Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Chapter 496: Chapter 220 Innate Persistence_1

Within the Imperial Capital Marketplace, all the major powers of the Great Xia territory gathered, boasting that all kinds of miraculous materials and Divine Skills were available. From the beginning of the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge, it was renowned alongside the Demonic City Marketplace as the two major cultivation marketplaces within the Great Xia territory.

Before going to the Yunfu Marketplace, Shen Yuan had already heard of the name of the Imperial Capital Marketplace, but it was his first time entering this marketplace, known as the number one in Great Xia.

As soon as he stepped into the marketplace, Shen Yuan felt that the concentration of Spirit Energy inside the Imperial Capital Marketplace was almost double that outside, with a super large Spirit Gathering Array covering every corner of the marketplace.

On both sides of the marketplace streets, the emblems of various noble families from within the Imperial Capital were clearly left above pavilions, towers, shops, and stalls, to prove their ownership.

Furthermore, in the distance, Shen Yuan even saw the marks of the major grotto heavens blessed land sects, with almost every shop having the backing of a power.

Walking on the streets of the Imperial Capital Marketplace, Shen Yuan could clearly feel that the cultivators coming and going from the shops were almost all above the Qi Transformation Stage, and there were even occasionally some Qi-training cultivators.

At a rough glance, there were no fewer than ten thousand cultivators in the entire Imperial Capital Marketplace, not to mention that this was just the normal daily turnout at the marketplace.

If there were major auctions or trade fairs, the number of cultivators would likely increase several times over.

After entering the Imperial Capital Marketplace, Shen Yuan noticed that the thread of cause and effect that his Star Astrology Divine Power had been tracing had weakened by several degrees and was even about to fade to the point of being barely visible.

“The proximity has weakened the connection to cause and effect—could it be that the person has a treasure to shield against Tianji?”

Shen Yuan immediately grasped the key to the situation, his expression taking on a note of seriousness.

This degree of connection to cause and effect, naturally, could not precisely guide Shen Yuan’s direction.

With the sheer number of cultivators within the Imperial Capital Marketplace and with people constantly coming and going, trying to find someone he had never even seen was undoubtedly like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Shen Yuan paused slightly in his steps, standing still. His Star Astrology Divine Power silently tugged at the nearly imperceptible thread of cause and effect.

Surrounding him, stars flickered unpredictably, revolving around him and showing myriad transformations. At this moment, he seemed to have become the Great Sun amid the stars, suppressing the endless deductions.

After a long while, Shen Yuan slowly returned from the state of using the Star Astrology Divine Power, a flash of imperceptible starlight passing through the depths of his eyes.

Even as Shen Yuan exerted his full power to summon the Third Realm of the Star Astrology Divine Power, the trail proved elusive.

Faced with such a situation, the corners of Shen Yuan’s mouth couldn’t help but curl into a slight smile.

“Sometimes, the absence of an answer is an answer in itself.”

The fact that Shen Yuan’s Third Realm Star Astrology Divine Power could not deduce the exact location of the cause and effect proved that the person with the cause and effect had an incredibly high-quality treasure to shield against Tianji.

Under the current situation, very few powers capable of producing such a treasure exist, and with a ninety percent probability, it would be in the hands of the noble elites or sect prodigies within the Imperial Capital Marketplace.

As for the remaining ten percent, it could be that the treasure shielding against Tianji has been obtained by an outsider, but the probability is too low to consider at the moment.

For now, Shen Yuan’s goal was naturally to find the location of the young nobility within the marketplace.

His gaze passed over a stall by the roadside, where an old man in a gray Taoist robe, holding a long banner, was sitting. His eyes were gray and white, revealing that he was blind.

The Old Divination Master, in the Qi Training Middle Stage, was considered quite respectable in the current Great Xia. Moreover, his special method of concealing his aura allowed him to suppress his cultivation base to the Essence Refining Stage, giving off the impression of a world-weary expert pretending to be weak. @@novelbin@@

Shen Yuan approached the stall and sat down slowly, speaking softly,

“I need to know the location within the Imperial Capital Marketplace where the noble elites gather.”

The Old Divination Master’s expression shook, and his gray-white eyes trembled.

Although he was blind, such physical injuries were trivial matters for a Qi-training cultivator.

Without the obstacles of a Formation, the Divine Sense of a cultivator in the Qi Refinement Realm could easily cover half of the Imperial Capital Marketplace, especially since he cultivated the “Hexagram Divination Remnant Scroll,” making his Divine Sense much sharper than that of other Qi-training cultivators.

However, it wasn’t until the gentle voice spoke that he realized an additional person had arrived at his stall.

But when he used his Divine Sense to scan, there were no traces in front of the stall—neither life force, breath, nor fluctuations of heaven and earth or cause and effect.

The Old Divination Master couldn’t help swallowing hard, realizing that the person before him must have a cultivation base far exceeding his own.

“Pre… Predecessor, whatever you ask, this junior will tell you all he knows.”

Shen Yuan chuckled to himself, his tone remaining calm, “Don’t worry; it’s just a small matter.

I want to know where the noble elites are gathering in the Imperial Capital Marketplace.”

“Today, there aren’t any major auctions or trade fairs, so those truly important figures should not be coming to the Imperial Capital Marketplace.

However, I’ve heard that many prodigies from the grotto heavens blessed land have entered the Imperial Capital Marketplace and went to the Enlightenment Pavilion.

The young prodigies within the Imperial Capital seemingly wish to compete with those from the grotto heavens blessed land and should also be in the Enlightenment Pavilion.”

Shen Yuan asked out of curiosity, “What exactly is this Enlightenment Pavilion, and why have I never heard of it?”

After a few exchanges, the Old Divination Master also realized that the person before him was not whimsically temperamental, so his courage grew considerably.

“The Enlightenment Pavilion is built by a prominent figure within the Imperial Capital, housing all kinds of special Divine Power skills, Tao and Buddhist scriptures.

These Divine Power skills and Tao and Buddhist scriptures either require special innate qualities for the cultivator themselves or are incomplete and difficult to cultivate.”