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Carrying the Pure Sound Core, they found the doors to Shubodu's palace open to them, despite how reserved he had been before. Under normal circumstances, a visitor had to go through "three meetings and seven appointments"; only at the last meeting would they get the chance to see Shubodu.

There was no need to follow that process when offering a Pure Sound Core. Each one took over a thousand eras of herding to produce, and nearly all of them had already been promised to someone. The occasional spare core was still far from fully matured. Guen had traded a sufficiently large amount of the exceptionally rare Zixuanliuwengold, a metal between F-Grade and G-Grade, to obtain a Lai Core.

Among human Universe Nations, Fengwang rarely took on the role of a territorial governor. The Yinshou Race, however, was quite different. They used territorial governorship as a rung on the ladder of advancement, with the number of immortal compositions a member created during their tenure serving as one measure of their progress.

Immortal compositions weren't necessarily created by immortals. Rather, the term referred to compositions that combined music and laws to a certain degree—equivalent to the tenth level of the human Heavenly Bridge. Yet their musical nature made them easier to pass on, and their creators eagerly spread their works. Even so, students struggled to grasp their essence. Throughout Yinshou territory, ordinary techniques and lower-level Secret Methods were rampant, and even outsiders could easily obtain them. As a result, the Yinshou Race had many followers. Ordinary and weaker races might never acquire so many ordinary techniques, even if they persisted until their extinction, but by following the Yinshou Race, they could obtain Secret Methods that let them establish themselves in the universe. Though the Yinshou Race's Secret Methods included obscure, subjective, fanciful,