At that time, Shen Mo had formed a contract with the spirit of the Supreme Splendor Mirror and placed the entire Five Dragon Mountain under the Scarlet Flame Sect's name, then leased quite a few tracts of land to other righteous-path factions!
But times had changed. Five Dragon Mountain was now Shen Mo's foundation, so he naturally would not casually lend out land again and allow others to harvest spiritual herbs, spiritual materials, underground mineral deposits, and other resources without restraint, lest they damage the earth veins and spirit veins. Still, given the Immortal Realm's abundant reserves, as long as extraction was not excessive, all kinds of resources would continue to emerge in an endless stream.
To avoid draining the pond to catch the fish, any other cultivation faction wishing to lease land, regardless of its intended use, had to undergo layer upon layer of review by the Scarlet Flame Sect's major halls before submitting the request to Shen Mo for the final decision. The remaining seventy-one immortal mountains that would later form the Earth Origin Absolute Formation would receive the same treatment.
Of course, given Shen Mo's friendship with the silver-haired boy, the Subduing Dragon Immortal Sect could still lease a piece of land to earn cultivation resources.
The silver-haired boy also knew how straitened his sect was. Since returning to the Subduing Dragon Immortal Sect, the sect had shown signs of revival. Its sect master, True Person Bian, had even recruited many disciples. Yet over the past six thousand years, almost all of the sect's ancestral assets had been sold off. Forget the newly recruited disciples—even he, their patriarch, was desperately short on cultivation resources. They truly had to find a way to expand the sect's income.
Originally, the silver-haired boy had felt a pang over preparing two