In short, Tang Changsheng finally talked the merchants into agreeing to trade weapons and goods for Elf Wine...
Once he had seen the satisfied caravan off, Tang Changsheng watched it take the mountain path before dark and fell into thought.
The deal he had made with the merchants did not matter much. He was not truly one of the Shaman Barbarians, after all, and making the Hongdong Tribal Stockade powerful was not his goal.
He was a disciple sent by the Eastern Glory Immortal Realm to undertake the Red Trial, ready at any moment to answer the Eastern Flower Heavenly Court's call.
What mattered more was what the merchants had told him. He now understood a little more about this world.
The Black Rock Mountains were far larger than he had imagined, many times larger than the Tribal Stockade Barbarians' mountain range in the Eastern Glory World. They were said to stretch for over a hundred thousand li in every direction. Whether that was an exaggeration or not, the mountains were only one remote corner of the Wuman World.
They lay in what the so-called King Pan's Kingdom called the Southwestern Yi, one of the Yi peoples of the eight directions.
It showed just how vast this world was!
No wonder, Tang Changsheng thought. If this world held nothing more than the so-called Black Rock Mountains, even an Ancestral God stronger than a True Immortal could hardly halt the Eastern Glory Immortal Realm's invasion.
The Great Dao Secrets of this world barred Eastern Glory Immortal Realm experts above the Yin Spirit Realm from entering. Yet the battle that had erupted to intercept them had made one thing clear: the Eastern Glory Immortal Realm had formidable high-level fighters in this world.
Tang Changsheng reckoned they were True Immortals at the very