Measuring Spirit Province's Resources, Eastern Profound Holy Land

"Someone has been detected probing Azure Cloud Sect's heavenly secrets. Automatically blocked."

"Probing my Azure Cloud Sect's heavenly secrets?"

"How dared he?!"

Feng Qingyang grumbled as he fished.

Could just anyone probe heavenly secrets now?

Didn't they know Azure Cloud Sect was under the system's protection?

When Azure Cloud Sect moved, even the Great Dao had to step aside.

The Heavenly Dao was nothing more than a little brother.

"Got one!"

"Grilled fish again tonight."

Being a sect master was truly leisurely. Whenever something came up, he could just let the elders and disciples below handle it.

After fishing, he would go walk his bird for a while.

As for cultivation? Cultivate my ass! Time to lie flat!

How long had it even been since he transmigrated?

He had gone from zero cultivation to the True Person Realm.

He was on par with the ancestors of top-tier factions.

Had anyone ever seen someone so young reach the True Person Realm? Feng Qingyang was not bragging—looking across the entire continent, who could reach such cultivation at his age?

No genius stood a chance.

Meanwhile.

Unlike him, everyone in Azure Cloud Sect was busy at work.

Outer Sect Elder Ye Bai was busily coordinating with Lin Zhan.

"Elder, this is the list of materials needed to construct Azure Cloud Sect. Please take a look."

Lin Zhan had listed all the materials needed for construction and handed the sheet to Ye Bai.

Ye Bai took the list and looked it over, indicating that there was no problem.

Their resources were simply impossible to exhaust. Even when they were nearly depleted, an endless stream of resources would replenish them.

That was because not long ago, Azure Cloud Sect had announced that it would build its own exclusive city, Azure Cloud City.

The moment the outside world received the news.

Those with money contributed money, and those with materials contributed materials.

The cultivators who came to help build it were a vast sea of people.

One imperial dynasty ancestor had even personally declared that he would measure out Spirit Province's resources and join the upper sect in forging a gigantic city.

With more people, things were easier to accomplish.

The Lin Family alone was far too slow at construction.

Now, the outline of the gigantic city could already be seen.

It stretched tens of thousands of li in length and tens of thousands of li in width.

This was only Azure Cloud City's initial size. Once it was no longer enough in the future, this place would become the inner city, and they would expand outward from there.

Even at its current size, it was several times larger than Tianwu City, Profound Moon City, and Tyrant Heaven City combined.

In terms of size alone, it was already no less than any city in the Eastern Domain.

The title of the Eastern Domain's greatest city was well deserved!

Guardian Elder Wang Xuan led the sect's five guards in supervising the area, preventing anyone from causing trouble or making mischief.

The sect master had personally instructed them on this matter. Not the slightest error could be allowed.

"Wang Lie, go east."

"Wang Ji, go north."

"Wang Peng, go west."

"Wang Yue, go south."

"Wang Jian and I will remain here to hold the fort."

"If anything happens, contact me immediately. Remember, anyone who causes trouble or stirs up a disturbance is to be killed on the spot. There is no need to report it."

"Yes, Elder."

The four received their orders and flew toward the four directions—east, south, west, and north.

"I heard Azure Cloud Sect is building its own exclusive city?"

"Your news is way too outdated. I received word half a day ago and had someone send more than half of my family's supplies to Azure Cloud Sect."

"If luck is on my side, I might even get into the upper sect and become a Servant Disciple, hehe!"

"Damn, your family moved way too fast!"

"Of course. How else am I supposed to get by if I'm not fast? In this world, you have to compete. I'll compete you all to death!" he secretly thought.

"I just got the news. No, I have to notify my family right now."

After saying that, the man hurriedly ran toward his family.

Azure Cloud Sect was the upper sect of Spirit Province. If he could get in and become even a Servant Disciple, he would have made a name for himself, and his family would bask in the glory and rise rapidly as well.

On the other side, beneath Azure Cloud Mountain.

The Lin Family had temporarily set up a camp beneath Azure Cloud Sect's mountain.

Most of the family's powerful members had been sent out to build Azure Cloud City, leaving only some juniors behind.

"Uncle Lin, if I cultivate this technique, can I enter the sect like Brother Lin Bai?"

"Of course you can. As long as you cultivate diligently, when the Main Sect opens the mountain to accept disciples, you will naturally be able to enter."

"This is an immortal technique personally bestowed by the sect master. Cultivate diligently!"

Before Lin Zhan stood the Lin Family's younger generation, among whom there were quite a few with decent talent.

He patiently instructed them in cultivation and passed the immortal technique on to them.

The young men and women sweated like rain as they cultivated desperately, all yearning for the day when they could enter the Main Sect like Brother Lin Bai.

Inside Azure Cloud Sect's Cultivation Room.

Lin Bai sat cross-legged.

He was about to break through.

Ever since awakening his Sword Body last time and rising seven minor realms in a row, only a few short days had passed, yet he was about to break through again.

The spiritual energy within his body gradually poured toward his dantian.

Nourished by the massive amount of spiritual energy, a Golden Core was gradually taking shape within his dantian.

He was about to reach the critical point.

"Break for me!"

With Lin Bai's roar, the barrier between the Foundation Establishment Realm and the Golden Core Realm shattered at once.

"Haha, Golden Core Realm! I'll catch up to Eldest Senior Brother soon!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, Junior Brother?"

"Your Senior Brother just broke through too. I'm at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage now!"

Shi Hao released his cultivation aura as he spoke.

He chuckled.

Then he revealed a harmless smile that could fool both man and beast.

"I'm not trying to discourage you, Junior Brother."

"As long as you cultivate diligently, you can still catch up to me, your Senior Brother."

"Damn, Senior Brother, cultivating is as easy as drinking water for you!"

"It's only been a few days, and you've already broken through from the early Nascent Soul Realm to the middle stage?"

"Senior Brother really is fast—just as fast as his fist technique."

Meanwhile.

A storm was brewing in the outside world.

A piece of news spread throughout every province.

The Ancient Saint Secret Realm would open in the Qilin Dynasty of Wild Province one day later.

Factions holding Secret Keys could enter.

As the host of the venue, the Qilin Dynasty invited the major factions to visit its royal capital and discuss matters concerning the secret realm.

The great factions of every province were discussing this matter—of course, only those factions that possessed Secret Keys.

Without a Secret Key, there was nothing to discuss. Of course, one could always steal one!

Those fated for the Ancient Saint Secret Keys would obtain them, whether by seizing them or picking them up. There were only one hundred Secret Keys in total.

Eastern Profound Holy Land.

Eastern Profound Holy Land was one of the Eastern Domain's five great holy lands, situated in Wild Province.

According to their calculations, the location where the Ancient Saint Secret Realm would open this time was also in Wild Province.

They thus held quite an advantage as the local faction.

Eastern Profound Holy Land had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, with profound foundations.

The term holy land here did not refer to the kind founded by a Saint and passed down through later generations.

Any faction worthy of being called a holy land had a living Saint presiding over it.

The moment its sole remaining Saint passed away, such a faction would automatically fall from holy land status into a hegemon-level faction.

However, hegemon-level factions that had fallen this way were still top-tier, because they possessed Saint Arts passed down by Saints and had a great chance of ascending to holy land status once more.

At this moment, within the magnificent holy hall.

An elder of the holy land stood respectfully in the great hall, clasped his hands, and said, "Holy Lord, the Ancient Saint Secret Realm will open one day from now."

"Will the Saint Child lead the team again this time?"

"Mm. Let the Saint Child go again this time."

"Select another twenty of the most talented Inner Sect Disciples to accompany him."

The Eastern Profound Holy Master's imposing voice descended.

The Ancient Saint Secret Realm contained not only vast resources, but also all kinds of inheritances and fortuitous encounters. It was an excellent place for training.

Even for a holy land, it held tremendous allure.

The last time the secret realm opened, someone obtained the inheritance of a Saint within it and soared into the heavens from then on.