After Chen Wanshan and the others left, Jiang Ping'an handed one of the VIP tokens to Dongfang Jintang.
"I don't want it." Dongfang Jintang refused. "If we use this token to buy things, wouldn't that be telling them what we bought?"
Jiang Ping'an nodded in agreement. "That's true. But it's still fine to use it once in a while."
With that, he put both tokens into his Storage Ring.
Then he said to everyone, "Since they won't allow us to linger here, let's leave now."
Less than half an hour later, Jiang Ping'an and the others departed Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace aboard their spirit boat.
More than a hundred li from Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace stood a bustling mortal city—Wangshan City. This city had risen because of Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace.
Jiang Ping'an and the others decided to settle down in Wangshan City first, then make further plans.
When they were still over thirty li from Wangshan City, Jiang Ping'an suddenly sensed intense spiritual energy fluctuations coming from below and ahead. He immediately focused his gaze in the direction of the disturbance and saw three cultivators being besieged by seven or eight masked cultivators.
The next moment, as Jiang Ping'an guided the spirit boat to fly overhead, the three besieged cultivators shouted loudly for help at Jiang Ping'an and the others. "Help! They're Robbing Cultivators!"
Hearing that it was robbery rather than a vendetta or feud, Jiang Ping'an turned the spirit boat and flew toward the three besieged cultivators, releasing the aura of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator at the same time.
Sensing the powerful Foundation Establishment Realm auras of Jiang Ping'an and Dongfang Jintang, the seven or eight masked cultivators fled immediately without another word.
Neither Jiang Ping'an nor Dongfang Jintang pursued the masked cultivators. They could not be