Even though it was the end of autumn, the trees on Palace Willow Island remained as lush and exuberant as ever.0

This island was the home of the True Realm Sect, and it was also where the sect's ancestral hall was situated.0

Over the past year, the entirety of Bamboo Scroll Lake, including Palace Willow Island, had been constantly undergoing drastic changes. The True Realm Sect possessed immense wealth, and it had hired many Mohism mechanists and Naturalist geomancers to examine the terrain and ascertain the state of the mountain roots and water fortune. 0

Additionally, large numbers of immortals and artisans from various schools of thought had been hired as laborers to carry out different projects. Jiang Shangzhen had told them to spare no expense, stipulating that every single floor tile, window, and everything else had to be the best that the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent had to offer.1

Among the hired laborers were hundreds of cultivators who excelled in constructing immortal abodes, and the vast majority of them had come from the Parasol Leaf Continent. These people had to travel to the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent via intercontinental ship, and upon their arrival, they were all arranged to stay in various immortal inns. 0

Just the costs of their intercontinental ship fare and accommodation alone amounted to an astronomical sum that would've enough to bankrupt many of the past island factions of Bamboo Scroll Lake.0

Hence, it was made known to all of the immortal sects on the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent that the True Realm Sect possessed an absurd amount of wealth, and with three and half guest elders of the Upper Five Tiers among its ranks, the True Realm Sect had no fear in flaunting its wealth.0

Those three and half guest elders consisted of a female sword immortal from the Northern Complete Reed Continent by the name of Li Cai, the old man from the Jade Tablet Sect that originally had hopes of becoming the leader...0