Time flew by.
Before he knew it, a year had passed.
Over that year, Chen Lin had not cultivated. He had devoted all his energy to gathering innate resources.
But the results fell short of his hopes.
He had found no leads at all on innate spirit treasures or innate spells.
He had only managed to buy a few innate spiritual entities, and their grades were not particularly high.
This made Chen Lin realize just how scarce innate cultivators were in the Void Realm. Their numbers were pitifully small.
This had a considerable impact on cultivation.
Cultivation was not a matter of building a cart behind closed doors.
Only by exchanging insights and sharing what they had could cultivators identify and fill the gaps in their knowledge, setting foot on a proper path of cultivation.
Walking that road alone was difficult.
Still, it was not without its advantages.
Because there were so few innate cultivators, these resources were not sought after, making their prices very low. The few spiritual entities he had gathered had not cost him many eternal stones.
Even so, this could not compare with the Inner World.
In the Inner World, eternal stones were an exceedingly scarce resource, and even True Realm cultivators had a great need for them.
As long as he could return, he would be a wealthy man.
Chen Lin desperately wanted to return to the Inner World.
There were plentiful innate resources there, as well as many innate cultivators.
There were even some at the True Realm level.
And innate items could be used in both the Inner and Outer Worlds. If he could return, he would no longer need to worry about resources.
There were also many people and matters he had yet to deal with. He needed to attend to them,