Chapter 2: Appreciating Fruits

In the present world, Hongmeng Immortal Dao Dachang, since the human race overthrew the rule of the demon clan that was once flourishing ten thousand years ago, on the basis of those who have been handed down through the spiritual crystal to absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth to cultivate all kinds of immortal Dao supernatural powers, all kinds of complicated magical and powerful Taoist supernatural powers have been created in this long ten thousand years, in the whimsical and painstaking cultivation of countless strange people. In today's Hongmeng Human Race cultivation realm, it is indeed a prosperous scene of a hundred flowers blooming.

And after the human race drove away the demon clan to unify the Hongmeng worlds, to this day, it has not formed a heavenly demon king-like court like the previous demon clan to dominate the world, on the contrary, a powerful Xiuzhen sect and family clan have replaced the rule of the demon clan in the past and become the most powerful force in the Hongmeng world.

The cultivator who is commonly known as a monk is the most feared identity of everyone in the world in this prosperous era, and even in the hearts of ordinary people, the relationship that can be implicated in the cultivation world is called immortal fate, which can be seen.

In this context, the cultivators in the Hongmeng realms are naturally like countless carps crossing the river, and thus they also form those mysterious and magical, magnificent and colorful cultivation realms in the hearts of ordinary people. Among them, the wealthy giants and famous clans in the main realm of Hongmeng, led by the "Four Positives and Seven Xuan", are naturally the most powerful group of people on this Hongmeng continent. But beyond that, there are many more and uncountable ordinary people. Yes, even in the cultivation realm, compared to those famous disciples, there are still monks who are living an embarrassing life, commonly known as casual cultivation, who are struggling to survive and pursue their dream of cultivating immortals and immortality.

The number of casual cultivators is extremely large, and no one knows exactly how many there are, but it is generally believed that among the huge number of monks in the cultivation realm, the lowest-ranking casual cultivators account for at least more than half of all the monks. These scattered cultivators have their own sources, some of them don't know where to get a book of introductory Taoist secrets, or they are lucky enough to have a body of Taoism, of course, there are also people from some cultivation sects who leave to practice alone and walk the rivers and lakes for various reasons, in short, the reasons are strange, and the sources are omnipresent, which can be regarded as a bizarre special scene in the Hongmeng World cultivation world.

And the shop on the first floor of Shen Jiatian, which deals in all kinds of spiritual materials and treasures for cultivation, the main source of customers is these seemingly ubiquitous and endless casual cultivators.

At this time, there were already many people standing on both sides of the counter, inside the uniform clothes of the Tianyi Floor Guy Shopkeeper, and outside the counter were all kinds of people, most of them were casual cultivators, and a few of them looked extraordinary, I don't know if they were disciples from several nearby Xiuzhen Sects, after all, Xilu City is the most prosperous big city in the Tianyin Mountains of Yinzhou, and all kinds of spiritual materials and goods are the most complete。

The little red girl who called Shen Shi just now was standing in the corner of the counter at the moment, and there was a man standing outside a counter. After beckoning Shen Shi over, Xiao Hong first smiled, seemed a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Shi, this guest wants to sell a 'Black Copper Fruit', but I am not very familiar with this spirit fruit, can you help me take a look?"

Shen Shi smiled and said, "Okay." ”

It's just that at this time, a stunned and slightly angry voice came from the side, and said: "Is there any mistake, how do you do business on the first floor of Tianyi, you can't understand this black copper fruit and don't say it, now you actually found a hairy child to identify my rare spirit fruit, there is something wrong, right?"

Shen Shi turned his head to look, and saw that the person who spoke was the person who was standing opposite Xiaohong, a middle-aged man, dressed in general clothes, and there were already many wrinkles between the corners of his eyebrows on his face, looking like a depressed cultivator for many years, at this moment, there was a little anger on his face, and he stared at him and Xiaohong.

Shen Shi wanted to speak and stopped, but Xiaohong had been on the first floor of this day for several years, and he was also experienced in dealing with these casual cultivators, so he was not angry at the moment, and said with a slight smile: "Don't be angry with this guest officer, don't look at Xiaoshi's age, but he is the only son of our big shopkeeper on the first floor of Tian, and he grew up on the first floor of this day." Not to mention anything else, this building deals in all kinds of rare treasures, elixirs, all kinds of spiritual herbs, etc., this little guy has seen more than anyone else, and has studied with several old people in the building for several years, and now his eyes are poisonous, even Elder Song of Xuanyin Gate was amazed after coming to see him once, and he had already told us that if he encountered any hesitant goods, just come and ask our little son. ”

When the scattered cultivator heard this, his face was slightly angry, but there was still a little suspicion between his eyebrows, and he looked Shen Shi up and down, obviously not fully believing the little red girl's words.

Shen Shi was not angry, and glanced at Xiaohong, thinking that this person was probably a casual cultivator who came to Xilu City from other places, otherwise, if it was a monk who often walked around in Xilu City, most of them would have heard of the name of the small stone on the first floor of one of the two major shops in the city.

At that moment, Shen Shi didn't pay attention to the skeptical gaze of this loose cultivator, leaned against the counter, and said to Xiaohong: "What about the things, show me first." ”

Xiaohong turned her head to look at the scattered cultivator and said, "Guest officer?"

The scattered cultivator hesitated for a moment, his brows furrowed, and finally with some reluctance, he reached out and took out a wooden box from his arms, gently placed it on the flat counter, and said, "Look." After finishing speaking, he seemed to think of something again, and hurriedly admonished again, saying, "Just take a look at the child, don't touch it with your hands, otherwise you will lose the aura of the spirit fruit or destroy this rare treasure, I won't rest with you!"

Shen Shi glanced at the middle-aged casual cultivator, smiled and agreed, then took the wooden box, did not leave the counter, put it on the counter, first gently touched the surface of the wooden box with his hand, and then paused slightly after a moment of silence, then let go of the live buckle and opened the wooden box.

With the opening of the lid of the wooden box, a faint fruity fragrance faintly wafted out of the wooden box, under the common gaze of the three people, only to see several layers of soft blue silk in the wooden box, and a black fruit the size of a thumb was parked in the center, the color was blue and black, the appearance was round and full, the skin was shiny, and there was a faint flash of black light, which was quite a bit of a good look.

Shen Shi's eyes were bright, and he looked at the black fruit carefully, and he didn't mean to touch it with his hands, but just stared at it silently, as if he was thoughtful. However, the middle-aged man who was loose cultivation was in a hurry, and after waiting for a while, he said a little impatiently: "What, my black copper fruit is good, this is what I picked up with great difficulty in the Gaowu Mountain in the north of Yinzhou...... No, at least fifteen spirit crystals can be sold, right?"

Shen Shi was silent for a moment, and gently pushed the wooden box containing the black fruit in front of the scattered cultivator, and the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and said in amazement: "What do you say?"

Shen Shi smiled and said, "This guest, I'm sorry, we don't buy this thing on the first floor of the day." ”

The middle-aged man's face sank suddenly, but before he could get angry and curse, Shen Shi had already spoken: "Because the thing in this box is not the black copper fruit that ranks the second-grade spiritual grass in the "Hongmeng Pharmacopoeia" released by the Immortal Society, but a unique miscellaneous fruit in Gaowu Mountain, called the Black Snake Fruit, which does not contain any spiritual power, whether it is for the cultivation of monks or alchemy and dispensing, it is useless." ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, his face changed greatly, and he glared at the boss with a pair of eyes, which was faintly bloodshot, revealing a bit of fierce light, and said viciously: "Bastard boy, you talk nonsense again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu killed you!"

Shen Shi's face remained unchanged, standing there with a calm expression, but the little red girl on the other side of the counter heard this, but she changed her previous pleasant expression, and her face suddenly turned cold, and said lightly: "This guest, please be cautious, although the first floor of the sky is open to do business, and harmony is precious, but since this building is the property of Xuanyin Gate, it is not so easy to be bullied casually." ”

As soon as the three words of Xuanyin Gate entered his ears, the middle-aged loose cultivation man's body shook, and most of the ferocious momentum dissipated immediately, but there was still a little anger and unwillingness on his face. You must know that in this world now, whether the monks in the cultivation realm have a sect background, and the status of the disciples of the gate valve and the ordinary casual cultivators is really very different. Even though the number of casual cultivators seems to be extremely large, except for the extremely rare few strange people and strange people in such a large number of casual cultivators, most of them are characters at the bottom of the cultivation realm, and they will never dare to provoke the famous sects in the cultivation realm. In terms of strength alone, the strength of these Xiuzhen sects that can survive to this day in today's fiercely competitive Xiuzhen Realm cannot be underestimated, not to mention the famous Xuanyin Sect here in Yinzhou, even if it is not as good as the top famous sects in the Xiuzhen Realm, but compared to these scattered cultivators at the bottom of the Xiuzhen Realm, it is really a giant existence, and they can be crushed to death with a finger casually.

Shen Shi smiled, and didn't care about the ferocity of this casual cultivator not long ago, he grew up on the first floor of this day since he was a child, and he didn't know how many similar scenes he had seen, but he smiled faintly and said to the middle-aged casual cultivator man: "If you don't believe me, then let me ask you, you said that this fruit is a black copper fruit, how did you identify it?"

Almost without thinking, the scattered cultivator blurted out: "Needless to say, of course, the whole body is black, as big as a finger, born in the deep mountains and damp places, after ripening, the fruit has a strange fragrance, rich in spiritual effects, and it is a spiritual herb medicine necessary for the refining of several elixirs." ”

Shen Shi smiled: "Yes, Hongmeng Pharmacopoeia is quite familiar with it." ”

The loose cultivator was praised, and the expression on his face eased a lot, revealing a little triumph, snorted, and said: "Nonsense, those of us who are scattered cultivators go to the rivers and lakes, everything is on our own, the demon beasts are too powerful to hunt, most of the time we can only rely on picking some spirit grass and spirit fruits to replace spirit crystals to cultivate, if the vision is not accurate, then it is okay?"

Shen Shi smiled without saying a word, pushed the wooden box a little closer to him, and said: "There are so many spiritual grasses in the world, just recorded in the Hongmeng Pharmacopoeia, there are as many as thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty kinds, and most of them are just a few words like this. Look at the skin of the black fruit again, huh...... Pick it up and take a closer look at the light. ”

The scattered cultivator was stunned for a moment, his face showed a little suspicious, hesitated for a moment, but slowly picked up the wooden box, half-turned to the bright place at the gate, squinted his eyes slightly and looked carefully, and said to himself: "This is obviously the black copper fruit, you have to talk nonsense about the black snake......"

Before the words fell, his voice suddenly suffocated, and at this time, the young man's faint voice came from behind him, and said, "See, under the shiny skin, is there a black shadow texture, vaguely distorted, like a black snake?"

The middle-aged casual cultivator man's body froze, holding the wooden box for a long time without reacting, a pair of eyes staring at the thing in his hand, looking incredible. It's just that the voice of the young man next to him still came calmly, and said: "The real black copper fruit is the color of black, not the luster of this kind of black and blue, and the big finger recorded in the pharmacopoeia actually refers to the little finger, and this black fruit is too big." In addition, the reason why the black copper fruit is rare, in addition to the reason why it grows in the deep mountains and old forests, the most important thing is that after it is ripe, the aroma of the fruit is strong and abnormal, and it will not take long to attract the mountain monsters to eat, so this kind of spirit fruit is rare on the market. And this ......."

Shen Shi shook his head slightly and smiled: "The aroma is too light." ”

At this moment, the middle-aged casual cultivator man was already speechless, a little cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he couldn't say a word for a long time, looking at his appearance, Shen Shi shook his head slightly, didn't say anything, turned his head to say hello to Xiaohong, who smiled again, and then walked away.

On the first floor of the day, people came and went, a row of lively scenes, Shen Shi shuttled through the crowd, when he walked to the gate and looked back by chance, but saw from a distance that at the counter, the little red girl had already walked away to receive another guest who wanted to sell things, and the middle-aged man who was a casual cultivator just now was still standing still in place like a log of lost soul.

The corners of Shen Shi's mouth twitched slightly, he didn't look at it anymore, turned around and walked out of the first floor of the sky.

(Let's get into a normal rhythm from tomorrow onwards, and try to keep up with two shift......s a day!) Tomorrow's update will be at 10 a.m.)