Hong Tianming said, "That's a good question. The key lies in the Spirit Stabilizing Seed.
"This item can't be created from nothing. For as long as anyone can remember, it's only been passed down from one generation to the next. The number of Spirit Stabilizing Seeds determines the upper limit for cultivators in the Gold Domain.
"And among them are quite a few cultivators who failed to refine a Spirit Stabilizing Seed.
"Those whose refinement failed don't just die right away. They linger, and a great many Spirit Stabilizing Seeds end up tied up in this way.
"Many powerful cultivators, when they see death approaching, refine out their Spirit Stabilizing Seeds and store them in secret places, hoping to reincarnate and seek them out again.
"With so many doing this, the Two Daoists and One Buddhist and the Three Great Powers have grown slower and slower at recovering Spirit Stabilizing Seeds, until their stockpiles have become increasingly scarce.
"Plenty of great immortals at the Full Domain level haven't even had a chance to obtain a Spirit Stabilizing Seed. That's why cultivators in the Gold Domain have dwindled with each passing day."
Xu Yi was dumbfounded. So that was how it worked. "Is it because the Spirit Stabilizing Seeds refined by Gold Domain cultivators are so precious that they refuse to leave seclusion, afraid that people with designs on them will hunt them down?"
Hong Tianming laughed. "What do you take Gold Domain cultivators for? Would anyone at that level fear being besieged by low-level cultivators? Besides, unless the cultivator who refined a Spirit Stabilizing Seed willingly gives it away or seals it with a secret art, no one else can obtain it.
"Even if you kill a Gold Domain cultivator, once the bond between them and their Spirit Stabilizing Seed