cause and Effect

The big guy saw that the other party looked weak and silly, so he decided to do a good deed all the way and offer some pointers, to prevent him from encountering unforeseen disasters while following around.

Cheng Xiaoxiao chatted casually with the big guy along the way, extracting the information she needed.

By the time they reached Guan Valley, she had almost gathered all the information she wanted.

For this, her feelings were extremely complicated.

She had secretly searched for a long time before finding this place on the mission map.

It was indeed far beyond her imagination.

This place did not belong to Tianqi, nor was it in Great Xia, or even in West Di or Beirong.

It was not part of any country surrounding Tianqi.

The location was on the other side of West Di, with its western side bordering the sea, and at the vast ocean’s end lay Donglie Country.

She was presently situated at the easternmost part of Donglie Country, Tianyuan City.

The distance was beyond her imagination.

If calculated by the old methods, this place would roughly equate to countries in Western Europe across the Pacific Ocean.

Separated by half the globe.

Of course, this was just a metaphor; she did not know how big this small world was.

From the information obtained from the big rhino, the civilization, system, and cultivation here were far superior to countries like Tianqi.

Here, martial prowess was revered, with many high-level cultivators, and Donglie Country was a warlike nation where combat power determined one’s status and wealth, while the long-established major sects had a lofty status in Donglie Country, and everyone took pride in joining a major sect for cultivation, with sect status even comparable to royal power.

Some noble royals, princesses, and princes were sent to major sects at a young age for martial training, returning with their achievements, recruiting more talent to solidify their status within the imperial family, and even facilitating their chances to seize the highest position.

The Tianyuan Sect, a thousand-year major sect, had staked its deep foundation and exceptional combat strength, with several Postnatal Grandmasters overseeing it, and numerous princes and princesses sent by the imperial family for training, resulting in numerous incidents of factional dispute and secret ostracism, with Yanxia Peak being one of those ostracized.

The five peaks of Tianyuan Sect each vied for excellence, with countless disciples sparring on arenas, fostering a good spirit of progress.

The Sect Leader resided at the main peak, Red Refining Peak, which was highly popular and had many disciples; he had three direct disciples, the youngest being the Third Prince from the imperial family, the most popular and favored by all.

The Fourth Prince and Fifth Princess were both disciples under the Chenyang Peak Master.

For a time, they were unmatched in renown.

Even Songhe Peak had an Eighth Prince who recruited quite a lot of talent.

Danqing Peak specialized in Alchemy, with more female disciples who rarely participated in sect conflicts; even though there were no prominent figures among them, no one dared to offend them.

Yet no one was willing to join Yanxia Peak.

This was also because the Yanxia Peak Master passed away, and the new peak master was his junior brother, Lin Qihe. Previously in charge of the Punishment Hall, he was too stiff, straightforward, and unyielding, offending many people.

After taking over Yanxia Peak, due to his personality and demeanor, very few disciples were willing to join his faction, the main reason being his cultivation was not at the Postnatal Grandmaster level. Imagine, a peak master with lower strength than other peaks, what advantage could he have? And he had an unlikable personality.

Most disciples under him were those left by Liu Yanxia or were those rejected by other peaks with poorer qualifications.

Without strong new blood injected every year, Yanxia Peak gradually declined, with fewer outstanding talents and reducing resources for sect cultivation.

However, this also meant fewer intrigues within Yanxia Peak; the disciples who came were either simple-minded or of mediocre qualifications, with many like the big guy.

Invisibly, this also united Yanxia Peak as one force, without forming many factions.

Some good seedlings following Mo Shang only did so because they disliked the intrigues of other peaks and wanted to practice quietly; they also appreciated Mo Shang’s character and his honorable and unyielding nature, thus preventing the already declining Luoxia Peak from disappearing into history.

Nevertheless, Yanxia Peak indeed had no qualifications to contend with other peaks, as there were only a few excellent disciples; overall strength was weak and they had only half as many people compared to other peaks.

For instance, in this hunt, other peaks sent carefully chosen elite disciples, whereas Yanxia Peak’s disciples varied significantly in ability, barely pulling together a hundred-man team by scraping together anyone they could.

The hunting teams required at least 100 people, with allowances to increase to 120.

Therefore, while other teams were fully staffed with 120 members, Yanxia Peak’s team barely reached 100.

Leaving the internal conflicts of sects aside for a moment, what amazed Cheng Xiaoxiao the most was that outside Tianyuan Sect was the Mist Poison Forest, home to many wild beasts and herbs. Many regular sect exercises were also held here, but the fierce beast tide occurring every ten years greatly troubled the sect, which was why there were so many trenches and ditches outside the city, not for warfare, but to prevent fierce beasts from invading.

And where did these fierce beasts come from?

This leads one to mention Guan Valley traversing the Mist Poison Forest, passing through the natural barrier of Guan Valley to the vast sky known as outside the border,

outside the border was an endless, dense forest,

stretching for tens of thousands of miles, with no one knowing where it ended.

Strange and fierce beasts grew here.

Resurrectional Immortal Herbs grew here.

Alluring Cultivation Crystal Stones grew here.

Here, anything is possible.

The ten-year period had not arrived yet, but they delved deep into this place because epidemics had struck the towns governed by the sects, townspeople closely tied to the sects, composed of the families of generations of disciples.

Now, many in the city were infected with this epidemic, already bedridden.

This included the sect’s servants, maidservants, laborers, with a small number of disciples also infected.

Infected people suffered vomiting, diarrhea, high fever, coughing, shortness of breath, and weakness of limbs, especially ordinary people without cultivation, with those having robust physiques holding out for a month, while those weaker succumbed within half a month, and although martial practitioners hadn’t yet seen fatalities, they felt unwell daily, incapable of training or even basic self-care.

With more people becoming infected, failing to find a solution would ruin the entire sect.

The most authoritative alchemist in the family, Liu Yanyu, the Danqing Peak Master, had already extracted components from the Immortal Condensing Grass that could resist this epidemic.

However, the sect had only one Immortal Condensing Grass in its collection, obtained by chance during a sect exercise twenty years ago.

Therefore, their mission this time was extraordinarily challenging, requiring them to retrieve a large amount of Immortal Condensing Grass to save the sect.

Undoubtedly, this was of utmost importance, so the Sect Leader was showing the greatest sincerity, encouraging the disciples to search for Immortal Condensing Grass.

Thus, those selected might not be the strongest, with the highest cultivation or aptitude, but with the current special situation of Tianyuan Sect, cultivation level was no longer the most important factor; they needed people with absolute luck to rescue the entire Tianyuan Sect and its people from disaster.