That very night, Chu Xisheng took his enormous sum of ninety-five thousand taels to Ancient Market Town.
He first visited the largest medicine shop in the market, the Heavenly Medicine Workshop, and spent sixteen thousand taels on a Hundun Feather.
It was a feather from the ferocious beast Hundun, and the main ingredient of the secret medicine for the sixth layer of the Origin-Nourishing Art.
Hundun was a ferocious beast in which the clear and turbid were undivided, yin and yang indistinct, with neither the seven apertures nor the five facial features. It could transform anything it swallowed into a state of chaos.
Some said they resembled large dogs with a pair of wings.
That was not actually true. Hundun took different forms in different people's eyes.
They could also assume any form to adapt to their surroundings, or further unleash their fighting strength.
It was said that part of the origin of the Formless Sect's cultivation arts could be traced back to Hundun.
The Hundun Feather needed for the Origin-Nourishing Art had to come from a Hundun of the third rank or higher, and the fresher it was, the better.
The one Chu Xisheng bought was of the first rank.
A third-rank Hundun Feather cost only five thousand, while a first-rank one cost sixteen thousand.
He had actually overpaid. Through the Iron Banner Gang's channels, it would have cost two thousand taels less, but the drawback was having to wait a while.
Chu Xisheng then covered his face and anonymously visited the Myriad Stars Pavilion in Ancient Market Town.
It was a business similar to a modern auction house, auctioning all kinds of Heavenly Treasures, medicinal ingredients, and magic artifacts for a commission.
It was said that the Astral Deity Sect stood behind this auction house.
Thus, the Myriad