A week later, Xiao Hua returned to Spring City.
Instead of flying, he deliberately chose to take the train.
The three years of training in the spiritual mountain gave him a lot of insights about life and practice, and he needed some time to digest them.
Back in Spring City, Xiao Hua was not in a hurry to go to the hot pot restaurant to meet Huang Ming.
On his way back, he had already made a new plan for his future spiritual practice.
The first step is to refine the natal magic weapon that matches your own skills as soon as possible.
Only with the natal magic weapon can he continue to practice the two advanced techniques.
However, whether he is refining the natal magic weapon of "Void Spirit Sword Jue" or "Five Elements Sacrifice to Thunder Technique", Xiao Hua still lacks several necessary materials.
He decided to go to the Xiuxian Sect pawn shop hidden in the city first.
Early the next morning, Xiao Hua came to the Jingxing Flower and Bird Market in the center of Spring City.
In his impression, the pawn shops of Xiuxian sects are usually hidden in the flower and bird market or the antique and cultural relics market.
Jingxing Flower and Bird Market is the largest and longest-standing place in Spring City for shopping for cultural goods and treasures. The pawn shop is most likely to be hidden here.
Jingxing Flower and Bird Market is located in the center of the old town of Chuncheng City.
Distributed in an I-shape, there are three streets in total. The shops on both sides of the streets are all Ming and Qing style two-story wooden buildings. The whole market has an antique flavor.
This market not only sells flowers, birds, fish, insects and pet products, but also gold, silver, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.
Of course, most of these antique calligraphy and paintings are fake, and the real thing is rare.
Xiao Hua first scanned the entire market with his spiritual mind.
After forming the pill, his spiritual mind's scanning range has reached more than ten miles, and he can also distinguish the cultivation level of the person emitting spiritual energy while scanning, which is a level higher than that in the foundation building stage.
Xiao Hua soon discovered slight spiritual power fluctuations in a store on one of the streets.
Judging from the intensity of this spiritual aura, he should be just a young monk at the seventh or eighth level of the Qi refining stage.
Xiao Hua followed the direction of this spiritual power fluctuation and came to this store.
The store is very small, just over three meters wide, and the inside is not big. You can see all the shelves in the store from the street.
There is a plaque on the door of the store with three words written on it, "Jingyi Zhai".
A young man in his twenties came out of the store.
"Welcome, sir, please come upstairs."
This person has a faint gray light on his body. He is the young monk in the Qi Refining Stage that Xiao Hua discovered.
Xiao Hua did not refuse. This person is an immortal cultivator, which means that he has found the right place. As for the pawn shop set up by some sect, you will know if you go in and ask.
There were no other customers in the store, only a middle-aged woman sitting behind the counter knitting. She was a mortal.
Xiao Hua couldn't help but frowned. He was not sure whether this middle-aged woman knew about the immortal cultivator, so he turned to look at the young cultivator.
"Little brother, do you have any items suitable for me?".
"Oh, yes, yes, sir, you can see that you are not an ordinary person. You must not like these vulgar things on the first floor."
"Why don't you follow me to the second floor to take a look at our store's collection? I think there will be items that your husband needs."
Xiao Hua did not hide his cultivation. This young man naturally knew whether Xiao Hua was an immortal cultivator or a high-level monk, so he quickly invited Xiao Hua to the second floor to make a cup of spiritual tea.
"Senior, please forgive me, the clerk downstairs is trying to hide his words from others."
"The second floor is soundproofed to prevent outsiders from eavesdropping. I don't know what items my senior needs to purchase this time. Our store will try our best to accommodate them."
The young monk explained to Xiao Hua very respectfully and took the initiative to ask Xiao Hua's needs.
"This is a list of the items I need. Can you see if they are available in the store? By the way, by the way, which sect is this pawn shop of yours?"
Xiao Hua took out a list and handed it to the young monk.
"Senior, our store belongs to the four sects of Buddhism and Taoism. Even though our store is small, it is an old store that has been around for hundreds of years."
"The quality is no worse than that of the Wang family in the capital. There are all commonly used items. High-level treasures occasionally appear. Those very rare items are not always available. It depends on chance."
The young monk is worthy of being a pawn shop clerk, bragging about himself while looking at Xiao Hua's list.
"It turns out to be a pawn shop for the four Buddhist and Taoist sects, but Spring City seems to belong to the sphere of influence of the Qian Gu Sect in Southern Xinjiang."
"If you have the pawn shops of the four Buddhist and Taoist sects located here, aren't you afraid of being driven out by force?"
Xiao Hua learned from Zhang Zili that each sect has a pawn shop in a big city, and he also knew that pawn shops have power divisions.
"Senior, I don't know. The southwest region has been within the sphere of influence of our four Buddhist and Taoist sects since ancient times. The Thousand Gu Sect only got involved here later due to some special reasons."
"If the two factions hadn't reached an agreement back then, they would have been expelled by our Buddhist sect long ago. How could they dare to expel us?"
The young monk was actually a little angry when he said this.
"The Thousand Gu Sect only got involved here later? Why? Tell me."
Xiao Hua was curious.
He never thought that the city he lived in would have pawn shops opened by two immortal sects at the same time, and they could coexist peacefully. This was really novel.
"Senior, this is a long story. In fact, as early as a thousand years ago, the entire southwest region was the sphere of influence of our Buddhist and Taoist sect, the Miyun Sect."
"However, the Miyun Sect later colluded with demon cultivators from other worlds to bring trouble to this realm, and was jointly encircled and suppressed by other sects in this realm. After this incident, the southwest region was re-divided."
"The area divided back then was very vast. Qian Gu Sect was bounded by Qianzhou, and our four major Buddhist sects were bounded by Yunling, and were in charge of the southeast and southwest regions."
"But with the changes of the times, the spheres of influence of various sects have been compressed to varying degrees. Yunling has become a sphere of influence that our Buddha Sect and Qian Gu Sect have always disputed."
"We have also negotiated with Qian Gu Sect before and are willing to pay a huge amount of money to let them withdraw from Yunling. After all, our Buddhist sect is located in the Prince Snow Mountain in Yunling. How can we allow others to sleep soundly next to the bed?"
"But Qian Gu Sect disagreed, saying that this was an agreement made by various factions after they jointly encircled and suppressed the demon cultivators from other worlds."
"If our Buddhist sect dares to forcibly drive away, we will challenge the entire world of immortal cultivation, so Yunling will eventually become a place jointly managed by the Qiangu Sect and our four major Buddhist sects."
The little monk finally finished.
"Yunling is actually a place co-managed by two factions?"
Xiao Hua touched his bald head.
"That's good. At least we have one more opportunity to compare and choose. Oh, by the way, do you know where Qian Gu Sect's pawn shop is located?"
Xiao Hua knew that asking this was a bit excessive, but he still asked.
What he cares about is whether he can buy the items he wants. As for the grudges between the two factions, it has nothing to do with him.
"This..., I'd better distribute the goods to seniors first. If there are any defects, I will inform seniors."
Sure enough, when the young monk heard Xiao Hua ask this, he immediately became a little unhappy.
But he didn't dare to show it too obviously. After all, Xiao Hua was a Dan Stage monk. He just deliberately picked up Xiao Hua's list and checked it again.
