After they finished laughing, Li Chen asked, "Do you know who that Master Artisan Luo is?"
Wu Ding gritted his teeth. "I heard those lackeys mention him. He's the Valley Master of Yunshan Valley, a rogue cultivator who has achieved Foundation Establishment."
He Ran's expression shifted slightly. "The Valley Master of Yunshan Valley?"
Li Chen looked at He Ran. "Brother, you know him?"
He Ran said, "I passed through this area many years ago, and I believe I heard his name then. Yunshan Valley is a typical lower-grade blessed land, occupied by a powerful rogue cultivator like him as a spirit pool base, a foothold from which to develop..."
Spirit peak blessed lands were the acupoints of the continents, places containing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and all manner of spiritual essence. They were graded according to how much spiritual essence they held.
Generally, the grading standard was a quantitative measure of spiritual essence. Those holding around ten thousand units were lower-grade blessed lands.
Aside from the blessings of spiritual essence that dispersed into the surrounding world, such places could generally also support a spirit mine producing around ten thousand spirit stones a day.
Li Chen understood. "So Yunshan Valley is a lower-grade blessed land. Still, since he's a Foundation Establishment cultivator, that isn't surprising."
The total spiritual essence and output of a lower-grade blessed land could differ from those of a middle-grade blessed land by nearly a hundredfold. This also meant that without the corresponding cultivation and strength, one had no hope of holding such territory.
Thus, not only the Eastern Victory Continent but even the Other Continent had developed a corresponding unwritten rule: Foundation Establishment cultivators could occupy lower-grade blessed lands, and only lower-grade blessed lands.
Of course, some cultivators who stumbled into extraordinary luck might