Haihu Region, Bianhu City.
Throughout the Thousand Feathers Alliance, it was considered an extremely remote sea region. Bianhu City was even tucked away in a corner of the Haihu Region, almost bordering the outer defensive line of the Thousand Feathers Alliance.
The World Vital Energy here was somewhat sluggish compared to other places, somewhat similar to Chenshui Island, where the Yuan Chen Sword Sect had first settled.
Logically, such a place should have been sparsely populated. The lack of agile vital energy meant fewer spiritual materials were produced nearby, and the chances of a secret realm appearing were very low.
Even if one did appear, it would mostly be a First Order or Second Order Secret Realm. They were somewhat useful to Aperture Refining Realm sects, but they would never attract forces at the Joint Aperture Realm or above to settle here.
Yet the reality was that there were quite a few Joint Aperture Realm cultivators in the Haihu Region, and one could see them from time to time. There were even more Aperture Refining Realm martial artists, constantly entering and leaving Bianhu City.
That was because Bianhu City was the most famous marketplace within the Thousand Feathers Alliance. Unlike other marketplaces, it cared only about the goods, not where they came from.
As long as your merchandise was good enough, they did not care where you had obtained it. They had their own channels to sell it onward.
If an item's characteristics were truly too obvious, Bianhu City even had its own artificers who could give it a complete makeover, ensuring that neither they nor their customers would be affected.
For that reason, countless people came and went from Bianhu City every day. There were no ordinary people among them; the weakest were all martial artists at the Aperture