Tianhe Marketplace could roughly be divided into three areas.
The first was the stall district. Most of the people doing business here were Rogue Cultivators, making it somewhat like the trading fair the Liu Family held once every six months.
It was just that the stall district here, whether in scale or quality, far surpassed the trading fairs spontaneously organized by the Liu Family's Rogue Cultivators.
Setting up a stall here basically had no threshold. One Only Need To pay five spirit stones per day to set up a stall here.
The second area was the building district. All kinds of buildings stood here; it was by no means limited to places selling Pills, Artifacts, Formations, Talismans. Restaurants, tea houses, inns for lodging, and more were all available.
Of course, leasing a shop here required an astronomical number of spirit stones, so the Tianhe Sect basically rented out the shops here to those Cultivation Families.
But the spirit stones they charged were also quite exorbitant, far beyond what ordinary Rogue Cultivators could afford.
At the very least, one had to become a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator to possess such wealth and strength. Some shops located in the core area might even have the backing of certain Core Formation True Persons.
The third area was the cave dwelling district at the very center.
The Tianhe Sect had turned the area with the densest spiritual energy in the marketplace into cave dwellings. With Spirit Gathering Formations drawing in the spiritual energy of the underground earth veins, the gathered spiritual energy was even somewhat denser than that of a Second-order Spirit Vein.
However, the cave dwellings could only be leased long-term. Every contract started at one year, and the spirit stones charged were equally outrageous.
In short, spirit stones were absolutely indispensable if