Throughout the marketplace, guard posts stood at regular intervals, each staffed by Half-Saint cultivators.
Mu Qiu wandered aimlessly through the marketplace. Having just arrived from the Immortal Realm, he did not have a single Chaos Spirit Crystal on him and could not afford any of the goods sold here. All he could do was look around and broaden his horizons.
Suddenly, when his gaze casually swept over a guard post ahead, his body stiffened.
A middle-aged man in a plain azure robe stood before the post, his features refined and elegant. He was greeting the two Half-Saints on duty within, and the profile of his face was incomparably familiar to Mu Qiu!
"Is that... Chonghua?!"
At this moment, Chonghua radiated an aura as deep as the sea, vast and enduring. He was clearly at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm, only one step away from transcending into sainthood and condensing a Primordial Dao Fruit!
"He's already advanced to the Quasi-Saint realm?" Mu Qiu was profoundly shocked. Back in the Immortal Realm, Chonghua's cultivation had been comparable to his own. Both had been in the early Great Luo realm. Yet because Chonghua had befriended Zhang Shuai, he had now pulled far ahead of him.
That left a sour taste in Mu Qiu's heart. Still, he had just arrived in the Primordial World and had already run into an old acquaintance. He had to go over and greet him, perhaps ask Chonghua to teach him a few things he needed to watch out for in the Primordial World.
Mu Qiu immediately hurried forward. Before he could get close, however, he heard the two Half-Saints on duty in the guard post bow respectfully to Chonghua. "Greetings, Grand Elder. Everything in the marketplace has been normal these past two days. No one has dared