Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Wandering around the city, I visited various shops selling treasures, talismans, elixirs, and elixir herbs, occasionally purchasing some items necessary for cultivators in the mid-Jindan stage like a regular Golden Pill Monk.

After several days, I had a clear understanding of the pricing information in the city.

Generally speaking, the cost of goods here, especially items related to the labor of cultivators such as magic tools, magic treasures, and elixirs, was much cheaper than in other remote areas.

In remote areas, those called masters and great craftsmen often required not only essential spirit stones and heavenly materials and earthly treasures but also significant favors, smiles, and flattery, and even then, they might not agree to help.

However, in Great Sun Sword City, excellent alchemists and refining masters weren’t so rare, unable to demand exorbitant prices or put on airs.

They offered better services, lower prices, and higher efficiency.

This greatly improved the convenience of cultivators’ cultivation.

Many Qi Practitioners who could never form their foundation in other places had a much higher chance of successfully doing so in Great Sun Sword City, where the thresholds were lower.

If one had a talent in the sword dao, the threshold could be lowered even further.

This was why a large number of cultivators flocked to Great Sun Sword City.

Many died on the dueling platform every day, but even more cultivators poured into the sword city, a never-ending stream, never in short supply.

The penal provisions were strict indeed, with life and death battles on the dueling platform for minor offenses.

But one’s cultivation could progress further, couldn’t it!

Besides, although the laws of Great Sun Sword City were strict, were other places any better?

The Hei Clan’s Beast Spirit Immortal City, the Yin’s Six Dao City, the Iron Family’s Iron Rule Immortal City, the remote Blood Massacre City in Yue Country... whether righteous dao or diabolism, none were places of kindness, and many immortal cities were even worse than Great Sun Sword City.

No, not many.

Most immortal cities were not as good as Great Sun Sword City!

Here, spiritual veins of the first, second, third, and fourth orders were available for rent, and just that alone was enough to make many Golden Pill Monks ignore the risks and join the fray one after another.

”A world comparing who’s worse does not fit my aesthetics,”

”I should take the chance to level it.”

Jiang Ding judged in his heart.

Turning a few corners, a serene and profound palace complex appeared before my eyes.

Jiuhes Commerce Association.

Nowadays, this might be the biggest commerce association in the Northern Plains, far surpassing the Shang’s Lingbao Commerce Association that had long been in a dominant position.

I had learned of its origins from intelligence.

Its founder, Shang Chongjin of the collateral Shang lineage, who was known as Immortal Chongjin, rose up during the two hundred-year war of the Great Sun Sect. His talent and strength in cultivation were only ordinary among the Immortals of Nascent Soul, but his business talent was anything but.

Under his leadership, Jiuhes Commerce Association grew and expanded throughout most of the Northern Plains, earning a fortune daily, with a massive flow of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, intelligence, and more.

Of course, Jiuhes Commerce Association should not be just Immortal Chongjin’s alone.

In some intelligence reports, there were many mysterious major shareholders within the commerce association, collectively holding at least ninety-five percent of the silent shares.

Immortal Chongjin himself owned less than five percent of the shares, which was also why Jiuhes Commerce Association was able to expand so rapidly, distributing a vast amount of profits.

Even if the Great Sun Sword Sect and Great Sun Sect erupted in civil war, Jiuhes Commerce Association could still pass freely through both sects’ territories, conducting business without impact.

”This fellow daoist seems unfamiliar?”

As soon as I entered Jiuhes Commerce Association, a gentle-looking lady greeted me; she was in the early stages of Golden Pill, smiling and said, ”My name is Liu Cailing, in charge here. I have seen fellow daoist.”

”Does daoist need anything?”

”If it is about the sword dao, don’t miss out. To be honest, the heavenly materials and earthly treasures related to the sword dao are ten to fifteen percent cheaper here than other places.”