Frostfall Star Domain, the frontier, Sparse Paulownia Star.
This star occupied an excellent geographical position within the star domain. It faced three great star domains to the north and backed onto the domain's three central stellar corridors. Even Star River Sky Boats passed through here, making it an exceptionally prosperous major cultivation star.
Ancient aristocratic clans, sects, and other powers abounded on this star.
Ever since that group of mysterious powerhouses had purchased the entire star domain, they had frequently stirred up trouble, constantly suppressing the various factions. From time to time, immortals even emerged in person to subdue them.
Sparse Paulownia Star was renowned both within and beyond the star domain for its paulownia ore. This ore could be refined into star paulownia essence, one of the materials favored by the Immortal Puppet Clan of Eternal Antiquity, since it was one of the minor ingredients used to refine physical bodies.
It had also been a long time since any powerful Immortal Puppets had emerged directly in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
One could say that the descendants of the Immortal Puppet Clan were all mortal beings who likewise cultivated ten thousand Daos. But the heavenly materials and earthly treasures required in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm were so frighteningly extravagant that the conditions for their descendants to transform into spirits could no longer be sustained. Thus, those who descended from Eternal Antiquity were also quite fond of paulownia ore.
Immortal Puppets held a position of enormous importance in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm. They could be called the finest Dao companions for cultivators of every race.
Thus, they had also "paid a hefty price" for Sparse Paulownia Star.
Inside a mine.
A large group of Nethermarrow Mistborn were pouring out their magical power there, mining chunks of paulownia ore