Amid the gentle breeze and white clouds, two figures flew by. 

As they traveled, Fu Qinglan explained to Luo Chen about the structure of Heaven-Earth Peak.

As a treasure land blessed with a fifth-tier spirit vein, Heaven-Earth Peak was exceptionally rich in spirit energy. However, waste prevention was still necessary, so the cave residences here were reserved for Sages and Ascendants. Adepts occasionally came and went but solely with the purpose of serving the residents. In the cases of cultivators from other continents who joined the Star Gate with people in tow, their followers were assigned to other locations.

If one stayed at Heaven-Earth Peak for long enough, Initiates would be absent from their life, and every conversation one had would be with a Sage!

The backgrounds of the Sages on the mountain were rather mixed. While outlanders certainly made up the majority, there were also Sages from major families who would leave their families and move to Heaven-Earth Peak in their later years. The fourteen Heaven-Earth Peak Elders sent here by the Twelve Great Houses and the Thirty-Six Noble Houses were prime examples of this.

After telling Luo Chen all this, Fu Qinglan concluded with a sigh, "This mountain alone holds nearly half the quintessence of the Central Continent!"

Luo Chen did not dispute this. Perhaps the mountain seemed dismal and lifeless to outsiders, but the inhabitants here were indeed all great experts.

Yet as he carefully pondered this, alongside what Fu Chaosheng had told him, he was struck by an unsettling thought. Does this spirit mountain sustain those Sages, or are the Sages giving back to the mountain as they near the end of their days?

He had no desire to delve deeper into the matter, however. His footsteps came to a halt before Cave Residence Jia Seventy-Eight. Taking out the guest elder jade token he had received earlier, he activated it with his mana. Instantly,...