From the moment cultivators set foot on the path of cultivation, they could not avoid dealing with the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild. No one could escape it.
Take Lu Ye, for instance. Not long after entering the Spirit Stream Battlefield, he had begun buying and selling goods through the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild. He could trade with other cultivators too, but that was ultimately neither as convenient nor as worthwhile as dealing with the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild.
If they could not do business with the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, many matters would become complicated.
The lower a cultivator's cultivation, the more reliant they were on the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild. This decision by the Merchant Guild had brought no small amount of trouble to those two Myriad Demon Ridge sects.
No one had caused trouble within the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild for many years. To cultivators of this generation, the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild had seemed like nothing more than a place to buy and sell things. Only now did they realize in horror that, in a certain sense, it was a colossal entity no less formidable than either the Vast Sky Alliance or Myriad Demon Ridge.
Ordinarily, this colossal entity maintained a neutral stance, neither participating in nor interfering with the struggles and confrontations between the two great camps. But if someone broke its rules on its own turf, it would bare its fangs as well.
Moreover, compared to the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge, this colossal entity possessed unique advantages in certain areas...
All kinds of rumors surfaced in the cultivators' minds, making everyone realize one thing: those tales that had once sounded amusing were not merely rumors. They were events that had truly happened at some point in the past.
Just like this time...