"Who does it look like?"

On the Tianhe Lingxu Ship, in a quiet room, Luo Chen casually sketched on a piece of white rice paper.

Sima Huiniang stood beside him, frowning slightly as she watched the outline gradually become clearer.

Wrinkles spread like roots extending.

Dry and withered, resembling dilapidated dead wood.

A face that was once considered kind became dark and sinister with the addition of Luo Chen's finishing touch on the eyes, making them gloomy and malevolent.

Facing Luo Chen's inquiry, Sima Huiniang hesitated for a moment before her red lips opened slightly.

"It does feel familiar, somewhat like a senior who used to take care of us in the Five Elements Divine Sect."

Luo Chen put down the brush, looking at the side profile of Sima Huiniang as she racked her brain.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up.

"That's right, this face indeed looks about sixty to seventy percent like True Master Lin Mu!"

"Could it really be him?"

Luo Chen murmured to himself.

After a private conversation with Elder Fu, this was exactly what he was told.

Before Sima Huiniang stepped down as the Luotian Sect Master, she had many dealings with the Five Elements Divine Sect, so of course, she had seen the kind-hearted True Master Lin Mu, known as a good-natured person.

Now, she also thinks so!

Upon hearing Luo Chen's words, Sima Huiniang was somewhat puzzled.

"Husband, logically speaking, when you returned, True Master Lin Mu's physical body had been destroyed by the Demon Emperor, and his Nascent Soul was in closed-door cultivation healing. You shouldn't have met him, right? So why are you drawing his portrait now without reason?"

Why indeed?

Luo Chen was pondering the same question.

Having the physical body destroyed is a severe injury just short of harming the Nascent Soul for a cultivator who has not reached the God Transformation Realm and condensed their Primordial Spirit!

But such injuries can be remedied.

By seeking suitable materials to reconstruct the physical body or resorting to the most despicable soul snatch method, Nascent Soul cultivators would promptly handle this issue.

However, True Master Lin Mu spent decades healing, never appearing in public.

Even when the battle at Lingtian Pass reached its most perilous point, and even after True Master Jin Ling of the Five Elements Divine Sect died in battle, he never showed himself.

Could he truly remain so composed?

Now it seems that it's not about True Master Lin Mu being able to keep calm, but he probably met with an accident.

And this accident is most likely courtesy of his senior brother, True Master Shenyuan!

Otherwise, there's no way to explain why True Master Shenyuan would reveal that true appearance.

"Fusion and assimilation, absorb and devour?"

Luo Chen did not know what means True Master Shenyuan had used, but he knew that this person was definitely not as kind as he appeared before leaving.

After all, someone who can harm the Nascent Soul of his own fellow disciple, how kind could he really be?

Moreover, given the malice previously directed at him...

As Luo Chen thought, he suddenly shook his head with a smile.

Forget it!

After handling affairs here, he would venture to the Dark Abyss Sect, and with True Master Shenyuan having not many years left to live, there would be no more interactions.

Why bother dwelling on it?

The sudden change in attitude from the other side clearly indicates fear of the Dark Abyss Sect, thus willingly wiping away all past grievances.

A small fireball popped out casually, the portrait was reduced to ashes.

Luo Chen turned and walked out, Hui Niang following beside him, casually talking about the recent developments in territorial expansion.

Mostly Hui Niang spoke while Luo Chen listened, occasionally giving a bit of advice.

"Mount Sky Realm has a large Fourth Order Spirit Vein, stretching over three thousand miles. This area has already been cleared by Wang Yuan, with no Demon Beasts lingering anymore. Currently, disciples from the Tiandu Sect are clearing blockages in the Spirit Vein, setting up arrays, and enlightening Spirit Caves."

"In the future, a range of three thousand miles centered around Mount Sky Cliff will be our sect's main headquarters."

"According to the advice of Elder Fu and Fenghua Fairy, the territory of a Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect should be at least ten thousand miles in radius. Even if we don't use it all now, the scale cannot be diminished."

Luo Chen nodded, a three-thousand-mile sect core, a territory of ten thousand miles in radius, indeed follows the standard specification for a Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect.

Only with such a foundation can it support future generations of Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect disciples numbering tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands in cultivation.

Conducting a feat like the Medicine King Sect dominating a domain requires not only formidable strength but also immense financial resources.

Otherwise, such a vast territory cannot be controlled and might as well be entrusted to smaller factions to manage.

As for whether the Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect would lose too many benefits in this process?

There is indeed a solution to this.

That is, to jointly build Immortal Cities with various small factions, with the Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect holding the largest share in each Immortal City, and earning the largest portion of future city profits.

Accumulating over time, the resources acquired by the Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect would be extraordinarily significant.

As long as there's no fundamental foolishness in future development, it wouldn't fall short compared to those Golden Core Great Sects.

Hence, over the past three thousand years, any Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect capable of opening up a domain has mostly grown stronger, rarely falling off the ascendant list.

Even in Golden Core Great Sects, faced with talents like True Master Shenyuan, True Master Yu Ding, or Han Zhan, they can't contend with local Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects in the short term. They can only seek external development under restricted conditions, launching new open wars.

"Moreover, some resource-rich areas in the Mount Sky Realm are actively surveyed and itemized one by one by Elder Ling Fengzi and his team."

"Other small factions are vigorously advancing, sweeping through the remaining Demon Beasts in the Luotian Domain."

"However, there is discord among them, often fighting fiercely over low-order Spirit Veins rich in Spirit Qi."

"Unlike the times of major wars between humans and demons, no longer bound by rules from Lingtian Pass, in just a few days, several have already come to serious conflict, causing not insignificant casualties."

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