Suotuo City!

The two followed the fork in the road for most of the day. By dusk, the outline of Suotuo City appeared on the horizon ahead.

Its walls were somewhat lower than Heaven Dou City's, but the urban area was far more expansive. Shops and residences stretched from within the walls to both sides of the official road outside, forming vast market districts without the protection of city walls.

From afar, cooking smoke and lamplight blended together in the twilight, making it far livelier than Heaven Dou City at dusk.

Suotuo City had always been one of the most commercially developed cities within the Heaven Dou Empire. Merchant caravans and soul masters came and went in an endless stream, as was clear from the dense market outside the city.

Qian Yaoting slowed his steps outside the city gates, his gaze sweeping across the crowds and stalls threading through the market.

He had never visited Suotuo City, but he had heard plenty of rumors about it.

Besides ordinary commerce, it also had a fairly large Underground Auction House that specialized in rare goods unsuitable for public circulation.

He had previously found an internal report on Suotuo City's Underground Auction House in the Papal Palace study. He had wanted to visit it if he ever had the chance.

After entering the city, the two did not rush to find lodging. They first walked along the main street for a while.

Suotuo City's streets were narrower but longer than those of Heaven Dou City. Storefronts were packed densely along both sides, while signs and banners hung from the eaves of second-floor buildings, cutting the sky overhead into irregular fragments.

The makeup of the crowds was more varied than in Heaven Dou City. Besides local merchants and residents, there were many young soul masters in