Upon entering Canglan City, the dazzling array of commerce association signs lining the streets alone was enough to leave anyone awestruck.
Even a random stone falling from the sky could crush some local magnate whose wealth dominated an entire region!
"Jinfeng Commerce is recruiting guards! Quasi-Saint realm minimum, three thousand purple pearls a year!"
"Honghu Commerce is recruiting for its cargo scouting teams! Primordial Origin realm or above only! Ten thousand purple pearls as security, with the proceeds split fifty-fifty!"
"Tianshan Commerce..."
Unlike the scenes in other Human Race cities,
there were few establishments here inviting cultivators to spend their money. Shops selling pills or Spirit Treasures were nowhere to be seen.
Yet this place was the very source of all kinds of large-scale transactions.
Canglan City had an unwritten rule: whatever the commerce association, only its people could remain within the city. No goods could be kept or stored there.
Wherever there were goods, fighting and plundering would follow.
Most of these merchants had low cultivation levels and naturally treasured their lives.
They had no desire to lose their lives in some bewildering mishap over a trifling amount of property.
As Tongtian and his two companions walked along Canglan City's streets, they looked somewhat out of place. After all, most cultivators in this city had come to make money.
Following his connection to the Golden Armor Puppet Body, Tongtian soon found the compound.
"Jinfeng Commerce. This should be the place."
The compound's main entrance was splendid indeed. The stepped plaza before it could accommodate a hundred people and was paved entirely with extremely precious snow mountain dragon jade, each slab worth a hundred pearls!
Paving the entire plaza alone must have cost over ten thousand pearls!
Yet such extravagant displays were everywhere in Canglan City, seemingly the most ordinary