There were plenty of deep-sea speculators, and there were plenty of merchants here too. Before long, many ghosts had decided to head for Tianyi City, though quite a few still remained skeptical.
Originally, only Senior Brother and a few of his friends had planned to return, but now he had somehow rallied a whole crowd of Immortal Cultivators to go along and watch the excitement. After all, the lure of immortal crystals was enormous. Though the deep sea held many Immortal Spirit Lands, all the known deposits had long since been mined out. Immortal crystals were much like diamonds in the mortal world—many cultivators might never lay eyes on one in their entire lives.
I summoned the Immortal Coffin to hurry us along and had Xiangling sit atop it. Zhao Qian used her compass to guide the way, so the journey went smoothly. I now understood these practitioners of divination a little better. No wonder Senior Brother always managed to turn calamity into fortune. No matter how dangerous things became, he would never end up losing his life.
Along the way, Zhao Qian refined the three newly acquired World Stones as well, and her cultivation surged. Of course, without connecting to the earth, true refinement was impossible, so after breaking through to the Eight Trigrams Realm, her cultivation stopped rising. If she wanted to charge into the Nine Yang Realm, she still needed the effects of terrestrial magnetism.
When we returned to South Immortal Island, all the cultivators rested there temporarily. The Southern Immortal Sword Sect had already lost the support of immortal energy, and many cultivators were gradually moving to Tianyi City. This place had become nothing more than a trading way station. Meanwhile, the City God's Palace beneath the sea had always stationed an army of hundreds of