The following year, the seventieth since the founding of the Qingyuan Sect, even more refugees appeared within the Land Realms of the Qingyuan Alliance.
In a newly established settlement, a young disciple in Qingyuan Sect robes watched the starving people lined up for porridge. They were all sallow and emaciated, dressed in rags. A flicker of pity crossed his eyes as he turned to ask Patriarch Yu Man City of the Yu Family, who stood beside him:
"This is the fourth group since spring began, isn't it? Do you still have enough food?"
Yu Man City was a late-stage Qi Cultivation Cultivator and the patriarch of the largest Cultivation Clan within dozens of miles of this Land Realm. This area was far from the Qingyuan Sect, on the very fringes of the Qingyuan Alliance's territory.
