Crescent Moon Lake Water

The small world didn't seem to be very large—its diameter was roughly five or six hundred meters. Beyond that, there was only a vast expanse of white, and Lin Xiao couldn't take another step forward.

He looked up at the sky, noting that the light and time within this space seemed to be in sync with the outside world. It appeared that there was no time-flow difference or anything of that sort.

He took another stroll around the crescent-shaped lake, but found nothing unusual or special—except that the lake water was exceptionally clear and pure.

Lin Xiao cupped a handful of water and stored it in his private inventory, then used his appraisal ability.

[Moon Crescent Lake Water, produced from the Yaoguang Small World, premium water quality. When paired with a spirit vein of any rank, it can be elevated to top-grade spirit lake water.]

Seeing this appraisal result, Lin Xiao was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected that while the main Yaoguang Floating Island was so barren, this attached small world would be so rich in resources.

With that in mind, he began to have some expectations for the value of the various flowers growing all over the ground. Perhaps their worth was considerable too.

However, these things weren't of immediate importance—he didn't have any spare spirit veins right now anyway.

What mattered most at the moment was expanding the sect! Their training rooms had become way too cramped!

After roughly touring the small world, Lin Xiao quickly exited through the entrance and returned to the Yaoguang Floating Island.

He didn't rush to change the entrance location of the small world, nor did he start making his own plans. Instead, he opened the settled population management interface and clicked on the add option.

Then the sect's roster popped up.

Lin Xiao added every single member in one go.

This way, all sect members would be able to come up there.

After finishing that, he hurriedly made his way back down from the floating island to the mountainside.

He needed to bring everyone up here to take a look around!

A floating island suspended in the sky! How awesome was that!

He could already imagine the look of shock on his father's face when he came up here and saw it!

And so he completely forgot that he had told Liu Yunan just a short while ago that he'd be busy recently. He quickly gathered everyone in the sect to assemble in front of the secret garden.

The gathered sect members looked at the excited Lin Xiao with some confusion.

Still, they were happy to see their sect master return, and they all greeted him one after another.

They also asked about the interesting experiences from their trip to the cultivation world.

Looking at the lively crowd, Lin Xiao raised a hand to signal for quiet, then said happily with a grand wave of his hand:

“Everyone, follow me!”

With that, he took the lead at the front of the group to show the way.

A crowd of people followed behind Lin Xiao to the newly appeared stone platform.

Jiang Youfu tilted his head to peek around the people blocking his view, looking at the stone platform and asking:

“Eh? Brother Xiao, is this something new you made?”

Lin Xiao stopped in front of the stone platform and turned around, nodding at him:

“That's right. The thing I want to show you all today is right here.”

With that, he pointed a finger at the sky.

The crowd followed his gesture and looked up.

“Hey? What's that dark patch up there?”

“Not sure, it's pretty big. But it's not floating or moving—it's just hanging there still.”

Everyone spotted the object in the sky. At first, they thought it was just something blown up by the wind, but looking closer, they realized it wasn't.

“Don't you think... the more I look at it, the more it looks like an upside-down mountain?”

“How could that be? How could a mountain flip upside down and fly into the sky... well, now that you mention it, it really does look like one!”

Seeing everyone discussing among themselves, Lin Xiao didn't keep them guessing. He said directly:

“Everyone, follow me. We're going up there right now!”

Without waiting for questions, he turned and stepped onto the stone platform.

The next moment, a soft white light flickered on the platform, and he vanished from it.

Seeing that, Jiang Youfu was the first to rush up:

“Brother Xiao, wait for me!”

Then another flash of white light, and he disappeared too.

Lin Dayou, Lin Yun, and Liu Yunan immediately rushed over as well.

Then came the others...

After Lin Xiao arrived on the floating island, before he could even take a step, someone bumped into him from behind.

Fortunately, with his current strength, he couldn't be knocked over by a light bump. Standing as steady as a mountain, Lin Xiao turned around and saw Jiang Youfu rubbing his forehead.

“Brother Xiao, the back of your head is so hard—it bumped my head and it hurts.”

He barely finished speaking when another flash of white light appeared behind him. Lin Xiao, quick as lightning, yanked him to the side, avoiding a collision.

This time, it was Lin Dayou, Lin Yun, and Liu Yunan who came up.

Before he could say anything, Lin Xiao saw another flash of white light behind them and quickly pulled them aside as well.

This time, Tietou came up with the two young girls, as well as the master-disciple pair Little Luan and Da Tao.

After that, each arrival came up on the stone platform in groups of no more than five people.

When Lin Xiao asked, they all said more than five people had come onto the stone platform at the same time.

This way, Lin Xiao knew that the stone platform could teleport a maximum of five people at a time.

He wondered if this limit would increase as the floating island was upgraded.

When everyone had come up and saw the vast open land before them, surrounded by endless white, they looked somewhat confused.

“Brother Xiao, where is this?”

Lin Xiao replied:

“This is the place we saw from below. This is a floating island—we're up in the air right now.”

Upon hearing this, everyone found it incredibly hard to believe. They quickly scattered and walked toward the edges.

Arriving at the edge of the floating island, they saw wisps of faint clouds drifting past and felt utterly astounded.

When they tentatively—yet curiously—poked their heads down to look below, they saw their sect shrunk to a tiny size, and their village, Xiushui Village, and they were both shocked and delighted.

“Wow! We're really up in the sky!”

“I can see our sect's main hall!”

“Heavens, we've become immortals, haven't we?! We can actually fly up to the sky!”

...

Although everyone had been cultivating for a while now, this ethereal sensation still felt extremely surreal to them.

Because in their ingrained impression, people lived on the ground.

Even after cultivating, with the ability to sometimes rise to high altitudes through magic, they would always eventually come back down to the earth.

Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that one day, they would be able to float steadily at such a great height.

Seeing that everyone was overjoyed and that no one showed obvious signs of acrophobia, Lin Xiao felt relieved. He then said to them:

“As you all know, relying on the space on that mountainside alone is far from enough to expand our sect. Yes, we've been expanding onto North Mountain, but that's reserved for future disciples we'll recruit. I was thinking that we need to separate some things—from now on, the mountainside will serve as our public front, and we'll move the more important stuff up here.”