Shiqiong Realm lay at the junction of the Immortal Severance Land and the Sea of Boundary Turmoil, on the fringes of the latter.
Although it was actually still a considerable distance from the Immortal Severance Land, most factions considered this region extremely dangerous. Almost no faction with any other choice would settle here.
This was also why Shiqiong Realm had settled here-all the good locations had long since been divided among other factions.
Of course, the Sea of Boundary Turmoil was an expanse of emptiness. Whether a location was good depended on little more than its safety and whether it was suitable for placing world embryos.
Having chosen to settle near the Immortal Severance Land, Shiqiong Realm naturally had few suitable places to place world embryos.
Without suitable places to nurture world embryos, they could not obtain a stable supply of Dao Treasures to exchange for resources and counters in the market of Great Sea Market.
Without resources and counters, Shiqiong Realm's cultivators had no chance to advance further. This formed a vicious cycle, and Shiqiong Realm's circumstances steadily deteriorated.
Precisely because of this, the name "Shiqiong"—stone-poor—was practically the truest portrayal of the Shiqiong Realm Cultivators.
Driven into a corner, the Shiqiong Realm Cultivators were even forced to sell their own cultivators in exchange for the resources they needed.
This was why Qin Lingxiao's reincarnation and the other Shiqiong Realm cultivators had been put up for sale in the market.
Wang Ba had learned all this from Qin Lingxiao's reincarnation.
As for Qin Lingxiao's true spirit, Shiqiong Realm's sole cultivator with a fifth-tier Dao Domain had obtained it while traveling through the Sea of Boundary Turmoil.
But Qin Lingxiao's reincarnation knew nothing of how exactly she had appeared in the Sea of Boundary Turmoil. After all, she had only been