Ice Heaven Island.
Before Fang Qing went to the island, he secretly cast a divination and confirmed that Venerable Tianfu had long since left.
"Mm...I'm now Guest Bai of the Zhong Alliance, Bai Jianfeng, a Golden-Spirit-Root sword cultivator! How could I possibly be the same person as Fang Shui, the Void-Spirit-Root cultivator who wreaked havoc on Ice Heaven Island?" He wore a white robe and came to the entrance of Yuanxin Market.
This market was still divided into nine levels, with palace complexes stretching on level after level, reaching up to correspond with the stars and drawing in the earth's ley lines below—a breathtaking sight.
It was just that the giant ice-attribute puppets no longer guarded the market gates; instead, cultivators had been hired at great expense.
And the place at the highest point of the core level was no longer the residence of True Person Ice Heaven, but that octagonal commercial tower.
"Shang Yuanxin did a good job...
Fang Qing entered the market and went to the Zhong Alliance's base.
The Zhong Alliance had previously taken advantage of the market's turbulent period to buy up shops and cave abodes on a massive scale... Now that asset prices had rebounded, they were practically rolling in wealth. Even a single base was in the inner three levels, where the spiritual energy was incredibly abundant.
"So it was Fellow Daoist Bai...
Fang Qing took out his token. As soon as he entered the base, a Core Formation cultivator came out to greet him.
He knew this person, too. It was none other than the old Daoist Xuanqi!
This Daoist had once been an administrator at Ice Heaven Market and had even gone to the Zhong Alliance to collect a debt. But then his own faction fell, and his investments failed. In his