For half a month straight, Lone Dragon Island had been incomparably lively, with the crackle of firecrackers and the flashes of specially made celebratory Talisman Signals continuously bursting across the sky.
After Sky Wing Merchant House displayed its powerful backing and formidable strength on the day the market opened, the major merchant houses cast aside their lingering concerns and rented storefronts in Lone Dragon Island Marketplace, opening branches and setting up shop.
Basically, every merchant house that had come to offer congratulations rented a storefront in Lone Dragon Island Marketplace and opened a branch.
Merchants had the sharpest noses and the shrewdest calculations. During the early days of Lone Dragon Island Marketplace, shop rents were not expensive. With a small investment, they could secure one or two prime storefronts. As long as Lone Dragon Island Marketplace did not collapse in the short term, they would not lose money.
So long as Lone Dragon Island Marketplace showed even the slightest sign of prosperity, they would make a profit.
Therefore, given the display put on during the opening of Lone Dragon Island Marketplace, all the merchant houses that had come from every direction to offer congratulations, as well as the island forces inside and outside the three Water Palaces, rented shops and opened branches so long as they had any business sense.
Counting them up, the merchant houses Hua Changjun had brought, including Hua Changjun herself, had opened twelve branches in total. Fifteen small merchant houses from around the three Water Palaces had done the same. Together with the surrounding island forces and their own merchant houses, all told, nearly fifty merchant houses had opened on Lone Dragon Island in just half a month.
And that was not all. Several farsighted merchants had, within just a few days, brought over a batch