Chapter 592: The Trading Fair (1/2)
Chapter 592: The Trading Fair
Three days later...
Hu Rong, who lived on the same block as them, visited Nie Tian and planned to take him to attend the trading fair, which was going to be held in the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
Li Jing from the Blood Sect instructed the other Blood Sect members to stay in their residence as she left with Hu Rong and Nie Tian.
Shortly afterwards, Chang Sen, Ghost Eye, and Fang Hui also left their residences for the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
As soon as he left the dilapidated block, Nie Tian started to see people everywhere, who were all flowing towards the Blood Skull’s headquarters like a flood.
Nie Tian briefly glanced around, and discovered that not a single one of them was at the Greater Heaven stage or lower.
Even though their cultivation bases were all rather impressive, many of them were dressed in garments that didn’t belong to ancient, powerful sects like the Yin Sect or the Yang Sect.
Hu Rong saw through his thoughts, and explained, “Other than the powerful and renowned sects that have Soul realm experts, there are a much larger number of small sects and clans that are like the Cloudsoaring Sect and the Nie Clan. All of those sects and clans cling to major sects or powers like the Heaven Palace Sect and Ice Pavilion Sect.
“Even though they don’t have Soul realm experts, they do have Worldly realm or Profound realm experts in their sects or clans, so they were also drafted to help defend against the outsiders’ invasion.”
Nie Tian nodded and said, “I see.”
Afterwards, Hu Rong went on to explain, “We organized this trading fair because battles could break out at any moment now. Everyone who’s here needs to be prepared for the upcoming battles. We hope everyone will trade the spiritual materials they don’t need for spiritual tools or medicinal pills that will help with their performance in battle.
“Besides, many of the treasures you’ve brought back from that dimension have gone extinct or never even existed in the Domain of the Falling Stars.
“We hope those magical items will be put to good use.
“I’m sure that many people’s battle prowess will improve significantly if they got their hands on some of the treasures you’ve brought back from that dimension. Meanwhile, you’ll be able to get a tremendous amount of spirit stones or materials that will help you progress in your cultivation in return.
“This time, we’ve arranged for a few very experienced experts to be at the trading fair to evaluate the spiritual materials and tools for everyone. They’ll try to be fair, and their service will be free of charge.”
Nie Tian nodded repeatedly as he listened to Hu Rong explain the details of the trading fair. Soon, he understood the reason why Spirit Condor had decided to hold this trading fair.
Facing the outsiders’ upcoming invasion, they mainly hoped that the experts from all over the Domain of the Falling Star would be able to improve their battle prowess as much as possible through this trading fair.
If they couldn’t turn the precious materials and tools they had obtained from that dimension into battle performance, those things would be of very little help when the outsiders came.
For this very reason, this small trading fair, which was held in a remote corner, had attracted powerful experts from almost every sect from all over the Domain of the Falling Stars.
As soon as Nie Tian arrived at the front gate of the Blood Skull’s headquarters, a loud clamor caught his ears. After a brief scan with his psychic awareness, he rapidly learned that at least hundreds of Qi warriors were now gathered in the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
Most of them were experts at the Worldly realm or Profound realm.
With a soft laugh, Hu Rong said, “At least a third of the Worldly realm and Profound realm experts in the Domain of the Falling Stars are now gathered in this place. It’s all because of the upcoming war against the outsider invaders. It’s not likely that the Spirit Condor alone would attract so much attention.”
“The rare spiritual materials we’ve obtained from that dimension also played a major part, I assume,” Nie Tian said.
“Of course! Of course!” Hu Rong replied, full of smiles. “It’s exactly because talented youngsters like you have brought a good amount of rare and magical items from that dimension that these lofty experts would come to Shatter City from the Land of the Abandoned, Ash City, and the Void Illusion Mountain Range.”
Nie Tian was aware that the other two major cities in the Realm of Split Void must also be crowded with people.
The Heaven Palace Sect, the Flame God Sect, the Spirit God Sect, the Heaven Expanse Sect, the Thunder Mountain Sect, the Poison Sect, and the many small sects and clans that clung to them, were now gathered at the other two rally-points and the Void Illusion Mountain Range.
To attend this trading fair, powerful experts from all over Domain of the Falling Stars almost flooded the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
Led by Hu Rong, Nie Tian threaded through the crowd and rapidly made it to the central square within the Blood Skull’s headquarters.
Standing in the middle of the square, Nie Tian glanced around, and saw numerous people crowding together and moving back and forth as far as he could see.
He didn’t know most of them, but there were also familiar faces like Ji Qingyun in the crowd.
Many Worldly realm and Profound realm experts found locations in the square, where they took out and placed their collection of valuable items on a piece of cloth in front of them.
All kinds of items could be seen, including spiritual materials, tools, incantation scrolls, medicinal pills, spell formations, etc.