Volume 2: The Demonic World Chapter 248 Duobao City
In the night, the flames were burning fiercely. Lin Qianxing and Wang Han sat together, looking at the fire in silence.
"Senior Sister Wang, what are your plans for the future?" Lin Qianxing asked.
"No, I was alone when I joined the sect, and now I don't know where to go." Wang Han looked at Lin Qianxing and asked, "Junior Brother Lin, how about you?"
"As for me, I heard that there is a cultivation market in the south of Tiansheng Kingdom, and I plan to go there and take a look." Lin Qianxing said.
"Junior Brother Lin, then I will continue to be your Dan Tong?" Wang Han looked at Lin Qianxing and said.
"No." Lin Qianxing said in a loud voice.
Hearing this, Wang Han's eyes dimmed and she looked a little sad.
However, Lin Qianxing said at this time: "How can I continue to wrong you, Senior Sister, to be my Dan Tong? We should be a team from now on."
"Combination?" Wang Han blinked, looking a little confused.
"It's a team with different division of labor but equal individual status within the organization..." Lin Qianxing explained.
Wang Han didn’t quite understand what Lin Qianxing meant, but as long as Lin Qianxing didn’t intend to abandon her, that was enough.
It doesn't matter whether it's a Dantong or a servant.
She just didn't want to be abandoned again.
Listening to Lin Qianxing's words, she felt a little sleepy. Feeling the warmth brought by the fire, the fatigue from a whole day's journey could no longer be suppressed, so she slowly closed her eyes.
Lin Qianxing, who was explaining the meaning of the combination, felt his shoulders sink. He turned his head and saw Wang Han leaning on him. After a moment of silence, Lin Qianxing did not walk away. Instead, he took out a long blanket from his storage bag and draped it over the two of them.
Wang Han felt like she had a dream, a very long dream.
In the dream, I returned to the age when my mother sold me to someone else in exchange for food.
She was only seven years old at that time, but she did not cry. She just begged the lady who bought her to let her eat only three-quarters full in the future.
In fact, she was not only three-quarters full, but full.
The old lady was an outer disciple of the Yin Yang Palace. She saw that she had spiritual roots and an extraordinary physique, so she wanted to take her to the palace to practice.
However, on the way back to Yin Yang Palace, the old lady encountered a robber and died on the spot.
She had only eaten full meals for two days before she was locked in a cage and sold like livestock.
This time, the person who bought her was a casual cultivator, who forced her to practice and do things every day, and would beat her if she made the slightest mistake.
But she didn't feel uncomfortable because she could eat her fill.
However, one day, the wandering cultivator went out and never came back.
She waited for a long time, and after finishing her food, she planned to go out to look for the wandering cultivator. She didn't know the way and didn't know where she was. It happened that the Yunhua Sect was recruiting new members nearby, so she entered the Yunhua Sect.
In a flash, twenty years passed, she became an inner disciple and joined the Dan Palace.
With the help of a junior brother named Lin Kong, his alchemy skills improved day by day, and his cultivation broke through the Condensing Veins Realm.
She thought her life could go on peacefully like this.
Who knew that the sect would be destroyed and she would be stranded outside again.
A figure appeared in her mind.
He was a handsome man wearing purple clothes and always had a confident smile on his face.
He was walking away at this moment.
"Junior Brother Lin... please don't leave. I can do anything. Please don't leave me again..."
Feeling his arm being held tightly, Lin Qianxing stared into space with a look of profoundness in his eyes.
The next morning, Wang Han opened her eyes with tears in the corners of her eyes. When she saw herself leaning on Lin Qianxing's shoulders and hugging his arm tightly, she was startled. But when she saw that Lin Qianxing was closing his eyes and resting without any reaction, she stopped the action of letting go.
"Senior Sister Wang, are you awake?" Lin Qianxing suddenly opened his eyes and turned to look at Wang Han.
"Hmm~!" Wang Han let go of Lin Qianxing's arm embarrassedly and spoke.
Lin Qianxing stood up and extinguished the fire with a wave of his hand. At the same time, he used a spell to manipulate the soil to cover it and erase all traces.
After tidying up his clothes a bit, Lin Qianxing said, "Sister, let's go. We still have a long way to go!"
Wang Han looked at Lin Qianxing and nodded heavily.
Soon, two figures flew into the air on swords from the jungle and went straight into the sky.
Actually, Lin Qianxing was not very clear about the location of the market town. He just heard a disciple who came to make the elixir mentioned it casually, saying that the place was protected by a real person and many independent cultivators lived there.
Because of this, Lin Qianxing thought that maybe he could go and take a look.
As for joining another sect?
Lin Qianxing had also thought about this.
But he was not particularly clear about the surrounding forces, so he could only find a place to stay and wait for a while before seeing what would happen.
Lin Qianxing and Wang Han walked and stopped along the way, and after more than half a month, they finally found the market.
That place of cultivation market was hidden beside a mortal city called Tieshu City.
However, it is located in a secret realm and cannot be seen unless a cultivator uses the Qi-Viewing Technique.
The entrance to the secret realm was on a mountain wall. Lin Qianxing and Wang Han stepped in and instantly walked into a bustling city.
"A fine spiritual instrument, sold at a bargain price of only three hundred low-level spiritual stones!"
"The Li Family Chamber of Commerce is purchasing large quantities of Vein-Condensing Pills, one for every 100 low-level spirit stones. The price can be negotiated for large quantities. At the same time, we are recruiting alchemists who can refine Vein-Condensing Pills. A 30% success rate is sufficient, and the monthly supply is 2,500 spirit stones..."
"Earth Shield Talisman, Rocket Talisman, Golden Light Talisman... each costs five low-level spirit stones. They are essential for self-defense when going out to hunt monsters."
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These shouts were not made by the monks themselves, but were the sounds coming from the small magical instruments placed next to their stalls.
Lin Qianxing took Wang Han for a stroll in the market, bought two things, evaluated the prices, and asked the merchants for information about the area.
After a short while, Lin Qianxing roughly understood the structure of this market.
This market town is actually constructed in the form of a city. Its name is Duobao City, and it was founded by a great cultivator named Duobao Zhenren.
This Duobao City is divided into inner city and outer city.
Needless to say, the inner city is a place where some wealthy and highly skilled cultivators gather. There is a spirit gathering array there, and the spiritual energy is much more abundant than that of the outside world. Therefore, to enter the inner city, you need to pay ten low-level spirit stones as an entrance fee. If you don’t have a property, you can only stay there for one day.
As for the outer city, it is where poor and independent cultivators live, and the spiritual energy there is relatively thinner.
However, real estate in the outer city is not cheap. The most ordinary residence costs one thousand low-level spirit stones. Therefore, under normal circumstances, many independent cultivators choose to live in the nearby Iron Tree City.
Of course, in this case, your safety will be difficult to guarantee.
In the market town, there is the Taoist master Duobao in charge. In this city, unless your cultivation is higher than his, you must abide by his rules. Normally, things like murder and robbery will not happen in the market town.
After all, we have to give some face to Master Duobao and the law enforcement team of the market town.
Outside the market town, it is the naked law of the jungle.
Especially the independent cultivators have no sect to rely on.
If someone sets their eyes on your wealth, they can kill you and rob you. Once you die, you're dead, and no one will help you get revenge or anything.
Lin Qianxing immediately decided to stay here temporarily.
However, Lin Qianxing didn't usually accumulate spirit stones, as he used them all to improve his cultivation. There were only three mid-level spirit stones left in his pocket.
After conversion, it is only three hundred low-level spirit stones, which is really not enough to buy a residence.
"Senior Sister, do you have spirit stones?" Lin Qianxing asked.
"Yes, I'll give it to you if you want it." Wang Han handed over the storage bag without hesitation .
"If you don't want it, just consider it as a loan. I plan to buy a property here, but I only have three mid-level spirit stones left, and I'm still short of seven." Lin Qianxing said as he took the storage bag.
After opening the storage bag, Lin Qianxing took a quick look with his spiritual sense and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
He didn't expect that Wang Han, who usually looked inconspicuous, was actually a wealthy woman.
There are both low-level and mid-level spirit stones in her storage bag. All in all, it is worth about fifty mid-level spirit stones. I don't know how she saved them up.
Lin Qianxing took out seven mid-level spirit stones from it, returned the storage bag to Wang Han, and then took her to the place where the property was purchased.
Choose a room, pay, register and get a license.
In no more than a quarter of an hour, Lin Qianxing and Wang Han got a one-bedroom and one-living-room property of about 50 square meters.
There are larger ones, but Lin Qianxing thinks it's a bit of a waste.
They are monks, and all they need is a place to stay.
As for the rest, it's not particularly important.
After moving in, Lin Qianxing and Wang Han spent half a day buying some furniture, and then began to think about how to earn "living expenses" here.
As a craftsman, and a highly skilled one at that, it was not difficult for Lin Qianxing to gain a foothold here.
Is he considering whether to proceed step by step, or just take out the good elixir to build up his reputation?
After thinking it over, Lin Qianxing still felt that it would be easier to get things done with a reputation, and there was no need to be overly cautious.
After all, he has reached the peak of the Condensed Veins Realm, and breaking through to the Crystallization Realm is just around the corner.
I still have a broken and inferior weapon on me for self-defense. As long as I don't encounter a powerful cultivator, what is there to be afraid of?
So, after resting for a night, Lin Qianxing paid the stall fee of two low-level spirit stones, and then placed the large number of pills he had accumulated before on the stall.
There were still many people who knew what was good, and soon a large number of monks gathered at Lin Qianxing's stall.
"Spirit Tranquility Pill? Isn't this quality too high? Can Master Zhou from the inner city refine it?"
"Hey, Nine Revolutions Solidifying Yuan Pill? This thing can only be used when one breaks through the Crystallization Stage to the peak of the Condensing Veins Stage! Tsk tsk tsk~!"
"Shengcan Buque Pill? The last time I saw this pill was at the auction house in the market town!"
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At this moment, the discussion suddenly stopped, and the crowd dispersed, making way.
Under everyone's gaze, a female cultivator wearing a red dress, complicated hair accessories, waist-length black hair, delicate appearance, and a slightly cold expression came to Lin Qianxing's stall, and then she asked, "My fellow Taoist, may I ask if you made all these pills yourself?"
Hearing the question, Lin Qianxing took a look at the other person and instantly determined that this was a cultivator in the Crystal Realm.
Then he nodded and said, "Yes, these are my humble works."
The female cultivator with a cold expression nodded and said, "With your ability, setting up a stall here is a waste of your talent. I wonder if you are willing to join my Tan family's Chamber of Commerce? As long as you join my Tan family's Chamber of Commerce, the monthly payment can be negotiated."
