Aboard the Cloud-Piercing Boat

Since this was Liu Changxu's first time aboard a flying boat, he gazed around curiously at the sights inside and outside it.

The Cloud-Piercing Boat was divided into two sections: the Flight Control Cabin and the Passenger Cabin. The Flight Control Cabin was the boat's control center, and outsiders were forbidden to enter. The Passenger Cabin had 150 seats and five resting rooms.

Qi Refinement cultivators traveling aboard the boat were only provided with ordinary seats, while the resting rooms were reserved for Foundation Establishment cultivators or more distinguished passengers. Although there were many passengers, it was not crowded.

Sitting aboard the Cloud-Piercing Boat, Liu Changxu could not stop admiring it. When would I be able to buy a Flying Boat Artifact of my own? Even one that could carry two or three people would do!

Although cultivators could fly on flying swords or other artifacts once they reached Late Qi Refinement, their magical power only allowed them to fly at low altitudes for short periods.

If an enemy attacked, however, they could not effectively fight back while airborne, making it extremely dangerous! Thus, although many Late Qi Refinement cultivators could fly at low altitudes on their artifacts, most still chose to travel overland.

Flying artifacts like the Cloud-Piercing Boat, meanwhile, were exceedingly expensive! This Cloud-Piercing Boat had cost the Wu Household two hundred thousand spirit stones, and they had only managed to buy it through their connections within the Azure Cloud Sect.

Even the cheapest Flying Boat Artifact, capable of carrying just a few people, cost over ten thousand spirit stones. How many Qi Refinement cultivators could bear to spend that much?

Third-tier magical treasure flying boats could carry hundreds or even thousands of people and were also equipped with offensive and defensive formations. Combining attack and defense, they were formidable weapons of war, but their prices were even higher. More importantly, only a handful of large sects could manufacture such boats, and they rarely sold them to outsiders.

Manufacturing a magical treasure flying boat required not only the relevant blueprints and detailed manufacturing information, but also many rare, high-grade spiritual materials. High-grade Formation Masters and Artifact Refiners had to work together for years or even decades to complete one.

As these boats were formidable weapons safeguarding their sects, their blueprints and detailed manufacturing information were among the most closely guarded core secrets of large sects.

The Cloud-Piercing Boat flew very quickly, and the Wu Household was thoroughly familiar with the routes to and from Purple Forest Market, allowing them to avoid dangerous areas where second-tier demonic beasts or Evil Cultivators might be active. Thus, the journey passed without incident, and after three days of flight, they arrived safely at Purple Forest Market.

After stepping off the flying boat, Liu Changxu followed the Liu Household Cultivators to the entrance of Purple Forest Market.

Purple Forest Market was vast, spanning a full three hundred li. Clouds and mist wreathed the sky above it, and spiritual energy rose into the air. Clearly, an enormous formation covered the entire market.

Purple Forest Market's defensive formation was the Five Elements Primordial Unity Formation, which the Azure Cloud Sect had spent a fortune to establish. An upper-grade third-tier formation, it could withstand a strike from a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

A squad of imposing enforcement cultivators stood at the market entrance, with even the weakest at Late Qi Refinement. Their leader was a Foundation Establishment cultivator who radiated powerful pressure. He had a burly build and a dignified appearance.

After paying a sum of spirit stones to the enforcement cultivators at the entrance, the Liu Household Cultivators entered Purple Forest Market without trouble!

Unlike Yunping City, nearly everyone who lived in Purple Forest Market was a cultivator. Shops stood in dense rows, and crowds thronged the streets. There were people of the Barbarian Tribe dressed in unusual clothing, cultivators riding Demon Tigers and other demonic beasts, and young female cultivators as beautiful as heavenly immortals. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators, normally a rare sight, could easily be seen here.

With a Golden Core True Person stationed in Purple Forest Market, it was clearly beyond anything Yunping City could compare with. Only here could they purchase better cultivation resources.

It was not just Liu Changxu-many cultivators visiting Purple Forest Market for the first time were awestruck by its bustling prosperity!