After Jiang Qiang left, Chen Dengming also walked around on his own to look around.
Although this Brocade Workshop was not large—perhaps even smaller in area than the gathering place—it excelled in standardized planning, with a rational layout of various buildings and streets, and a very proper utilization of space. On top of that, the spiritual qi was twice as dense as in the gathering place, making people feel refreshed and happy as they strolled.
Chen Dengming had no intention of spending money to stay at an inn.
He wanted to find a place to just make do for a few nights.
A single night at an inn within the city cost a piece of low-grade spirit stone, and besides a few plates of cheap melons and fruits, nothing extra was included.
Staying fewer nights in an inn room would save enough cultivation resources for a round of activating the Spirit Seizing Formation, allowing him to break through to the Qi Cultivation Fifth Level all the sooner.
Strength came first; other enjoyments could be put aside for now.
Moreover, besides spirit stones for cultivation, he also needed to purchase a middle-grade magical artifact as a defensive trump card, since low-grade magical artifacts were already unable to cope with intense battles.
Half a day passed, and Chen Dengming entered several magical artifact shops, inquiring about the prices of middle-grade magical artifacts.
Perhaps because they heard his uncouth, rustic special dialect, the magical artifacts in several of the shops were at least fifty percent more expensive than what Master Hu used to sell, as if they were deliberately trying to rip him off.
However, without buying a magical artifact, he managed to obtain a dark market invitation letter simply by relying on his sweet talk.
It was rumored that in a little