Inside a mountain peak not far from Ye Qingxuan’s city in the Xuanmu Realm.
Xie Yin of the Green Demon Race was sitting cross-legged halfway up the mountain, meditating and regulating his breathing to recover from his injuries.
Suddenly, Xie Yin seemed to sense something unusual and abruptly opened his eyes, shouting:
“Who’s there?”
But the only response was a sixth-tier low-grade attack talisman that had already been activated.
“No!”
Looking at the sixth-tier talisman attack coming straight at him, Xie Yin’s face showed terror.
But under the suppression of the sixth-tier talisman, in his current condition, he couldn’t move at all.
Bang!
Xie Yin, already gravely wounded and with all his trump cards spent, was directly killed by this sixth-tier talisman without any ability to resist.
After Xie Yin had completely perished, a figure finally flew in from the distance, arriving before Xie Yin’s corpse with a smile on his face.
This figure was none other than Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone.
As early as when Xie Yin and Xie Wu had fled, Ye Qingxuan had already left tracking marks on both of them through the sixth-tier formation.
Later, when Xie Wu was targeted by a peak Nascent Soul stage human cultivator, Ye Qingxuan set his sights on Xie Yin.
Through the tracking mark, Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone found the location where Xie Yin was healing.
Although Xie Yin was gravely injured and had entered a deep meditative state, his perception of the outside world somewhat reduced.
But he was still a peak Nascent Soul stage cultivator after all, with strength and cultivation far surpassing Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone.
So, to avoid alerting him, Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone did not rashly approach Xie Yin.
Instead, he chose to activate a sixth-tier low-grade talisman from a distance, giving Xie Yin no chance to resist at all.
By the time Xie Yin noticed something was wrong, the sixth-tier low-grade talisman had already been successfully activated by Ye Qingxuan.
Under the suppression of the sixth-tier talisman, the gravely wounded Xie Yin had no ability to fight back at all.
He was directly and overwhelmingly killed on the spot by Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone.
After storing Xie Yin’s corpse, Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone didn’t waste any time and headed straight back to his city.
On the other side.
After a rather brief struggle, Xie Wu likewise did not escape his fate of death.
He was caught up to by that peak Nascent Soul stage human cultivator carrying a long saber, and was ultimately slain beneath that cultivator’s blade.
After killing Xie Wu, the saber-carrying cultivator silently stored Xie Wu’s corpse, then looked in the direction of Ye Qingxuan’s city.
After pondering for a moment, he too headed toward Ye Qingxuan’s city.
Inside Ye Qingxuan’s city.
By the time his explorer clone returned with Xie Yin’s corpse, Ye Qingxuan had already finished cleaning up the battlefield.
In this battle, including Xie Yin brought back by the explorer clone.
Ye Qingxuan had killed a total of one peak Nascent Soul stage Green Demon cultivator, four mid Nascent Soul stage cultivators, and eighteen early Nascent Soul stage cultivators.
Using his divine sense to examine the Green Demon corpses in his storage bag, Ye Qingxuan felt overjoyed.
With this harvest, his true body might be able to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage in one go.
Beyond these tangible gains.
Ye Qingxuan’s Mysterious Mall had thoroughly made a name for itself among the human cultivators in this region.
After the battle ended, quite a few human cultivators couldn’t hold back and came one after another to Ye Qingxuan’s Mysterious Mall.
By now, quite a few human cultivators had already entered the city.
However, most of these cultivators were below the Nascent Soul stage.
Those at the Nascent Soul stage were, at this point in time, still busy hunting down the Green Demons who had fled from Ye Qingxuan’s city.
As for these human cultivators, Ye Qingxuan had no intention of meeting them.
Since it was a Mysterious Mall, his Mysterious Merchant clone, as the city lord, naturally had to maintain an air of mystery before these cultivators.
The three hundred second-tier wooden puppets in the city were enough to receive the human cultivators entering the city and operate this small city.
So the daily operations of the city didn’t require him to show himself.
The human cultivators who had witnessed this battle were not so foolish as to deliberately cause trouble in the city.
Every one of them obediently toured the city, or entered the shops within to replenish supplies they had recently used up.
The second-tier wooden puppets in the Mysterious Mall naturally couldn’t be hidden from these cultivators.
After discovering that everyone responsible for running the city was actually a puppet, it once again caused a wave of exclamations among these cultivators.
In the hearts of these cultivators, this Mysterious Mall had gained yet another layer of mystery.
After touring the Mysterious Mall, a Golden Core stage cultivator came to the teleportation plaza within the city.
Now that the Mysterious Mall had successfully established itself, this city would very likely become a supply station for human cultivators in this region in the future.
When that time came, cultivators like them would inevitably need to come to this city to rest and recuperate.
Under such circumstances, it was only natural to first understand the city’s layout and ensure its safety.
Only then could they plan their retreat route at the fastest speed when facing a crisis.
And the teleportation plaza was the best escape route for cultivators within the city.
So after touring the other buildings in the city, this Golden Core stage cultivator came to the teleportation plaza.
He wanted to use the teleportation formation to teleport to Xuanmu City, to confirm that the formation was functioning properly.
Only then could he feel at ease coming to this newly built city in the future to resupply or rest.
In the teleportation plaza, only two wooden puppets maintained order.
But currently, aside from this Golden Core cultivator, no one else had entered the Mysterious Mall’s teleportation plaza.
Approaching the two wooden puppets, this Golden Core cultivator tentatively asked:
“Excuse me, how much does it cost to use the teleportation formation?”
“100 low-grade spirit stones per person.”
Originally, Ye Qingxuan had planned to make it free.
But then he thought that the main users of the teleportation formation would still be cultivators from this region, and making it free wouldn’t attract much foot traffic anyway.
Plus, other cities that had successfully established themselves all charged for teleportation formations.
So Ye Qingxuan also chose to charge.
Rather than relying on free service to attract some low-spending customers, it was better to run his city well and attract more high-spending customers.
Hearing the price for using the teleportation formation, this Golden Core cultivator nodded and muttered softly:
“This price isn’t expensive.”
Compared to flying back to Xuanmu City from this region, spending 100 low-grade spirit stones to teleport directly to Xuanmu City was quite a good deal.
After taking out 100 low-grade spirit stones and handing them to one of the puppets, this Golden Core cultivator stepped into the teleportation light gate and disappeared.
In Xuanmu City’s teleportation plaza.
Several days had passed since the teleportation light gate of the Mysterious Mall had appeared.
Aside from a few cultivators who permanently resided near Xuanmu City’s teleportation plaza and still observed the changes in the Mysterious Mall’s teleportation light gate every day.
The other cultivators who had previously stopped to watch the Mysterious Mall’s teleportation light gate had long since left Xuanmu City’s teleportation plaza.
When that Golden Core cultivator teleported to Xuanmu City’s teleportation plaza through the Mysterious Mall’s teleportation formation.
He was inadvertently spotted by a cultivator who had been keeping an eye on the Mysterious Mall’s teleportation light gate. That cultivator instinctively shouted:
“Everyone look, someone’s come out of that Mysterious Mall’s teleportation light gate!”
Upon hearing this, cultivators who knew something about the Mysterious Mall’s teleportation light gate all turned to look, causing a commotion near the teleportation plaza.
