Reckless shopping

Only five days remained before the first stage of the tournament would be over. 

Since the results from the visiting cultivators would result right after it, only the major powers, citizens and tourists were interested in the second part of the event, where the elders from their respective powers tried to reestablish their home faction prowess amongst the others.

While it was only a hearsay, people believed that by ranking higher in the second part of the tournament, a faction could gain access to the lands richer in energy, allowing for a greater haul of medicinal treasures or even cultivation. 

Thinking about it, It could be both truth and a lie. As soon as the balance of the powers was established for the first time, those who got their hands on the better terrain would grow only grow stronger, while those who lacked the strength to secure profitable powerbase, had to look somewhere else.