Once he had settled what he would do next, Lin Xuan did not return to Nine Immortals Marketplace. Instead, he transformed into a streak of Startling Rainbow and flew toward the horizon, swiftly vanishing without a trace.
Lin Xuan's departure did not attract any cultivator's notice. After all, with the scale of Nine Immortals Marketplace, the cultivators coming and going each day were beyond counting. Even a Dongxuan Realm existence did not amount to much. On top of that, Lin Xuan had mainly been gathering information and had not bought any rare treasures with a lavish hand, so naturally, his movements drew even less attention.
Nine Immortals Mountain lay on the western side of Misty Immortal Island, but in terms of its exact location, it was already in the island's heartland. At the same time, it was also the place on the entire island where spiritual energy was most abundant.
Legend had it that the density of spiritual energy there was something no other place in the Boundless Sea could even begin to match; to say they could only look up at its dust from afar would not be an exaggeration. Logically speaking, such a supreme Spirit Vein should have been fought over until the great sects and clans cracked their heads open. Yet no force had ever dared covet Nine Immortals Mountain, for no other reason than this was the headquarters where Ethereal Immortal Palace's inheritance was passed down.
To dare vie with the number-one force of this world for a spiritual land—wasn't that something only someone with a problem in the head would do?
Ethereal Immortal Palace's tyrannical strength was laid out for all to see. The other sects could only extinguish any thoughts of seizing this mountain's Spirit Vein, staring dry-eyed as they coveted it to the