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The Virtual World Communication Platform was a colossal city Lin Chen had opened up within illusion.

Utterly different from reality, it existed within the dreamlike Sea of Consciousness of all living beings, a channel of connection unlike any in the real world.

Over the past several decades, cultivators from Central Land East Sea, the Outer Domain interior, and every corner of heaven and earth, as well as monsters and ghosts from places such as the East Sea Dragon Palace, the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and the Northern Frontier Grassland, had all traded through this channel. It transcended not only regions, but races as well.

Although it was difficult to sell tangible real-world goods here, such as pills, Spirit Artifacts, Formation Disks, and talismans, all varieties of spiritual energy could be traded, and intelligence could be shared.

The Convenient Method cultivated by East Sea Immortal Alliance cultivators required specific, different types of spiritual energy to complete the nurturing of their Dao foundations, true nature, and even Heaven and Earth Rare Treasures. Compared to pills, spiritual energy of the corresponding attributes was therefore far more important.

Yet every type of spiritual energy required a particular environment to be refined and formed—the depths of volcanoes, polar ice fields, the Northern Darkness Ice Ocean, the deep azure sea, and so on. But all these places had been carved up layer by layer by the great clans and sects, gripped tightly in their hands. Through monopolies, they drove up the prices of every kind of spiritual energy, endlessly harvesting the Spirit Stones of lower-level cultivators and leaving them without hope of Foundation Establishment for their entire lives.

Unless they signed some sort of death-servant contract, becoming expendable soldiers of immortal sects, noble families, or sect true inheritors, replacing or accompanying them onto the Outer Domain Battlefield—or