Cultivation!
To mortals, it was a wondrous, dazzling word.
In their imaginations, cultivators lived free of worldly strife. They sat beneath lush trees all day, washed themselves clean in clear streams, watched clouds gather and part beyond the sky, and listened quietly as flowers bloomed and fell outside their doors.
When the mood struck, they roamed the Northern Sea at dawn and Cangwu by dusk, visiting friends and seeking the Dao without a care.
But in truth, whether in the Cultivation World or the Mortal World, where was there not a sea of suffering?
Those caught in a greater sea of suffering faced greater waves!
Sky Wave Immortal City, a man-made haven blessed with natural beauty and spiritual bounty, drew countless independent cultivators. The resources passing through it each day were beyond counting.
Its struggles seemed orderly, but they were far more dangerous than those in remote marketplaces.
The once-a-decade rotation of the immortal city was when those conflicts came to a head.
Every ten years, who knew how many small sects and factions that had briefly flourished scattered like windblown clouds, becoming insignificant ripples in the long river of Mountain Sea World's history?
No one noticed. No one cared.
But this time, the struggle in Sky Wave Immortal City had captured the attention of everyone inside and outside the city, and throughout the surrounding region!
For one reason alone.
At the center of the conflict stood the Luo Tian Association!
The Scarlet Clouds Luo Tian Association, founded less than thirty years ago and established in Skybillow for not even twenty!
When this faction first settled in Skybillow, it made little stir. Gradually, though, it bared its savage fangs.
They were fiercely aggressive!
Whether competing for business or expanding their territory, they struck like fire.
They often pressed their opponents