E'shan City had, by rough estimate, anywhere from over a hundred thousand to two or three hundred thousand cultivators. The reason was that E'shan City was located in what could be called the place with the densest spiritual energy in the entire E'shan City region.
The spiritual energy here was far denser than in the areas where those Lineages were located—not just by a little.
If one secluded oneself for cultivation in such an environment, it was naturally far better than cultivating elsewhere. Cultivators intending to break through bottlenecks would naturally spend spirit stones to come to E'shan City for secluded cultivation.
E'shan City, however, was not a city in the true sense of the word. It was merely an expansive region of mountains.
Thus, it was naturally easy to establish cultivators' cave abodes. Whether in taverns and inns or in specially prepared temporary cave abodes, many cultivators lingered here.
The matter of Wu Wenzhong challenging the Ten Thousand Stone Forest had only been mentioned in a few taverns and auction halls, yet it had already thrown the entire E'shan City into an uproar within a single day.
At that moment, inside a grand tavern, Qin Fengming and Wu Wenzhong sat facing each other. A large spread of rare delicacies was laid out on the table before them. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator or Core Formation cultivator had seen this food and wine, they would certainly have been overjoyed.
That was because these ingredients were all made from precious materials capable of increasing a cultivator's cultivation.
If consumed and refined, they could bring considerable benefits to Foundation Establishment or Core Formation cultivators. Naturally, this table of food and wine was also worth no small sum.
Yet the two men had little interest in the feast before them.
"Senior, now that