The Commerce Guild's Passage

After Li Yuan finished cultivating, his Communication Token lit up.

It was Fang Zhi.

"Fellow Daoist Li, the first transport assignment has been scheduled. We leave in three days, taking the guild's own passage to the Azure Profound Realm. I'll have the Procurement List and route details delivered to your residence. Please look them over first."

"All right," Li Yuan replied.

Half an hour later, a Golden Core Realm clerk from the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild delivered a storage bag to his door.

The bag contained two things: a Jade Slip holding a spiritually sealed route map, and a bamboo booklet listing the supplies.

Li Yuan took out the Jade Slip and sent his divine sense into it.

The route map unfolded in his sea of consciousness.

The entrance to the guild's Spatial Passage lay in the Shattered Void Wasteland, in southern Mingyuan Domain. According to the map, it was about a day and a half southwest of Mingyuan Immortal City.

The passage connected to a Lower Realm called the Azure Profound Realm.

The Jade Slip included basic information about the Azure Profound Realm: its spiritual energy was roughly sixty percent as dense as that of the Heavenly Origin Realm, and it was known for its underground mineral deposits. The continent lay relatively low, with few mountain ranges but extensive subterranean ore beds and a rich variety of minerals. The guild had a branch in the realm's largest marketplace.

The bamboo booklet listed the names and quantities of more than thirty kinds of Spirit Materials and ores. Beside each entry were a purchase budget and an Upper Realm buyback price.

Li Yuan glanced over the price differences.

Purchase prices in the Lower Realm were about twenty to thirty percent of Upper Realm buyback prices. The guild would buy the transported