Riding atop Rice Bucket, Li Qing spent several more days on the road before man and tiger finally emerged from the vast mountain forest.
What greeted them was an immortal city suspended high in the sky!
Li Qing stood before a sheer cliff, staring at the cluster of buildings faintly visible above the clouds until his eyes went straight.
What marketplace was this? It was, through and through, an immortal city!
Clouds and mist curled above it, while the abundant spiritual energy from the earth veins below was drawn in by a Spirit Gathering Formation radiating hazy light. Dense spiritual energy gathered upward, as magnificent as a waterfall flowing in reverse.
Tianhe Marketplace was far grander and more spectacular than Li Qing had imagined!
"This place can be called the very heart of the Feng Kingdom's Cultivation World, can't it?" Li Qing gazed at that place where winds and clouds converged, as if it were an Immortal Palace, and his eyes showed deep longing.
Without any exaggeration, even Core Formation cultivators could occasionally be seen in a place like this.
With his heart surging, Li Qing immediately took out the magic tool he had refined—the Peerless Hammer.
After stowing Rice Bucket in the Beast Taming Pouch, Li Qing stepped onto the Peerless Hammer, infused it with spiritual power, and rode the great hammer into the air.
Most Low-grade Magic Tools could basically be used for flight. The key was not difficult—one only needed to inscribe some lightness-type spiritual patterns onto them.
Most people flew on swords, however. Li Qing's hammer-riding was somewhat unusual, but not so unusual as to draw special attention.
In an immortal city as prosperous as this, no sort of cultivator was considered strange.
At Mid Qi Refining, his spiritual power was relatively abundant. Sustaining long-term aerial