Worth It

Outside Immortal Cloud Mountain, after seeing off yet another fellow cultivator from the southwest who had come calling, Chu Mu watched him fly away until he vanished from sight before slowly withdrawing his gaze.

Thinking of the constant stream of visitors over the past few days, Chu Mu could not help but shake his head with a smile.

All under heaven bustled for profit; all under heaven jostled for gain.

Immortal Spirit Mountain had not even revealed much of itself, yet people were already coming and going, all for its sake.

These people clearly held little reverence for the Longevity Sect's so-called majesty.

The only reason harmony persisted was because the current situation happened to rest in a state of balance.

The balance was not unbreakable. It merely depended on weighing the costs and benefits after breaking it.

At present, the matter of Immortal Spirit Mountain was still in a stage of mutual probing. The vast majority of cultivators unaffiliated with the Longevity Sect were still considering whether the benefits of Immortal Spirit Mountain were worth shattering this balance, and whether they could compensate for the price of offending the Longevity Sect—or even standing against it.

According to the predetermined plan, all of this had undoubtedly been expected. The only interesting thing—or rather, the one thing that had slightly exceeded expectations—was the wild proliferation of rumors, growing fiercer by the day.

Since he had overseen this plan to lure the snake from its hole, he naturally knew every link in the plan with absolute clarity.

According to the original plan, in order to avoid leaving traces and arousing suspicion, the operation had temporarily ended after the Immortal Spirit Five Clans were destroyed.

At least for now, the Longevity Sect had not intervened in the slightest in any of the subsequent