A Small Trade Gathering, a Proposal to Counterattack? (Asking for Monthly Votes, Asking for Monthly Votes)

Deep within the alleyways of Xiao Mountain Marketplace, a shop was opening to great bustle.

Bright red lanterns hung from the four-story building, while an ornate plaque remained covered by a sheet of red cloth.

This surprised many uninformed cultivators. After all, most shop openings would hardly be so quiet. Even if they did not make a huge fuss, there should at least have been a banquet or some sort of ceremony.

Yet this shop's opening was utterly ordinary.

By now, quite a few people had concluded that it must have been opened by some high-level independent cultivator.

Only such a shop would be so quiet.

But before they could continue speculating, they saw cultivators from numerous factions carrying gifts inside.

"That's Zhu Quanguang of the Zhu Family—a Purple Palace cultivator!"

"And Gu Qianqiu from Green Bamboo Valley! He's a third-rank alchemist too!"

As the leading cultivators of one faction after another appeared, many cultivators naturally stopped to watch and began asking about the shop's origins.

"This is Heavenly Sand Sect's second shop. It specializes in formation arrays, formation plates, spirit talismans, and spirit materials!"

"It's only because this is the opening of their second shop that they didn't hold a grand banquet."

Upon hearing the words Heavenly Sand Sect, everyone immediately understood and found it perfectly natural.

If one were to ask which faction in Xiao Mountain Marketplace had enjoyed the greatest momentum over the past decade, it would naturally be Heavenly Sand Sect.

Qianchen True Person had burst onto the scene, and he was even a fourth-rank alchemist. Even in Southern Wasteland Province, he could be counted among the noteworthy figures.

Moreover, during the battle between Xiao Mountain Prefecture and Ghost Mystery Sect, cultivators aboard the Dragon Envoy Flying Vessel had witnessed the details and spread word