"Master, are you planning to go straight to Wang Chan?"
"No."
"Then why did you part with your senior brother so quickly? Wouldn't it be better to have an experienced cultivator guide you? Or do you have something else to do?"
"Actually, it's simply because I prefer acting alone."
Before long, Lu Shang arrived at the trade fair alone.
"Nothing beats a trade fair. There really are plenty of rare curiosities here. A hundred years ago, I might have spent tens of thousands of spirit stones here."
Lu Shang smiled freely, then left.
"There's still some time before my appointment with Marquis Nanlong. I might as well try refining a Spirit Descending Talisman here. The Golden Flood Dragon King's soul essence and body will both be very useful."
"When the time comes, I'll also visit the Far West to see whether there are any legacies there. If I refine the Golden Flood Dragon King's body and soul essence into a tenth-rank puppet to guard the Falling Cloud Sect, I can ascend with peace of mind."
"Master, you seem to have always been very confident about ascending. But hasn't the Human Realm long since stopped producing cultivators who could ascend?"
"You're an artifact spirit who woke up in my Spirit Beast Bag, and you even know that?"
"I've spent a fair amount of time outside, you know. In the entire Heavenly South, only one person has reached Deity Transformation in thousands of years, let alone ascended to the Spirit Realm. What's so hard to guess about that?"
"Heh, you could say that from the moment I began cultivating, my starting point should have been the Spirit Realm. If I'd devoted myself entirely to cultivation during these fewer than three hundred years, I would probably have reached the Deity Transformation Stage