章 66: Shopping date

"Oh? Would you look at this!" 

Claire dragged me over to one of the stalls pretty much the moment we stepped into the marketplace sprawling over the bottom flight of the main road. 

Just like on the other side of the street and with the temples, the shops here came in all shapes and forms, ranging from simple roadside stalls, through proper locations all the way to some fancy, branded shops and even a mall.

'No, now that I think about it, there is a greater variety of shops here than there are different kinds of temples behind us,' I thought, glancing over at the temples for but a second before turning my attention to whatever it was that caught Claire's fancy. 

But as it turned out, the practice of putting proper descriptions for every item offered for sale was an exception of Claire's shop, not the norm of a cultivation district. As such, even when I looked closer and closer… All I could tell was that Claire was now holding some sort of purple flower.