TONGTIAN CITY was situated at the summit of a mountain, standing at a height that almost reached the sky. It was most prosperous city among the orthodox sects, and home to the biggest trading marketplace, the Six Harmonies Bazaar. Virtually any elixirs or materials could be purchased here, and even top-tier spirit beasts would pop up at the auctions from time to time.
The city was divided into two zones—streets where cultivators could freely set up stalls and the Six Harmonies Bazaar. The bazaar itself was further organized into various streets, each lined with rows of stalls that specialized in specific wares. The street that sold materials for artifact forging had a dizzying assortment of shops of all sizes.
“Are you buying materials for refining artifacts?” All the shops looked the same to Menghu, who was clueless about this stuff, so he made to lead them to the biggest store. But Mo Tianliao grabbed Menghu to stop him.
Large stores that sold everything tended to be expensive, whereas specialized shops yielded the best quality. The shop specializing in ores would offer the best meteoric iron, while the shop specializing in crystals would have superior crystals.
Mo Tianliao dragged his poor, dizzy senior, overwhelmed by the massive variety of products, into each shop for a look, and under Menghu’s pained gaze, he splurged twenty thousand high-grade spiritual stones on some high-quality luminous stones and Xuanyuan Iron.
Mo Tianliao stopped in front of a shop selling rare stones. “Shopkeeper, do you happen to have any Meteorfall Stone?”
The shopkeeper glanced at Mo Tianliao and saw a cultivator in the foundation establishment stage. “Young man, are you forging something? If you want to craft a size-changing magical artifact, you can just buy some ruyi crystal.”
Mo Tianliao smiled. “It’s for my shizun.”
The shopkeeper dropped his dismissive attitude at once. Anyone who needed Meteorfall Stone must have been crafting spiritual artifacts, and only a master artificer would do that. “Meteorfall Stone is too precious to sell in a small store like mine,” he said. “But I heard the auction house has a precious material for auction these days. You can try your luck there.”
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MINI EXTRA
Eldest Shixiong: What a waste, spending so much money on some fancy rocks.
Woodworker: It’s just chump change, actually.
Eldest Shixiong: Seriously?
Woodworker: Yeah, about a mountain’s worth of mutton leg.
Eldest Shixiong: QAQ