Many streets within Saint Demon City became even more crowded after nightfall, streams of people weaving through streets ablaze with lights, while every shop's business grew increasingly brisk.
Especially the street where Li Yan was located. Because it lay close to the Saint Demon Palace, it usually did not quiet down until after midnight. Nearly all the merchants wanted to seize every moment to tend to their trade.
A shop like Li Yan's, which closed so early, seemed rather unusual here. However, Li Yan's situation was not unique to the Gu Xing Garden alone within the city.
Similar cases also appeared in markets and immortal cultivation cities everywhere, though never in great numbers. It had much to do with the personalities of the shop owners.
Some had grown weary of drifting about outside. Once they settled down, even if they opened a business, they no longer made themselves excessively busy or devoted too much time to trade, instead doing things as they pleased.
There were also cultivators with no hope of advancing any further in this life. They wanted an easygoing existence all the more, opening a shop and feeling that as long as it supported their livelihood, that was enough. They would not truly work themselves to the bone for the shop.
Li Yan had a purpose in doing this. He wanted the people around him to grow accustomed to this aspect of his personality, preparing one link of his later plan in advance.
Once the target appeared, and once a suitable opportunity arose, with all manner of traps already laid in the shop, Li Yan would certainly act at once and seize the person.
However, with the shop doors thrown wide open, he naturally could not make a move. Only after closing the doors and activating the formations