Time slipped by. Two years had passed in the blink of an eye since Lu Lin returned to Peacock Mountain from the Demon Race Ancestral Land.
On this day, Kong Xi came to the Martial Nurturing Pavilion again, bringing Lu Lin five strands of heaven and earth essence.
That alone showed how difficult heaven and earth essence was to find.
Over the past two years, Peacock Mountain had mobilized large numbers of the Demon Race to search far and wide, expending untold effort, yet these five strands were all they had found.
In this flourishing age of the Immortal Dao, spiritual energy filled the world and immortal dao luck suffused everything, making it extremely difficult for heaven and earth essence to form in the first place.
Moreover, the various domains had been doing their utmost to nurture martial artists in recent years, competing to collect it. Its value had risen like a boat on a rising tide, until now it had a price but no sellers—even those willing to pay could not buy any.
"Thank you, Princess." Lu Lin accepted the jade bottle containing the sealed essence. After thanking her, he changed the subject and asked, "I've noticed that Peacock Mountain seems much quieter lately. Quite a few familiar faces have disappeared. Has something major happened?"
"Do you still remember the upheaval in the ancestral land two years ago?" Kong Xi asked in return, her expression growing slightly solemn.
"The invasion by powerful beings from beyond our world?" Lu Lin's eyes flickered.
"Indeed." Kong Xi nodded and sighed softly. "Although my imperial mother drove them back that day, the matter... is far from over."
"Has something else happened since?" Lu Lin pressed.
"Do you know that other worlds exist beyond the Cangyun Realm we inhabit?" Rather than answering directly, Kong