By day, he visited Return to the Ruins City's official mission hall to accept cultivation missions: hunting various void creatures, clearing Void Turbulence, and gathering intelligence on remnant worlds. Moderately difficult, manageable in risk, and reliably generous in pay, these missions were the main means by which countless low-ranking cultivators survived and accumulated God Crystals.
At night, he secluded himself in quiet cultivation, devoting himself to refining the Chaos Origin Scripture, tempering his chaos origin, stabilizing his dual-Dao godhead, and honing his flesh and bones. Day after day, he never stopped.
Outside cultivation, he gradually came into contact with and befriended many cultivators who had long been stationed in Return to the Ruins City, slowly finding his place in this immense floating city where countless races gathered.
He befriended Old Zhang, a veteran artifact refiner who had worked with the Myriad Worlds Pavilion for years. Old Zhang's cultivation was not high—only at the early God Emperor stage—but he was versed in artifact-refining arts from across the heavens and deeply understood how to combine spirit materials. Having devoted his entire life to the craft, he was knowledgeable and widely experienced, honest and straightforward, warmhearted and loyal. He knew all manner of hidden information and trading practices within the city, and often offered Lin Feng subtle insights into artifact refining and treasure appraisal.
He also met Big Ox and Little Ox, two brothers of humble origins who spent years traversing the void outside the city and trading among remnant worlds. Their backgrounds were lowly and their cultivation unremarkable, but they were hardworking, diligent, and dependable. Year after year, they traveled through the dangerous void to gather rare spirit materials, beast cores, and remnant-world fragments, bringing them back to the city to sell for a living. Cheerful and sincere, the brothers knew where