The western shore was dotted with Daoist temples and cultivation families, and the population was quite large, yet the cultivators lived in pitiful conditions. There weren’t even enough Qi Cultivation Realm cultivators to count on two hands in this vast western shore region, let alone any Foundation Establishment Realm ones.0

The Azure Pond Sect didn’t bother controlling Daoist He, but these small families had no such privileges. They had to offer tributes to both Daoist He and the Azure Pond Sect. After five hard years of cultivating their Spirit Paddies, they still couldn’t produce enough to meet both sides’ demands.0

So they had no choice but to scrape together Spirit Stones using every means possible. This meant either risking their lives in Mount Dali, serving under the Li or Yu Families, or even crossing the lake into the Wilderness to become outlaws...0