The Festive Gathering

"I once happened upon a refinement method. It isn't top-tier, but it works reasonably well," Shen Luo said, mixing truth with falsehood. Inwardly, however, he was stirred. So the Nine-Nine Treasure-Passing Formula is this remarkable. It truly deserves to be a secret art of Fangcun Mountain.

With this formula in hand, if I seize someone else's magical artifact in the future, I can make it my own with a simple application of the technique. How satisfying would that be?

"To be safe, we shouldn't linger here either. Let's set out for Chang'an as soon as possible. We'll be safe once we get there." Seeing that Shen Luo had not concealed this from her, Xie Yuxin smiled faintly. Rather than pry any further, she changed the subject.

"Fellow Daoist Xie, you seem very eager to go to Chang'an," Shen Luo said.

"Of course. The Zhongyuan Festival is only three months away, and Chang'an will be holding a Festive Gathering then. It's a rare opportunity, so naturally I want to go," Xie Yuxin said.

"A Festive Gathering? What's that?" This was the first time Shen Luo had heard the term.

"Chang'an City is the Great Tang Capital, more than ten times as prosperous as Jianye City. Cultivators flock there, and it is also home to the Great Tang Government Office, an imperially appointed cultivation bureau charged with protecting the nation. It is a true metropolis of cultivation. As one of the three major annual gatherings, the Zhongyuan Festive Gathering is a grand occasion for the entire Great Tang cultivation world. Whenever it comes around, cultivators from other regions converge on Chang'an as well—you could say ten thousand immortals gather there. Treasures abound at the gathering: rare high-grade spiritual materials, superior medicinal pills, magical artifacts, and even magic treasures. In short, as long