Azure Cliff Market was not a proper fief like Red Pine Fief, one officially invested by the Heaven-Gazing Sect.
The market was merely privately built. The reason it had established an airspace restriction formation was that the methods used by Embryonic Breath Realm, Turbid Qi, and Mixed Qi cultivators to take to the skies came in all shapes and sizes.
Some cloud-riding arts were exceedingly inferior. Once too many people used them, scenes of "clouds colliding midair," "spirit cranes pecking at each other," and "magic artifacts speeding wildly" could even occur.
So they simply banned flight altogether.
Cultivators coming and going on ordinary days all had to obey this rule.
The only ones for whom the market would make an exception were True Qi cultivators.
True Qi cultivators were core direct disciples of the Heaven-Gazing Sect. People like them flew about throughout the Jade Court Mountain lineage—yet upon arriving at a tiny Azure Cliff Market, they were expected to descend from their clouds?
Especially when this market was still within their home sect's territory? Could the market's rules possibly outweigh the Heaven-Gazing Sect?
Thus, when these two streams of Cloud Qi came striding through the air, everyone in the courtyard immediately knew that True Qi cultivators had arrived.
Qiu Huanming's expression changed repeatedly, becoming extraordinarily complicated.
Because he had already recognized one of those streams of Cloud Qi.
"Please forgive us for arriving unannounced."
At that moment, the two streams of Cloud Qi dispersed, revealing the two figures within.
One of them had been seen by both Qiu Huanming and Manager Sun. It was none other than Gu Changgeng.
The other wore no splendid attire, only a plain-colored dharma robe. His wide sleeves hung like clouds, and his figure was tall and straight—not gauntly thin, nor heavily muscled, but like