Another seven or eight days passed.
Her cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds over these past ten-odd days. She had already reached the threshold of the mid Spirit Transformation stage and would break through in a few days.
Even she found this speed unreal.
But she was getting hungry more and more often.
She had tried sustaining herself with spiritual energy, but it was no use. Her body told her she had to eat.
The laws of this Upper Realm were truly strange.
That afternoon, she finally decided to test that idea.
She chose a small market farthest from the main street, with the fewest people. It was even more chaotic than the main thoroughfare, without so much as rules for setting up stalls.
After rummaging through her Storage Ring for ages, she finally picked out the most inconspicuous green Jade Slip.
It contained the "Mystic Fire Heart-Nurturing Method," which she had found in a Western Region cultivator's Storage Ring back in the Dragon Shadow Secret Realm.
In the Lower Realm, it was only a middling cultivation method. Its advantages were its steady circulation and a slight healing effect.
She had thought it useless at the time and tossed it into a corner of her ring.
Now...
She placed the Jade Slip on a gray cloth without marking a price and simply left it there.
Several people soon gathered around.
They had come not for the Jade Slip, but for her.
Even bundled up tightly, she could not hide the air about her that set her utterly apart from her surroundings.
Her skin was too fair. The exposed stretch of her wrist was as delicate as jade.
Even wrapped in a cloak, her figure still showed a slender waist and long legs.
"Oh, a newcomer?"
A bald man in