Elsewhere.
Outside the cave dwelling Fang Xiao had rented, a vast crowd had gathered.
Even excluding the Void Refining cultivators who had concealed their tracks, their numbers had long surpassed a hundred.
To them, Fang Xiao was a walking treasury. If they could claim him for themselves, they would never have to worry about resources for the Void Refining Stage again.
If they had not still been exercising restraint within the Immortal City, they would have long since torn apart the formation outside Fang Xiao's cave dwelling.
Thus, they would never allow Fang Xiao to escape.
Every one of them stared intently at Fang Xiao's cave dwelling, not daring to relax in the slightest, afraid that even a moment's delay would put them behind the others.
It could even be said that at the slightest disturbance, or should anyone take the lead, the rest would swarm forward like a tidal surge.
Yet Fang Xiao was hiding within the cave dwelling. They had no way of knowing what he was doing, nor could he possibly slip away beneath their very noses.
Thus, they could only wait there in silence.
As for the grand trade fair, they had long cast it to the back of their minds.
Just then, the entire Immortal City suddenly trembled.
This caused all the cultivators to turn their heads in surprise.
A cyan barrier rapidly rose from the towering walls of the Immortal City.
In the blink of an eye, it completely sealed shut, forming a hemispherical transparent dome.
"Is that the Immortal City Grand Array?! The Xuan Clan has activated the Immortal City Grand Array!"
For a moment, the cultivators looked at one another in confusion, asking what exactly the Xuan Clan intended to do.
But a voice soon rang out.
"Fellow cultivators, do not panic.