No, you can also bring two followers, no one has specified that followers must be people you know. As long as you can afford it, you can bring youths from other major clans, right?
This really is a good opportunity to make money.
"I see most of the people in town are young," Qian Jiyun remarked.
"That's because the Flame Mountain Range has strict age requirements. Those over thirty can't enter; it's useless for older people to come here."
The owner explained.
Otherwise, if places like the Flame Mountain Range were open to anyone, what business would these young people have here? It would be the older, more powerful cultivators who would go in.
"Moreover, a person can only enter the Flame Mountain Range once. Even if they disguise themselves and try to enter again, it's impossible. And besides the people from Qingyun Sect, no one else knows where the Flame Mountain Range is."
"Is it really that miraculous?"