Half a year later, in Qinghe County of Wei State, Floating Cloud Mountain Range Cultivation World.
As one of the marketplaces chiefly controlled by the Song Family, Chiyan Market had, through the painstaking management of several generations of family cultivators, become the largest marketplace near Yunwu Mountain.
Every day, cultivators from the eastern regions of Wei State passed endlessly through the marketplace on their way in and out of Yunwu Mountain, bringing considerable bustle to Chiyan Market.
However, compared to the demon-beast-infested Floating Cloud Mountain Range, Yunwu Mountain had far fewer demon beasts. Moreover, the mountain forests contained much miasma, which hindered the search for spiritual items.
Most cultivators entering and leaving Yunwu Mountain to hunt demons were young cultivators with little demon-hunting experience. Those with higher cultivation or extensive experience were usually teleported directly from here to the front lines at White Lion Marketplace, where there were more demon beasts.
That day, a Song Family cultivator at the Mid Qi Refining Stage guarding the marketplace entrance had just admitted a cultivator whose identity had been verified.
When he looked up, he saw a young woman in purple robes wearing a bamboo hat slowly approaching the marketplace from the direction of Yunwu Mountain to the east.
Seeing that the woman had come alone from the dangerous Yunwu Mountain, the Song Family cultivator immediately grew rather curious.
Looking more closely, he discovered that from more than ten zhang away, the woman had suddenly closed the distance and arrived before him. He could not help rubbing his eyes, thinking he had seen wrongly.
"Fellow Daoist, may I ask if this is Chiyan Market?"
The purple-robed woman's clear voice snapped the puzzled Song Family cultivator back to his senses. He hurriedly replied, "Fellow Daoist is correct. This is indeed Chiyan Market.
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