The moon hung high in a sparse sky as a carriage sped along the winding mountain road, heading straight for Yunzhang Mountain.
"Father, I still don't understand," a young boy of around fifteen, clad in luxurious robes, said from inside the carriage. His brows furrowed as he gazed at the scholarly middle-aged man seated across from him. "Why must we make this long journey to visit the Yun Cang Yun Clan?
"The Yun family is merely a newly anointed cultivation clan, conferred by the imperial court. Our Sun family has three spiritual root descendants, while the Yun family only has two. By all logic, it should be they who come to pay respects to us, not the other way around."
