"Fellow Daoist Ziji, we arrived ahead of you. The way you've developed Floating Clear Prefecture has truly opened our eyes," Venerable Forging Origin said. His face was flushed, and he seemed to have already had a few cups, his eyes brimming with delight.
Ye Jingcheng knew why he was so pleased. Duan Jinyu of the Duan Family had broken through to Void Refinement, becoming their second Void Refinement cultivator, and planned to hold his breakthrough ceremony in thirty years.
However, the venue would not be in the Cloud Water Spirit Domain, but at their original prefectural territory in the White Spring Spirit Domain.
"Indeed, your ability to develop this place rivals that of some prefectural capitals," Venerable Bai Chen remarked with a sigh of admiration.
He had visited the prefectures belonging to the Heavenly Sound Sect and the Golden Qilin Sect.
Those places really were not much better than Floating Clear City, though neither sect had any Body Integration cultivators left, and the large prefectures allocated to them were remote rather than rich in resources.
Still, the territories those two sects controlled in the original Jade Xiao Spirit Domain had not shrunk at all. With those holdings supporting their operations, they were certainly far ahead of ordinary Void Refinement powers.
That alone showed the true worth of Floating Clear Prefecture under Qixuan Valley's management.
After all, ordinary Void Refinement powers could not even rent out all the shops in their prefectural markets these days. Very few offered a complete selection of pills, artifacts, talismans, formations, spirit herbs, precious materials, and the like.
Let alone had subordinate powers and rogue cultivators scrambling to buy shops.
"Haha, it's merely a matter of luck. Qixuan Valley controls two and a half prefectural territories, and we also have spirit fish and plenty of spirit