"Myriad Realms Marketplace? What's that?"
Li Chen said, "Simply put... it's an online shopping platform!"
Mei Xuan stared at him as though she were listening to tales from the Arabian Nights.
This world had no concept of e-commerce or online shopping. Even where vaguely similar things had developed, they were merely small-scale platforms serving a few market districts or a single sect, usually built around merchants' associations and market district alliances, with flying boats handling logistics.
Li Chen knew this firsthand, for his Broad Cloud Ward and Heavenly Dragon Ward were members of market districts currently enjoying such services.
This world was vast. A territory spanning tens of thousands of miles, comparable in size to Past-Life Earth, was merely the sphere of influence of a Spirit Peak Blessed Land controlled by a single Puppet Master of Master Artisan rank.
Li Chen himself possessed a Spirit Peak Blessed Land and ruled an area spanning ten thousand miles. He could be called a nation unto himself, fully qualified to represent the entire Guangyun region.
As for those Shaman Folk... they had no presence whatsoever in dealings with outsiders and were generally left out of the reckoning.
The transmission of information and circulation of goods also constrained the development of such platforms.
Under normal circumstances, Ultrawave Communication and spatial transfer were tools used only when necessary. Almost no cultivator or faction could afford the cost of using them routinely.
When Li Chen had traded insect eggs and the "Golden Cicada Transformation" with Master Artisan Yuan Xiye, he had spent hundreds of thousands of talisman coins in just a short while, because he had used the Golden Sun Gate as an intermediary.
Now that Li Chen had advanced to Grand Artisan and mastered the relevant power of the Dao of Space, he could open