The Vanished Fairy

Jiang Yuechu listened quietly to the end, then nodded lightly, showing that she understood all the twists and turns involved.

It was not difficult to understand, really.

The heavens and earth had fixed limits to what they could bear. If no laws restrained them, and cultivators everywhere freely dragged the living beings of Painting Realms into the present world without restraint, then no matter how vast and boundless the Nine Provinces might be, they likely could not support such an enormous population.

"What if it were somewhere like these Eight Hundred Miles of Linked Clouds?"

Jiang Yuechu asked again. This concerned her future plans for gathering incense offerings, after all, so she had to get everything straight in advance lest she be left fumbling in the dark later.

Purple Plume pondered for a moment before saying, "If you can make yourself heard in a lawless place like this—if you truly seize a patch of territory—then you should be able to secretly guide them over. No matter how strict the Heavenly Court's laws are, its hand cannot reach into this ungoverned land."

"I see..."

Jiang Yuechu lightly nodded, a plan beginning to take shape in her heart.

If she wanted to draw incense offerings endlessly from the living beings within paintings, then in the Nine Provinces, she would likely need to obtain a high position in the Heavenly Court.

If it were a place like the Eight Hundred Miles of Linked Clouds, she would have to find a way to seize territory through real blades and blood.

Neither seemed like something she could easily accomplish right now.

Still, this inquiry had not been useless. At the very least, it gave her a direction for obtaining incense offerings in the future.

After saying this, Purple Plume suddenly seemed to realize something and