Chapter 44: The Old Place

When the first rays of daylight fell from the sky, dispelling the cold and darkness of the night, the city seemed to be revitalized and gradually woke up from its sleep.

The merchant shops opened the doors one by one, and the street gradually became lively, and when it came to the hour, Liuyun City was already a lively and prosperous scene again, especially Nanbaofang, where the shops in the city were most concentrated, and it was crowded with monks. Speaking of which, although Shen Shi has been in Haizhou for many years, he is really unfamiliar with the big city of Liuyun City, and the only thing that has some impression is the two streets of Nanbaofang, most of the time in the past, he was on Qingyu Island and couldn't go out, and then he accidentally went to the demon world, until today, he has the opportunity to really look at this city at will.

Liuyun City has the title of the first city in the south of the Hongmeng Continent, known as the first prosperous city in the sixteen states in the south, and there is a large-scale fang market in the southeast, southwest, northwest and northwest of the city, with countless merchants, gathering countless rare spiritual materials, attracting many monks to come here. Among the four major square markets, Nanbaofang is the most lively, including the Liuyun branch of the Immortal Society.

Shen Shi initially wanted to go to the other three markets to take a turn, but as he walked, the impression in his memory came to mind again, and he subconsciously walked to Nanbaofang's side first.

Seven years have passed, Nanbaofang is still prosperous here, with high-rise buildings and shops everywhere, and many spiritual materials are dazzling, which is dizzying. The crowd of monks coming and going and the familiar shouting made Shen Shi feel a sense of familiarity in his heart, as if he was in the first floor of his childhood.

His mood was much better unconsciously, and he walked all the way down the long street, and occasionally remembered that when he first arrived here, there was the butcher with him, but he didn't know where he had gone now? Of course, in his heart, he missed his father Shen Tai even more, and he had no news for seven years, as if he had completely disappeared from this world, and he didn't know where the Immortal Society had arranged to hide him?

And the reason for the separation of father and son, of course, is that they provoked a great real person in the Yuan Dan Realm, the old monster Li in the Xuanyin Gate of Yinzhou, not to mention, the reason why his mother died in childbirth is also related to the Li family for a large reason. Thinking of this, Shen Shi's face was slightly gloomy, but the realm of that Yuan Dan Realm was too strong and too high, and if he wanted to take revenge, it still seemed that it was far away.

He sighed inwardly, shook his head slightly, put aside these worries for a while, and continued to walk forward.

The solemn and tall tall building of the Immortal Society, which stood out from the crowd, soon appeared in front of it again, compared with seven years ago, it seems that there is no change, and the monks who come and go in front of the door are also the same as at the beginning, Shen Shi squeezed over and looked around, and by the way, he sold the first-grade spirit grass in his Ruyi bag, leaving only Shi Zhi and the other two second-grade spirit grasses in front, and finally got ten spirit crystals, which is regarded as yesterday's harvest.

Although the spirit crystals he got here are really not much, if you really want to compare, even more than when he was on Qingyu Island, when he went to Demon Island to hunt, he gained more than yesterday's busy day, but...... It's better than a casual practice that doesn't have much to do on weekdays. Shen Shi thought like this with self-deprecation in his heart, smiled bitterly, and walked around the Immortal Club store again, looking at those coveted rare spiritual elixirs, and finally walked out of the Immortal Club branch depressed.

Along the way, the little black pig followed his feet, I don't know if it was the first time to come to a place with so many people, it looked a little nervous, it had been sticking to Shen Shi, and it didn't run away casually by itself as usual, probably because it was afraid of getting lost with its owner in this crowded place.

Out of the Immortal Society, Shen Shi took the little black pig and walked all the way forward, while frowning slightly and thinking in his heart, all he was thinking about how to quickly earn more spirit crystals. The road of collecting medicinal herbs doesn't seem to be very promising, Xiao Hei is lazy, it's really unreliable at all; there are too many hidden dangers and restrictions on the road of Fu Qi, can you not go or not; do you really want to hunt demon beasts?

Thinking like this, after walking for a while, Shen Shi suddenly felt that the noise in front of him was much louder, and when he raised his eyes, he found that he had unconsciously walked to the Nantianmen at the end of the long street, which was the place where there were many scattered stalls.

At the beginning, his own pure heart mantra was also bought here from the hand of the person called Lao Hou, and I don't know if that guy is still setting up a stall here after seven years, but thinking about it may be unlikely, after all, Lao Hou's luck is good, there is a son who worshiped under the Lingxiao Sect and finally broke through to the Ning Yuan Realm.

The so-called father is expensive by son, Lao Hou heard that it was just a far outrageous side branch of the Hou family, but with such a son, he may even bring Hou Sheng's secret treasure exploration action, which shows that the Hou family also attaches great importance to the little fat man back then, and Lao Hou should have a good life now.

Things are not people, maybe this is the case, Shen Shi smiled in his heart, and walked into this chaotic but very lively Nantianmen.

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Liuyun City covers an extremely wide area, lively and prosperous, and has always been the center of gravity of Haizhou. The strength of the Lingxiao Sect is superior to that of Haizhou, and although the mountain gate is thousands of miles deep in the sea, in the eyes of the people in the cultivation realm, Liuyun City is waiting for the Lingxiao Sect's doorstep.

And the many vassal families under the Lingxiao Sect also take Liuyun City as their main place of residence, especially several powerful famous families, who have lived in Liuyun City for generations, and can even be called the head snake here.

Now under the Lingxiao Sect, among the many vassal families, of course, the Sun family is the most prosperous, followed by the Xu family, which has always been rich, and the Hou family seems to be declining, but a few years ago, the head of the family, Hou Yongchang, married the eldest lady of the Sun family, and suddenly the momentum of the family was invigorated, and no one dared to despise it at will.

On this day, the Hou family gathered a lot of people in the mansion in the east city of Liuyun City, among them, led by Hou Yongchang, the head of the house, and Sun Qin, the mother of the head of the house, all of whom were well-equipped and ready to go out. And below the two of them, there were more than twenty people in the mansion, almost all of them were monks above the Ning Yuan Realm, and a few of them were masters of the divine realm.

This team pulled out, even in Liuyun City, it was going to make people retreat.

Among the crowd, in addition to a few great monks with closed eyes and recuperating in the divine conception, the two youngest young people were the most eye-catching, the first one was handsome and dashing, with sword eyebrows, was Hou Yuanliang, the pride of the Hou family, and the slightly chubby young man standing next to him was a rising star of the Hou family in the past few years, named Hou Sheng.

On this trip, there are only two of the young generation of the waiting family, which shows that their future must be certain.

In the envious eyes of everyone, Hou Yuanliang was light-hearted, as if he had long been accustomed to this kind of starry and moon-like occasion, and Hou Sheng seemed to be a little uncomfortable, subconsciously standing behind Hou Yuanliang, occasionally when Hou Yuanliang said something, Hou Sheng hurriedly replied, looking like a squire next to Hou Yuanliang.

In the distance, after the head of the Hou family and his wife Sun Qin finally ordered the next people, they turned around and prepared to call everyone to set off, after glancing at their son Hou Yuanliang who was far away in the crowd, Sun Qin's eyes were full of love, pity and pride, but Hou Yongchang's gaze was relatively complicated, although there was also love, but I don't know if I thought of anything else, and suddenly sighed softly for no reason.

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Compared with the lively long street of Nanbaofang, where the branch of the Immortal Society and many shops gathered, Nantianmen is obviously chaotic here, and many casual cultivators directly take out a piece of cloth and spread it on the ground, even if they occupy a piece of land and set up a stall, and then put some messy spiritual materials, just wait patiently for the guests to take care of it.

But when it comes to the quality of spiritual materials, the things here are really incomparable with those in Nanbaofang, many spiritual materials are not only inferior at a glance, but even have many defects, but think about it, if it is really the best spiritual material, naturally there is a way to sell it, where will you get it here? You know, the price of spiritual materials here in Nantianmen is usually about thirty percent lower than that of the spiritual materials in the shops in Nanbaofang.

However, there are too many things, naturally there will be some good goods haunted, anyway, for many years, the story of getting rich in one day has been spread endlessly in Nantianmen, attracting countless embarrassed scattered cultivators to come here to sit here and make a fortune in the daytime.

Shen Shi's vision of spiritual materials was sharpened when he was a child, and some of the ordinary spiritual materials here in Nantianmen were even fakes and inferior goods that were deliberately renovated or confused by unscrupulous stall owners, and they generally couldn't hide from his eyes. But although he can't be deceived, if he wants to find the legendary treasure of the sea relics from here, it really takes a lot of luck, such as himself who came here seven years ago.

After wandering around like this for half an hour, Shen Shi looked at a lot of fake and inferior low-level spiritual materials, but there were only a few of them that really caught his eye, and finally there was a second-grade spirit mine "Iron Soul Crystal" that looked good, but the stall owner was the treasure of the stall as the root of his life, no matter who came, he insisted on two hundred spirit crystals and refused to let go, and Shen Shi could only shake his head and leave.

After walking for a while, there was still no gain, Shen Shi was also preparing to leave, not to mention any disappointment, after all, good luck can not be repeated, how can all the good things in the world be taken up by one person. In a place like Nantianmen, bad goods and inferior goods are the mainstream, and it is normal to not be able to find good things.

He turned around and turned towards the west of Nantianmen, thinking about whether to leave here from there, and when he turned to the Fang Market in the West City of Liuyun City to take a look again, suddenly the corner of his eyes swept over the corner next to him, he didn't care at first, and his footsteps still stepped forward, but after walking four or five steps like this, he suddenly paused, his brows furrowed, as if he had thought of something, and then slowly turned around and looked at a stall behind him.

It seems to be an ordinary casual repair stall, there is nothing strange in the past, the same blue cloth is spread on the ground, there are bottles and cans and a bunch of messy things, the stall owner is not particularly eye-catching, but a piece of horizontal meat on his face looks a little fierce, at the moment he is really sitting on the ground, opening his mouth and yawning.

Shen Shi suddenly laughed, then walked straight over, squatted down in front of the stall, the stall owner suddenly came to his senses, showed a little smile, and said:

"Guest officer, what do you like, but what I have here is all good. ”

Shen Shi smiled slightly, his eyes swept over the stall, and then he looked at the stall owner, and said with a smile:

"Long time no see, old wait!"