Half a month later.
High above Xizhou in Yue Country, a streak of white light silently swept across the clouds.
Han Feng stood atop a flying artifact shaped like a boat and about a zhang in size, his robes fluttering in the wind.
This artifact was something he had obtained after turning back halfway to the Spirit Beast Mountain market and exchanging a six-hundred-year-old spirit medicine gifted by Han Li for it.
The entire hull was pure white, and he had named it the White Cloud Boat.
With this flying artifact, his travel speed was countless times faster than when he had previously ridden the wind, while the amount of magic power consumed was greatly reduced.
The artifact's color was similar to that of the clouds. When flying through the sky, it was difficult for ordinary people or low-level cultivators on the ground to notice unless they deliberately inspected the area.
After selling a six-hundred-year-old spirit medicine, he had not only obtained this White Cloud Boat but also had more than a hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones left over.
And that was only a six-hundred-year-old one.
In the cloth pouch Han Li had given him, there were still four Thousand Year Spirit Medicines.
If he sold all four of them, he could probably exchange them for nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones.
However, Han Feng would not act so rashly.
An ordinary man was innocent, but possessing a treasure made him guilty.
For a Qi Refining Stage cultivator to hold such a huge fortune was no different from a three-year-old child carrying gold through a marketplace. It would only invite disaster.
Xizhou bordered Jianzhou, while its other side bordered Yuanwu Country.
Han Feng piloted the White Cloud Boat and soon reached the border of Xizhou, flying toward Yuanwu Country.
As soon as he entered Yuanwu Country, Han Feng slowed down in the air, piloting the artifact while looking around in all directions.
His purpose in coming here was clear. First, he wanted to find the market of Yuanwu Country's largest sect, the Tianxing Sect. Second, he was quite curious about everything in this country.
However, judging from the terrain and scenery, Yuanwu Country seemed to be no different from Yue Country.
Like Yue Country, Yuanwu Country was a medium-sized nation in the nearby Immortal Cultivation World.
However, unlike Yue Country, where the righteous Seven Sects dominated, the righteous and demonic forces in Yuanwu Country were evenly matched, locked in a constant stalemate.
Just as Han Feng was pondering this, the White Cloud Boat beneath his feet suddenly dimmed and plummeted downward.
An invisible force of restriction enveloped this stretch of airspace!
An Air Restriction!
Fortunately, he had not been flying too high. The moment he began to fall, he immediately put away the artifact and circulated the magic power within his body. His figure flipped lightly in midair before landing steadily on the ground.
With his current cultivation and skills, this height naturally could not hurt him in the slightest.
Since there was an Air Restriction, the market had to be somewhere nearby.
He followed the direction of the restriction for roughly the time it took to burn a stick of incense. Ahead, an ordinary-looking mountain wall appeared.
Han Feng did not hesitate and walked straight toward it.
After passing through a layer of ripples like water waves, the scene before him suddenly opened up.
A broad bluestone street appeared before him. Shops stood in rows on both sides, and cultivators came and went without end, creating a flourishing scene.
This was the Tianxing Sect market.
Han Feng walked slowly through the market with a clear goal in mind: he wanted to find an official shop opened by the Tianxing Sect and purchase some insights or classic texts concerning formations and restrictions.
Just as he was looking around, someone suddenly came over from the side.
"Fellow Daoist, you look unfamiliar. Is this your first time at the Tianxing Sect market?"
The newcomer was a middle-aged-looking cultivator with a cultivation base around the eighth or ninth layer of Qi Refining. He wore an enthusiastic smile.
"I am Gu Lin."
"Is there something you're looking for, Fellow Daoist? I live in this market year-round, so perhaps I can help you."
Han Feng merely glanced at him and immediately understood.
Feng Xingzi.
In the markets of the Immortal Cultivation World, there was always a group of people like this who specialized in guiding visiting cultivators.
They introduced them to designated shops to purchase items and earned commissions in the process.
Han Feng did not mind letting such people earn a few Spirit Stones, so long as they made suitable introductions and saved him a great deal of trouble.
"I want to learn the formation arts. Where can I buy some insights into formations?"
Han Feng asked directly.
When Gu Lin heard this, the enthusiastic smile on his face froze slightly, and he immediately revealed a troubled expression.
"That... might be somewhat difficult."
"You may not know this, Fellow Daoist, but although the Tianxing Sect's shops do sell formation insights, they only sell the most superficial basics. They absolutely will not pass on the truly essential parts."
"After all, the Tianxing Sect is renowned throughout Yuanwu Country for its formations. If it casually sold its core formations, would that not make it easy for others to decipher them? That would be highly disadvantageous to the sect."
Gu Lin paused before adding, "Moreover, the path of formations is broad and profound. Without someone to explain it specifically, relying solely on self-study makes entering the field extremely slow. One might even fail to find the door to entry after an entire lifetime."
At this, Han Feng's brows furrowed slightly.
This was more or less what he had expected.
Did he really have to join the Tianxing Sect to learn advanced formations?
That would be far too troublesome.
Seeing Han Feng's reaction, Gu Lin immediately changed his tone.
"Fellow Daoist, don't worry."
"I know a Fellow Daoist Xin on the eastern side of the market who specializes in explaining basic formations to others."
"Although she is not a disciple of the Tianxing Sect, her understanding of the formation arts is quite profound. Moreover, her fees are very reasonable. Why not go and listen to her?"
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