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With Dong Chen's warning, Yu Chen naturally did not continue cultivating at the edge of the venue.

Although he and Illuminated Daoist had built a hut on an island to the southeast, he spent most of his days wandering outside the dueling grounds.

News of the battle between two Dao Realm cultivators had long since turned this area into the liveliest place in the Eastern Sea. As Eastern Sea Rogue Cultivators gathered here in twos and threes, the insightful figures of the Eastern Sea's foreign kingdoms, such as Great People Country and Azure Hill Kingdom, joined forces to establish marketplaces of all sizes around the edge of the venue.

The appearance of these markets drew even more people here. Some Shang Kingdom citizens who had heard the news and crossed mountains and seas to arrive also set up shop in a marketplace near the mainland, buying and selling goods.

Yu Chen even spotted two disciples from his own Dao Palace among them.

The two had set up a small stall in the corner of the little market. One was a young man dressed in clothes resembling the vertical-brown garments of later generations, standing before charcoal flames and grilling seafood and fruits and vegetables.

The other, with several clay pots placed before him, was Yi Yin. He had originally intended to follow Shang Yi to the Xia Dynasty capital and had become one of his attendants, but Shang Yi had ultimately used some means to prevent him from going along.

As far as Yu Chen knew, after leaving the Dao Palace, Yi Yin had first spent some time in the army. Later, due to certain conflicts, he had been forced to leave. Yu Chen had not expected him to follow a merchant caravan all the way to the Eastern Sea.

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