The moment Xu Qing’s Foundation Establishment aura erupted out, and the sound of bells filled the Seventh Peak, three figures shot down from the top of the mountain.

If an outside Foundation Establishment cultivator tried to step onto the peak, the spell formation would block their path, not cause bells to ring. Then the formation would ask why that cultivator was visiting. If they had come to pay a visit to someone on the peak, that person would be notified. If that person agreed to see the visitor, then the spell formation would let them in. That was what happened when Patriarch Golden Vajra Warrior came to visit Daoist Idlecloud. [1]

But for bells to ring like this meant only one thing: a sect disciple had arrived who hadn’t yet registered as reaching Foundation Establishment. Of course, enemy attacks were another matter entirely.

Not every disciple in Seven Blood Eyes would use the sect’s facilities set aside for Foundation Establishment breakthroughs. For one thing, such places were expensive. Also, most disciples who managed to claw their way up through Qi Condensation in such a chaotic world would have some ‘destined opportunity’ that would set them apart from the masses. Such situations weren’t uncommon. In a sect that focused solely on profit, trust was a rare commodity, therefore, about thirty percent of disciples would leave the sect for their Foundation Establishment breakthrough.

Such matters of ‘destined...