With this exertion, Daoist Guan had brought great honor to Mirage Tower's cultivation world.
The opening of this trade route had come suddenly and proceeded rather hastily, leaving preparations inadequate on every front. The Lihai Military Governor's Office had mixed feelings: it wanted to expand its economic interests, yet did not want Yingtai Immortal Island to seize the initiative. Thus, it had gathered cultivators in great numbers for the Sea God Festival, intending to put the visitors from Yingtai in their place and show them the flourishing prosperity of the mainland's cultivation world.
But the people of Yingtai had taken an unconventional approach. A single great whale had made Mirage Tower's cultivators lose face. Although they had achieved some results, these had fallen far short of anything spectacular. Even the Military Governor's Office itself found them unimpressive and wished it could take the field in person to salvage some dignity.
The waxing and waning of cultivation powers took place imperceptibly through encounters like these. So, one could consider this merely a game, but its outcome could still have far-reaching consequences, forming certain habitual assumptions as rumors spread. For example, that favorite tale of the human world-an overseas immortal mountain saving the world?
The appearance of this great whale belonging to the Yingtai cultivators had indeed caught everyone off guard. Some powerful cultivators abroad had yet to return, the Commerce Guild's cultivators were weak, and particular cultivation methods had their limitations. All these reasons had made this whale-pulling contest less than satisfactory, failing to demonstrate the mainland's formidable cultivation strength.
But Guan Ruyu's appearance had nevertheless given the Military Governor's Office a pleasant surprise. Only cultivators like this could form the backbone of Mirage Tower's cultivation community, even if he was merely a visitor himself.
With his first exertion, the great