"This way, even many wilderness rogue cultivators will have a chance to put their abilities to use."
"With so many people helping defend the city, resources and techniques are bound to flow outward. Opportunities to advance in cultivation that are normally hard to find will follow."
"But for me, the real opportunity lies in accepting commissions from Taiqiu Immortal City. Exchanging contributions alone will be enough to meet my development needs for decades."
"The only thing truly worth looking forward to is meeting a Grand Artisan and witnessing the bearing of this world's Puppet Master Grand Artisans!"
A Puppet Master Grand Artisan was practically the highest-ranking figure an ordinary person could meet. They could refine puppets of five-star grade or higher, and their cultivation rivaled Core Formation. They commanded crucial techniques involving the void of the Cosmic Dao and the materialization of primordial energy, making them extraordinary figures who could influence the affairs of an entire region anywhere in the world.
Yet Li Chen, who came from the inland regions, had never met such a figure. In that respect, he fell short of Wu Ding.
Wu Ding came from the Linhai Region and had once bragged that, at ten years old, he had shaken hands and spoken with a Puppet Master Grand Artisan, who had even praised him as clever and adorable.
Although that had merely been a public display of approachability, it still indirectly showed that people in the Linhai Region did indeed have more opportunities to encounter mighty experts.
Another month or so soon passed, and before he knew it, December had arrived.
Li Chen continued his advanced studies of the Spirit-Gathering Formation and delved into the Array Dao through the Book of the Nine Xuanmen Arrays. As he refined his own Rune Script Dao path, he also