As a wisp of purple qi arrived from the far east, daylight broke in full, and Blue Star Mountain began to bustle.
Cultivators practiced spiritual arts on the training grounds, while wood-attribute cultivators cast spells in the Spirit Herb Garden to nurture spiritual plants.
Even the earthfire chambers began round after round of pill refining and artifact forging.
The entire spiritual mountain brimmed with vitality, utterly devoid of the gloomy, declining air that had once hung over the Blue Star Sect.
Most of the cultivators were still the same people from the Blue Star Sect, but compared with their former lives there, things felt far better. After all, the Blue Star Sect had no spiritual craft it excelled at. Its alchemy, artifact forging, and arrays were all unremarkable; it relied on spiritual mines, spiritual mountains, and business operations.
But honestly, those foundations were rather hollow. No matter how well its businesses were run, how good could things become when those at the top knew only how to exploit their people and pit them against each other like venomous creatures in a jar?
And after being exploited, how many resources did the cultivators at the bottom have left for cultivation?
Qixuan Valley was different now. Not only did it have a seventh-stage Alchemist overseeing things, but its earnings from alchemy alone were beyond anything the Blue Star Sect could match. Its artifact-forging skills also enjoyed considerable renown.
Even the Upper Star Prefecture Market had become much livelier.
Naturally, all the cultivators of Qixuan Valley benefited, and they now had something to look forward to in their cultivation.
Moreover, word had spread across the entire Mortal Dust Continent that Venerable Ziji of Qixuan Valley could refine Void Return Pills. Quite a few Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators had come drawn by