Chapter 10: The South Valley
"Second brother, let's rest in Guanggui City for one night, and tomorrow morning, let's find a way to enter the Tainan Valley!" Li Youran said while looking at Han Li on the side with a tired face.
"Okay! I'll listen to you, big brother," Han Li replied tiredly.
Early the next morning, Li Youran and Han Li rushed to the Tainan Valley, and after more than a few hours, they came to the hillside that was shrouded in mist all day long.
After the two of them wandered around the hillside for half a pillar of incense, they saw a white-clothed scholar who was about eighteen years old, Li Youran used the Heavenly Eye Technique to check this person, and found that this person was really a fellow Taoist, and his cultivation was also the eighth layer of the Qi refining period.
Seeing this, Li Youran immediately stepped forward and saluted and asked, "Fellow Daoist Li Youran, my second brother came to Tainan Valley for the first time, and there is no way to enter the valley. This "Huanglong Dan" can be the reward for bringing my brother into the valley, can you bring my two brothers into the valley together? ”
The white-clothed scholar first shook for a moment, and then said to them with a smile: "I am just about to go back to the valley, since you are also going to enter the valley, let's enter together!" After saying that, he stretched out his right hand.
Li Youran immediately threw the "Huanglong Dan" in his hand knowingly.
The white-clothed scholar took the pill thrown by Li Youran, then put the pill in front of his nose and sniffed it, then nodded, and then turned his hand and put it away.
After the white-clothed scholar received the elixir, he took out a piece of paper from his bosom. I saw him take the rune paper and make a few strokes in his hand, then threw the rune paper into the air, turned into a ball of fire, rushed into the mist, and disappeared.
After an instant, I saw that the thick white mist suddenly rolled up, and then as if it had been split with a knife, a path was divided for the two of them to walk side by side, and the other end of the path could not be seen at a glance, and it seemed to be very far away.
"Alright, come with me!" After the white-clothed scholar finished speaking, he walked in without looking back.
After Li Youran and Han Li glanced at each other, they followed closely.
The road looked long, but after only a few moments, we reached the end of the road.
When Li Youran walked out of the intersection, he felt a sudden light in front of him, and a green valley full of strange flowers and plants appeared in front of him.
The valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only exit is the slope where Li Youran and they came in and were blocked by the fog.
The whole place is very large, covering an area of more than 100 acres, in the center, there is a large piece of palace-style pavilion with jade carved railings, and there are some people in strange costumes coming in and out.
In the open space in front of the pavilion, there is a very wide blue brick square, in which many small vendors are set up around the square.
In front of these stalls, from time to time, one or two people will crowd in front of them, look at them for a moment or two, or ask a few words in a low voice, but there are not many transactions on the spot.
Seeing this situation, Li Youran couldn't help but take a deep breath, this is the world of cultivating immortals, he has finally arrived here, the people here should all be immortal cultivators, and being able to see so many immortal cultivators at once still makes Li Youran a little in a trance.
Li Youran shook his head slightly, letting himself come to his senses, he was going to enter an unimaginable and bizarre world, where anyone could easily kill himself and Han Li, so he had to be cautious and low-key.
Thinking of this, Li Youran glanced back at the path that had completely disappeared, and said to Han Li, "Second brother, let's go." With that, he walked into the square.
After coming in, he didn't pay much attention to the white-clothed scholar before, and walked directly towards the square where the stalls were set up.
The stalls of the immortal cultivators, around the relatively wide square, sparsely put out a "Hui" shaped path out. And those who choose to trade goods, walk in twos and threes in the middle of the open space with stalls on both sides, coming and going, but there is also a little bit of worldly business and trading.
The clothes worn by these immortal cultivators are all kinds of clothes, men, women, and children. There are also these immortal cultivators, and there are also those who are alone. But their strength was not weak, and Li Youran and Han Li's eighth layer of Qi refining stage could only be regarded as a medium level, and their cultivation was higher than them.
After entering the square, Li Youran and Han Li followed the example of other immortal cultivators, walking slowly as they checked the items on each stall one by one. After a period of understanding, the transactions of these immortal cultivators generally use two ways.
One is the primitive way of bartering, where some immortal cultivators hope to exchange things they don't need for something they need. Therefore, these people often set up stalls for several days in a row, and they may not be able to successfully trade an item.
The other is the popular way, using something called "spirit stone" as a transaction currency, "just like the yuan we use in our day", to buy and sell items among immortal cultivators.
As the name suggests, the "Spirit Stone" is a stone full of the aura of heaven and earth, and the aura it contains is an extremely nourishing thing for immortal cultivators.
If you absorb the aura in the spirit stone when you meditate and practice, it will make the speed of the cultivator's cultivation amazing, after all, the cultivator himself absorbs and refines the scattered aura, and the pure aura is right by your side, allowing you to absorb and extract it at will, which is very different.
But the role of the spirit stone is not only that, it can also be used to arrange formations and cast spells.
Of course, there are many other functions, and the spirit stone has so many practical and incredible effects, which naturally makes its value rise all the way. After a slow period of time, the spirit stone became the only currency in circulation for immortal cultivators.
Of course, there is a difference between spirit stones, and spirit stones are divided into four grades according to the amount of spiritual power they contain, which are divided into four levels: low-level, intermediate-level, high-level, and top-level spirit stones. It is divided into rare attribute spirit stones such as metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and ice.
Although Li Youran and Han Li didn't have spirit stones, they had prepared a lot of elixirs and a large number of elixirs before coming here, so the two of them were very indifferent. Li Youran took Han Li to carefully divide the elixir and elixir into batches of varying quantities, in exchange for more than six hundred spirit stones.
After about two hours, the sky was a little dark, but the square was brightly lit, and most of the stalls were already set up in front of the huge lanterns of uniform style, which were made of bronze and were antique throughout, and were more than a meter high.
But instead of burning anything like lamp oil, there was a fist-sized white stone on them, and the white stone glowed softly. The soft white light also illuminates the stalls and the nearby roads.
The number of people in the square has not decreased because of the night, but there have been many stalls and people, and the square has become more lively.