Volume 5: First Songs 3: Shopping
On the second day, the five of Qian Chao began to look for those loose cultivators in Ruixuan Town.
Yesterday, I already knew from Bu Yan's mouth where those scattered cultivators were concentrated, so it was not troublesome to find it today, and after turning a few streets, they really let them find it.
Sure enough, this place is much worse than where Bu Yanqi is located, although Bu Yanqi's small shop is not too big, but at least the business is not bad, and there are many shops opened by Wuling disciples on that street, at least it seems to be a prosperous place. But now when you look at the places where these loose cultivators sell their belongings, they seem to be much more dilapidated, and when you look at the street, there are not many shops at all, and there are people sitting on the ground on both sides, and a blanket is randomly spread in front of them, which is full of all kinds of things, and then people sit listlessly in the back waiting for the buyer.
However, after a cursory look, although this place looks dilapidated, it is much more lively than the street on Bu Yanqi, after all, most of the things sold by Bu Yanqi are not affordable by the casual cultivators, and the prices of the things sold by the casual cultivators are generally not high, which is very attractive to the disciples in the sect to come and take a look and choose. Although most of these things seem to be in very ordinary condition, and some of them are very shabby, they are better in number and variety, and of course, if you dig deeper, a considerable part of these things are of dubious origin.
The items sold by casual cultivation are very miscellaneous, from ores, leathers and other things used in refining tools to spiritual weapons used by unknown people, from spirit grass that can't tell the year of fire to elixirs that look ambiguous, as well as all kinds of strange monster cubs and eggs of demon birds, and even talismans that don't know their functions, etc., in short, everything that can be used in the immortal cultivation world seems to be seen here, of course, if you want to buy it, it will test the buyer's eyesight, no matter what you buy, as long as the spirit stone is handed over to the other party, you will never regret it, It was impossible to get the loose cultivators to return the spirit stones they had gotten.
Standing in front of these loose cultivators, the five of them were still somewhat emotional, after all, just over a month ago, they were killed by those guys who were the same as these people in terms of identity that night, and everyone had blood on their hands, oh...... It should be said that there are four people, and Lu Pingchuan will not have any feelings about this. Yan Xuan and Tang Ping both drove the killing ring that night, Tang Ping was fine, but Yan Xuan had nightmares at night later. The five of them had no exact impression of what those people looked like that night, and what they remembered most clearly was the fierce eyes of those people and the roars of their voices!
Now in the eyes of the five people, it is difficult to overlap the images of those scattered cultivators that night and these scattered cultivators in front of them, these people in front of them are men, women and children, with different clothes and ornaments, and their expressions are also different, far less fierce than those scattered cultivators in that night, some people look listless and have no spirit, some people have a pair of eyes shining and keep looking around, some people sit with sad faces, and some people are diligently peddling to passers-by, well, There are also female cultivators who have a bit of a posture and keep sweeping around the male disciples of the Five Spirits with a pair of wonderful eyes, and it will be even more exciting if they meet the eyes......
Among these people, it was the first time that Qian Chao had seen a loose cultivator like an old woman, with loose skin and flesh on her face, wrinkles and gray hair, sitting behind a pile of things and constantly looking at people with vigilant eyes. Why is this female cultivator so old, doesn't it mean that female monks will use any pills such as the Zhuyan Pill? In Qian Chao's impression, the most aged female monk in the Five Spirits Sect is Tang Ping's master Gu Won Fairy, but that is just the image of a middle-aged beauty, why can't this old woman even get a pill of Zhuyan Pill? Is it really that hard to live a day of retreat?
Looking at these people, Yan Xuan seemed to be still a little cringe, and Tang Ping grabbed her arm.
However, Lu Pingchuan was happy to see it, he liked to watch the excitement the most, especially since there were many novelties here, even if he didn't need it, he had to take a good look at it.
"Hey, hey! It's really lively! Lu Pingchuan said happily.
"Let's just be together, it's not small here, don't get separated." Yan Xuan said.
"Hmm!"
"Tang girl, help me see if there is such a soil woman." Qian Chao suddenly remembered and hurriedly said to Tang Ping.
"Okay."
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They are also monks, your spiritual root may not be better than mine, you may not be able to endure hardships than me, and your understanding may not be higher than mine, why can you practice in a big sect, and I can only live such a precarious and upside-down life!
This is the ordinary mood of most casual cultivators who look at the disciples of the sect or the nephews of the family.
Therefore, when facing the Five Spirits disciples who came in droves, the casual cultivators here will inevitably have three points of hostility, three points of contempt, three points of jealousy, and one point of ill will.
Especially when the beautiful female disciple of the Five Spirits came to the front, it made these guys have something else in their hearts.
This time it's not one, it's two, hand in hand, one is beautiful, the other is pretty and cute, alas......
The scattered cultivator who was guarding in front of a pile of things was thinking wildly, and the rather beautiful female disciple had already squatted down, and suddenly a strange and fresh female breath came over, which made this guy feel intoxicated.
"Hey! You don't do business! ”
The pretty little girl stared at her, which made this guy understand, and she was out of shape in the secret way, and hurriedly got serious.
"Uh, this girl, what do you want to see, I have a lot of spiritual grass here, and I dug it myself......"
Yan Xuan frowned and looked at the spirit grass in front of the man, not to mention that there are many varieties, there are always forty or fifty plants, but it doesn't look like she is satisfied, those spirit grasses are not enough to pick more complete years; The year is sufficient, but the picking technique is not good, and the spirit grass is injured and mutilated; The rest of the spirit grass looks like this person can't take care of it, the spirit grass has wilted, I'm afraid it has lost its medicinal power and can't be used.
Thinking about it, you should also know that such a delicate thing as picking spirit grass can not be done well by casual cultivation?
Yan Xuan shook his head regretfully and stood up.
"Huh! Don't worry, girl, I still have some spirit grass seeds here, do you want to take a look? ”
Speaking of the seeds of the spirit grass, Yan Xuan is interested, she is now a fifth-level cultivator of qi refining, according to the agreement with the senior Zhong, when she comes back, she can apprentice, and in the future, she will also live on the edge of the cave of the senior Zhong, which is naturally a good place to plant the spiritual grass, Yan Xuan has already made up his mind to open up a small field on the edge of the master's cave in the future to plant some rare spiritual grass, so when he heard this guy say that there are spiritual grass seeds, he was tempted.
But she didn't want any seeds, so she asked:
"That'...... Do you have the seeds of the Thirteen-Story Building here? Yan Xuan asked.
"Yes, yes, hehe, there should be, ah, it's all here, the girl takes it herself."
Yan Xuan looked at the pile of seeds in the small wooden box that the other party had opened, and frowned.
"No, where do you have the seeds of the thirteen-story building here, this is the seed of the nine-bell flower, this is the seed of a line of white, this is the seed of pine needle grass...... These and these are just ordinary grass species, right? ”
Yan Xuan pointed out more than a dozen spirit grass seeds from it in one go, and finally found that the kid was deceiving people with ordinary weed seeds.
The guy who was exposed had no choice but to snatch the wooden box back, saying that he would let Yanxuan take a look elsewhere and send her away.
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Tang Ping's most important thing to see was naturally the cubs of those demon beasts and the eggs of demon birds.
However, Tang Ping understood better than Yanxuan, she was watching with a mentality of picking up leaks, and it didn't matter if she couldn't get it.
Holding Yan Xuan's hand, Tang Ping stopped in front of a loose cultivator, and most of what this person sold was those that Tang Ping was interested in.
Taught by Gu Hou Fairy, Tang Ping's eyes on spirit birds and spirit beasts naturally have it.
Her critical gaze swept over the little guys who were either listless lying in the cage or screaming outside the cage, well, it was indeed some rare monster cubs, but it was just rare, in her opinion, even if these little guys grew up, there would be no brilliance, even if they were bought back to raise, it would not be a big help, and it was too far from the little ones on her body except for Xiaobai and Rhubarb.
The casual cultivator who sells things is a discerning person, since Tang Ping began to stare at those demon beast cubs, he has been staring at Tang Ping's face and eyes, and after two glances, he understands that the girl in front of him must be an expert, and it seems that her business will not be successful.
"What are these eggs?"
After seeing the cubs, Tang Ping was attracted by the pile of demon eggs in front of the man.
"Pujia birds, pockfinches, split wind, Fufeng, in short, everything, what kind of spirit 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, only the two spirit birds of Split Wind and Magu Sparrow, if this person really has such bird eggs, will he still need to wait here for the buyer? I don't know how many people have come to him with spirit stones to beg him to sell, knowing that this person is talking big, so Tang Ping reached out and wanted to pick up a bird's egg to take a look, and judge for himself what kind of spirit bird's egg it was.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Seeing Tang Ping stretching out his hand, the loose cultivator hurriedly stopped her.
"Naturally, I want to take a look, how do I know what kind of bird egg it is without looking at it?"
"You can't move, you have to buy whichever you move, they all tell you what bird eggs you have, and I'll get you whatever you buy!"
"Hey! What's the reason, "Tang Ping is no longer doing it", why don't you let you sell things to see it? I always have to choose when I buy something! ”
"I just don't let you pick something when I sell something, what if you break it? Ah, look, if you move whichever you want, you have to buy it, put the spirit stone down and you can look at it casually. ”
"Unreasonable!" Tang Ping stood up angrily.
"Humph!"
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Lu Pingchuan was also watching, but he was just watching, but he didn't plan to buy it at all, and it was useless to buy it back.
But he didn't just look, he asked as he watched.
"Eh, what is this thing, I've never seen it before!"
The casual cultivator who sold things hurriedly explained.
"Oh, what is this, what a strange look! What is it used for? ”
The loose cultivation is another commentary.
"Hey, this is fresh, fun, what is this?"
The scattered practice was another commentary.
After asking and asking, in the end, the scattered cultivator finally couldn't help it, and began to suspect that Lu Pingchuan was not here to buy things but to make trouble, so he suppressed his anger and asked:
"This brother, what do you want to buy?"
"Buy? Hey, I don't buy anything! ”
"You...... If you don't buy it, you still come to ask, it took me so long to speak! Go, go, go, ask! ”
"Hey! You're a ...... You deserve to have no business here! ”
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Li Jian didn't have any interest in those things that were sold by casual cultivation, he didn't look at anything, as a sword cultivator, these things were basically useless to him, and the things that he needed to use in his cultivation had always been everyone's efforts, and then provided by a few partners, so he only looked at one thing here...... That's people, he is only interested in those casual cultivators who sit behind these goods, after all, that night more than a month ago, he didn't know how many such guys he killed with his own hands, Li Jian has always been very wary of these casual cultivators, among the people who come and go, he looked at those casual cultivators carefully, and he found one thing, that is, when some casual cultivators asked the price of some spiritual weapons in front of him, those casual cultivators were actually full of contempt for the half-new spiritual artifacts they sold, seeing this, Li Jian probably guessed how those spiritual weapons got into the hands of the man.
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Qian Chao naturally watched the most, except for the spirit grass and spirit beasts that he didn't look at, the rest would basically look at it carefully.
Of course, the money tide is also the biggest gain.
He stopped in front of a somewhat rugged Sanxiu and crouched down to take a closer look at what was laid out in front of the man.
"What's the price of this thing?" Qian Chao said and pointed to a spirit sword that looked a little damaged on the blanket.
"Hmph, this thing is cheap, if you want it, just leave three spirit stones."
"Three spirit stones?" Qian Chao took the spirit sword in his hand and looked at it, and then put it down, "The price you ask for is too high, at most it is only a spirit stone." ”
The sanxiu smiled and didn't answer.
"Where's this?" Qian Chao was referring to a few pieces of ore in front of the man this time.
"Well, these small ones, each cost three spirit stones, and the big ones over there are cheaper, only one spirit stone each, how about it?"
Qian Chao smiled, for ore, he is a connoisseur, and he can see that the guy on the other side doesn't know anything about it, the large ore over there is a good thing, but he treats the small one as a treasure, after listening to the man's words, Qian Chao didn't answer, only smiled, and pointed to a bunch of demon beast leather tendons in front of him and asked:
"What about these? How many spirit stones? ”
The rough-faced Sanxiu was a little reluctant, no wonder, Qian Chao kept asking and asking that he didn't mean to buy, it seemed that he was either making trouble or relieving his boredom, he said with a somewhat gloomy face:
"This little brother, do you want to buy it or not, you asked for a long time and finally clapped your hands and left, then I'm not very bored!"
"Don't worry, this old man, I'm not here to entertain you, since asking the price naturally means to buy something, but well, the price you want is a little inflated, well, these ......"
Qian Chao pointed to the pile of leather tendons that had been pulled from the demon beasts.
"If you tell me a real price, we always have to bargain."
"Haha, okay, then ......" the Sanxiu looked at the pile of things, "if you take all these things, huh...... How about you come up with five spirit stones? ”
"It's expensive," Qian Chao stretched out his hand and pointed to a few small ores in front of the man, "Add them, a total of five spirit stones, how about it?" ”
"That's not good, it's better to ......" The scattered cultivator looked at a few large ores over there, "Count them, five spirit stones, how about it?" ”
"Then add it, five spirit stones, how about it?" Qian Chao pointed to the somewhat damaged spirit sword that he had seen first on the blanket.
"Hehe, eh, little brother, you can really bargain, that sword is worth two or three spirit stones, you are taking advantage of me."
"Otherwise, if this sword is brand new, it is worth two or three spirit stones, but you see, if it is damaged like this, you still need three spirit stones, but you can't say it."
"Alas, why are the disciples of your great sect so picky? Talk to me about a loose practice! ”
"The disciples of the big sects are also different, some people are generous, naturally there are people who are as careful as me, brother, you can buy these things in the sect, why don't I buy them in our sect, go all the way to Ruixuan Town to buy these things, don't I just want to be cheap?"
"Eh, I can't talk about you, it's better to be like this, let's have a good time, if you want all the things I have here, count you ten spirit stones, how about it?" The man drew his hand in a circle, referring to everything in front of him.
Qian Chao thought about it for a while, these things are not expensive for ten spirit stones, but ......
"Ten spirit stones...... These things ......" Qian Chao looked at the guy and said, "You can add something else to me." ”
"What more?" The scattered cultivator was a little dissatisfied.
"Brother, you go south and north, you are well-informed, you should always be able to get some books or something, I like to read books to relieve boredom after practicing, if you have anything here, you might as well take it out for me to see, if you like to add it, I will give you ten spirit stones, how about it?"
"Well, then you wait for me to find out."
Saying that, the man didn't shy away from it, took out a number of storage bags from his body, checked them one by one, and really found a few tattered books from them and threw them on the blanket, Qian Chao picked them up and looked through them one by one, most of these books were worn, improperly maintained, and some of them were missing many pages, but they were indeed not seen before, and the content involved in them also had their own emphasis, and ...... Qian Chao had long seen that the guy opposite would not be a reader, and these books were not turned out of a storage bag, so the original owners of the books must have lost in the hands of this guy.
Just like when Ma Hu gave him a bunch of books, he also found them from a pile of storage bags, which were all left behind after Ma Hu ate black.
Nodding, Qian Chao put down the books.
"Well, counting these, it's worth ten spirit stones."
Maybe it's because the things are sold in a happy mood, or maybe it's because this person is naturally talkative, and he can't control his mouth when he is happy, seeing Qian Chao carefully touching the spirit stone from the storage bag, this casual cultivator has the heart to talk for a while, and said:
"I didn't expect your little brother to like these things, hehe, do you know, these broken books were brought into your Five Spirit Sect a few days ago!"
Qian Chao understood this sentence at once, but he pretended not to understand and looked at the rough loose cultivator, and asked puzzledly:
"What does that mean?"
"Hmph, your Five Spirit Sect had a big bustle a few days ago, don't say you don't know!"
"Ahh You mean......" Qian Chao deliberately pretended to be surprised, looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and said, "Are you saying that there were a lot of scattered cultivators who entered our Five Spirit Sect that night?" ”
"That's right!"
"These books ...... Could it be that this dude is also gone? ”
"Hey, don't talk nonsense, I'm not that guts, I'm not that stupid, but, hehe, do you know what happened to those guys who escaped?"
"This ......," Qian Chao pretended to be surprised, and then suddenly looked, pointing to the pile of broken books and said, "Could it be that this is the stuff of those who escaped?" ”
"Humph! Not to mention these broken books, these ...... Both! The sanxiu drew another circle with his arm.
"Oh my God! That...... Dude, you've killed a lot of people, haven't you? ”
"Hmph, I can only say that those who enter the Five Spirits Sect are stupid, thinking that they are going to earn spirit stones, but they will be ambushed when they come out, hehe, such a big thing, in the end, it is always necessary to have clean hands and tails, and there will be no trouble."
"I see."
Qian Chao only now understood that those casual cultivators who entered the Five Spirits Sect that night were dead, either dying in the hands of the Five Spirits disciples, or escaping and being ambushed by other scattered cultivators, it seems that the people who laid out the killing cream had already designed to leave no trouble, so ...... The one who hired the guy in front of him to kill someone must be the one who laid out the murderous words.
"Then the old man will naturally get a lot of benefits from doing things for others, right?" Qian Chao asked cautiously.
"Little brother, you don't understand this, this kind of thing doesn't need anyone to worry about at all, as long as you hear where those guys who go in will escape from, then who will let them go, hehe, I heard that they all took a deposit before going to the Five Spirits Sect, hehe, it's really a lot, we just went for the deposit on them."
Hearing this, Qian Chaoquan understood, to kill those scattered cultivators who escaped from the Five Spirits Sect, there was no need to arrange them separately, as long as the rumors were released in advance, there would naturally be more scattered cultivators who targeted them, and it was right to think about it, they escaped, no matter whether the thing could be done or not, if they escaped, they must be either tired or injured, where can they be the opponents of those people who are secretly ambushed, and suddenly a sneak attack will inevitably kill a lot. Now their things have been taken to Ruixuan Town by these casual cultivators to be sold!
I lost my life for the sake of the idea spirit stone, sad!
It's a pity that there are simply no people who spread rumors!
The man accepted the spirit stone of Qian Chao, stood up and said hello, didn't even want the blanket on the ground, and strode away.
Qian Chao turned around and saw that although Li Jian was standing behind Yan Xuan and Tang Ping, he was looking at him with blazing eyes, so he went over and asked:
"Did Brother Li hear what that person said just now?"
"Well, it seems that the scattered cultivators that night, except for the few who were caught by the sect, all of them died."
"That's right, that is to say, the clues on Sanxiu's body are basically all broken."
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While the five of them were looking at each other, there was a small dispute in the vicinity.
A girl in a blue dress, who is smart-looking, and is not too old, had some trouble with a casual cultivator.
Or rather, the girl was staring at her eyes and aggressively questioning the loose cultivator.
"I said it yesterday, I'll take it today, you have received my spirit stones, why did you change your hexagram again! Do you want to sit on the ground and start the price? ”
The questioned Sanxiu looked like he was at a loss, and hurriedly explained:
"Girl, it's not that I'm changing the hexagram, it's that thing wasn't in my hands at the time, don't I want to earn the girl's spirit stone? I don't know how to raise that thing, even if I raise it, it's useless to keep it, right, alas, it's me who went a step late, that thing has already been bought, it's not like I'm changing my hexagram! ”
"Nonsense, you said yesterday that thing was yours, why did you change your mind today!"
"Girl, I'll tell you the truth, that thing is not mine alone, hey, that thing is not mine, I helped people ask if there is a buyer, yesterday the girl said to ask for that thing, the price is also good, I went to find my friend, but I didn't know until I went, that thing has been sold by him, and I asked again to know that my friend is also cheap, this is really ...... Alas, that thing girl will definitely encounter in the future, don't be angry, how about I return the spirit stone paid by the girl to you? ”
"Of course I have to retreat, is it possible that my spirit stone will also be ignored by you?"
"Yes, yes, this is the girl's spirit stone, hehe, if there is anything like that again, I will definitely keep it for the girl."
"Humph! Is it that someone else offered a higher price, so you sold it to someone else, isn't that so? ”
"Girl, alas, I said that my friend was not there when he made the move, and if I stopped him there, I could still make some money in it, how could I lie to the girl?"
The girl snorted angrily, grabbed her spirit stone, and turned around and left.
Then she saw Tang Ping, who was bending down to take a closer look at the piles of bird eggs in front of a loose cultivator.
She didn't recognize Tang Ping, but almost the same skirt, she recognized at a glance that Tang Ping must also be a disciple of Shuiyun Valley, and looked at the eggs of those spirit birds intently, presumably it must be a disciple of the Imperial Spirit...... Somehow, this girl suddenly decided that Tang Ping was the guy who robbed her of her good things, so she deliberately snorted heavily when she passed by Tang Ping!
This made Tang Ping inexplicable, holding the egg in her hand and looking over, she found that a little girl with the same blue dress was staring at her fiercely!
Tang Pinghe had been treated like this, and he was inexplicably hostile, so he also glared back.
Then the girl snorted again, turned and walked away.
Then Tang Ping glanced at Yan Xuan beside him inexplicably, not knowing what was going on.
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"Tu Pozi, what, haven't you heard of it?"
Qian Chao looked at the loose cultivation in front of him, and explained carefully:
"It's such a big bug, well, it's two, but you can only use one, throw that one on the ground, and it will burrow into the ground, and then swallow those ores in the ground, and when it comes out, its body will become very big, and then it will spit out those swallowed ores, it is a kind of spirit worm used to dig ores, have you ever heard of it?"
The scattered cultivator seemed to understand, but he had never heard of that kind of "soil woman" at all, and still asked in some confusion:
"Is there such a magical spirit worm?"
"Of course there is," the person who answered the phone was a person next to this casual cultivator, who was also a casual cultivator who sold things, and seemed to have been in this Ruixuan Town for a long time, "Well, someone like this insect has been brought here to sell it a long time ago, and it's the same as what this little brother said, but ...... That thing was very expensive, how many spirit stones were sold at that time...... Well, at least three hundred yuan is there, hehe, what, this little brother wants to buy a bug like that, and now you can't find it in the whole Ruixuan Town. ”
"I see."
Qian Chao stood up with some pity.
But...... The casual cultivator he began to ask questions suddenly felt like a skylight had opened in his heart!
The little guy of the Five Spirit Sect in front of him actually wants to buy that kind of strange spirit worm, and the price of that spirit worm is very expensive, the one who sold more than 300 spirit stones back then, then this kid should at least know an approximate price, that ...... How many spirit stones does this little guy have on him now!
If...... Judging by his cultivation, he has only just refined the fifth layer of qi, but he is a good candidate to start, hum!
However, as soon as this casual cultivator thought of this, he suddenly noticed something unusual, and when he looked up, he realized that the kid he had just asked had already left, but it seemed that a tall young monk who had come with him was staring at him with extremely cold and murderous eyes!
How...... Could it be that he just thought that things were on his face, so that the kid's companion could see it?
He lowered his head weakly, and when he looked up tentatively, he found that the tall young monk was still staring at him with murderous intent, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth!
(Author's note: I write a bit of chatter, more than two million words, the protagonist has just passed the fifth layer of Qi refining, and it may be the slowest and most cumbersome one to write, very likely.) However, my story was first depicted as a long scroll in my mind, and I thought it was good (of course, the officials didn't necessarily think so, but writing a story, at least I liked it before I took it out and hoped that others would like it), so I wanted to present it to everyone through pen and ink, so I felt that I was procrastinating, and I could only say sorry, this is probably the problem of writing skills, people with good writing skills, a few strokes are a landscape of artistic conception, the author asked himself if he couldn't do it, without this skill, Therefore, I can only slowly present the illusory family in my heart to you one stroke at a time, and I ask for your forgiveness. I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! )