Maintaining an Immortal City, managing an Immortal City and the nearly hundred Cultivation Markets of all sizes in its vicinity likewise tested a cultivator's capabilities.
Of course, with absolute cultivation, he did not need to handle every matter personally, nor did he have to find every matter as inscrutable as those in ordinary places.
Yet the purpose of this incarnation was to temper his heart in the Mortal World. After the Void Realm, the Great Dao stretched boundlessly onward. Whether one entered that stretch of the Long River of Time where one's own Dao Seal lay, or ventured into the Outer Void, cultivation of one's state of mind was of paramount importance.
Thus, while Lu Qing himself cultivated in seclusion within the mountains, his youthful incarnation began making a series of administrative changes to the Immortal City.
These changes were not drastic, beginning instead with subtle details. The most obvious was the change in order. Lu Qing had no intention of turning this place into a paradise for cultivators, but if the surrounding region still retained its former atmosphere of wanton robbery and slaughter despite his abilities, that would be far too dismissive of him, the master of Bixin Mountain.
No matter how others treated the Immortal Cities and Immortal Markets around them, they all had their own sets of rules.
There were now many travelers and cultivators passing through. If someone caused trouble here one day, Lu Qing felt that the enemy they sought would first set their sights on the Dao Abode here.
Thus, the benefits and drawbacks of establishing a Dao Abode outside were both obvious. Recently, Lu Qing had likewise sensed a great mountain looming directly before him on his path of cultivation.
That was the next stage after the Void Realm.
It had only been