"Is this Luoxing Workshop?"
Lin Yi arrived at the market entrance of District 12 with Lei Kun. Looking up, he saw the entire area shrouded in a pale violet mist of spatial turbulence, its scattered buildings all fashioned in the ancient style left behind by the Tianxing Realm.
Bluish-gray stone buildings clung to the mountainside, their eaves carved with falling-star patterns. Some walls still bore mottled traces of spatial tears, yet cultivators had cleverly repaired them with spiritwood. Vines wound around them, lending the place a sense of incomplete ancient charm.
The streets were paved with faintly glowing Star Pattern Stone. Stalls selling spirit plants, Spirit Artifacts, and extraordinary inheritances dotted both sides, their owners mostly Five-Star cultivators. Their cries drifted indistinctly through the mist.
Though it was merely a renowned market in District 12 of Starfall Outer City, it encompassed the surrounding mountain ranges for thousands of miles, with several million cultivators living and settling here.
"Steward Lin, should we summon the Star Brilliance Guard of Luoxing Workshop?" Lei Kun asked in a lowered voice.
Every district in Starfall Outer City was assigned a certain number of Star Brilliance Guards. A place as large as Luoxing Workshop naturally had guards stationed there as well.
"Not for now." Lin Yi waved a hand and kept walking. "With their cultivation, calling them here would only add to the casualties. Follow me. I have a way to lure the Evil Creature out."
The two quietly concealed their auras and moved through the streets and alleys of Luoxing Workshop like ordinary independent cultivators. Before long, they arrived at the market's busiest district.
Before a sprawling pavilion hung a gilded plaque bearing the words "Vast Sea Merchant Alliance." It was the largest branch of a top Merchant Alliance in Luoxing Workshop.
The moment they