The livelihoods of this world were poorly developed. Most clothes worn by ordinary people and cultivators alike were sewn by their own hands using the Art of a Hundred Crafts, or, at best, ready-made garments produced by local apprentices. As a result, their styles were either all cut from the same cloth or each distinctive in its own way, falling almost entirely at opposite extremes.
Higher-grade attire transcended the category of ordinary clothing altogether and was classed among magical implements and treasures.
Wu Ding's clothes were a "feather robe" he had made in imitation of the magic-path cultivators of the Other Continent. This was a common style of finery among those who revered antiquity, and on the Eastern Victory Continent, it was distinctive enough to be recognized at a glance.
The so-called "Star-Crown Feather Robe" was most often worn by exalted immortals and mighty beings in the myths and legends of the ancient cultivation era.
Of course, a genuine "feather robe" was a treasured garment, comparable to a magical treasure in its own right. Wu Ding's "feather robe," however, was at most an imitation made from brocade, only slightly better than coarse cloth clothing.
In this world, coarse hemp, cotton, brocade, and silk all cost roughly the same. Nor did cultivators chase comfort or consider the latter more comfortable than the former. Instead, they preferred the former for being easy to obtain, sturdy, and durable.
They judged a fabric's value by the amount of spiritual essence it contained, so Wu Ding's "feather robe" was little more than a laughable knockoff.
Still, Wu Ding had paid someone to imbue it with multiple restrictions against dust, wind, water, and fire, enough to make it half a magical implement.
Li Chen had even mocked him for being a peacock, piling so many formation