Fated Artifact Workshop

Half a year drifted quietly by!

This day.

Outside Immortal Alliance City, at the Flying Boat Plaza.

A streak of Spirit Light descended from the heavens, landing directly within the plaza.

The Spirit Light dispersed.

A handsome young cultivator with a tall, slender figure stood in the plaza.

Standing with his hands behind his back, Cheng Buzheng did not leave at once. Instead, he gazed at the Heaven Escaping Boat as it started up again.

A short while later.

The Flying Boat that blotted out the sky radiated vast ripples as it shot into the distance.

Cheng Buzheng watched the departing Heaven Escaping Boat, his eyes filled with an indescribable emotion.

Only when that sun-shrouding Heaven Escaping Boat went from near to far—

Turning into a black line, then a black dot, before vanishing completely—did Cheng Buzheng turn and head toward Immortal Alliance City.

Several days later, in an inconspicuous corner of Immortal Alliance City's shop district, one shop suddenly changed owners.

There was no grand opening ceremony, nor were there many cultivators offering congratulations. It simply opened without a sound.

The only change was the signboard. What had once read "Fortune General Store" now read "Fated Artifact Workshop."

The new owner of Fated Artifact Workshop appeared to be nothing special. If there was anything remarkable about him, it was only two things.

First, the new owner was rather handsome.

Though he treated others with an approachable manner, he was in truth cold to the extreme. His attitude of keeping people a thousand miles away was plainly evident.

Second, although no one knew the cultivation of this handsome young man, his boasts were frighteningly grand.

Even so!

The shopkeepers of several neighboring shops were all shrewd veterans who had spent years in the cultivation world, and quite a few had