He knew full well that refining an immortal treasure required a vast amount of Five Elements Essence, far more than any single family or clan could gather.
Back when Chen Nianzhi became an immortal, advancing his immortal treasures had nearly exhausted all the Five Elements Essence in the Purple Yin Realm.
Though the Immortal Realm was far more vast, immortal birds and demonic beasts were everywhere. For mortals to survive and multiply, they had to rely on mountain-guarding formations at the Nascent Soul or even Primordial Spirit level.
Thus, the population was far less dense than in the mortal realm, and cultivators were exceedingly scarce by comparison. Outside the immortal islands where humans gathered, one could often travel billions of miles without encountering a single cultivator.
Under such circumstances, to gather enough cultivators to collect Five Elements Essence, one either had to pay an exorbitant price to buy it—
—or establish an immortal clan or sect oneself, spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of years nurturing mortal cultivators.
Although the Void-Refining Immortal had established an immortal clan in the Immortal Realm, it had only been a few tens of thousands of years. The Five Elements Essence it produced was not even enough to advance his Void-Refining Divine Furnace into a mid-grade immortal treasure. How could he have any to spare for Chen Nianzhi?
At that thought, Jiang Linglong could not help asking, "Then what should we do?"
"It's a pity we have no one to handle it. Otherwise, we could purchase Five Elements Essence from those Primordial Spirit immortal clans in the Red Dragon Sea."
Chen Nianzhi sighed. There were quite a few Primordial Spirit immortal clans in the Red Dragon Sea. When Chen Nianzhi had first established his mountain, several hundred Primordial Spirit immortal clans had come to