The Immortal Market lay at the heart of Southern Sky City, covering a vast expanse and encircled by an enormous formation that separated it from the surrounding districts.
At the entrance, four Golden Core cultivators guarded the four directions, while a Nascent Soul cultivator presided over the inspection, carefully examining everyone entering the Immortal Market.
Xu Changqing presented Southern Sky City's Grade-A stall token once more. Only after verifying it carefully did they permit him to enter.
After entering the Immortal Market, many people were stunned by the sight before them.
The streets within the Immortal Market were even broader than those outside the city.
The shops lining both sides were far more luxurious.
Most had been built from precious spirit jade and millennium-old spiritwood, their signboards carved with intricate Spirit Runes.
Those runes could not only draw in spiritual energy, but also serve as defensive measures.
Cultivators streamed through the streets without end. Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators were everywhere, and even Golden Core cultivators were quite common here.
Not to mention that one could occasionally sense fluctuations from Nascent Soul-level auras.
The stalls within the Immortal Market were neatly arranged along both sides of the streets, their grades divided with great clarity.
The outermost stalls were Grade-C stalls, rather simple in construction.
Most were built from ordinary spiritwood, and the goods they sold were relatively commonplace—mostly low- and mid-grade spirit plants, ores, magical artifacts, and pills.
Their owners were generally Rogue Cultivators or members of minor factions.
The Grade-B stalls occupied the central area and were more refined.
Most were built from white jade and spiritwood, and the items they sold were also rarer: high-grade spirit plants, supreme grade ores, high-grade magical artifacts, and pills.
Their owners were mostly members of mid-tier cultivation lineages and sects, with