Cold Light Island.
As the foremost super-sized island in the southeastern Northern Sea, its land area was enormous, nearly as vast as two Jade Cauldron Domains.
It possessed countless mineral deposits, spiritual plants, lakes, and lofty mountains, presenting the appearance of an inland continent.
Such abundant resources, coupled with spiritual veins of every size, had drawn many forces here to prosper and multiply.
Yet among these forces, Emerald Cold City was undoubtedly the most famous and the strongest!
There was no other reason!
It was because Emerald Cold City had a Nascent Soul Stage city lord—Emerald Cold True Person.
Rumor had it that this woman once had ties with a Nascent Soul True Person from the Primal Devil Sect. It was also through that person that she had been able to monopolize Emerald Cold City, which possessed a Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein.
After acquiring the city, everything she did was unlike that of ordinary cultivators.
She neither established a sect nor spread branches and leaves to found a family.
She merely cultivated as an independent cultivator within the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land formed by the city's Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein.
Her tranquil, uncontentious nature also left Emerald Cold City's excellent resources lying idle.
Thus, after gaining her consent, forces large and small from elsewhere on Cold Light Island gradually moved into Emerald Cold City and began conducting all manner of business.
Every year, they only needed to offer Emerald Cold True Person a certain share of their profits to receive her protection.
Under this model, the entirety of Cold Light Island gradually formed a strange situation: fish and dragons mixed together, yet all dragons had a head.
After entering the city,
Luo Chen walked along the broad streets, deep in thought.
Emerald Cold True Person appeared to seek neither contention nor gain, yet