Every major city within human territory had basically been established atop a high-grade spirit vein. For instance, Ascension City, where Li Qing currently resided, sat upon a Seventh-grade Spirit Vein.
The spiritual energy within the city was exceptionally dense; no matter where one went, one could sense the flourishing spiritual energy in the world.
Li Qing casually found a residence in the city and settled down. Now that his cultivation had reached the late Void Refinement stage, his need for a spiritual energy-rich environment had instead become far less demanding.
If he wanted to push his cultivation to Void Refinement stage perfection, pills would still be the main event. Fortunately, he still had several Five Elements Returning Origin Pills on hand. In particular, that spiritually aware leopard-shaped pill possessed even greater medicinal potency; one pill was nearly enough for Li Qing to cultivate the Void Refinement stage to perfection.
Ascension City was peaceful and tranquil. The area where Li Qing lived was near the outer city, and most of the residents here were human cultivators with relatively low cultivation, at most at the Core Formation or Nascent Soul Realm level.
Cultivators of such low realms often had to exhaust tremendous effort earning spirit stones simply for a place to live. There was little time left for cultivation in their daily lives, so their advancement was correspondingly slow.
By rights, they should not have remained in such a prosperous major city. Yet the human race was currently at war, and low-level cultivators were conscripted with considerable frequency. Only by staying in such enormous cities could they avoid being drafted.
Moreover, prosperous giant cities like this offered more opportunities. Quite a few grassroots cultivators had risen from humble beginnings in these cities and ultimately achieved considerable success.
Thus, as the friction between