The entire latter half of the year passed amid an unrelenting craze for the Otherworld, in Central Province and across the world alike.
Campaigning in the Jianmu World and opening up the distant Starry Sky became topics of fervent discussion among all Spirit Tamers. This was partly due to the major sects and aristocratic clans fanning the flames: they wanted to sustain the interest of rogue cultivators and their own subordinates in the expedition, securing a steady stream of manpower and resources. But people from every quarter also took an interest of their own accord, influencing one another and delighting in it.
Almost every day, new species and treasured materials were discovered, then brought back as spoils by expeditionary elites traveling between the two worlds.
To trumpet the benefits of expeditions to the Otherworld, the major sects and aristocratic clans even began joining forces to deliberately build up heroes who had made great contributions during the campaigns, or fortunate souls blessed with extraordinary luck who had obtained all manner of treasured materials and spirit medicines, setting themselves on a path to defy heaven and change their fate.
Wang Daolin, a rogue cultivator from Central Province, signed up for the Expeditionary Corps selection in July, passed the screening in the middle of the month, received a Dao Marker, and successfully traveled to the Jianmu World in August.
Within just a few days, he accidentally ate a strange vermilion fruit in a mountain forest. Not only did his cultivation surge by several decades, catapulting him from an ordinary seventh-turn Spirit Tamer to the tenth turn of the Human Rank, but his root bone also improved, giving him some chance of advancing to the Earth Rank.
The Cloud Summit Alliance also accepted the information he submitted about the vermilion fruit, classifying it as