The streets were packed with people. Who knew how many had gathered in the city from the surrounding regions to join the celebrations? The markets were bustling, with dazzling arrays of local trinkets and foods displayed at the stalls, along with street performers putting on all sorts of shows. To Yu Sheng, many of their acts were simply outrageous—
After all, this was a civilization where literally everyone knew how to cultivate. Anyone could imagine how savage the acts performed by a bunch of wandering martial cultivators specializing in extreme stunts would be. Put it this way: if the people on those stages had been ordinary humans, the ways they died might even have exceeded Yu Sheng's imagination—and his experience...
Yu Sheng carried a little puppet on his shoulders, followed by the silent Saintess and an especially delighted Fox Girl. The four of them, plus a ball, made their unhurried way through this alien city, so lively it was almost bizarre.
Eileen had hung several more little trinkets bought from roadside stalls all over herself—some had really been blessed, some merely claimed to have been blessed, and some had not been blessed at all but were meant to be taken home for Yun Qingzi to bless. The little puppet had completely turned herself into a gaudy display rack. At that moment, she was still fiddling with a string of beads supposedly made from some kind of immortal stone, boasting as she said, "Yu Sheng, look how pretty this is! I'm going to put it on my bedside table when I get back... Silly fox only knows how to buy food, and C-clip has no sense of aesthetics at all..."
She chattered on, then casually wrapped the string of beads around Ominous Wandering Star. The latter had already been hung with