Chapter 4383 — As If It Were the Secular World
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Over these days, Wei Zhao's cultivation at the middle Golden Core stage had become fully consolidated. After all, compared with others, a cultivator who had achieved a perfect breakthrough to the Golden Core stage found further breakthroughs and advancement easier to come by—and with Wei Zhao's aptitude, how could he be measured by common reckoning?
Still, every breakthrough called for the right opportunity. Wei Zhao had only consolidated his middle Golden Core stage for now, and to climb another step he still lacked a little seasoning. So he might as well go out and relax with Qi Wenmo first, and take in the sights of Demonic Cold City along the way.
Walking the main thoroughfare of Demonic Cold City, Wei Zhao found it markedly more orderly than Weihu City. Of the stretches of the Southern Continent's seas he had visited, Weihu City was chaotic and Zhenduan City more chaotic still, yet here in Demonic Cold City alone everything seemed normal and orderly, scarcely different from the Northern Island.
He could not tell whether it was always so, or whether someone was deliberately keeping order on account of the escort agencies' gathering. At any rate, over the whole length of that street Wei Zhao saw not a single brawl or disturbance. In Weihu City, he would likely have seen four or five by now—perhaps even more.
"Hey, there's quite a crowd over there. Brother Ling, shall we go take a look?" Qi Wenmo suddenly said, pointing to a merchant guild. Compared with the other shops along the street, this guild was plainly bursting with custom, thronged above and below, its business so brisk it was simply jaw-dropping.
"The Central Hub Merchant Guild?" Wei Zhao froze at the sight of the signboard. The Central Hub Merchant Guild gave the impression of having risen overnight, taking shape so swiftly that even veteran top-tier guilds of Yunjie Island such as the Five Elements Merchant Guild and the Hong Merchant Guild had suffered a tremendous shock and threat. He had not expected to find one even here in the Demonic Cold waters.
"That's right. People have been talking about it constantly lately, and I've never been to see it. Since we've happened to come across it, I really ought to have a good look," Qi Wenmo said, a little excited.
"All right, let's go in and have a look." Wei Zhao nodded. He too was very interested in this Central Hub Merchant Guild—especially since it sold all manner of goods unique to the secular world. If he could successfully ferret out the trick behind it, he might well be able to travel freely between Yunjie Island and the secular world, and that temptation was no small thing.
The two at once followed the flow of people inward, praise and exclamations rising around them from time to time. Looking at the various goods on the display shelves, Qi Wenmo was full of novelty, but Wei Zhao was somewhat disappointed.
Just as with the methods by which the Central Hub Merchant Guild had first made its name, the goods on these shelves were all common things from the secular world—from everyday technological products to practical tools, and even foods peculiar to the secular world. All of it was gathered here, and Wei Zhao felt almost dazed, as though he had returned to the secular world. This was simply a department store.
Of course, set in the secular world it would count as no more than an ordinary department store, still far from comparable to those vast supermarkets.
Even so, for all his disappointment, Wei Zhao was rather alarmed. After all, this was Yunjie Island. Such a department store was commonplace in the secular world, but to bring so many goods to Yunjie Island—the meaning behind that was truly no trifling matter. (If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to cast