Several months later.
Ice Heaven Market, third inner ring.
"Congratulations, Young Master... you've acquired an entire market!"
Uncle Fu stood behind Shang Yuanxin and praised him. "Even the master, when he was your age, couldn't have managed an undertaking of this scale..."
"It was only a stroke of luck, and I had the Lineage's support... Without that, I'd be nothing."
Shang Yuanxin remained modest. "With the assets of Ice Heaven True Person's faction added in, we now control sixty percent of the market... It's time to revive it."
Other factions seemed to have entered the fray during the process, but they had only gotten a sip of soup.
The Merchant Alliance was the one that had gotten the meat!
Thoroughly pleased with himself, Shang Yuanxin told Uncle Fu, "Begin!"
"Rise!"
Uncle Fu immediately formed a hand seal.
Rumble!
The grand formation within Ice Heaven Market began operating on its own.
Countless rays of starlight fell upon the Merchant Alliance's octagonal archway.
The Octagonal Trade Tower tore free of the ground. Like a small mountain, it flew steadily into the third inner ring, covered the depleted blood pool, and crushed it to dust...
And that was not all!
The Octagonal Tower kept growing, gradually taking the shape of an Octagonal Exquisite Pagoda—the tallest building in the market!
"Young Master... please!"
On the highest floor of the Octagonal Exquisite Pagoda, Uncle Fu bowed slightly.
"Today, the Merchant Alliance takes charge of this market. From now on, it shall be called Yuanxin Market!"
Shang Yuanxin's heart surged with excitement, but his voice remained perfectly steady.
Carried by the formation, his voice spread throughout the market and beyond.
The cultivators who had lingered instead of leaving lit up with joy. "The Merchant Alliance? Wonderful! We're saved!"
Shang Clan Island was one of the nine