Dingyuan Immortal City's black market differed greatly from the black markets of other marketplaces and immortal cities. Because this immortal city bordered the Myriad-Scale Clustered Lakes, countless underground waterways and water caverns lay beneath it, making it a natural place to hide filth and harbor grime.
Over time, these underground water caverns had become the various "shops" of Dingyuan Immortal City's black market.
The waterways were the passages leading to these black-market shops.
In terms of number, the black-market shops were as numerous as Dingyuan Immortal City's underground water caverns—scattered like stars across the sky, vast as the sea.
Moreover, to ensure the secrecy of black-market dealings, the masters of the black market had laid layer upon layer of restrictive mist throughout the underground waterways, preventing anyone from probing with divine sense.
Thus, without a local cultivator to guide them, even Void Refinement cultivators who entered this place would, so long as they did not wish to anger the black market's masters, find locating a suitable black-market shop as bewildering as ghosts building walls before their eyes.
Fortunately, guided by the soul memories of the Snake-Scale Tribe cultivator, Wei Tu had gained a fairly thorough understanding of Dingyuan Immortal City's black market.
After purchasing a black cloak at a black-market shop near the waterway entrance to conceal divine-sense detection, Wei Tu tapped the canoe moored at the dock with the tip of his foot. He skillfully bypassed layer after layer of water checkpoints and arrived at the entrance of a water cavern marked "Heart's Desire Pavilion."
As its name implied, Heart's Desire Pavilion promised that all would go as one wished. It did not specialize in selling spirit items or spirit materials. Instead, it helped customers resolve their troubles, operating as a broker in the marketplace.
The "channel" through which