Ascending to Immortality City stood at the junction of the Great Luo Immortal Sect, the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect, the Limitless Star Palace, and the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty.
Although the Limitless Star Palace had shrunk its territory as its power waned, handing vast regions such as the Falling Star Sea over to the Great Luo Immortal Sect and the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect, this foremost city of rogue cultivators under heaven still survived in the cracks between them.
Or rather, its purpose was to serve as a buffer between these supreme powers.
Thus, with a Great Luo Immortal Sect True Inheritor like Li Xian arriving in person, Ascending to Immortality City dared not show the slightest neglect. Someone soon invited him up the mountain, and his host was none other than Zhao Chen, the foremost disciple of Gu Qianfan, the greatest rogue cultivator under heaven, who had cultivated an undying golden core.
With Gu Qianfan spending most of his time cultivating bitterly in seclusion and preparing to undergo his tribulation, Zhao Chen effectively served as Ascending to Immortality City's chief steward, handling all its affairs, great and small.
"I heard an honored guest had arrived and was just wondering who it might be. To think it was True Inheritor Li himself, who once eclipsed the sun and moon in the Immortal Sect's inner sect and forged a peerless dao foundation. Forgive my discourtesy."
Zhao Chen cupped his hands in greeting.
Someone like Li Xian, foremost among the True Inheritor Disciples, carried far more weight than a small sect's golden core cultivator, and Zhao Chen addressed him as an equal.
"City Lord Zhao."
Li Xian greeted him and went straight to the point. "Forgive my unannounced visit. I came to trade for something belonging to Ascending to Immortality City."
"Trade?"