Factions & Places

An informant network that is everywhere in the bazaar yet that no one can quite explain. It does not seize people, does not question—it only watches, only records.

The lowest tier of 'reception ground' in the bazaar. Rogue cultivators who suffer Cultivation Deviation, with no one to ransom them, are carried in here—of those who go in, the odds of coming out are zero.

The pill shop on East Street, run by one surnamed Zhou, a dark-gold peony embroidered on the cuff. What sells most is Qi-Condensation Powder; what piles up in the back yard is vat after vat of rebounded waste pills.

Where rogue cultivators gather to scrape a living. Pill shops on East Street, talisman stalls on West, secondhand clothes down Well-Bottom Lane—by day, trade; by night, another face.