With the Chu Emperor's Birthday Celebration drawing near, merchants rushing in from all over the Demon Realm had also been entering the city one after another during this period.
The imperial capital of Chu had entered an unprecedented age of prosperity, one the likes of which had never been seen in ten thousand years.
The streets and alleys were filled with stalls selling rare treasures, Divine Weapons, precious talismans, and miraculous pills.
There were also plenty of chefs skilled in the culinary arts, selling all kinds of snacks along the streets.
Food was one of the great specialties of the Chu Dynasty.
In the other territories of the Demon Realm, disciples of the various sects were all busy cultivating and had long since lost their appetite for food and drink.
But only within Chu did this appetite still exist—and it had flourished exceptionally well.
All kinds of strange and exotic delicacies were enough to make anyone drool three feet.
After Lin Bai, Qiao Mo, and Qin Yao had walked through several streets, all three had their hands full of large and small bags of snacks. They ate, drank, and wandered around as they went.
Qin Yao and Qiao Mo were naturally the happiest of all. Sometimes they would look around one stall, and sometimes they would stop to examine another.
At times, they would pick up antique porcelain from roadside stalls to play with; at others, they would stand in certain clothing shops and try on garments.
Lin Bai held a sheepskin bag in his left hand, filled with spirit fruits coated in syrup, while his right hand held a long wooden skewer.
He used the skewer to spear a syrup-coated spirit fruit from the sheepskin bag and put it into his mouth, chewing slowly and savoring every bite.
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