The next day, Qian Chao and the other five people started searching for those casual cultivators in Ruixuan Town.
Yesterday I learned from Bu Yanluo where the casual cultivators were concentrated, so it was not troublesome to find them today. After walking around a few streets, they actually found them.
Sure enough, this place is much worse than where Bu Yannong is. Although Bu Yannong's shop is not too big, at least the business is pretty good, and there are many shops opened by Wuling disciples on that street. , at least it seems to be a prosperous place. But now when we look at the places where casual cultivators sell their goods, they look much run down. Looking down the street, there are only a few shops at all. There are people sitting on the ground on both sides, with a blanket spread casually in front of them. It was filled with all kinds of gadgets, and people sat in the back listlessly waiting for buyers.
However, after taking a quick look, I found that although this place looked dilapidated, it was much more lively than the street in Bu Yan'an. After all, most of the things Bu Yan'an sold were unaffordable to casual cultivators, while the prices of the things sold by casual cultivators were average. It's not high, and it attracts disciples from the sect to come and look at it and make a selection. Although most of these things seem to be in ordinary condition, and some even look very shabby, they are superior in number and variety. Of course, if you dig deeper, the origins of quite a few of these things are suspicious.
The items sold by casual cultivators are very miscellaneous, ranging from ores and leathers used for refining weapons to spiritual weapons that have been used by unknown people, from spiritual herbs whose age and temperature cannot be determined to ambiguous-looking elixirs, and all kinds of strange things. There are monster beast cubs and monster bird eggs, and even talismans with unknown functions, etc. In short, it seems that everything that can be used in the world of immortality can be seen here. Of course, if you want to buy it, it will test the buyer's eyesight, regardless of Whatever you bought, as long as the spiritual stone is in the hands of the other party, you will never regret it. It is impossible for the casual cultivator to return the spiritual stone.
Standing in front of these casual cultivators, Qian Chao and the other five people were somewhat emotional. After all, just over a month ago, that night, they fought with jealousy against those guys who had the same identity as the people in front of them. People's hands were stained with blood, oh... I should say four people. Lu Pingchuan had no emotion at all about this. Both Yanxuan and Tang Ping went on a killing spree that night. Tang Ping was okay, but Yanxuan had nightmares again and again at night. None of the five of them had a clear impression of what those people looked like that night. What they remembered most clearly were the cruel looks and roars of those people!
Now, in the eyes of the five people, it is difficult to overlap the images of the casual cultivators that night with the casual cultivators in front of them. The people in front of them are men, women, old and young, with different clothes and different expressions. They are far different from those that night. Those casual cultivators looked so fierce, some looked listless and lackadaisical, some had shining eyes and kept glancing around, some were sitting stiffly with frowns on their faces, some were selling sales to passers-by diligently, well, there were also The somewhat pretty female cultivator kept scanning the Five Spirits male disciples with her wonderful eyes. It would be even more exciting if her eyes met...
Among these people, this was the first time Qian Chao saw a casual cultivator who looked like an old woman. Her face was saggy, wrinkled, and her hair was gray. She was sitting behind a pile of things, looking at the people coming with vigilant eyes. . Why is this female cultivator so old? Doesn't it mean that female cultivators all use some kind of elixir such as the Beauty Pill? In Qian Chao's impression, the most aged female monk in the Wuling Sect was Tang Ping's master Guhuo Xianzi, but that was just the image of a middle-aged beautiful woman. How could this old woman even get a beauty pill? Not enough? Is the life of a casual cultivator really that difficult?
Looking at these people, Yan Xuan seemed to be a little scared, so Tang Ping took her arm.
But Lu Pingchuan was happy to see it. He liked to watch the excitement the most, especially since there were so many novel things here. Even if he didn't use them, he would take a good look at them.
"Hey, hey! It's really lively!" Lu Pingchuan said happily.
"Let's just stay together. It's not a small place here. Don't get separated." Yanxuan said.
"Um!"
"Girl Tang, help me see if there is that kind of country woman." Qian Chao suddenly remembered and hurriedly said to Tang Ping.
"good."
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We are both monks, but your spiritual roots may not be better than mine, you may not be able to endure hardships better than me, and your understanding may not be higher than mine. Why can you practice in a large sect, while I can only live like this? Days of precarity and displacement!
This is the common feeling of most casual cultivators when they look at sect disciples or nephews from aristocratic families.
Therefore, when the casual cultivators here face the Five Spirits disciples who come in groups, they can't help but feel three parts of hostility, three parts of contempt, three parts of jealousy and one part of bad intentions.
Especially when the beautiful Five Spirits female disciples came in front of them, these guys had other things in their hearts.
This time it’s not one, but two, coming hand in hand, one is extremely beautiful, the other is pretty and cute, alas...
San Xiu, who was standing in front of a pile of things, was thinking wildly when the rather beautiful female disciple knelt down and suddenly a strange and fresh feminine breath came over, making this guy intoxicated.
"Hey! Do you want to do business?"
The extremely pretty little girl glared, and then the guy realized it, secretly lost his composure, and quickly became serious.
"Well, this girl, what do you want to see? I have a lot of spiritual herbs here. I dug them all myself..."
Yanxuan frowned and looked at the spiritual herbs in front of the man. Not to mention there were many varieties. There were forty or fifty plants in Lin Linzong, but they didn't look satisfactory to her. Those spiritual herbs were not harvested in more complete years. ; It is old but the picking method is not good, and the spiritual grass is damaged and incomplete; the remaining spiritual grass looks like this person does not know how to take care of it. The spiritual grass is wilted, and it is afraid that it has lost its medicinal power and cannot be used. .
If you think about it, you should know that such a delicate thing as picking spiritual grass can only be done by casual cultivators?
Yanxuan shook his head sadly and stood up.
"Hey! Don't worry, girl. I still have some seeds of spiritual grass here. Do you want to take a look, girl?"
Speaking of the seeds of spiritual grass, Yanxuan was interested. She was now at the fifth level of Qi Refining. According to the agreement with Senior Zhong, she could become a disciple when she came back, and she would also live in the The edge of Senior Zhong's cave is naturally a good place for planting spiritual herbs filled with spiritual energy. Yanxuan has already made up his mind to open up a small field next to the master's cave in the future to plant some rare spiritual herbs, so When I heard this guy say that there were spiritual grass seeds, I was tempted.
But she didn’t want any seeds, so she asked:
"Then...do you have the seeds of the Thirteenth Floor here?" Yanxuan asked.
"Yes, yes, yes, hehe, there should be some. Hey, they are all here. Girl, you can get them yourself."
Yanxuan looked at the pile of seeds in the small wooden box that the other party opened and frowned.
"No, where do you have the seeds of the Thirteenth Floor Tower here? These are the seeds of the Nine Bell Flowers, these are the seeds of White Thread, these are the seeds of pine needle grass...are these and other ordinary grass seeds at all?"
Yanxuan picked out the seeds of more than a dozen kinds of spiritual grasses in one breath, and finally discovered that the boy was cheating people with ordinary weed seeds.
The guy who was exposed had no choice but to snatch the wooden box back and dismissed Yanxuan by telling her to look elsewhere.
…
Naturally, what Tang Ping wanted to see most were the cubs of the monster beasts and the eggs of the monster birds.
But Tang Ping figured it out better than Yanxuan. She was looking at it with a mentality of picking up the missing pieces, so it didn't matter if she couldn't get it.
Holding Yanxuan's hand, Tang Ping stopped in front of a casual cultivator. This person sold mostly those that Tang Ping was interested in.
Following the guidance of Fairy Guhuo, Tang Ping naturally had an eye for spiritual birds and beasts.
Her critical eyes swept over the little ones who were lying listlessly in the cage or barking non-stop outside the cage. Well, they were indeed some rare monster cubs. , but it’s just that they are rare. In her opinion, even if these little guys grow up, they won’t have anything outstanding. Even if they are bought back and raised, they will not be of much help. Apart from being smaller than her, The differences between Bai and Dahuang are too big.
The casual cultivator who sells things is a discerning person. Ever since Tang Ping started to stare at those monster cubs, she has been staring at Tang Ping's face and eyes. After two glances, she understood that the girl in front of her must be an expert. It seems that her Business cannot be done.
"What are these eggs?"
After seeing the cubs, Tang Ping was attracted by the pile of demon eggs in front of the man.
"Jian Jia bird, sparrow, split wind, Fu Feng, in short, everything is available. What kind of spiritual bird eggs does the girl want?" The casual cultivator replied lazily.
These words made Tang Ping almost laugh out loud. Not to mention anything else, there were only two spiritual birds, Split Wind and Magu Sparrow. If this man really had such bird eggs, he would still be waiting here in misery. Buyer? I don’t know how many people came to him with spiritual stones and begged him to sell them. Knowing that this person was talking nonsense, Tang Ping reached out and wanted to pick up a bird egg to take a look and judge for himself what kind of spiritual bird egg it was. .
"Hey, what are you doing?" The casual cultivator saw Tang Ping reaching out and quickly stopped her.
"Of course I have to take a look. How would I know what kind of bird eggs they are without looking?"
"You can't move. You have to buy whichever one you move. I've already told you what bird eggs there are. I'll just get them for you if you buy them!"
"Hey! What's the point?" Tang Ping stopped. "Why don't you, the seller, let me see the things? I always have to choose when I buy things!"
"I'm selling things but I don't let you choose. What if you break them? Hey, look, if you touch any one, you have to buy which one. Put the spirit stone down and you can look at it as you like."
"It's unreasonable!" Tang Ping stood up angrily.
"snort!"
…
Lu Pingchuan was also looking at it, but he was just looking at it and had no intention of buying it. There was no point in buying it back.
But he didn't just look, he asked as he looked.
"Hey, what is this thing? I've never seen it before!"
The casual cultivator selling things quickly explained.
"Oh, what is this? It looks so strange! What is it for?"
The casual cultivator gave another explanation.
"Hey, this is new and fun. What is this?"
The casual cultivator explained again.
After asking and asking, the casual cultivator finally couldn't bear it anymore. He began to suspect that Lu Pingchuan was not here to buy anything but to cause trouble, so he suppressed his anger and asked:
"Brother, you've been asking over and over again, what exactly do you want to buy?"
"Buy? Hehe, I don't buy anything!"
"You...you don't want to buy it and you still come to ask. It took me so long to ask! Go, go, go aside and ask!"
"Hey! You really... deserve to have no business here!"
…
Li Jian has no interest in the things sold by casual cultivators. He doesn't look at anything. As a sword cultivator, these things are basically useless to him. The things needed for practice have always been provided by everyone, and then provided by a few partners. So he only looks at one thing here... that is people. He is only interested in the casual cultivators sitting behind these goods. After all, on that night more than a month ago, he didn't know how many such guys he killed with his own hands. Li Jian had always been very wary of these casual cultivators who were selling things. As people came and went, he looked at the casual cultivators carefully, and he discovered one thing, that is, some casual cultivators had some spiritual problems in front of someone who asked him. When asked about the price of the artifacts, the casual cultivators were actually full of contempt for the half-new spiritual artifacts they sold. Seeing this, Li Jian roughly guessed how those spiritual artifacts got into the hands of that person.
…
Qian Chao naturally read the most. Except for the ones related to spiritual herbs and spiritual beasts, which he did not read, he basically looked at the rest carefully.
Of course, Qian Tong is also the biggest gainer.
He stopped in front of a casual cultivator with a rather rough-looking face, and squatted down to take a closer look at what was displayed in front of the man.
"What's the price of this thing?" Qian Chao said, pointing to a somewhat damaged spiritual sword lying on the blanket.
"Hmph, this thing is cheap. If you want it, just keep three spiritual stones."
"Three spiritual stones?" Qian Chao took the spiritual sword in his hand, looked at it, and then put it down. "The price you ask is too high. It's only one spiritual stone at most."
The casual cultivator smiled and didn't answer.
"What about this?" Qian Chao was referring to the few pieces of ore in front of the man this time.
"Well, these small ones cost three spiritual stones each. The big ones over there are cheaper and only cost one spiritual stone each. How about that?"
Qian Chao smiled. He was an expert on ores, and he could see that the guy across from him didn't know anything about it. The big chunks of ore over there were good things. Instead, he regarded the small one as a treasure and listened to what the man said. , Qian Chao didn't answer, just smiled, pointed to a pile of monster leather horns in front of him and asked:
"What about these? How many spirit stones?"
The rugged-looking casual cultivator was a little reluctant. No wonder, Qian Chao kept asking but had no intention of buying. He seemed to be either causing trouble or just coming to relieve his boredom. He said with a gloomy look:
"Little brother, do you want to buy it or not? If you asked for a long time and finally clapped your hands and left, wouldn't that make me very boring?"
"Don't worry, brother, I'm not here to entertain you. Since asking for the price, of course I mean to buy something, but well, the price you are asking for is a bit exaggerated. Well, these..."
Qian Chao pointed to the pile of leather tendons pulled from the monster beast.
"Please give me a more realistic price. We always have to bargain."
"Haha, okay, then..." The casual cultivator looked at the pile of things, "If you take all these things, um... how about you give me five spiritual stones?"
"It's expensive." Qian Chao pointed to a few small ores in front of the man. "How about adding them to a total of five spiritual stones?"
"That won't work, why not..." The casual cultivator looked at the large pieces of ore over there, "How about counting them, five spiritual stones?"
"How about adding it to the five spiritual stones?" Qian Chao pointed at the somewhat damaged spiritual sword he saw on the blanket first.
"Hey, hey, little brother, you are really good at bargaining. That sword is worth two or three spiritual stones. You are taking advantage of me."
"Otherwise, if this sword is brand new, it would be reasonable if it were worth two or three spirit stones. But look, it's so damaged that it doesn't make sense for you to still need three spirit stones."
"Hey, why are the disciples of your big sect so stingy? You are so picky about a casual cultivator like me!"
"The disciples of the big sects are also different. Some are generous, and naturally there are others who are as prudent as me. Brother, you can buy these things in the sect. Why don't I buy them in our sect, coming all the way? When I buy these things in Ruixuan Town, am I not just trying to get a bargain?"
"Hey, I can't defeat you. How about this, let's have a good time. If you want all the things I have here, I'll give you ten spiritual stones. How about it?" The man made a circle with his hand, meaning Everything in front of you.
Qian Chao thought for a while, these things are not expensive for ten spirit stones, but...
"Ten spiritual stones...these things..." Qian Chao looked at the guy and said, "Please give me something else."
"What else do you want?" The casual cultivator was a little dissatisfied.
"Brother, you have traveled all over the country and have seen a lot. You should be able to get some books or something. I like to read books to relieve my boredom after practicing. If you have any here, you can bring them out for me to see. If you like to add more, I will give you ten pieces of spirit. I gave you the stone, how about it?"
"Well, then you wait while I look for it."
The man didn't shy away from saying that. He took out several storage bags from his body and went through them one by one. He actually found a few tattered books and threw them on the blanket. Qian Chao picked them up one by one. Looking through it, most of these books are old and poorly maintained, and some have many pages missing. However, they are indeed things I have never seen before, and the contents involved have different emphases, and... Qian Chao has long seen the guy opposite him. He couldn't be a reader, and these books weren't dug out of a storage bag. The original owners of the books must have died in this guy's hands.
Just like when Ma Hu gave him a pile of books, he also found them out of a pile of storage bags. They were a pile of storage bags, left behind by Ma Hu after he was cheated.
Nodding, Qian Chao put down the books.
"Well, including these, it's worth ten spiritual stones."
Maybe it was because he felt happy after selling something, or maybe it was because this person was naturally talkative, and when he was happy, he couldn't control his mouth. Seeing Qian Chao carefully touching the spiritual stone from the storage bag, this casual cultivator I was interested in chatting for a while, and then I said:
"I didn't expect that little brother like you would like these things. Hehe, you know, these shabby books were brought into your Five Spirits Sect a few days ago!"
Qian Chao understood this sentence immediately, but he pretended not to understand, looked at the rough and unassuming cultivator, and asked in confusion:
"What does this mean?"
"Hmph, your Five Spirits Sect had a big event a few days ago, don't say you don't know!"
"Ah! You mean..." Qian Chao deliberately pretended to be surprised, looked around, and then lowered his voice and said, "Are you talking about the fact that many cultivators joined our Five Spirits Sect that night?"
"That's right!"
"These books...could it be possible that this old man, you also went there?"
"Hey, don't talk nonsense. I don't have the courage, and I'm not that stupid, but hey, do you know what happened to the guys who escaped?"
"This..." Qian Chao pretended to be surprised and then suddenly realized, pointing to the pile of torn books and said, "Could this be the belongings of those who escaped?"
"Hmph! Not just these broken books, but all of them!" The casual cultivator made another circle with his arm.
"Oh my god! Then...this man, you have killed a lot of people, right?"
"Humph, I can only say that those people who entered the Five Spirit Sect were stupid, thinking that they were going to earn spiritual stones, but they were ambushed when they came out. Hehe, such a big thing always has to be done cleanly in the end. Leave no consequences."
"I see."
Only then did Qian Chao understand that as long as those casual cultivators entered the Wuling Sect that night, they would die. They would either die in the hands of the Wuling disciples or escape and be ambushed by other casual cultivators. It seemed that the person who planned to kill Yan Shuang was there. It had been planned a long time ago not to leave any trouble, so...the one who hired the guy in front of him to kill people must be the one who planned to kill Yan Shuang.
"Then when I do things for others, I will naturally get a lot of benefits, right?" Qian Chao asked cautiously.
"Little brother, you don't understand this. There is no need for anyone to do anything about this kind of thing. As long as they hear about where the guys who entered will escape from, then who will let them go? Hehe, I heard that they are going The Wuling Sect always took a deposit first, hehe, it’s quite a lot, we just went there for the deposit they had.”
Hearing this, Qian Chao understood completely. To kill the casual cultivators who had escaped from the Wuling Sect, there was no need to arrange separate arrangements. As long as the rumors were spread in advance, more casual cultivators would naturally target them. Think about it. Yes, they escaped. Regardless of whether they can accomplish it or not, they must be either tired or injured after escaping. How can they be the opponents of those who are ambushing in secret? A sudden sneak attack will definitely kill many people. , think about the casual cultivators who managed to escape that night, humph, they must have become ghosts, and now their things are being sold by these casual cultivators in Ruixuan Town!
It's so sad that you gave up your life just for the sake of a spiritual stone!
It’s a pity that the people spreading the rumors are nowhere to be found!
The man accepted Qian Chao's spirit stone, stood up and said hello, and strode away without even leaving the blanket on the ground.
Qian Chao turned around and saw that although Li Jian was standing behind Yanxuan and Tang Ping, he was looking at him with bright eyes, so he went over and asked:
"Did Brother Li hear what that person just said?"
"Well, it seems that all the casual cultivators that night, except for the few who were caught by the sect, died."
"Yes, that is to say, basically all the clues on the casual cultivators are broken."
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While the five people were looking around among these casual cultivators, a minor dispute occurred nearby.
A girl in a blue dress, with a smart appearance and not too old, had some disagreements with a casual cultivator.
In other words, it was the girl who was questioning the casual cultivator aggressively with her eyes wide open.
"We agreed yesterday that I will come to pick it up today. You have already accepted my spirit stone. Why have you changed your mind again? Are you trying to raise the price?"
The casual cultivator who was asked looked like he was wrong and hurriedly explained:
"Girl, it's not that I changed my mind, but that thing was not in my hands at that time. Don't I want to earn the girl's spiritual stone? I don't know how to raise that thing. Even if I raise it, it will be useless. Isn't it right? Alas, It's because I was a little late and the thing has already been bought by someone else, it's not because I changed my mind!"
"Nonsense, you said that thing was yours yesterday, why did you change your story today!"
"Girl, let me tell you the truth. That thing doesn't belong to me alone. Hey, that thing doesn't belong to me. I helped others ask if there is a buyer. Yesterday, the girl said she wanted that thing and the price she gave was pretty good. I went to find my friend, but it was only after I went that I found out that the thing had been sold by him, and when I asked again I found out that my friend had also sold it cheaply. This is really... alas, The girl will definitely encounter that thing again in the future, don’t be angry, girl, how about I return the spiritual stone that the girl paid for?"
"Of course I have to retreat. Is it possible that my spirit stone will also be stolen by you?"
"Yes, yes, this is the girl's spiritual stone. Hehe, if there is something like that again, I will definitely keep it for the girl."
"Hmph! Did someone else offer a higher price, so you sold it to someone else? Is that right?"
"Girl, well, I have already said that I was not there when my friend took action. If I had been there to stop him, I could have made some money. How could I lie to the girl?"
The girl grabbed her spirit stone angrily and turned around to leave.
Then she saw Tang Ping, who was bending down to take a closer look at the pile of bird eggs in front of a casual cultivator.
She didn't recognize Tang Ping, but with almost the same skirt, she recognized at a glance that Tang Ping must also be a disciple of Shuiyun Valley. She also looked at the eggs of the spirit birds intently. She must be a disciple of Yuling. When she saw Tang Ping, she looked at them. You have to be careful, holding a bird egg and watching it carefully. One look at this posture shows that she is an expert in handling spiritual birds and beasts. Looking at Tang Ping's demeanor...somehow, this girl actually recognized Tang Ping all of a sudden. Ping was the guy who robbed her of her good things, so when she passed by Tang Ping, she snorted loudly on purpose!
This confused Tang Ping. She held the egg in her hand and looked over, only to find a little girl in the same blue dress glaring at her fiercely!
Tang Ping had never been treated like this before. She was inexplicably treated with hostility, so she glared back.
Then the girl snorted again, turned around and left.
Then Tang Ping and Yan Xuan next to her looked at each other inexplicably, not knowing what was going on.
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"Grandma, what, you haven't heard of it?"
Qian Chao looked at the casual cultivator in front of him and explained in detail:
"It's just such a big bug, well, there are two, but you can only use one. Throw that one on the ground, and it will burrow into the ground, then eat the ores underground, and when it comes out again, its body will change. It grows very big, and then spits out the swallowed ore. It is a kind of spiritual insect used to dig ore, have you heard of it?"
The casual cultivator seemed to understand, but he had never heard of that kind of "country woman" and still asked with some confusion:
"Are there such magical spiritual insects?"
"Of course." The person next to the casual cultivator answered the question. He was also a casual cultivator selling things. He seemed to have spent a lot of time in Ruixuan Town. "Well, someone brought such bugs here a long time ago. It was sold, just like what this little brother said, but... that thing was very expensive. How many spiritual stones did it sell for at that time... Well, at least three hundred yuan, hehe, what, this little brother If you want to buy bugs like that, you can’t find them in the entire Ruixuan Town now.”
"So that's it."
Qian Chao stood up with some pity.
But... the casual cultivator he started to question suddenly felt like a skylight opened in his heart!
The little guy from the Five Spirits Sect in front of me actually wants to buy that kind of strange spirit worm, and the price of the spirit worm is quite high. The one sold for more than 300 spirit stones back then, so this kid should at least know the approximate price, then... ...How many spiritual stones does this little guy have on him now?
If so... Judging from the fact that his cultivation is only at the fifth level of Qi refining, he is a good candidate to attack, huh!
But just when the casual cultivator thought of this, he suddenly noticed something strange. When he looked up, he found that the boy who just asked the question had left, but it seemed that a tall young cultivator who came with him was using a cold and murderous weapon. Staring at him!
Why...could it be possible that the kid's companions could see that he was thinking about something just now with a look on his face?
He lowered his head guiltily, and when he tentatively looked up again, he found that the tall young monk was still staring at him with murderous intent, and there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth!
(Author's note: I'm a bit verbose in my writing. It's over two million words. The protagonist has just passed the fifth level of Qi Refining. He may be the slowest and most tedious one to write, probably. However, my story is in my mind. It was first described as a long scroll. I thought it was good (of course readers may not necessarily think so, but when it comes to writing a story, at least you should like it before you take it out and hope others will like it too), so I wanted to present it to everyone through pen and ink. , so I feel that I am procrastinating, so I can only say sorry. This is probably a problem with my writing skills. People with good writing skills can create a landscape of artistic conception with just a few strokes. The author cannot do it if he asks himself. Without this I have no skills, so I can only slowly present the illusory family in my heart to everyone one by one. I also ask for your understanding. I wish all readers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)
