White Bone Reached Spirit Transformation, Cold Wind City [Another chapter tonight]

The departure of a Spirit Transformation cultivator caused no stir at Bingjin Mountain Market.

After all, this Spirit Transformation cultivator had neither territory nor a cave abode here. He had merely come for a temporary visit, and no one knew what he had been doing.

Before leaving, Lin Chang'an made sure to arrange for cultivators to deliver a letter to each of the major factions.

He stated that he would be entering secluded cultivation to stabilize his cultivation, and thanked his fellow Daoists for their hospitality of late.

It was worth making a few nodding acquaintances. He might well visit often in the future; after all, the greatest advantage of having so many major factions gathered in one place was the abundance of resources.

Otherwise, why would the major factions, and even distant factions with no dealings here, send cultivators over? Was it not because they coveted certain rare, specialized resources?

Cold Wind City stood in the remote, untamed Snow Range region of the Ice God Palace. Over the years, the palace's territory had steadily contracted. To keep its resources from shrinking as well, without provoking friction with other factions, it had needed another option.

The Ice God Palace could only reclaim wilderness. Over the past thousand years, its continuous reclamation had opened up quite a number of mineral veins.

At first, no one had paid much attention. But as mineral veins were discovered and mined in a steady stream, others naturally began eyeing them.

Reclaiming wilderness was a long-term undertaking that demanded time and effort. Naturally, some people wanted to pluck the ripe fruit from someone else's garden.

"Master, with the Feipeng Chamber of Commerce badly crippled, our border region has finally enjoyed some peace these past few years. Especially since I've heard that trouble seems to have broken