Among the crowd were Qin Zhen, whom Shen Mo knew fairly well, and True Lord Dao Xuan. Seeing him arrive, they both came forward to greet him.
Qin Zhen was attempting to refine a sixth-tier puppet and needed a large quantity of top-grade spiritual materials. After weighing her options, she ultimately decided to join Fairy Yuquan in conquering the Myriad Saints' lair, so she could quickly gather the materials needed to refine the puppet.
Dao Xuan, meanwhile, had missed the battle in the Corpse Tuo Mountains and had not been on the invitation list for the immortal banquet. He had clearly learned of this news elsewhere and hoped to get a slice of the pie from this great battle.
After all, in recent years, he had led his sect members, disciples, and the living beings of Bixiao Grotto while wandering abroad. The spiritual objects and resources they had accumulated in the past had nearly all been used up.
Bixiao Grotto's secret realm had also been ravaged by demons and devils, leaving it in utter ruins. It would produce nothing in the short term.
The spirit fields and medicinal gardens they had opened in the regions under the Five Dragon Mountain Circle, as well as the mineral veins they were mining, would not yield profits for many years. During that time, they still had to offer resources and spiritual objects to the Crimson Flame Sect... Not only were the immortals and mortals of Bixiao Grotto having a hard time, even Dao Xuan, a Divine Bridge Realm patriarch, was living in straitened circumstances and urgently needed to strike it rich!
Aside from Qin Zhen and Dao Xuan, the other True Lords of the immortal path had more or less crossed paths with Shen Mo before, and they too came over to exchange