During this time, Su Hong had settled down in the Tianli Clan. Occasionally, she would seek out Li Yan and chat with him at length. Li Yan did not reject this from the bottom of his heart.
The force behind "Return Home" was powerful—so powerful that even the Phantom Sect could not contend with it. Naturally, a force like that was worth befriending.
Especially now that Li Yan was a Nascent Soul cultivator, he had learned more conjectures about "Return Home" from the sect. Records suggested that the force behind this merchant establishment was highly likely to come from the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
When Li Yan had first read this, he had been profoundly shocked, finding such speculation somewhat hard to believe.
First, the other party's origins truly were astonishingly immense, far beyond his imagination.
Second, this sort of business in the lower realm seemingly could not compare to the Immortal-Spirit Realm at all. Other forces from the Immortal-Spirit Realm might not necessarily think highly of it.
Yet the implications were entirely different. The lower realms were also boundless and endless, with many undiscovered treasures hidden within them. Some might be treasures that even the Immortal-Spirit Realm did not possess.
Third, although the other party appeared merely to engage in trade, their reach had actually extended into every aspect of things. The more one thought about it, the more terrifying it became. From gathering intelligence on the cultivation world to tracking the movements of lower-realm sects and cultivators, their shadow could be found everywhere.
One had to know that the roots of many cultivation sects and great cultivators in the upper realm lay in the Mortal Realm.
With such information, they could even formulate effective plans, good or bad, against certain sects or individuals in the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
And "Return Home"