The former Knife Edge Bazaar had become a hub of guilds but now it was once more a barren place. The many shops were closed down and some cultivators were trapped as they could not get away.
The teleportation arrays were still working but the resources to get them to work were beyond them. It had only been a year since the attack on the Inheritance of Death. The drastic changes had revealed the depth of the tainted goods market.
Even those innocent guilds had been compromised. They had not created them but they had not even known they were selling dangerous products!
It had created a reaction that gutted the entire market and bankrupted not just the guilds but miners, plantations, and all manner of interconnected fields. The unintended consequences spiraled outwards until it finally settled.
