It was the beginning of the fourth month.
A cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Spirit Transformation Realm was sitting cross-legged in cultivation inside a cave abode in the fourth ring.
He had bought this cave abode less than a week ago, and had purchased it from someone else.
That was because cave abodes in Nine Emperor City had begun to be sold in limited quantities. Nearly seventy percent had already been sold, and the banks planned to hold on to the remaining ones and sell them off gradually.
The sales restrictions had caused the prices of cave abodes circulating on the market to soar once again.
In the week since he bought this cave abode, its price had already risen by fifteen percent, leaving him overjoyed.
Once he achieved success in cultivation and resold it, this cave abode might increase in value dozens of times over.
In such a frenzied environment, people no longer judged whether a cave abode was worth its price based on normal value.
As long as someone was willing to keep buying, the price of cave abodes had no upper limit in their eyes!
It could even be said that among cultivators in the north above the Golden Core Realm—
At least half had come to Nine Emperor City to settle down, both for the convenience of cultivation and to earn spirit stones.
"I'll go into seclusion for ten years first, then come out and take a look."
The Spirit Transformation cultivator was already at the Great Perfection of the Spirit Transformation Realm, merely half a step away from the Body Integration Realm.
As long as he gained a little enlightenment over the next ten years, coupled with the dense spiritual energy inside the cave abode—
Breaking through into the Body Integration Realm would