"Four great alliances had actually formed, resembling the ancient divine dynasties and cultivation nations..."
In ordinary times, even two thousand years might not bring any obvious changes to the cultivation world. But from the Star Moon Alliance gray-robed elder's detailed account, Wei Suo and the others understood that the changes of these two hundred years were likely greater than those of twenty thousand years.
Spirit stones, spirit pills, and all kinds of treasures had become scarce to an extent they had never imagined before.
The gray-robed elder explained it very clearly. Although certain regions nominally belonged to certain alliances, that was merely a boundary dividing cultivator forces. Cultivators within those territories still had to hide to survive, while vast areas were occupied by demons beasts. Quite a few highly intelligent demon beasts even knew that spirit stones and such were extremely important for cultivator cultivation, so they had deliberately destroyed large numbers of Spirit Stone ore veins and wildernesses rich in spirit medicines.
In the past, to some great sects, the survival or destruction of cities and cultivators unrelated to them had nothing to do with them. But now, things were completely different. To a great alliance akin to a cultivation nation, every cultivator gathering point was at least equivalent to a shop and could gather some cultivation resources.
Although the gray-robed elder had not yet mentioned whether these great alliances possessed mountain gates, the situation throughout the cultivation world had already become very clear. It was as though the entire cultivation world had been divided into four enormous cities, yet those cities were occupied by demon beasts, while every cultivator gathering point was like a small hidden shop within them.
The cultivation resources of the entire cultivation world now had to be supplied by these scattered, hidden little shops,