The Golden Emperor Palace.
Because it held clues to an immortal art, the palace had become the center of activity for the Immortal Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators many years ago.
The Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords usually studied those clues. When they had time, they shot the breeze with fellow cultivators, launched projects, formed new research teams, or held discussions on breakthroughs in immortal cultivation.
Whenever someone ran into a thorny problem in swordsmanship, materials science, alchemy, or any other field, one call would bring anywhere from one or two to dozens of experts to help. The convenience was unbelievable.
So even when Heavenly Lords went away, many left avatars here. Yuan's avatar was here, as was Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord's, along with Jiang Ding's—though Jiang Ding himself was always wandering about. Their avatars took part in research requiring less computational power and studied the clues to the immortal art. That work had never stopped.
Now, a glance around the Golden Emperor Palace revealed more than five hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators in all!
They owed it to the windfall brought by the realm war. Under immense pressure, the Nine Great Immortal Sects had begun sharing what they had. The Immortal Sect's finest synthetic materials, the Azurewood Immortal Sect's finest spirit plants and medicines, the Pill Cauldron Immortal Sect's finest pills, the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect's finest artifact-refining techniques, the Five Elements Heaven Sect's Five Elements materials... Restrictions on trading these and countless other things had fallen away, creating a unified market in practice.
The Nine Great Immortal Sects had benefited enormously.
Cultivators of the Shadow Demon Abyss, the Five Elements Heaven Sect, the Azurewood Immortal Sect... From Qi Refining cultivators to the mightiest Void Refining experts, everyone had replaced their magical treasures, pills, and talismans from head to toe. Their