The unexpected news shocked everyone.
An envoy from the Human Immortal Cultivator Alliance arrived here.
He announced that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect had joined the Human Immortal Cultivator Alliance, willing to set an example for demon cultivators and contribute to the human race on the outer battlefield.
He also mentioned that the Primordial Sect failed to stop the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, which signified the end of the Primordial Sect's heavenly fate. From now on, the territory of the Primordial Sect would belong to the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.
Cultivators from the Ten Thousand Demons Sect were forbidden from committing crimes against other immortal cultivation forces or the common folk within their own sect's territory. They were only allowed to use the flesh, blood, and souls of death row criminals for alchemy and artifact crafting.
Thus, in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world, under the Spirit Creek Sect, there emerged the only demon sect in the cultivation world.
No one knew what the Human Immortal Cultivator Alliance was thinking, allowing a demon sect to openly occupy a territory. Wasn't this akin to raising a tiger to invite calamity?
However, the voices of the lower-ranked cultivators were insignificant. Even if they were dissatisfied with the demon sect occupying the land, they could do nothing about it.
Perhaps in the eyes of the Human Immortal Cultivator Alliance, the Ten Thousand Demons Sect could be easily wiped out with a single slap, unable to stir any waves.
The Ten Thousand Demons Sect's willingness to participate in the outer battlefield might be considered a good thing for the Human Immortal Cultivator Alliance.
Upon hearing this news, Guo Feilong was stunned for a moment. The news was truly extraordinary.
As the saying goes:
The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things.
With one demon sect occupying a territory, a second will follow, then a third, a fourth, and possibly countless more.
Demon cultivators, once universally condemned, suddenly became a legitimate existence.
The heavens of this cultivation world seemed to be changing.
Guo Feilong was filled with worry.
However, when the sky falls, taller people will hold it up.
It wasn't his place, as a mere Qi Refining stage cultivator, to worry about such matters.
He only needed to take care of his family and loved ones.
After purchasing some ordinary beef and lamb strips at the cultivation market, Guo Feilong sat on the back of the Seventh Rank flying spiritual beast, Da Gui, and flew towards Wanhua City.
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It took him a full four days and over twenty thousand miles to reach the large cultivation market of Wanhua City.
In the Arctic Continent's cultivation world, Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were rare.
But in the Northern Borders Continent's cultivation world, they were frequently encountered.
Wanhua City was a city where cultivators and ordinary people lived together.
Cultivators made up at least one-tenth of the population, something Guo Feilong had never seen in the Spirit Creek Sect or the Arctic Continent's cultivation world.
The rules in Wanhua City were strict: no cultivator was allowed to kill ordinary people at will. The punishment for such an act was severe.
If a cultivator killed an ordinary person, they would lose an arm, which could never be regenerated with any spirit herb.
If they killed two ordinary people, both hands and legs would be severed, with no chance of regrowth.
If they killed three ordinary people, the only outcome was death.
In Wanhua City, the status of ordinary people was higher than in any other cultivation force Guo Feilong had seen.
Similarly, ordinary people were not allowed to insult cultivators with words or actions. If they were killed by a cultivator for such behavior, with witnesses and evidence, the cultivator only needed to pay a certain amount of compensation.
Additionally, Wanhua City prohibited any cultivator from forcibly taking women.
If discovered, the punishment was death.
Wanhua City belonged to the Wanhua Sect, which consisted entirely of female disciples, with no males in the entire sect.
Within the Wanhua Sect's territory, women held higher status than men.
Women were the heads of households, could inherit family property, and children took their mother's surname.
Moreover, in the Wanhua Sect's territory, theaters and high-class brothels operated in reverse compared to other places.
Men were the performers and escorts, while women were the patrons.
Even elderly women in their eighties or nineties, with faces full of wrinkles, could hire handsome young men in the theaters and brothels.
In short, within the Wanhua Sect's territory, one must respect women, or they might not leave the area alive.
Female cultivators in the Wanhua Sect could marry and have children.
Wanhua City had numerous cultivator shops and auction houses, far more prosperous than the largest market in the Spirit Creek Sect.
Guo Feilong first visited several auction houses to inquire about the auction of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Foundation Establishment stage cultivator elixir recipes. After asking seven places, he finally got an answer.
The seventh place, Shunlong Auction House, had an auction in ten days, featuring the auction of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Foundation Establishment stage cultivator elixir recipes.
Guo Feilong didn't know how many spirit stones it would take to acquire the elixir recipes for Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, but in the various cultivator pharmacies in Wanhua City, Beauty Retaining Pills were readily available.
Beauty Retaining Pills were the most popular elixirs in the Wanhua Sect, and their price was much higher than in the Spirit Creek Sect.
Guo Feilong directly bought spirit herbs and spirit medicines to refine 100 furnaces of Beauty Retaining Pills. He rented a room in an inn and began refining the pills.
Four days later, the alchemy was complete.
He obtained 1,000 Beauty Retaining Pills.
Without going to the auction house, all the cultivator pharmacies in the city would purchase Beauty Retaining Pills at a high price.
The Spirit Creek Sect had a pharmacy branch in Wanhua City, and Guo Feilong, without using his title as the Wuhen Alchemist of the Spirit Creek Sect, sold 10 Beauty Retaining Pills to the Spirit Creek Sect's pharmacy.
Each Beauty Retaining Pill sold for 40,000 low-quality spirit stones, totaling 400,000 low-quality spirit stones.
Next, Guo Feilong, wearing a bamboo hat, entered various other cultivator pharmacies, selling 10 Beauty Retaining Pills to each.
In two days, he sold all 1,000 Beauty Retaining Pills.
Moreover, he bought 300 sets of spirit herbs and spirit medicines for refining Beauty Retaining Pills, nearly depleting the main materials for refining Beauty Retaining Pills in Wanhua City.
Although he bought 300 sets, he didn't refine them immediately, saving them for the wives and concubines he would marry in the future.
Time quickly passed, and the day of the auction arrived.
Guo Feilong entered the auction wearing a tiger mask.
There were at least eighty to a hundred people wearing tiger masks, so he wasn't the only one, making it easier to hide his identity and prevent others from knowing he was wealthy.
Guo Feilong wasn't interested in other items at the auction, and soon it was time for the auction of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Foundation Establishment stage cultivator elixir recipes.
These elixir recipes were of no use to large cultivation forces but were valuable to medium-sized families with Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, as Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade alchemists were not easy to come by, resulting in little competition.
The final result was:
Guo Feilong spent 800,000 low-quality spirit stones to acquire the Fourth Grade elixir recipe.
He spent 2.5 million low-quality spirit stones to acquire the Fifth Grade elixir recipe.
He spent 8 million low-quality spirit stones to acquire the Sixth Grade elixir recipe.
In total, he spent 11.3 million low-quality spirit stones.
If he hadn't refined so many Beauty Retaining Pills in advance, he wouldn't have had enough spirit stones.
After acquiring what he wanted, Guo Feilong intended to leave the auction house immediately.
But at that moment, the beautiful cultivator host on the auction stage announced, "Next, we will auction the middle section of the body refining technique, the Golden Body Technique.
The starting bid is 1 million low-quality spirit stones, with a minimum increment of 100,000 spirit stones, and no upper limit."