The great battle between Golden Core Cultivators at Great River Market had turned the once most prosperous Inner City into a Ghost City.
Several thousand cultivators had perished within it, a disaster by any measure.
But for the surviving independent cultivators, it was truly a tremendous opportunity!
Most of those able to live in the Inner City had been highly cultivated and wealthy.
Besides possessing some specialized skill, such people had often established businesses in the Outer City Area or the Ancient Origin Mountain Range.
Now that they were dead, those resources had been left vacant.
Countless people began scrambling to seize them.
And the greatest opportunity was not even that!
Spirit energy!
As time passed, the independent cultivators discovered that the spirit energy around Great River Market was growing increasingly dense.
Its concentration was nearly no less than renting an ordinary house in the Inner City back then.
This strange change filled everyone with delight.
According to a cultivator from a certain family, his elders had judged that the Spirit-Isolation Array established by the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect had been destroyed, allowing the First-Order Spirit Vein within Fallen Phoenix Mountain to pour forth without restraint.
Thus, the land for a thousand li in every direction had become a Spiritually Flourishing Land.
This judgment was highly credible.
Rumor had it that most sect Sacred Lands possessed spirit energy of this concentration.
The great powers of sects would enclose High-Grade Spirit Veins, creating environments suited for high-level cultivators to cultivate in.
But they generally did not enclose First-Order Spirit Veins. Instead, they released them for low-level disciples to cultivate with.
This First-Order Spirit Vein beneath Great River Market covered an extremely broad area and possessed abundant spirit energy reserves.
If it had been within a sect, it likely would have been