Su Dao Xing and Wen Hong Mei arrived at Yao Sheng Island's Taobao Street.

  On the streets, there were masters selling goods everywhere. In other places, masters could establish their own sects, widely recruit disciples, become a generation of masters, become the strongest in an area, and become the guardian deity of a place. However, in the Seven Saints Institute, even masters could only sell goods on the street and do some miscellaneous work.

  Those grandmasters were once proud sons of heaven, but after coming to the Holy Institute, they couldn't refine the hundred spiritual veins and remained at the grandmaster level, unable to become cultivators. They could only make a living by setting up stalls on Taobao Street, taking on some tasks from the Holy Institute, earning Seven Saints Coins, and buying spiritual veins.

  Su Dao Xing gazed out at the scene of Taobao Street's masters walking all over the street, and let out a sigh in his heart. If he hadn't had those strange encounters one after another, he estimated that his life wouldn't be any different from that of the masters on Taobao Street. He was grateful that he wasn't one of the masters on Taobao Street; otherwise, life would be too boring.

  "That leather store on the street is Gao Hai's descendant's leather store." Wen Hongmei explained to Su Daoxing, pointing to an inconspicuous store on Taobao Street.

  The shop was not very large, with two doors and a complete demon beast skin hanging outside. The sign above the door only had one word: "High".

  "Is Gao Hai a celebrity of the Eastern Capital Dynasty? What's special about his leather shop?" Su Dao woke up from her humble origins, with limited knowledge, and heard of Gao Hai for the first time.

  Wen Hongmei mentioned a story about Gao Hai.

  A thousand years ago, the Eastern Empire and even the entire continent had never heard of the "Pizong" sect, but because of one person's appearance, Pizong became famous in the Eastern Empire.

  Gao Hai appeared in the Eastern Earth Imperial Dynasty, with an identity as a talented and extraordinary painter. His paintings were widely spread, he reached the ninth boundary of painting, only one more breakthrough to become a saint.

  Such a character left a legend in the Dongtu Huang Dynasty. At that time, the Painting Sage wanted to accept Gaohai as his disciple because only by making Gaohai his disciple could the Painting Sage pass on some of his insights to him. The Painting Sage's purpose was simply to make Gaohai a saint, but something shocking happened: Gaohai politely declined the Painting Sage's offer to take him as his disciple, claiming that his painting skills were inherited from Pizong.

  Gao Hai began to spread the doctrine of Pi Zong, which was a mysterious organization composed of high-handed painters. The disciples of Pi Zong could use human skin to create an entire person.

  At that time, the war was continuous and many soldiers died. Some people spent their entire savings to have the Pi Zong people make a soldier's skin look like he was still alive, but the soldier only had a piece of skin, no soul, no flesh and blood, just some air inside, just so his family could see him and remember him.

  Pizong's actions naturally led to the condemnation of the orthodox figures at that time, but Gaohai-led Pizong did not go too far and there was no strong attack on Pizong.

  In that era, the first beauty Xiao Piao Piao died of illness, with her skin intact. Gao Hai used the skin of the first beauty to make it seem as if she had come back to life, shocking the world and making Gao Hai and his Pi Zong famous throughout the Eastern Capital Dynasty.

  From then on, the Eastern Dynasty had an additional Qi Zong, and an additional Qi Zong Xiu Jun who had reached the ninth realm of painting.

  Gao Hai never became a saint in his lifetime, but Gao Hai's name was renowned throughout the Eastern Dynasty. A thousand years later, the Gao family still held considerable power in the Eastern Dynasty, comparable to that of a great aristocratic family.

  Su Dao Xing only then understood that the small shop in front of him was actually not simple at all, but rather an enterprise left behind by Pi Zong Gao Hai's descendants.

  An old man in the store half opened and half closed his eyes.

  "Nice to meet you, Mr. Gao!" Wen Hongmei walked into the store, bowed to the old man and stated her purpose.

  Mr. Gao looked at Wen Hongmei and said: "So it's the little girl from the Wen family, give my regards to your grandfather."

  "Mr. Gao, when I get home, I'll definitely bring your greetings to my grandfather." Wen Hongmei smiled and said: "This time, the junior has come to exchange some demon hides for spiritual veins."

  "Oh! You've entered the Frost Abyss. This store only accepts pelts from demonic beasts within the Frost Abyss, not those from other parts of the Seven Saints Island. Unless it's a pelt from an extraordinary beast like the Heavenly Ape, Nine-Winged Evil Peng, or Mountain-Shifting Divine Monkey, then we can make an exception." Mr. Gao chuckled and revealed his gleaming yellow teeth.

  Su Dao Xing thought that Mr. Gao was thinking too much, the skin of a Tongtian Shenyuan-level demon beast was not something that a small sect master like them could obtain.

  "Don't belittle yourself, young man. The ancestors of the Gao family, Gao Hai, had already reached the realm of the sect master and had entered a place of absolute death, killing a demon beast that was even stronger than the Tongtian Divine Ape." Mr. Gao seemed to be able to read Su Daoxue's mind.

  "The descendants of Pi Zong Gao Hai are indeed extraordinary, as if they can read what's on my mind." Su Dao Xing thought to himself.

  Mr. Gao smiled again at Su Dao Xing and said, "Young man, Old Gao can't read minds, but I can guess what you're thinking."

  Su Dao woke up with an awkward smile and said: "I was rude just now."

  Mr. Gao looked at Wen Hongmei and said, "Bring out your demon beast skins, old rules, five complete demon beast skins can be exchanged for a spiritual vein."

  "Good!" Wen Hongmei took out her own 150 pieces of demon beast skin.

  "Mr. Gao, I have 200 pieces of demon beast skin here, including the demon beast skin from the depths of the icy abyss, which can be exchanged for one spiritual vein for every five pieces." Su Dao Xing slapped the Seven Saints Token and took out 200 pieces of demon beast skin.

  Mr. Gao was also a straightforward person, took away the two demon beast skins, gave 30 spiritual veins to Wen Hongmei and 40 spiritual veins to Su Daowu.

  Su Dao Xing and Wen Hong Mei happily left Gao's store, strolled around Taobao Street for a while, and Wen Hong Mei went on a shopping spree.

  Su Dao Xing had merely purchased a few ordinary weapons.

  "Su Dao Xing, you are now the 50 Pulse Sect Master. Once you refine and transform 50 more spiritual pulses, you will become a 100 Pulse Sect Master. Then, you can start preparing to enter the True Cultivation Realm." said Wen Hongmei.

  "Hmm! I used to have thirty spiritual veins, but now I've exchanged twenty more with the demon beast skin. This way, I'll have fifty spiritual veins that I can refine into my own spiritual veins." Su Daoxue revealed a hint of a smile, feeling slightly complacent. Now he could become a Hundred Vein Sect Master at any time, it's just that to lay a solid foundation, he needed to take it one step at a time to become a Hundred Vein Sect Master.

  Wen Hongmei's nose was slightly sour as she said, "I now have only thirty spiritual veins. If I collect some more spiritual veins, I can also become a Master of the Hundred Spiritual Veins."

  Two people walked and chatted, leaving Taobao Street.

  A group of students from Wu Shengyuan blocked Su Dao Xing and Wen Hongmei in front of the square connected to Taobao Street.

  "Beware of strangers! Better be careful." Su Dao Xing whispered to Wen Hongmei beside him.

  "I know." Wen Hongmei coldly looked at the students of Wusengyuan.

  That group of students surrounded Tang Qian like the stars surrounding the moon. Tang Qian was a master of the Hundred Pulse Sect, a prominent figure in the Seven Saints Institute, and also the King of the Eastern Dynasty. He had just defeated one of the top thirty masters on the Sacred Name List, making a big splash.