He paused.
Chen Changming also gave a wry smile. "Of Eastern Jin's nine provinces, the Eastern Arrival Divine Province has the richest spiritual energy. So even somewhere as bitterly cold as the Eastern Wasteland Snowfield has many sects established there. You can imagine how fierce the competition would be if the Ice and Snow Palace developed here..."
Those words struck straight at Gu Huaibei's concerns.
Her expression dimmed.
Although her husband was powerful, if she, the palace master of the Ice and Snow Palace, had no abilities of her own, she would have no way to gain a foothold in the Eastern Wasteland Snowfield.
Excluding their two Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators, Chen Changming and Yuan Jingyang, the Ice and Snow Palace's three thousand or so members would, at best, constitute a small sect if they settled in the Eastern Wasteland Snowfield.
A small sect could only curry favor with the various major powers, struggling to survive in the cracks between them.
"It's all right. The first step is always the hardest."
Chen Changming smiled gently and comforted her. "Back then, wasn't I just a good-for-nothing with a five elements mixed spirit root? And now, don't I stand at the pinnacle of the Human Realm?"
"Husband, you had a five elements mixed spirit root?"
Gu Huaibei looked stunned.
She had never imagined that Chen Changming had begun cultivating with a five elements mixed spirit root.
"It's a long story. Let's talk as we go..."
Chen Changming chuckled, took Gu Huaibei's hand, and continued flying deeper into the Eastern Wasteland Snowfield.
As he flew, searching for a suitable place to settle down and cultivate, he recounted how he had cultivated in a place as remote as Wilderness Island.
Chen Changming's story was long and captivating. It took him several hours just to