[You examined the fourth-tier spirit veins of the Infinite Domain to see whether there was a better choice.]
[You did not fully trust the Profound Venerable. What if his true objective was your nascent soul?]
[The nascent soul of a human True Lord was a potent tonic for a Fourth-Tier Beast King.]
[Even if a Grand True Person at core formation perfection successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, they would be at their weakest immediately afterward.]
[If the Profound Venerable chose to strike then, an ordinary newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivator would have difficulty resisting.]
[But from what you had seen so far, the fourth-tier spirit veins in the Infinite Domain were less reliable than the Profound Venerable's Profound King Island.]
["Next was the Nine Li Valley..."]
[All five Nascent Soul-level factions in the Infinite Domain possessed fourth-tier spirit veins. The Infinite Hall's was even a large-scale vein, capable of supporting the cultivation of one middle-stage True Lord and several early-stage True Lords.]
[However, the conditions for attempting a Nascent Soul breakthrough on the Infinite Hall's fourth-tier spirit vein were even harsher. The Red Crow Sect was little better.]
[Now, only the Nine Li Valley remained for you to investigate.]
[The Nine Li Valley was a body cultivation sect.]
[In the initial stages of body cultivation, such as the first tier, there was little need for external spiritual energy. Resources for tempering the body were sufficient.]
[But after reaching the second tier, body cultivators began to require external spiritual energy, no less than spell cultivators at the same level.]
[At the Nine Li Valley, the deputy valley master received you. He had a burly physique and eyes blazing like torches.]
["Are you also a body cultivator, fellow Daoist?" the deputy valley master asked as he sized you up.]