Time soon reached early October.
Hou Tao was bent on making money and climbing into a higher social class. On this trip to Great Benefit City, the exchange was his battlefield.
In his eyes, this was far more reliable than some fortuitous encounter that yielded treasure, stumbling upon an Immortal Cave Abode, or finding a legacy left by a senior master.
Since ancient times, legends of rogue cultivators defying heaven and changing their fate had always hinged on fortuitous encounters or the cave abodes and legacies of senior masters. But the Myriad Heavens were vast-where were all those fortuitous encounters for people to stumble upon, all those cave abodes and inheritances left by senior masters?
The young Hua Lin had watched everything Hou Tao had done these past days, yet felt uneasy in secret.
How could there be so many people in this world who fought their way upward and defied heaven to change their fate? Wouldn't they still spend their whole lives in mediocrity?
The mediocre always outnumbered the outstanding. That was common knowledge.
With their differing feelings, Hou Tao used the mechanical magic artifact provided by the money house to log into the Puppet World Heavenly Net, where he waited for the Heavenly Reach Exchange to open.
Meanwhile, throughout and beyond the Myriad Heavens, in every direction, countless cultivators like Hou Tao, as well as those from spirit peak blessed lands, sects, and aristocratic clans, joined this unprecedented gathering in the cultivation world.
Exchanges had existed in the cultivation world since ancient times, and auction houses specializing in all manner of heavenly treasures, magical treasures, medicinal pills, and even divine techniques and secret arts were deeply familiar to everyone.
But those had always involved spot transactions. Even when the occasional down-and-out scion of an aristocratic clan sold off