The black shadow said a few more words, but it wasn't good for him to stay for long. He then left, leaving the person behind the window to sigh softly.
She was speaking insincerely just now because even she could tell that the sword cultivator was trying to smooth things over. He was just taking up a post and not doing anything!
She was not from the Spearpoint Tribe, nor was she from the Western Region. She was not even from the Southeastern Region. She was from the Erhai Region. If she had to be defined by a region, she would be a native of the Wolf Ridge. She was from the Sirius Tribe before the great change in the Fifth Ring Region tens of thousands of years ago.
In fact, all the mortals in the Fifth Ring Region were from the Sirius Tribe. However, after the change in the Cultivation World, the Sirius Tribe changed to the Fifth Ring Region. The people did not change, but their mindset changed. This was the change from the Sirius Tribe to the Fifth Ring Region. Anyone who said they were from the Sirius Tribe would be beaten up!
In the past twenty thousand years, the world had changed. Everything was changing, including the large and small remnant tribes hidden in the Wolf Ridge. From the beginning, they dreamed of recovery, but gradually, they insisted on tradition. Now, they were more concerned about how to survive in the harsh ecological environment of the Wolf Ridge.
Their glory and dreams were long gone. All that was left was a proud shell that supported their beliefs. Now, they had become the Alpine Tribesmen in the eyes of the outside world, and they admitted it themselves. Over time, their bodies had slowly adapted to the environment of the highlands. They were not used to the fertile plains. This was the change of species!
They also inherited the knowledge of cultivation. In the past, the Celestial Wolf Sect was not weaker than the current Cultivation World. Although most of the great inheritance had been destroyed, even a small part that was not so top was enough for them to continue their cultivation!
The problem for the Alpine Tribe was that they could not form a large tribe in the Wolf Ridge. The harsh terrain meant that each mountain could only support a fixed number of people. This was the tragedy of not having a plain.
Up until now, the High Mountain Tribesmen had been scattered throughout the Wolf Ridge Mountain Range for tens of millions of miles. Each of them had their own way of life, and the most they could do was interact with other High Mountain Tribesmen around them.
She grew up in such a small tribe. Unlike the other High Mountain tribes, their territory included this trade route that allowed low-level human cultivators to pass through. From the perspective of humans, such a trade route meant wealth, but from the perspective of the High Mountain tribesmen, such a narrow trade route only meant that their tribe was mediocre in terms of strength.
They also had their own cultivation system, but as time passed, the number of high-level cultivators dwindled, and the inheritance became more and more difficult. The terrain was naturally dangerous, and the surrounding forces intentionally or unintentionally suppressed them, making it harder and harder for the people of the High Mountain Tribe to survive. Perhaps ordinary people of the High Mountain Tribe could live their lives without goals, but for the cultivators among them, if they continued to live behind closed doors like this, sooner or later, the High Mountain Tribe would become a true native remnant, losing their own cultivation culture.
After a difficult decision, they began to seek change, to change the tribe's self-sufficiency and seclusion strategy of not contacting the outside world. They were ready to … go out!
Of course, not the entire tribe would go out. Most of the ordinary people in the tribe had long been familiar with their current way of life, and they would never be able to go out. The ones who went out were the cultivators. Only by contacting the outside world, communicating with the outside world, and absorbing nutrients from the outside world, could they strengthen themselves, or at least they would not lose their roots!
When these cultivators who went out grew up, they would have the opportunity to return to their mother's tribe!
This was the right choice. Not every High Mountain Tribe member would make such a choice. They were forced to do so by their living conditions, so they had no choice but to change!
How could they go out? Obviously, it was not possible for the cultivators who had already built their foundation. Their fixed thinking and the special characteristics of the High Mountain Tribe made it difficult for them to integrate into the mainstream cultivation world.
Only the children, or to be more precise, the children of the mountains who had already sensed the Qi and gained sentience, would leave half of the Celestial Wolf Orthodoxy for themselves, and the other half would be sent out so that they could come in contact with the more advanced and more comprehensive education of the basic cultivation system from the outside world. That was how the Southern Taoist's strange Taoist children came about!
The problem was that this change was not made by them alone! It was difficult for a remnant tribe that had existed for tens of thousands of years to make such a big and fundamental change. It required the intervention of external forces!
Those who intervened were the itinerant cultivators and merchants who passed through the Wolf Ridge! They were used to this trade route, and inevitably had some contact with the High Mountain Tribe. During the contact, the unconstrained ideas of the merchants began to influence them, especially the cultivators among the tribe.
More than ten years ago, a merchant proposed this to them. He could help them get out of the Wolf Ridge. They only needed to provide qualified Taoist Children, and the rest of the negotiation with the spearhead formation would be done by the merchants. They did not charge any fees, and it was all for the sake of their friendship with the High Mountain Tribe.
The High Mountain Tribe, who rarely had contact with the outside world, could not resist this temptation. No matter how they thought about it, they had nothing to lose. This was the beginning of the Southern Taoist Children's side income.
However, there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world, especially in the world of self-cultivation. The High Mountain Tribe cultivators had a certain understanding of the outside world, and they soon found that their Taoist Children were sent to only one sect: Xuanyuan Sword Sect!
It was not that it was bad to send them to Xuanyuan. Xuanyuan Sword Sect was the king of the Western Regions, and also the leader of the Five Rings. However, this did not mean that there were no other sects in the world of self-cultivation except for Xuanyuan. They sent their children out so that they could be exposed to more orthodoxies and a wider range of knowledge, not to hang themselves on a sword!
What was worse was that a few years after the Taoist Children were safely sent out, they found that the merchants had mixed in other Taoist Children with the High Mountain Tribe. Each time, there were only two or three Taoist Children, and they were also sent to Xuanyuan Sword Sect's Taoist Palace.
The High Mountain Tribe cultivators did not know much about the outside world, but this did not mean that they were fools. After years of secret investigation, they more or less understood the deeper meaning of the merchants mixing in Taoist Children!
They found that they might be passively dragged into the open and secret struggle between the top powers of the Five Rings! One of them was Xuanyuan Sword Sect, and the other was unknown, but it should be one of the strongest Taoist sects!
How could a tribe of their size be qualified to be involved in such a struggle? If they were to be torn apart, they did not know what would happen to the top powers, but their tribe, or at least the self-cultivation forces in their tribe, would face a disaster!
This was why she came here!
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