It is truly peculiar. Given Li Dai’s cultivation base, she knew that the Void Island City alone was vast. Even at the speed she traveled on Little Cloud—comparable to a Tribulation stage ancient monster—it would take several months to traverse the entire city. And that was only the inner city. Beyond it lay over a hundred dangerous zones, all incredibly expansive. Places like the Honeyflower Mountain of the Void Island Forest, where Li Dai had first arrived, were actually rare havens of peace.
Although the city was massive, the seven major merchant guilds did not have all their shops located within its walls. Most kept their core industries inside, while the less important, high-turnover shops were placed outside. There was, however, one exception among the seven: the Phoenix Feather Merchant Guild.
The Phoenix Feather Merchant Guild belonged to the Monster Beast faction. Its high-level management consisted entirely of transformed Great Monsters. Consequently, the Monster Beast territories—which were extremely dangerous for others—formed the heart and center of their operations. Thus, they were the only guild to keep their primary industry outside the city, with only secondary outlets scattered within. Because they functioned as part of the Monster Beast supply chain, they were the most reclusive of the seven guilds, much like the former Taiyi Guild—though whether they were truly solitary remained a mystery, at least on the surface.
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