Taisu Immortal City had been built atop a thin Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein.
To make effective use of the immortal city's spiritual energy, many cave estates had been established beneath it and rented out to the public for rent.
These cave estates were collectively known as Hundred Herb Garden.
However, the cave estates of Hundred Herb Garden were extremely expensive, so many of them normally stood vacant.
Recently, a Second-Order Cave Estate called Pugong Park had welcomed a new owner.
The other party had spent lavishly, renting it for three years in one go!
Yet such behavior had not seemed particularly unusual recently.
This was because cultivators in the surrounding area all knew that Su Ling Sect would hold the Spirit Induction Assembly three years later. Those independent cultivators naturally had to prepare properly if they wanted a chance to join a Void Refinement Sect.
While there was still time, they had to raise their cultivation realms as much as possible.
Even independent cultivators who were usually stingy beyond measure had recently been renting cave estates and spending Spirit Stones without the slightest hesitation.
But Pugong Park's occupant was different from the others.
After moving in, he had not devoted himself to cultivation in pursuit of a higher realm. Instead, he had frequently gone out, only truly settling down after spending several months at it.
Inside Pugong Park's cave estate.
A cluster of Earthfire burned fiercely from its vent. A young man in a white Daoist robe sat quietly before it, his brows tightly furrowed and his face full of worry.
The Earthfire beside him was scorching, something ordinary cultivators often avoided like the plague. Yet strangely, the man in white had not even activated a fire-warding formation, allowing his body to endure the blazing heat.
After a long while.
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