Chapter 22: The Crystal Layman
The old man looked half-dead, and refused to open his eyes even when guests came, as if to look at it more would be the greatest waste of his life.
The older a person is, the more he always cherishes his life, but this old man cannot be said to cherish life, but more like an indifferent attitude. It didn't matter what it was, whether it was the classics or materials, spiritual artifacts and the like placed in this small shop, or his own life, or the guests who came here, the old man didn't care.
If it weren't for Li Hui's several divine sense investigations and his determination that this old man was just a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, it was really hard to believe that there would be such a monk and such a strange shop.
This old man probably doesn't have much to live, and guarding such a small shop at this time is just to pass the time, and he is just living for the rest of his life.
In this way, this old man can be regarded as free and easy. There are many monks who feel that there is no hope for advancement, and when the deadline is approaching, they will desperately enjoy themselves, and even do some things such as robbing people's daughters in the world.
Originally, Li Hui didn't have much interest in this messy shop and was about to leave, but Liu Piaoxu showed a strong interest. So the two walked in.
The shelves of this store are not spacious, and Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu seem a little crowded when they walk in it, so they have to look through the items on the shelves one after another.
Both of them were in the mindset of being able to dig out treasures from the scrap, thinking that this groggy-looking old man might have some deep background and a terrible past, maybe he was playing tricks here.
But after walking down most of the circle, the two of them have determined that this old man is a guy who eats and waits for death, and he is not a master of the world who is playing tricks here.
The spiritual weapons on display on this shelf are all ordinary goods, and those pills are just some low-level pills, although there are many kinds of these pills, and there are a few of them with some special functions, but they are still some low-level pills, which are not used by high-level monks like Li Hui and them at all.
Li Hui was a little excited, looked up and saw the yellowed ancient books on the shelf, took a copy in his hand, and flipped through it casually.
"Anecdotes of Shangzhou" - this is a book that records the customs and customs of Shangzhou, and gossip and anecdotes.
Li Hui cursolutly flipped through a few pages, and found that the useful information in this book was really limited, and the author of this book was only a foundation building monk, who did not work hard in cultivation, but he liked to run around and write down some of what he saw and heard along the way.
However, this monk who claims to be a crystal monk, although he is limited to cultivating and has not walked many places, but he has a very clear memory of the places he has visited, and he has a bit of literary appearance, which makes people believe that if this person chooses to take the top exam without cultivating the truth, he may achieve more.
In any case, this book is still somewhat useful to Li Hui, but it can be used as some reference for the land of Shangzhou.
"May I ask this fellow Daoist, how do you sell this book?" Li Hui raised the book in his hand and shouted to the old man on the recliner who didn't know whether he was asleep or awake.
The old man didn't even move his eyelids, and his lips moved slightly: "Ten lower grade spirit stones and three copies, you can pick whatever you want." After saying that, he immediately closed his mouth, for fear that he would lose a little strength.
Li Hui was stunned when he heard this, if he wanted to say that ten lower-grade spirit stones could buy such three ancient and broken books, it could not be said that it was cheap, but for Li Hui, ten lower-grade spirit stones were really nothing now.
Anyway, there was nothing to do, so Li Hui continued to pick it up on the shelf.
The rest of the books are even more messy, there are chess games, picture books, calligraphy, and even a book that makes people look at the spring palace picture...... Some of these books were written by the crystal monk himself, and some of them belonged to the crystal monk's personal collection.
The more Li Hui reads, the more he feels that this guy is unreliable, and these books are useless to him.
After reading more than a dozen books at will, all of them were like this, Li Hui wanted to give up a little in his heart, thinking about taking two books and making up three books for this old man's ten low-grade spirit stones, anyway, the number of spirit stones is not much.
At this moment, Liu Piaoxu came here in a circle, looking at Li Hui holding a broken book in his hand, he had also heard Li Hui's answer with the old man before, not only was he a little curious, he walked to Li Hui's side, and then reached out and took out an ancient book on the shelf that looked more yellow and old, but the texture was much better than the Shangzhou anecdote in Li Hui's hand.
Just after flipping through a few pages, Liu Piaoxu showed a little surprise: "Sect Master, come and see, this is actually a Dan Dao classic, and the theoretical insights in it are quite good, it seems to be an alchemy classic handed down by ancient monks." ”
Li Hui was attracted by the sound of willow fluttering, and took the ancient book, sure enough, it recorded some key points and tricks about alchemy, and turned back to tell about the medicinal properties of some pills, as well as refining methods, as well as the required medicinal materials, formulas, etc.
When Li Hui was flipping through this classic, Liu Piaoxu continued to look through these old books, and after a while, he found another useful classic that also talked about how to make alchemy.
Only then did the two of them pay attention to it, and then continued to flip through it, and soon found a large number of Dan Dao classics. Except for the dozens of books written by the crystal monk such as "Crystal Age" and "Westward Journey", the rest of these books turned out to be some Dan Dao classics. But these were not placed on top, but were discarded haphazardly at the bottom, pressed under the writings of the crystal laymen.
Thinking that ordinary people come here and flip through a few of that crystal monk's masterpieces, they will never have the patience to continue reading, so they will inevitably miss the following ancient Dan Dao classics.
Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu were overjoyed, although none of them were good at the way of alchemy, but in the future, this thing was indispensable for opening a sect, no matter what sect, there must be a special alchemy hall to be responsible for refining pills. Without the supply of elixir, it would simply not be able to satisfy the normal cultivation of a sect.
Although there are few people at present, once he finds a suitable place to establish the mountain gate, Li Hui plans to start recruiting disciples on a large scale, and he will naturally need these classics when the time comes.
Moreover, Li Hui himself obtained a large number of medicinal materials in the Chisong Immortal Mansion, and wanted to refine the pills, but he lacked enough pills, and these classics undoubtedly filled these gaps.
Soon a large number of old classics were sorted out. Then Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu set their eyes on the jade slips on the shelf.
Who knew that among these jade slips, there were also some trivial records, but the two of them had experience and continued to read them. Sure enough, I found a lot of jade slips that recorded the way of alchemy in the back.
The two of them sorted it out, and there were more than 90 volumes of ancient books and more than 300 jade slips, all of which recorded Dan Dao.
This amount is quite staggering, almost equivalent to the entire Dao collection of a small sect, I don't know where this old-eyed and dizzy-looking shopkeeper got so many Dan Dao classics.
Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu continued to sweep around, and did not find more valuable items, so they gave up their plans to continue panning for gold, but despite this, the day's harvest was already huge.
Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu moved all these books and jade slips to the old man's recliner in front of them, and carefully stacked them.
The two of them were afraid of damaging the old books, so they didn't move much each time, and ran many times before they all moved in front of the old man.
The old man rubbed his eyes and looked at the two busy people in the store with some surprise, wondering why all this garbage that no one usually wants was taken care of today?
But when the old man grabbed an ancient book and flipped through a few pages, his face immediately sank, revealing a little resentment and unwillingness, and he simply fell into the chaise longue again, and even put a large fan on his face.
After Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu moved all these classics, they came to the old man to settle accounts with him.
But at this time, the old man had long since lost his soul, and completely hid under the chaise longue covered by a large pu fan and did not move.
Because of this large number of classics, Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu couldn't help but wonder again that this old man was a master in the world. Even Li Hui wondered if this old man was a monk who was a monk or a monk who was hiding his cultivation to play here? You must know that it is not impossible to have this possibility, and Yun Du of Maha Temple in Liangzhou has this hobby......
"May I ask Daoyou, how much are these items worth in total?" Li Hui asked politely.
Although the old man had said that there were three books with ten spirit stones, it was for those things like "Crystal Documentary", and the value of these classics was naturally far more than that. What's more, there are a lot of jade slips. That's why Li Hui wanted to ask the old man to re-evaluate.
The old man still collapsed in the chaise longue, deaf to him.
This made Li Hui and Liu Piaoxu a little overwhelmed, thinking that this old man would not sit on this recliner just in time for the longevity to run out, right? But they all clearly sensed that this old man was definitely not dead, but very vigorous......
"Please also ask Daoist friends to get up and estimate the total value of these items. Li Hui said politely again.
You must know that this old man is just a cultivator in the foundation building period, and being so polite by the two Jindan monks is already giving him a lot of face, but this old man still looks like he is ignoring.
For a while, Li Hui was also a little at a loss, and people couldn't just run away with their things.
However, if Li Hui wants to give up these classics, he is really a little reluctant, these Dao treasures are not easy to get, especially there are many ancient Dan recipes among them, which are even more difficult to find.
At this moment, Liu Piaoxu suddenly poked Li Hui and looked at Li Hui.
Li Hui followed Liu Piaofu's gaze, and on the desk in front of him, he was spreading out his pen and ink, and a poem was written on it, and the inscription was a crystal layman.