Water and Fire Already Joined

Dragon Scale Island had originally been the place where the Nine Provinces negotiated with the Flood Dragon King—the place where the Heaven-Human Covenant was signed.

At the first Heaven-Human Covenant Assembly, every major force in the Nine Provinces had sent representatives. After the covenant was signed, the Nine Provinces began trading with the Flood Dragon King, and a market district was established on Dragon Scale Island.

As the market on Dragon Scale Island grew ever larger, its grand gathering held once every sixty years became the largest trading fair in the Nine Provinces.

Naturally, there were many complicated historical reasons behind this. For instance, the major sects of the Nine Provinces were unwilling to trade in other provinces, while the East Sea was exceptionally rich in resources and offered low prices, and so on...

The Dragon Scale Island gathering was open only to the nine great sects that ruled the Nine Provinces. Other small and mid-sized sects were not even qualified to visit Dragon Scale Island. Thus, despite being such an important fair, it was not particularly famous within the Nine Provinces, and few people knew of it.

Seeing that Gao Xian seemed interested, Fan Qingyuan eagerly gave him a detailed introduction to Dragon Scale Island.

"The next Dragon Scale gathering will be forty years from now. If Your Excellency is interested, I'll notify you in advance. Travel through the teleportation array is quite convenient..."

"Good. Let me know when the time comes. I'll join in the fun as well."

After making this arrangement with Fan Qingyuan, Gao Xian rode his escape light back to Auspicious Star Palace.

There had been too many items in this sale, and their value was too high. Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion spent more than twenty days inventorying, repeatedly examining, and appraising them before finally