The Immortal Alliance's indecision did not last long after all, for the situation before them was almost clear at a glance.
They could not stop it.
The Celestial Seven Wonders Studio soon received permission to enter the Earthly Immortal Continent and tour this venerable sanctuary of traditional cultivation.
For an ascendant like Youxuan, who sought to challenge the established order, it was like a mouse falling into a rice jar. He was beside himself with joy.
With songstress Puppet Dolls being sold far and wide, he gained more surrogate vessels to inhabit. When necessary, he could even slip into the mortal world through the network and harvest vital essence everywhere.
Taking this opportunity, he also slipped into the Earthly Immortal Continent alongside them, further consolidating his Dao Fruit.
Afterward, a mysterious legend began circulating among low-level cultivators in the markets: if someone happened to buy an exceptional songstress Puppet Doll, they could meet a fairy in their dreams, almost as though encountering the goddess of Mount Wu.
Those who had never encountered him dismissed it as nonsense, nothing but fabricated rumors.
Throughout the Earthly Immortal Continent, nature spirits and demonic cultivators drew great inspiration from this and began trying to connect to the Puppet World Heavenly Net, or gradually entered modernizing human society, interacting closely with common folk and low-level cultivators.
All of this tangibly strengthened the ties between the cultivation world and the mundane world, making cultivators and mortals increasingly difficult to separate.
Yet not everyone welcomed these changes. A group of traditional cultivators still loathed them bitterly and simply sealed off their mountains and entered seclusion, retreating deep into the Immortal Haven.
What they truly needed were spirit materials and cultivation provisions. They only had to support sufficiently capable proxies to obtain most of the mortal world's produce