"It's simple. Nine Heavens and that cosmic expanse are fighting over these worlds. They're slicing away flesh with a dull knife, anyway, and those worlds aren't ours. Every one we can snatch back is one more for us."
"Aside from the top sects, which don't care much, all the major sects seem pretty interested in those worlds. After all, that's another source of resources."
"Haha, you're awfully blunt, Dao Companion. Aren't you afraid they'll come looking for trouble?"
"What's there to panic about? That's just how it is. Still, even for a major sect, getting their hands on one isn't that simple. That's why those missions posted on Floating Light are mostly open to anyone capable enough to claim them."
"Another cosmic expanse, huh? That sounds pretty novel."
"The exploration missions on the Earth Continent cover absolutely everything. There's every kind imaginable. In my opinion, the Mountain-Sea Realm really has changed since Dreamland joined us."
"Dreamland? Could that organization have come from that cosmic expanse too?"
"It did before. Later, not quite. You could say it was reborn once."
Someone gave a vague reply without making things too clear, but the word "reborn" alone was enough for them to imagine what sort of past lay behind it.
"Didn't a new realm appear recently? Quite a few sects have sent disciples there, and plenty of rogue cultivators and unaffiliated wanderers have gone too."
"That realm is a little unusual. It still holds traces of primordial immortals' auras."
"What? Haven't practically all the primordial immortals reincarnated?"
Ever since Floating Light became popular, supposedly secret news that everyone tacitly understood could often be seen on it too.
Sometimes, after cultivating alone for too long, a person would inevitably feel the urge to share.
Most cultivators did not follow paths of forsaking emotion