Walking slowly through the illusory streets, Luo Chen thought back to that moment, his heart stirring slightly.0

He had to come! The ideal cultivation site for a Foundation Establishment Initiate was one with a second-tier spirit vein. Such places were incredibly rare, even within and around Dahe Market.0

Normally, few Foundation Establishment cultivators would remain in a first-tier spirit vein area. Unless, they were family-bound cultivators like Mi Shuhua, Nangong Jin, or Li Yixian. Bound by their families and unwilling to abandon the rich resources, they had chosen to stay. Or alternatively, they were sect-affiliated cultivators dispatched to remote marketplaces under long-term missions to manage sect holdings.0

Even without second-tier spirit veins, such cultivators often had special methods to assist their cultivation. Mi Shuhua, for instance, used a spirit-gathering array to transform land into pseudo second-tier veins. Duan Qiankun, on the other hand, would activate the Ice-Fire Spirit Spring to temporarily create a pseudo second-tier spirit land.0

But such methods came at a steep cost.0

The resources required were enormous, which was why many chose instead to rely more heavily...0