It was early morning when the gates of the Wilding Kin Sect opened and twenty thousand disciples slowly marched out. At the front of them all were Darian and his three loyal followers.
Eleven thousand were old sect members, with different cycle counts. Among them were Zaen and Marli, but every single one of them had been picked through an extremely strict selection by the Elders.
The group moved with the help of the Elders to a region on the Yang side of the Wild World. This time, they didn't wait until the last moment, since mid-level eruptions happened over a wide area.
In the past, when the current High Elders of the sect were still weak, they had to risk everything to steal a bit of energy from these eruptions, because it was nearly impossible for a single sect to claim it all.