Lianyun Tower stood tall in the heart of Tianlan Immortal City. This was the busiest and most prosperous street in the city. Cultivators who could afford to open their shops here belonged to either Nascent Soul upper sects from other domains or major sects within the Jade Cauldron Domain. For the Lianyun Trade Alliance to outright own a place here spoke volumes about how powerful it had been at its height.0

Three late-stage Foundation Establishment grand cultivators, along with a good dozen other Initiates, had managed its operations. Their trade had spanned over a dozen marketplaces, and resources from all directions had converged under their watchful gazes to sustain this shop.0

Even so, that alone would never have been enough to maintain such a prime location. There was no way for them to do this without the support of a major player from behind the scenes. Thus, the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect's suspicion that the Lianyun Trade Alliance and the Falling Cloud Sect had colluded in secret was therefore not without reason.0

Standing outside Lianyun Tower, Luo Chen observed quietly for some time. A shop in such a prime location must have generated profits amounting to several hundred thousand a year. The Lianyun Trade Alliance alone could hardly have absorbed such immense gains.0

By comparison, even though the Luo Tian Society now held greater influence than the Lianyun Trade Alliance had in its prime, its main establishment, Danxia Hall, was located in a remote corner of...4