Chu Mo rode his Spirit Cloud toward the sect's Dharma Transmission Plaza, answering the sect's summons.
The sun and moon flew like shuttles, and time raced by. In the blink of an eye, a year had passed since he spread those rumors and ambushed Li Kui outside the sect.
For cultivators whose lifespans often stretched into centuries, a year was merely a snap of the fingers. Yet this year had been particularly unusual.
Over the next three months, news of the "Profound Sun Realm" had spread like wildfire across the plains, stirring an uproar everywhere.
Eventually, almost everyone knew that the sect's True Lords had successfully secured the coordinates of that small world and were planning to send Outer Disciples to conduct preliminary exploration.
As soon as the news broke, the prices of all sorts of resources needed by the sect's Qi Refining cultivators soared, rising with a ferocity that surpassed even the frenzy during the outer disciple assessment.
In particular, talismans, pills, and other necessities for late Qi Refining cultivators commonly rose to several times their original prices, or even tenfold.
Had the Upper Mound Commerce Association not deliberately restricted its lending out of concern that borrowers might die in the Otherworld before it could recover its investment, the prices would have been even more outrageous.
As for Chu Mo, his gains over the past year had been abundant indeed.
[Character information] Player: Chu Mo Level: 8
Thanks to the estates those wonderful fellow disciples had "generously donated," his cultivation had not only risen steadily to the eighth level of Qi Refining, but was now close to the ninth.
The Profound Scenery Refining Truth Banner had also been refined to the limit of his current cultivation realm, raising its maximum capacity for Banner Spirits to ninety-nine.
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