Even the poorest-quality Blood-Coagulating Pill stopped bleeding far more effectively than a Hemostatic Pill. Its only real disadvantage was the pill poison it left behind.
But as far as Su Jiu was concerned, there were many ways to expel pill poison. Even without ice skin and jade bones, she would still have chosen a Blood-Coagulating Pill.
What occupied Su Jiu's thoughts most, however, was the cost of goods in this city. The pills here were outrageously expensive.
As the four of them walked along, they found pill sellers everywhere. Yet not only were their prices extraordinarily high, there was not a single pill above the third tier.
Stranger still, they saw no law enforcers patrolling the streets. Instead, several men in gray frequently wove through the crowds. Each Gray-Clothed man held a magical artifact crackling with electricity, and their attention was focused mainly on the pill sellers around them.
She noticed that each Gray-Clothed man's collar seemed to have a small character for "Zheng" embroidered on it.
Su Jiu frowned. From Yu Jin's Message Talisman, she knew that the two largest lineages in Jade Sun City were now the Yu Household and the Zheng Household. These men appeared to be servants of the Zheng Household.
But what were they trying to do?
Su Jiu turned to Yun Chao. "Isn't Jade Sun City under the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect's jurisdiction?" Otherwise, how could members of an aristocratic clan behave so brazenly? Though she did not know what they were doing, it clearly was nothing good.
Yun Chao nodded. "There are four cities on the Spiritflight Continent that remain independent of all the major sects. Jade Sun City is one of them."
Su Jiu's thoughts shifted. If it could remain independent of the sects, it surely had something extraordinary about it. At