Most of their problems centered on the cave abodes. The main reason was that Windmist City had become a little too cramped. When they had come from Cloudreach Continent, there had already been several hundred people, and the city lord of Windmist City had made it clear that this was the most they could accommodate. Yet now, even more sects of all sizes had been crammed inside. The number of cave abodes aside, if they were building high-rises or something similar, having households live wall to wall would have been enough—but that was the way mortals lived.
People in the immortal world lived in solitude. If they were too close together, there would not be enough spiritual energy to go around. That was why no one cultivated in the marketplace unless there was a private chamber specially supplied with spiritual energy. But that required the power of ley lines, and Windmist City had no such thing. At present, they were essentially living in a giant shared dormitory. Compared with the mountain ranges spanning hundreds of li that sects casually occupied, cave abodes separated by barely a li were naturally hopelessly overcrowded.
No one was willing to cultivate in a place like this, so it had given rise to countless conflicts and clashes. Some were directly caused by the cave abodes, while others stemmed from the chain reactions they triggered. Of course, there were also problems with basic infrastructure, such as the production of merit points.
As more and more immortals joined them, earning merit points had become indispensable. Relying too heavily on merit points, however, would interfere with secluded cultivation, so this excessive materialism had also brought about more competition. They had foreseen this long ago, but diversification required a vast and secure territory.
On top of that, the sect