Elsewhere.
Heaven River Realm.
Cultivation flourished in this realm. It was even said that Spirit Transformation Completion cultivators existed here. Its territory was vast as well, at least several times larger than the Azure Profound Realm, Purple Abyss Realm, and Desolate Wilds Realm combined.
Its various powers were as numerous as stars.
Yet over the past two hundred-odd years, a Nascent Soul force known as the Void Sun Sect had been especially eye-catching.
It had only been established for a little over two hundred years.
Yet its fortune had been exceptionally good. At the beginning of its founding, it had discovered an incomparably concealed small Fourth Rank ore vein within an ordinary mountain range.
Moreover, aside from the beginning, when it had mined some First Rank ores and refined them into magic artifacts for sale, thereby accumulating its initial resources for development, it had never sold magic artifacts refined from such ores again, no matter how difficult its circumstances became, lest word leak out.
It also happened to be rather prosperous, producing many talented individuals in succession. Relying on its accumulated initial resources, it had gradually risen step by step in a short time from a minor Qi Refinement force to the Nascent Soul level.
In the present generation, that force even had two Nascent Souls overseeing it. Relying on some Fourth Rank ores nurtured by that small Fourth Rank spirit vein, those Nascent Souls had refined several powerful Fourth Rank Spirit Treasures, making their strength particularly formidable.
As a result, that force had gained considerable influence across hundreds of millions of li of territory, even occupying ten million li of land.
Even in the entire Heaven River Realm, such an example was rare, and quite a few forces had begun watching them.
Over time, those forces noticed something amiss