"Your Highness, what brings you here?"
"Just having a look."
In Nine Springs Market in Fengquan Domain, Pavilion Master Bai Mo, the ghost official who served as its master, rose with a frightened expression to greet Ghost King Qin Ming.
Nine Springs Market was the only market Fengdu Prefecture had established in the Yellow Springs Ruins.
Because it lay within Fengquan Domain, protected by Fengdu Prefecture's barrier and safe from attacks by demonic beasts, ghost creatures, and other such beings, many cultivators who came for trials chose to rest and recuperate here.
More importantly, cultivators from all quarters could trade the treasures they had obtained from the forbidden grounds of the Yellow Springs Ruins in this market.
These treasures were also known as netherworld artifacts.
That was because many of them were relics of the former Netherworld.
Recently, however, the Hundred Ghosts Night Run had plunged the various forbidden grounds into tremendous turmoil.
Quite a few cultivators had even perished in the forbidden grounds under the sudden onslaught of demonic beasts.
Of course, aside from a handful of dangerous forbidden grounds, the cultivators undergoing trials in the vast majority of them had already escaped.
Most of those who escaped chose to rest and recuperate in Nine Springs Market.
That was why Nine Springs Market was so bustling.
"Your Highness King Qin, I heard that the True Martial Sword Champion Xu Taiping and his companions still haven't emerged from the forbidden grounds?"
Bai Mo suddenly lowered his voice and asked Qin Ming.
Word that Xu Taiping was trapped at Wangjin Ferry had long since spread throughout the Yellow Springs Ruins.
Qin Ming nodded, his expression rather grim.
"Yes. They haven't returned to Nether Spring Hall yet."
Qin Ming had come to Nine Springs Market today to try his luck and see