Three Origins Island.
"Finally, I'm back at the market..."
In the main hall, Zhan Hongxiu gazed at everything, at once familiar and strange. Emotion finally stirred across her face as she took the Principal Position where Greenwater Wanderer had once sat. "Congratulations on reclaiming your sect's legacy, little sister..."
The speaker was a tall woman dressed in sheer white gauze adorned with shells. Faint scales showed on her cheeks as she smiled.
"I must thank you for your help, sister. Otherwise, that demonic witch might not have withdrawn so easily..."
Zhan Hongxiu gave a wry smile. "Though my sect passed this legacy down to me, it lies where wars rage on all four sides... It really is troublesome."
She knew why Yu Xiang'er had withdrawn. First, Zhan Hongxiu had some strength of her own. Second, the Jiang Family's collusion with demonic cultivators had already been exposed, turning them into a useless pawn with no value left.
If Yu Xiang'er learns that I reached Foundation Establishment with the Supreme White Island Master of the Azure Sea Sect backing me... I'm afraid I'll become a thorn in the Sea-Extinguishing Alliance's eye from now on. Bitterness rose in her heart, but the merfolk Foundation Establishment cultivator laughed. "Little sister, you don't understand. With an enterprise this large, if you also establish trade with my Merfolk Clan and sell deep-sea goods... you'll surely make a fortune every day. Given time, you may even amass the resources to advance to Foundation Establishment Late Stage..."
"You're right. My Dao Path is at stake; I can't give this up... You will always have a share of this market's profits."
Zhan Hongxiu made her promise.
After reaching Foundation Establishment, she had come to take revenge, only to fall into an ambush. The merfolk had rescued her, and a