It had to be said that withholding final payments was a common affliction across all trades. It happened so often that it had become routine, whether in White Deer or Celestial Origin. But White Deer had always been the one withholding others' final payments; few dared to go and Reverse Heavenly Dipper.
The problem still lay with the sale of disaster beast remains.
Bulk transactions involving so many different parties routinely took four or five months, sometimes half a year. Delays dragged on, disputes arose at every stage, and all manner of messy issues and changes kept appearing. Any one of them could delay payment. There was no helping it—the Harmful Wind Season produced far too many disaster beast materials.
Across the entire Endless Sea and among the Thousand Isles, countless disaster beasts and carcasses had suddenly erupted like a volcanic eruption or a burst dam, spewing into the market within just a few months. Even if the market wanted to absorb them, that took time. To keep prices stable, all parties would naturally impose restrictions. That alone was a threshold. The whole process took far too long; small businesses relying on monthly income simply could not afford to wait. Only entrenched middlemen with the strength and means of a Wild Bazaar branch could withstand it.
Thus, every Harmful Wind Season was when the regional platforms throughout the Thousand Isles—those funded and controlled by Wild Bazaar behind the scenes—showed off their capabilities. They usually purchased materials from the original discoverers, small chambers of commerce, and local merchants, consolidated scattered goods into large supplies, and then sold them to major buyers such as the Federation, the Empire, the Libra Conglomerate, and the Taiyi Ring.
Throughout this process, the Wild Bazaars in every region acted as lubricant, linking the upper and lower