Stellar Tower was the most powerful "trading house" in the entire Central Plains Seven Provinces. It possessed the greatest number of treasures and conducted its business with the utmost fairness.
Even the banknotes it issued circulated throughout the land and were recognized by all.
One could imagine how terrifying the power lurking behind it must be.
"Absolute fairness? There's no such thing as absolute in this world. They claim absolute confidentiality only because the price isn't high enough. At the Stellar Tower in Li City, I was watched after repeatedly Bone Shifting to buy expensive items." Wu Yuan shook his head slightly. "I was forced to put off buying the things I needed for cultivation."
Stellar Tower was spread throughout the land and divided into four levels: the headquarters, provincial branches, prefectural branches, and commandery branches.
Naturally, the higher the level, the safer it was.
At a commandery branch, for instance, anyone who spent over a thousand taels of silver in a single purchase would be considered an important customer.
But at a prefectural branch? That amount wasn't much at all.
After all, Nanmeng Prefecture was full of experts and great lineages, and transactions worth tens of thousands of taels of silver were common.
Transactions worth more than a hundred thousand taels weren't even particularly rare.
That was also why Wu Yuan had come to Nanmeng City.
The resources, treasures, intelligence, and information gathered here were more than ten times what Li City could offer. It was also much easier to conceal his identity.
After Bone Shifting, Wu Yuan looked, at first glance, like a towering, burly man.
He entered the prefectural Stellar Tower.
"Welcome, sir. Please come in." A servant promptly came out to greet him.
Wu Yuan's gaze swept across the place.
The prefectural Stellar Tower was leagues