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Jiuzhou is bustling with activity, with Li State being the most prosperous.
In its jurisdiction, thirty-six counties, all are stable and peaceful.
Located on the eastern edge is an inconspicuous little mountain, yet the ordinary town at its foot, in terms of prosperity, by no means pales in comparison to Li State City.
All who come and go possess robust and powerful auras.
There are those who sell Precious Medicines, those carrying the corpses of demons, evidently a habitat comprised of martial artists and cultivators.
Li State Instrument Sect.
In terms of strength, it may not count among the best, but its reputation for wealth is indeed illustrious across the Great Qian.
Through supplying Precious Tools to the Martial Temple and protected by the Imperial Court, hardly anyone dares to provoke it.
But at this moment.
At the peak of that small mountain, on the edge of a deliberately excavated hollow, sits a modest thatched cottage.
