Chapter Seventy-Six: The Depression of Miaofengfang
Qin looked at everyone with an ignorant look, and it seemed that he really didn't know anything: "Okay, then send someone out to investigate." It stands to reason that the people who are watching outside are very likely to be from the Lingyin Building, but when I look at the spiritual power in their bodies, it is not as pure as the people in the Lingyin Building, it is very mixed, but like a loose cultivation. "It's a pity that Luo Nan is not here now, otherwise you can ask if there is any peripheral organization in Lingyin Building.
"Palace Master, what does the person watching outside look like, can you show me it on the Xuanguang Mirror?" Fu Chunqiu pondered for a moment and asked.
"It's not that hard, you wait for me for a while. Qin Guan sat on the chair and meditated for dozens of breaths, and then injected some spiritual power into his Xuanguang Mirror, which showed several portraits. These people look mediocre, and I don't know what Fu Chunqiu can see. Moreover, Qin Guan just glanced at it in a hurry, and the characters presented were only seven or eight points similar.
Fu Chunqiu silently slid the Xuanguang mirror back and forth, looked at the appearance of these people for a while, and then stopped on the face of a short trader: "Palace master, this person's appearance is somewhat similar to a person I have seen before. ”
"Oh?" the crowd gathered around, but after looking at it for a long time, they didn't have any impression of this man's appearance. "It seems to be a local of Miaofengfang. ”
"Indeed, if I am not mistaken, this man must be the servant of the shop at No. 40 South Street, who has come to me more than once with the proprietor of his house. It's just that the shopkeeper of the shop passed away last year, and I heard that even the shop was sold by the owner, and a lot of servants were dismissed, so this person should have left. Fu Chunqiu was a little puzzled.
Qin Guan: "What's the matter, can't the servants in the shop stay in Miaofeng Fang after they are dismissed?"
Fu Chunqiu: "This is nature. The people who live in Miaofengfang are basically merchants, and they don't live in this place with such a high level of consumption unless they are for trading. ”
Qin Guan didn't know what the life of casual cultivation was like, but the others had some experience of casual cultivation and quite agreed with it.
Shen Da said: "The palace master doesn't know, this casual cultivation is not a rich master, in order to cultivate, he has to work hard every day to earn spirit stones, but if one day the spirit stones are not enough, there will be no way to maintain his cultivation." Unlike monks who have sects to rely on, spiritual land alone saves a lot of things compared to casual cultivation. ”
Qin Guan nodded: "In that case, then this person may have been hired by someone else?"
"It's possible, but this man is now working as a peddler, and that must be a disguise. I know him, his shopkeeper mentioned a few words to me at the beginning, this man has a lot of brains, but he doesn't need to be on the right path, if it weren't for his friendship with the elders of his family, he wouldn't have left him to earn a living here. But the shopkeeper died strangely, and this man was a lazy person, so it was impossible for him to stay here and suffer, and he should have gone home a long time ago. Fu Chunqiu added. In fact, he omitted a lot, because after all, it would damage the image of his old friend. This person is actually the illegitimate son of the shopkeeper at the beginning, raised in the outer room, and brought with him just to cultivate him, who knows that he died before he took it for a few years.
Qin Guan knew what was hidden here, and since Fu Chunqiu had recognized this person, he must have to find out this person to see what was true and false. "Fu Daoyou, then I have to trouble you to take a few people to take a look. ”
Fu Chunqiu nodded and went out with a few disciples of the Word Guard. Qin Guan didn't worry much about their safety, after all, it was in Miaofeng Fang, if something happened here, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce would lose its reputation, and no one would dare to come here to do business in the future.
About half an hour later, Fu Chunqiu came back from the small door with a few people, and as soon as he walked into the room, he nodded at Qin Guan: "Palace Master, that's right, that person is indeed the little guy at the beginning, and his cultivation is much higher than at the beginning, but his qi and blood are vain, as if he has practiced some evil sect exercises, so that he hurts his vitality." ”
"It seems that this is the case, this person must have been recruited to keep an eye on you. Qin Guan said.
Fu Chunqiu: "Fortunately, I sprinkled a little soul search on him, and we can find traces of this thing within a hundred miles." "Xun Lingsan is a practical elixir researched by Song Dongming, Qingjing and Fu Chunqiu together, not to eat, but to trace traces. The inspiration still comes from Dong Xiuzhu's positioning device installed on the Xuanguang mirror. The main material of the soul search is a kind of spirit grass called shadow chasing, which has no effect of improving cultivation or anything else, but only emits a smell, which is very similar to the taste of the aura, but it is not mixed with the aura, and it can stay in the air for a long time, leaving traces one after another, so it is called chasing the shadow. The positioning system of the Xuanguang mirror is like a long-term odor chasing, and it can detect each other's location within 100 miles.
"Tsk, you don't feel distressed, we haven't made much of this spirit seeking powder, the shadow chasing grass is a four-grade spirit grass, and now there are few in the Sanqing Palace. Song Dongming laughed.
Fu Chunqiu responded: "Hey, I just used a little, and the smell of Xunlingsan can stay for less than a month, it's nothing!"
Qingjing took over the conversation: "You are really willing! A month's amount is enough as enough as a fingernail, is it worth it for such a little person?"
Qin Guan: "Of course it's worth it, don't you care about such a small thing." This guy might be the first pawn we have to figure out who is behind it. Fellow Daoist Fu, since you have used the Soul Seeking Dispersion, it is up to you to observe this person's movements. If there is anything abnormal, let's discuss it again. ”
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There was nothing to say all night, and the rush and fighting made Qin Guan and the others a little tired, but fortunately, there were enough places to live here, and everyone could get a good room. The next morning, Qin Guan had just started his day's practice when he heard someone walking outside the door, and when he saw it with his spiritual sense, it turned out that Fu Chunqiu was about to knock on the door. Qin Guan waved his hands, brought a breeze, opened the door, and said, "Good morning, Fu Daoyou, is there anything wrong?"
"Palace Master, the person from yesterday left from outside, presumably to report to the people behind the scenes. Fu Chunqiu arched his hand and said.
"Oh, that's good, you record his course of action, and wait for us to inquire about the current movement and make plans. ”
Qin Guan and the others don't have to eat anything now, Bigu already has a lot of cultivation, so after the morning class, they gathered in yesterday's house again, and Qin Guan began to assign everyone's tasks: "Fellow Daoist, these days you are sitting in the natural residence and observing the movements of that little guy." ”
After Fu Chunqiu nodded to show that he understood, Qin Guan said to the three Shen brothers: "As for the three Shen elders, your task is to take five disciples to inspect the natural residence and be on guard. ”
Then he said to the remaining Song Dongming, Qingjing and Qingxuan: "As for the three, your task is to take the remaining disciples and follow me out shopping. ”
"Shopping!?" Shouzheng, the leather monkey, was the first to scream, and his favorite thing for a lively person was to go to the market.
Qin Guan patted his head: "You leather monkey, you don't go shopping to join in the fun." Looking at the situation outside, it must be that something big has happened in the cultivation world, and we are going to find a densely populated place to find out the news. ”
Shouzheng stuck out his tongue, covered his head and laughed twice, and stopped talking.
Qin Guan now has 100,000 assets of lower-grade spirit stones, and he can buy a small courtyard in Miaofengfang, but these spirit stones are the assets of Sanqing Palace, not his own, although he is the palace master of Sanqing Palace, but he is unwilling to do it with public and private interests. After quietly coming out of the small door with eight people, Qin Guan swept the surroundings with his spiritual sense, and when he saw that there was nothing abnormal, he took the lead and walked out of the small alley.
The main entrance of the natural residence corresponds to Xuanwu Avenue, which is the main road of Miaofengfang North Street, connecting the other three blocks. There are a lot of shops on both sides of Xuanwu Avenue, but now there are many people in the door, and the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry, which is similar to when Qin Guan and others just entered the city. I don't know if what happened in the cultivation world was far-reaching enough, and there were not even a few people in the Fang City in the hinterland of the Beihai cultivation world. Qin Guan and his party looked up at the shops on both sides, and they didn't know where to go for a while.
"Hmm, where do you think there are the most people?" Qin Guan asked when he turned around and sent a voice to everyone.
The junior disciples didn't know anything about the structure of the Fang City, so Qin Guan asked the three elders in front of him when he said this. Qingjing and Qingxuan shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know either. Song Dongming lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "Palace Master, I remember that Fu Daoyou once said that this Miaofeng Fang was opened by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, so even if there are not many people in the shops in Miaofeng Fang now, the store of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is also the one with the most people among them, right?"
Qin Guan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect this. He originally thought that there would always be a lot of people in places like exchanging information, but he really didn't think to go to the shop of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. "What does this shop of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce do?"
"This old man knows that there are three shops in the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, one Lingdan Pavilion, one Lingbao Pavilion, and one consignment shop. Qingjing said. He was also chatting with Fu Chunqiu when he heard Fu Chunqiu mention it. Although the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce only opened three stores, it accounted for one-tenth of the transaction volume of the entire Miaofengfang, and it was also the three largest stores. Among them, the Lingdan Pavilion is a place to buy and sell elixirs and spiritual grasses, and the Lingbao Pavilion is a place to buy and sell spiritual materials and magic weapons as the name suggests.
Qin looked at a small shop selling spiritual grass not far from the natural residence, the shelves inside were basically empty, and the waiting servants were all listless in a daze, presumably the same was true of the Spirit Pill Pavilion of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. As for the shop that sells magic weapons, it doesn't even have a door, which is worse than the place where the elixir is sold.
"Well, let's go to the consignment shop. Qin Guan set the destination, he had already memorized the map of Miaofeng Fang in his mind, and asked Song Dongming to say the approximate location, and Qin Guan led everyone to the consignment shop.
Along the way, Qin looked at the shops on both sides, and the question in his heart became deeper and deeper: "Even if something bad happens, the market of this elixir and magic weapon will not be like this." Why are most of the merchants closed?" Most of the doors of these shops did not have any signs, and Qin Guan couldn't see the situation inside these shops clearly with his spiritual sense, but from the outside, he knew that most of the goods in these shops had been swept away.
"Could it be?" Qin Guan had a conjecture in his heart. The scene after this frenzy of buying is very similar to the scene he has seen in the movies, before the catastrophe, people are rushing to buy money and hoarding in their homes, and the store shelves are empty.
Qin Guan nodded secretly, this speculation is very possible, after all, there is nothing that can improve the cultivation of monks compared to spirit pills and magic weapons, if these things are snapped up, then there must be a big battle, and the scope of the impact even includes scattered cultivation. The basis for this thinking is because there are monks of the sect, and there are a lot of material reserves in their own sect, and when the crisis comes, they don't need to spend a lot of spirit stones to buy from others. And casual cultivation is different, they are used to saving things on weekdays, and they don't need things for the time being, they won't spend a lot of money to hoard spirit stones, unless it is critical, they feel that they will be difficult to survive if they don't store some materials, so they will take out the spirit stones at the bottom of the box and spend them.
Qin Guan told this idea to the people behind him, and after hearing this, his face moved, and he said, "Palace Master, if everything is really as you said, then we can make a fortune now." "Qin Guan has a lot of materials on them now, except for some necessary elixirs, the rest can be sold as traded commodities, if there is really a big war, then they will definitely be able to make a lot of profits by selling some of them now.
However, Qin Guan shook his head: "We can't sell them all, at most half of the spirit pill and all the spirit stones will be consumed, and the rest will have to be brought back." You also have to think about what to do if this big war affects our Fangcun Mountain. ”
Everyone was silent, it was true, since there was a war, even if they could hide in Fangcun Mountain for a while, they couldn't stay out for the rest of their lives. Moreover, the great battles in the cultivation world are often calculated in years, and after a long time, even if they have more spirit stones, it will be difficult for them to exchange them with the rest of the monks. Qin Guan decided that if it was determined that there was a war, then the first task would be to exchange these things at hand for a lot of useful materials in the future, just like the rest of the monks. Take a hundred plating on the latest chapter of "Hello Daozun Claw Book House" to read for free for the first time.