Yi Kingdom, Quzhou, Da Hua Village.
Da Hua Village was nestled deep in the mountains, with only a single winding mountain path for entry and exit. The village was entirely populated by kinsfolk and had once produced an Independent Cultivator with a Spirit Root.
At that time, the Royal Family of Yi Kingdom had been conscripting Cultivators to eliminate Demons. Unwilling to throw his life away for nothing, that Independent Cultivator had simply moved his entire clan into the mountains.
The village was named after the Big Locust Tree at its entrance, which was a full thousand years old. The tree was nearly a hundred meters tall, with a canopy spanning almost seventy meters.
Its massive trunk required more than twenty people to encircle with linked arms.
Thousand-year-old trees were not unusual on the Western Continent; they were a common sight in the untamed wilds. In the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, for example, ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Woods were not particularly rare.
