Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 69: Clues
"It's just a small opportunity, not worth mentioning." Lu Qingshan said with a smile.
Tan Tai Qing Run was too lazy to care about Lu Qing Shan's perfunctory response, and asked, "Are you waiting for me to come find you?"
There was a frosty look between Tan Tai Qingrun's eyebrows, which formed a sharp contrast with Lu Qingshan's smiling face.
Lu Qingshan took out the Yuanshan Tower token and threw it back to Tan Tai Qingrun. He shrugged and said, "I am now your Tan Tai Tower Master's man. Don't I have to obey your orders at any time?"
Tan Tai Qingrun took the Yuanshan Tower token thrown by Lu Qingshan and put it away.
Tan Tai Qingrun's eyelids twitched at Lu Qingshan's teasing, and then he said coldly: "You also know that you are mine now, so how dare you leave Yuanshan City without saying a word?"
"It was my negligence. I would like to apologize to Master Dan Tai first. I hope Master Dan Tai will be more tolerant." Lu Qingshan handled Dan Tai Qingrun's counterattack with ease.
By the way, he quickly found a reason to kill back: "But even though I am now under the command of Tan Tai Louzhu, this doesn't seem to be a reason for Tan Tai Louzhu to trespass into other people's homes."
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Seeing that the aura that kept people at a distance from Tan Tai Qingrun had become even stronger, Lu Qingshan tactfully did not continue to provoke the owner of Tan Tai Tower.
Although it does feel good to tease the expressionless NPC.
Lu Qingshan's face straightened and he asked, "Why did the owner of the Tantai Tower come to visit me personally this time?"
Tan Tai Qing Run's eyes slanted: "Aren't you Lu Qing Shan a prophet? Then why don't you count on your fingers to figure out why I came to you? Why bother asking me?"
Lu Qingshan was not annoyed, and chuckled, "Master Tantai, you are flattering me too much. I am not Qi Jianshou, how can I predict everything?"
Seeing that Lu Qingshan had given in, Tan Tai Qingrun did not keep him in suspense any longer: "After the last battle at the City Lord's Mansion in Yuanshan City, the arrangements of the Underworld in Yuanshan City were almost complete. Because of this battle, I was transferred to the Zhenjiang City branch of Zhishou Tower three days ago, and I am now the deputy tower master of Zhenjiang Tower."
Lu Qingshan cupped his hands and congratulated, "Then I would like to congratulate the head of Tantai Tower on his promotion!"
Tan Tai Qing Run glanced at Lu Qing Shan expressionlessly, and continued, "On the first day I arrived at Zhen Jiang Tower, I received an order from the Tower Master. He told us that all personnel at all levels of the Tower should pay more attention to the movements of the Underworld during this period of time. The reason was that Qi Jian Shou sent a message to our Zhen Jiang Tower, saying that he had a vague feeling from the Heavenly Secret Mirror that something ominous was going to happen in the Zhen Jiang Prefecture area. He suspected that the Underworld was planning something against Zhen Jiang Prefecture again."
"Later, I looked at all the intelligence collected by Zhenjiang Tower during this period. On the surface, this information seemed normal, but I always felt that there was something hidden in it that I overlooked. Didn't you claim that you have a lot of confidential intelligence about the underworld? If I need it, I can come to you for cooperation, right?"
Lu Qingshan did not comment, but took out a jade slip from his storage ring and handed it to Tan Tai Qingrun.
Tan Tai Qing Run was surprised. He took the jade slip silently and probed into it with his mind. He found that the jade slip recorded the price changes of three first-grade spiritual materials in the past twenty years:
In the past hundred years, the price of silver bone flower has been stable at five first-grade spirit stones per plant.
However, in the past twenty years, the price has risen sharply by twenty percent, and now the market price has reached six first-grade spirit stones per plant.
The price of Soul-Stirring Sulfur remained stable at six first-grade spirit stones per plant for a full sixty years, from Chang'an 19920 to Chang'an 19980.
But in the past twenty years, the price has risen to seven first-grade spirit stones per plant.
For nearly a hundred years before 19980 in Chang'an, the price of ghost grass was stable at four first-grade spirit stones per plant.
It was also in the last twenty years that the price began to rise, and now the market price is five first-grade spirit stones per plant.
Tan Tai Qingrun frowned and looked at Lu Qingshan with a questioning look.
Lu Qingshan explained: "Of these three spiritual materials, the Silver Bone Flower is the main material for refining the Silver Bone Pill, the Soul-Stirring Sulfur is the main material for refining the Soul-Driven Pill, and the Ghost Grass is the main material for refining the Ghost Pill.
The Silver Bone Pill is a pill that is often taken by Qi cultivators to assist in body refining. The Soul-Driving Pill is a pill that is used by Beast cultivators to train spirit beasts. The Ghost Pill is a pill that is used by Dark cultivators to assist in practicing their techniques.
Refining these three kinds of elixirs is the main purpose of these three spiritual materials.
Although they can also be used to refine other elixirs, their consumption is really insignificant compared to the consumption of refining these three elixirs.
These three kinds of elixirs are all first-grade elixirs that are not expensive but have extremely high consumption.
Correspondingly, the main spiritual materials used to refine them are also produced in extremely large quantities.
Many sects or spiritual plant masters rely on growing these three spiritual materials for their livelihood.
Therefore, with such a large base, the prices of these three spiritual materials have always been very stable.
But what is strange is that in just these twenty years, the prices of these three spiritual materials have increased a lot."
Tantai Qingrun felt something when he heard this, but he couldn't react for a moment: "What do you mean?"
Lu Qingshan spread his hands and continued, "Generally speaking, there are two reasons why the price of spiritual medicine increases: one is that its production volume has decreased, and the other is that its demand has increased."
"I basically asked all the shops in the city that buy and sell spiritual materials, and I learned that the production of these three spiritual medicines has not decreased significantly in the past twenty years."
"So, there is only one possibility left, which is that in the past twenty years, the cultivators in the Zhenjiang Prefecture area have increased their demand for these three spiritual medicines."
"What's strange is that nothing special has happened in the Zhenjiang Prefecture in the past twenty years. Therefore, the demand for Silver Bone Pills, Soul-Exorcising Pills, and Ghostly Soul Pills has not increased significantly."
"Not to mention that these three kinds of elixirs are aimed at three different schools of cultivation: physical cultivation, beast cultivation, and spiritual cultivation."
Tan Tai Qing Run showed a thoughtful expression, and after a moment's silence, he said, "You mean , these three spiritual materials are not used to refine these three kinds of elixirs, but are used for other purposes?"
Lu Qingshan clapped his hands and praised, "Master Tantai is really smart. I thought the same thing at the time. So I went to check if there were any other uses for these three spiritual materials, and I found a very interesting point."
Hearing Lu Qingshan's praise for her intelligence, the corners of Tan Tai's eyes twitched slightly, but she didn't bother to argue with Lu Qingshan and asked, "What did you find?"
"These three spiritual materials actually have a common use. They are all the main ingredients for refining strong corpse fluid." Lu Qingshan revealed the answer.
Tan Tai Qingrun was shocked.
Although as a sword cultivator, she didn't know much about secondary professions such as spiritual materials and medicines.
But as a Jindan cultivator, how could she not know the name of the Strong Corpse Liquid?
That is the auxiliary spiritual liquid used by evil cultivators to refine corpse puppets.
"When Master Dan Tai captured the Blood Corpse Immortal, he must have found something on him, right?" Lu Qingshan asked.
Tan Tai Qing Run nodded, "Indeed, we found a spirit beast bag containing corpse puppets on him, which contained many first- and second-grade corpse puppets. However, the cultivators in the underworld are inherently mad and it is normal for them to have these evil methods, so we didn't think much of it at the time."