The conflict with the Gu Family came to a temporary end, but the flow of people on Myriad Tide City's main street did not lessen in the slightest because of it. Instead, it grew even livelier. Lu Changsheng and the others followed the bustling crowd and continued along the main street toward the center of the city.
The shops on both sides of the street grew stranger and more dazzling: there were treasure pavilions with giant shells for facades, spirit herb shops with signboards carved from thousand-year-old mysterious ice, and even some sea-race vendors who had set up stalls directly by the roadside. A huge demonic beast hide was spread out before them, piled high with all kinds of spirit-energy-shrouded ores and bone fragments. They hawked at the tops of their lungs, their voices rising wave after wave.
"Make way! All of you, make way!"
Just then, a deep, imposing shout suddenly came from up ahead on the street. Along with the heavy, orderly sound of footsteps, the originally crowded stream of people was split apart as if by an invisible sharp blade, and they all retreated to either side.
In the center of the street, an extravagantly luxurious carriage was slowly making its way over.
The carriage was not made from ordinary spirit wood. Its main body had actually been carved from one complete piece of "purple-gold warm jade." A faint purple-gold halo flowed over it from top to bottom, gleaming brilliantly under the sunlight, so lavish it made one dizzy.
Pulling the carriage were not ordinary horses, but four snow-white Cloud-Treading Qilin Beasts with single horns on their heads and scales covering their backs. Each one emanated pressure no weaker than the Martial King Realm, and when their four hooves struck the ground, faint cloud patterns actually formed