Chapter 277: Death left nothing, a Fate Embryo newly formed (second update, seeking monthly votes~)
The next day.
Cheng Xinzhan left Golden Water Ravine, exchanging a greeting with Du Yuxi, who was still on duty there, on his way out.
Given the Golden Water Trading Association's present standing in Western Hunan and its vast network of merchant caravans, finding local specialties should be easy and quick-certainly faster than Cheng Xinzhan burrowing underground himself to search and gather aimlessly.
After Cheng Xinzhan clearly explained his requirements, Shi Yiniang solemnly promised to find him a hundred sheets of thousand-year-old frozen-water rock within a month. From then on, the Jinshui Trade Fleet would also keep an eye out for frozen-water rock sheets, gathering whatever high-quality, well-aged sheets they could mine or buy and storing them at headquarters, ready for Cheng Xinzhan to collect at any time.
That was the advantage of having an organization.
Reassured, Cheng Xinzhan left the matter to the trading association.
After leaving Golden Water Ravine, he followed the Golden Water River south. Before long, it joined the You River, which he followed southeast until he reached the Yuan River.
Less than a hundred li upstream along the Yuan River brought him to its confluence with the Wu River, and thus to Skybridge Mountain.
This was also where mountain ranges and water veins converged. Although it lacked the overwhelming bustle of Golden Water Ravine, the air of cultivation and tension here was stronger. The mountains were high and the waters swift, and the escape lights flashing back and forth were enough to show that the cultivators coming and going were of no low realm.
Standing inside the bend where the Yuan River doubled back, he looked west toward the upstream stretch before the bend and saw that this section had