Peerless Ferocity

The moment Zhang Shuai stepped out of Tianyan Spirit Materials Shop, his gaze fell upon the storefront across the long street bearing the sign "Qinglan Elixir and Artifact Pavilion," and he could not help but freeze.

The spacious shop stood wide open, but its shelves were completely bare. Everyone had fled, leaving the place empty.

Almost instinctively, his vast Divine Sense spread out soundlessly in an instant like spilled mercury, enveloping the entire marketplace.

With a single sweep, the result left him even more stunned.

Empty.

All of it was empty.

Not only Qinglan Elixir and Artifact Pavilion, but every shop along the entire street—spirit materials shops, pill pavilions, artifact stores, rare treasure shops, restaurants, and inns—either stood wide open or were tightly shut. There was no longer the aura of any living person or the spiritual fluctuations of any goods. Even the cultivators who had been watching from afar had vanished without a trace!

The vast Divine Continent Marketplace, normally packed with people and buzzing with activity, had become utterly silent, like a ghost city abandoned for countless years!

More than a hundred shops across the entire marketplace had staged a collective escape in the brief time it took him to enter Tianyan Spirit Materials Shop and come back out!

Every shopkeeper, clerk, and customer had fled cleanly, taking whatever valuables they could carry!

Zhang Shuai stood where he was, his expression first stunned, then increasingly strange. The corner of his mouth even twitched slightly.

He had expected that his fearsome reputation would cause a stir when he appeared in the marketplace, but he had never imagined that the effect would be so... "remarkable"!

He had merely shown his face, entered one shop, exchanged a few words, and taken a few things. Yet the entire marketplace had been frightened