At the start of autumn, Dongwu Stockade was livelier than usual.
This great stockaded city, home to over ten thousand people, lay at the eastern foot of the Tianyun Mountain Range and occupied a vast valley. It was named for the many parasol trees growing within the valley.
Although a fine drizzle fell from the sky, plenty of people still came and went through the stockade.
Following the long street paved with bluestone slabs, Wang Chen held an oil-paper umbrella and slowly walked forward amid the bustling crowd.
Half a month ago, he had arrived at this Rogue Cultivator stockade far from Yunyang's former territory. With his seventh level of Qi Condensation cultivation and three hundred Lower Spirit, he had settled down in Dongwu Stockade.
He now had a new home of his own.
Dongwu Stockade had been established long ago, and its stockade chiefs had changed many times.
The one currently holding power was a Purple Mansion master named Xin Han. More than half the people in the stockade were cultivators. The rest included ordinary mortals, Quasi-cultivators undergoing Mortal Transformation, and some Innate Martial Artists.
The residents of the stockade were a mixed bag of fish and dragons, yet under Xin Han's firm control, it was quite stable within.
There were countless Rogue Cultivator stockades in the Outer Region, but few had a stockade chief with Purple Mansion cultivation.
Purple Mansion cultivators carried considerable weight. Most sects would welcome them with open arms and grant them corresponding treatment.
Even if they could not enter the Inner Sect core upon arrival, they could still easily secure a position as an elder in the Outer Sect.
A sect's cultivation environment and cultivation resources were simply beyond comparison with those of a Rogue Cultivator stockade.
Yet exceptions always existed. Some Purple Mansion