Cloudexit City benefited the most from the antagonism between the Immortal Pagoda and Haotian Tower. Countless cultivators flooded both shops the moment they opened for business, furiously buying everything they could lay their hands on.

Of course, Haotian Tower’s prices were cheaper and all of their treasures refined by supplemental kings. Therefore, it was the more popular out of the two.

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The Li Clan naturally possessed a stronghold in Cloudexit City, one with three kings in residence. They hadn’t offered their help to the other seventeen Cloudexit kings. In their eyes, those seventeen were just a bunch of country bumpkins; they didn’t share a similar language.

First step kings of Azure Dragon Region had progressed beyond forcefields to employ influence, but...