A Reunion with an Old Acquaintance, a Sudden Killing Urge, Bai Ye's Opportunity, and Core Formation Spirit Medicine

Connecting Cloud Tower!

It was a tall building on Central Avenue in Sky Wave Immortal City.

As the busiest street with the heaviest foot traffic, its storefronts belonged either to Nascent Soul Upper Sects from the Outer Domain or to major sect businesses within the Jade Cauldron Domain.

The fact that the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance owned a shop here showed just how powerful it had been at its peak.

Three Great Cultivators at Late-Stage Foundation Establishment, another dozen or so Foundation Establishment True Cultivators, and businesses spread across more than ten Marketplaces large and small—resources flowing in from every direction had converged on the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance to support this one shop.

Of course!

Even all that had not really been enough.

Behind the scenes, the Fallen Cloud Sect must have supported them.

So the Sword Sect's suspicion that the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance had secretly colluded with the Fallen Cloud Sect had not been groundless.

Standing outside Connecting Cloud Tower, Luo Chen watched in secret for a long time.

A shop in such a prime location must have generated hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones in profit each year!

The Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance alone probably could not keep all those earnings.

By comparison, although the Luo Tian Association had far surpassed the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance at its peak in influence, its main shop, Danxia Hall, could only occupy a corner of the immortal city. Its annual earnings were modest.

If only the Luo Tian Association could own a shop like this on Central Avenue.

As Luo Chen reflected on that, his observations gradually yielded an answer.

"The Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance's decline has left Connecting Cloud Tower with fewer and fewer goods. Despite its prime location, it draws far fewer customers than the other major