Around these towering pillars that seemed to prop up the heavens, rows of high-rise buildings rose from the ground.
Each building housed a single shop within the Qianfeng Merchant Association.
Outsiders rented these shops with Spirit Stones inside the association's main hall, using them to run their own businesses.
With one quick glance, Lu Yang spotted shops belonging to the Bai family, the Taibai Family, Qingzhou Sword Mansion, Void Blade Sect, and other top sects and aristocratic clans.
The association's prosperity was plain to see.
Of course, many of the shops had also been rented by private individuals, and were relatively small.
But most of the shops here belonged to the Qianfeng Merchant Association itself.
It was just that there were so many goods, divided into so many categories, that the shops had gradually been sorted into distinct districts.
There were districts for talismans, pills, cultivation techniques, martial arts, ores, Spiritual Medicine, and more.
There were even areas dedicated to appraising and buying back all kinds of resources. Each was marked with a conspicuous sign, making everything easy to find at a glance.
The dazzling array of goods nearly overwhelmed Lu Yang's eyes.
He had thought that after obtaining the Spirit Stones left behind by True Lord Lei Wu, he could consider himself a little rich.
But after making a round, Lu Yang truly understood just how terrifying a behemoth the Qianfeng Merchant Association was.
The resources possessed by just the association's Qing Province headquarters were enough to leave even a Martial King like True Lord Lei Wu staring across an insurmountable gulf.
The power behind this merchant association might well include Martial Saints—or even the legendary God of Martial Arts, said to be capable of shattering the void and ascending to the Upper Realm!
However, the existence of a