The Market Ward offered no guarantee of any item's authenticity here. Buyers had to rely entirely on their own discerning eyes, yet that did nothing to curb the cultivators' desire to uncover a bargain.
Someone had once spotted a pearl among the rubble, finding a dust-covered treasure at an unremarkable stall. He presented it to a Golden Core Cultivator, who took him as a personal disciple and bestowed a Foundation Establishment Pill upon him to establish his foundation. The story became a celebrated tale, drawing countless cultivators to vie to follow his example.
Liu Yu made a circuit of the square without finding anything that would help improve his strength. With his current experience, he also failed to spot any dust-covered "treasures" worth snapping up. There were plenty of counterfeits, but he had no interest in exposing them.
After a circuit yielded little, Liu Yu felt rather dispirited and lost interest in browsing further.
He therefore left the square and headed to the eastern side of the Market Ward, where he found the familiar Welcome Immortal Inn. He spent five spirit stones to rent a cultivation residence with a passable concentration of spiritual qi for seven days.
Normally, this went against the rules, as the minimum rental period was one month. However, it was only natural for someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm to enjoy a few privileges, so everything fell neatly into place.
The proprietor of the Welcome Immortal Inn was merely an elderly cultivator at the eighth layer of qi refining. Naturally, he dared not slight a Foundation Establishment senior. The Welcome Immortal Inn might not fear a single Foundation Establishment cultivator, but he certainly did, so he respectfully led the way himself.
Once they arrived, Liu Yu instructed the proprietor to arrange for an attendant to remind