Anzu's grand gathering is a very special and large-scale event. It is usually held once every five years, and every fifty years, or ten times, a super-sized gathering is held, which is what the referee refers to as the grand gathering.
Every five years, merchants from all over Anzu would come to the outskirts of Shen City, where there is a former architectural site that serves as a temporary trading area. Therefore, the grand gathering takes place in that area.
This fifty-year grand gathering is actually related to the Dragon God Ceremony. In other words, it is to take advantage of the festive atmosphere of the Dragon God Ceremony. The quality of this gathering can be said to be the best among the ten times, and many rare things can be seen here.
Moreover, this gathering attracts not only people from Anzu but also many people from other countries, making this already lively gathering even more popular.
Following the directions they were given, Bexia left the city. He chose not to use any means of transportation because it was still early and he had no urgent matters to attend to. So he decided to walk leisurely, knowing that he had plenty of time.
The site of the gathering is said to be the old city area of Anzu from a long time ago, so it is not far away. As soon as he left the city gate, he could see the outlines of the buildings not far away. It would probably take about ten minutes to get there, and on the road leading to the gathering, he could see people walking together in groups of two or three. The closer they got to the gathering, the more crowded the road became.
"There are so many people!" Bexia exclaimed as he saw the dense crowd. It was several times livelier than the imperial capital of Asman. A large number of merchants were shouting here, and the stalls were filled with all kinds of goods, ranging from daily necessities to weapons and equipment. It was truly a super-sized marketplace... Oops! This is a marketplace!
"Do you want to buy anything, Master?" Christine asked.
"No, I just don't know where to go for fun, so I asked around." Bexia looked at the bustling crowd. He really liked the lively atmosphere of being surrounded by people. "And Christine hasn't been to a gathering like this before! We can have a good time!"
"Great!" Christine nodded happily and looked at Bexia with hopeful eyes. She suddenly wrapped her arms around his neck and said softly, "Master, will you carry me?!"
"Carry you..." Bexia awkwardly scratched his cheek. Carrying Christine was not a problem, but this was a market! It wouldn't be appropriate to do so.
"It's not suitable to carry you. I'll carry you on my back like last time."
"You're so good, Master!" Christine sweetly smiled and stuck out her tender tongue at him. This reminded Bexia of what happened last night, and he instinctively licked his lips.
"Do you have money, Master?" Christine, who was just carried on his back, whispered in his ear.
"I have a little bit!" Last time on the ghost ship, Ruge took away his ring and all the gold coins inside it, so he no longer had the millions of gold coins he had before. But fortunately, he still had the gold coins Bor gave him. After deducting the expenses from the last visit to the Flowery Moon House, he still had tens of thousands of gold coins, which should be enough.
"Do you want to buy anything, Christine?" Bexia asked curiously.
"I don't need anything. It's just that the things here seem expensive. I'm afraid you can't afford to buy anything if you want to, Master!" Christine scanned the surroundings. The things sold here were not cheap. They were thousands or tens of thousands of gold coins casually, and this was just the outskirts of the grand gathering. If they entered the inner area, it would probably be even more expensive.
"It's okay, our main purpose here is to have fun, whether we buy things or not doesn't matter!"
"Let's go, if Christine likes something, just tell me and I will buy it for you. You don't need to save money for me, it's okay to spend." Bexia said as he carried Christine and walked forward, the various shouts around them becoming louder and louder.
"There are so many potions here!" Christine looked at the potions emitting powerful magical energy and said softly.
"Yeah!" Bexia replied indifferently, not really caring about it.
"Does the master also know how to make secret potions?!"
"That kind of thing is quite simple!"
"The master can actually make secret potions for sale, which can bring huge profits, especially since the master's secret potions are so powerful!"
"Bor, the old man, said the same thing, but I don't like doing that kind of thing all the time. Besides, the items I make are not the same as theirs!" Bexia shook his head. His method of making potions didn't feel like secret potions, it felt more like a feast of magical potions.
"Yeah, how can those people compare to the master?!" Christine completely sided with Bexia and even had a blind admiration for him.
"You!" Bexia nudged her head after hearing Christine's words. She was really asking for trouble, but luckily no one noticed them.
"There are so many people surrounding something up ahead! Let's go and take a look?" Christine stretched her neck forward, and Bexia followed along. They saw that the street was crowded with people, all looking at something.
"Oh! What are they selling?" Bexia squeezed through from one side and saw a middle-aged man with injuries, holding a scroll and shouting.
"He found a martial art scroll in the deep mountains and is selling it here."
"Oh!" Bexia nodded and looked at the middle-aged man.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this martial art scroll is something I obtained with great difficulty. Although I'm not very clear about its value, I do know that spirit imprinting is usually used for very high-level scrolls..." The middle-aged man kept talking about how extraordinary the scroll was, emphasizing the difficulty of obtaining it. But these didn't catch Bexia's attention much, what he was more interested in was the mention of "spirit imprinting," because that was an ability that only a champion could possess.
In other words, this martial art scroll was created by a champion, and that was only the minimum requirement. Because Bexia knew that being a champion didn't mean being the strongest, there were even more powerful beings above champions who once existed in this world, they just no longer do.
"... this martial art scroll is called 'Stance of Blooming Lotus,' it is a martial art of the agility type, and it is a very rare type. I guarantee that I have not touched this scroll personally, and I have no idea what it contains!"
"Agility!" Bexia was a bit surprised because that was Anzu's classification, a non-attack form of martial art that increased agility and speed, very useful in battle.
In Anzu, a person's training could be divided into meditation, exercise, offensive martial arts, supportive martial arts, and agility martial arts. In the previous battle with Feng Xiaohuang, she was very agile and difficult to deal with, so it was likely that she had practiced some powerful agility martial art.
Thinking of this, Bexia couldn't help but have an idea about this martial arts technique...
