Volume Two: Naked Primitive Capital Accumulation - The Little Dark Room (Part One)

The God King sent Luo Qian back without anyone noticing. Luo Qian reappeared where the scroll had been used. When the haze before his eyes cleared, he found himself standing on a gravel bank. Since he was already here, he was in no hurry to return. That girl named Xie Tang was powerful and had a promising future. He ought to sneak a peek at her—no, secretly observe a potential rival.

Luo Qian picked up a twig, breathed a puff of Immortal Aura onto it, and cast a first-rank Pathfinding Art. The twig spun twice in midair and pointed southwest.

Luo Qian used his pitiful Sky-Leaping Vault and went searching at the sluggish pace of an old jalopy.

Six hundred li to the southwest, a sheer stone mountain rose from the ground. Immortal Aura was thin here, scarcely better than at his own Toad Mountain. Luo Qian sighed. "This woman was practically reserved for me. She deals in under-the-table buying and selling, and she lives in the slums." Suddenly eager to meet her, he felt a strange flicker of anticipation.

The stone mountain was bald as a monk's pate and round as a turtle's shell. An arched doorway stood on its far side. Luo Qian cast Invisibility Art and slipped inside. A girl named Xie Tang who lived somewhere like this probably had no great Immortal Art. He might be useless, but at most, she was a lump of spent coal.

Drifting through the archway, he noticed two characters by the entrance: Secret Shop. They were crooked as injured tadpoles. Luo Qian chuckled. Her handwriting is on the same level as mine. What a coincidence.

The cave dwelling was dark, with glimmers of light scattered all around, as though he stood in the vast universe. Luo Qian had to admire