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The public duel seemed to have been enough to ensure that they weren't bothered for a little while, and Cain's walk with the Lotus Blossom Sect went much more smoothly for the rest of the morning.

The girls found a load of interesting shops and picked up a few small things each, but it was clear that the great attractions were the two that hadn't properly started yet. 

The Grand Tournament and the Lectures.

What was happening in the city was small-scale recruitment, but they would have expert seminars later, where the truly knowledgeable could present theories to be verified or overturned by their Immortal Peers.

The bit in Cain's mind that he had always identified as the Laughing God seemed way more interested in the Lectures than anything else, and Cain decided that he would have to make time to see them, even if he didn't know much about the particular topic that they had picked.