Around Donghua Mountain at this time, any market of even modest scale had the shadow of major merchants behind it. The market where Guiyan was now happened to be backed by the Sea Merchant Guild.
That was truly admirable. Instead of properly preparing Seagull Market in the East Sea, they still had the leisure to expend effort here... Of course, for a colossal entity like the Sea Merchant Guild, whose tentacles stretched across the world, a little market like this probably did not even count as an idle move. A single shopkeeper below could likely make all the decisions.
Guiyan made several rounds through the market and gained a deeper understanding of the current situation.
What pleased him was that Suixin Pavilion's proposed Xuanming True Water trading convention had spread over a thousand li away to this place in merely a day or two. They had clearly put real effort into it. In response, the market value of the "Donghua Relic" had soared, yet there were prices without goods.
It seemed quite a number of people preferred to sell their stock at a good price at that trading convention. That was a good sign.
However, Guiyan also noticed a laughable rumor circulating here. It said that, at its root, this Xuanming True Water trading convention was actually because some great figure had taken a fancy to the still-missing Madame Yellow Springs and wished to take her as a private pet, thus collecting her treasures in advance, and so on.
Clearly, word of what he had said at the auction had spread. More likely, it had been Suixin Pavilion's handiwork. Rumors and gossip had always spread the fastest; only by feeding off each other with news of the trading convention could they build such momentum in so short a time.
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