Chapter 38: Tiandu Fengfang City
Tiandu Fengfang City is not on Tiandu Peak, but at the foot of the eastern foot of Tiandu Peak, near a small valley on the side of Hongye Peak. This fang market was originally intended to be a trading place for Huachen's inner and outer disciples to exchange magic weapons, elixirs and materials, as well as various cultivation experiences. But with the passage of time, especially the gradual decline of Huachen in the past century, this fang market has slowly developed to the point where some outside sects can set up stalls, or purchase houses and shops, build large buildings, and open large trading halls.
For example, Donglingmen built the largest trading place here, Wanbao Pavilion. However, in order to obtain the qualifications of the place, all personnel must be disciples below the middle of the construction period for the stalls and shops of the outer gate, and there must be more than one employee who is the outer disciple of Huachen Gate, although these outer disciples, although they can supervise the merchants of various foreign schools, but they are also a way for the outer gate to explore Huachen.
The rules stipulate that non-Huachen disciples are not allowed to go out of their venues at will, and in particular, non-Huachen disciples are not allowed to leave Fang City, and they can only enter and leave Fang City through a small teleportation array in Fang City after obtaining the qualification certificate. These shops with outer doors must regularly report their details to the management agency of Fang City, the Fang Machinery Department, and they also have to pay expensive site fees every year. But even so, in Tiandu Fengfang City, the other four gates have set up large attics and stations here, and there are also more distant East Cangmen and North Cangmen have also opened stores here. Even some small sects and even casual cultivators have rented large and small stalls here.
For the people who trade here, they have also developed from a single Huachen Sect disciple at the beginning, to a variety of characters, including casual cultivators and low-level disciples of several other sects in Dongling Mountain. As long as they pay a small toll, they can directly enter the Fang City through the teleportation array in the front gate hall of Huachen Gate, but the people who enter must be below the middle stage of foundation building, otherwise they are not allowed to pass.
In terms of scale, Tiandu Fengfang City can be ranked among the top three in the entire Dongling Mountain. This was all planned by Old Man Mi, and for this reason, he was criticized and attacked by Huachen's disciples.
In fact, several elders of Huachen also realized that there would be great hidden dangers if this continued, especially the dark warriors of the other four sects, who had infiltrated almost every corner of the outer disciples, and even the inner disciples had signs of infiltration. However, Huachen's deteriorating situation made this fang market the largest source of spars for the sect. Knowing that it was to quench his thirst, he had to drink it.
Tianjiu was originally going to go to Old Man Mi first and take down Wanbao's swineherd qualifications. Unexpectedly, Old Man Mi actually went out. Tianjiu had to leave him a transmission note, and hurriedly went to Tiandu Fengfang City.
The group of them had all been disguised. This is what Brother Wanbao strongly requested, especially knowing that Tianjiu was going to buy a large number of utensils on this trip, and he asked the personnel to be divided into three groups, each group to move forward alternately, in case someone was following, and could cross cover.
Tianjiu looked at such a scene and shook his head secretly, if this big brother Wanbao was on Earth, he must be a very Haode agent team.
Entering Tiandu Fengfang City, Tianjiu was very taken aback. The buildings here are imposing, lined up one after another, the streets are lined with pedestrians, and the sounds of transactions come and go. Men and women dressed in colorful costumes shuttled through the streets, and the most of them were not disciples of Huachenmen, but monks of Donglingmen with a black eagle woven on their silver robes. Those who know the inside story know that this is a market in Huachen Gate, and those who don't know the inside story still think that this is the trading venue of which city controlled by Donglingmen!
The whole Fang market has been extended to four or five miles away, and it is a prosperous scene.
Wan Bao took Tianjiu around the entire street a few times. Seeing that most of him was familiar with it, he asked in a low voice: "Brother Tian, is it to buy pills, magic weapons or exercises, if it is an exercise, it is best to go to Xingchen Zhai opened by our Huachen Gate, you can use the contribution points of the sect in exchange, if it is a pill and a magic weapon, we will go to some small and medium-sized stores first." Wanbao Pavilion, although the Baiji Building is good, we are shy in our pockets. β
"Don't worry, let's go shopping around the stalls first, I see that some of the stalls are our Huachen's outer disciples, let's take a look at them first, how can they have something to trade?" Tianjiu asked, pointing to a vertical branch of the street.
There are many such branches, and there are some stalls inside, and many people wearing the costumes of Huachen's outer disciples are openly peddling something.
"Oh, these outer disciples, they sell or trade some of the surplus things they have accumulated or the mantras, pills, and the like in exchange for their own cultivation needs, and they usually don't have too many things. Tiger Ben explained in a whisper.
Tian Jiu nodded thoughtfully, and continued to wander around the branches with interest. Wan Bao and they also buy some magic weapons and pills that they are interested in from time to time. Tianjiu also purchased some jade boxes that could hold elixirs, and these jade boxes could protect ordinary elixirs from being lost in a short period of time.
After walking through almost seven or eight of these branches, Tianjiu suddenly stopped at the side of a stall.
A skinny child was looking down at a few pieces of tattered paper repeatedly, with a low sigh from time to time. In front of him, there were a few small objects, three or five fire blade talismans, a small pile of unknown small metal materials, and a small bottle with three small words of Qi Pills written on the bottle. Apparently this is a bottle of elixir.
"How do you sell this Fire Sword Talisman?" Tian Jiu asked with a smile.
The child didn't look up, still looking at the broken paper, and replied casually: "Three fire knife talismans and one low-grade spar." It's just four, and you're going to take all of them. β
"Alas, it's too cheap, I'll give me two spars, and give me a piece of paper from your hand. Tian Jiu said and threw out two low-rank hedrons.
"Huh?" The child was stunned for a moment, raised his head, glanced at Tianjiu a few times, and said puzzledly: "No, I don't sell this piece of paper." β
"Alas, it's really you, Yu Zicong, I didn't expect me to meet you here. Tianjiu said with a sigh.
"Are you? I really don't know you?" how do you know my name?" Yu Zicong said nervously.
"Hehe, it seems that Brother Wan's Phantom Grass Liquid is really powerful! I can't recognize it so closely. Yu Zicong, I'm Tianjiu, the plague god Tianjiu!"
"Ah, Brother Tian? How is it possible, Brother Tian is not like you. Not even like the sound. Forget it, I'm busy, don't mess with me. β
"Stinky boy, I'm really Tianjiu, you see this. After Tianjiu finished speaking, he wiped another kind of juice with his hand, touched his face, and immediately returned to his original appearance.
"You're the big brother!" Yu Zicong finally recognized Tianjiu, and looked at him in a daze, and he didn't know that the piece of paper fell to the ground.
"Hey, what are you doing stupidly, let me introduce you, this is Brother Wan, this is Hu Ben, they are all my brothers. How are you doing, how did you set up a stall here?" Tianjiu pushed Yu Zicong and said.
"I, I'm fine, I usually work as an employee in Baijilou, these fire knife talismans are rewarded to me by Baijilou, I take out the excess and sell it, which can be exchanged for some spar flowers. I've also inquired about you, but I haven't been able to ...... I don't have the guts to go to you......" Speaking of Zuihou, Yu Zicong lowered his head again.
"It's okay, it's okay, I don't blame you, it's right if you don't look for me. Well, you're refining Qi at the third level, not bad!" Tian Jiu said with a smile, but comforted Yu Zicong.
"I haven't stopped cultivating, I have plenty of time to cultivate here, except for being poor, I'm still very haode. I broke through to the third floor the other day. Big brother, how is your cultivation, I don't seem to be able to see through your cultivation?" Yu Zicong explained, zuihou glanced at Tianjiu and asked in confusion.
"Hehe, it's hard to put this into words. I'm here today to get some good stuff. Since you're the head snake here, be my guide. β
"No problem, no problem! I know every corner of this place. What do you want to buy?" Yu Zicong said as he quickly put away the stall, carefully put away the pieces of paper, rolled everything up, and stuffed it into a cloth pocket. Then he picked up the two hedras that Tianjiu had thrown and stuffed them into Tianjiu's clothes pocket.
Tianjiu also glanced at Yu Zicong, and didn't answer him immediately, but whispered to Wan Bao: "Brother Wan, you will take more care of this little brother in the future, and you came here with me through the outer gate." β
Wan Bao smiled and patted Yu Zicong on the shoulder and said, "You are a friend of Brother Tian, and you are my friend of Wan Bao." Let's take care of each other in the future. You and Brother Tian go to change again, we have to be careful. β
"Okay! Thank you big brothers!" Yu Zicong said with excitement in his eyes.
"Okay, let's go to the disguise, after the disguise, even the monks in the middle stage of the foundation building will not want to see through it, and then go to the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion first. Tianjiu pulled Yu Zicong and said as he walked.
Yu Zicong touched his head, and wondered: "Big brother, the things in Wanbao Pavilion are good, but they are too expensive." It is generally 30% higher than other stores, and it is not worth it. I know of a shop in Baimai Pavilion, although it is not very big, but the things are very affordable and the quality is not bad. This shop is specialized in buying and selling, not by that sect. β
The so-called penny is worth the goods, affordable things must have water, we are going to buy life-saving things, we can't make the slightest joke. Let's go to the shops of other people's sects first, and compare them. Tianjiu thought for a moment and said. He has no shortage of hedron now, and he is not afraid of being laughed at.
Tian Jiu and his party had already wandered in front of the Wanbao Pavilion shop a few times before, and they never entered. There were two boys in Tsing Yi standing in front of the door, about eleven or twelve years old, who were cultivating at the first level of Qi refining. They saw Tianjiu reappear at the door and wanted to enter, and one of them said loudly: "Wait, the idle people in this pavilion can't wait to enter!"
"Oh?" Tianjiu and Wan Bao were stunned. "We're going in to have a look, can't we? Do you think we're idle people?" asked Tianjiu weakly.
"The treasures in this store are not something that can be viewed casually, and if you don't have a spade, you can go cool, who doesn't know that you are here to see beautiful women!" said another doorman scoffing.
"Hmph! Li Xiaoshan, Li Xiaohe! Don't look down on people, if you don't know what to do, I will tell you shopkeeper!" Yu Zicong came up from behind at this time, pointed to the two doormen and shouted. Obviously, they knew each other, but these two doormen didn't recognize Yu Zicong after the disguise.
"Cut! Where did the little fart kid come from! The hair has not grown, so I have learned to see the beauties, and those beauties are not easy to mess with, I don't believe you are waiting to be repaired!"
Tianjiu ignored them anymore and walked straight in.
The Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion is a six-storey single-family pavilion, each floor is three feet high, the first floor is a trading hall, and the staircase to the second floor is guarded by a few strong armored soldiers. Around the hall, which is hundreds of zhang square, there is a waist-high pure white jade counter, and behind the counter are all kinds of objects. The walls of the entire hall are covered with gold leaf, giving it a magnificent appearance.
At this time, in the hall, there were hundreds of people standing in front of the counter, talking quietly. Behind the counter, there were also dozens of female cultivators in palace costumes, and these female cultivators were also cultivators on the first and second floors of the Qi refining period, and their posture was beautiful and lovely.
Tianjiu was a little smacked, there were so many female cultivators serving him in the hall on the first floor of the Wanbao Pavilion, which showed his strength. Listening to Hu Ben, although the number of female cultivators accounts for one-third of the entire Huachen, most of them do some rough work, and some even go to the spar mine to work as miners, so they generally look five big and three thick, let alone beautiful, no wonder the doorman said that they came to see beautiful women. It must be usual, some shy people in the bag, called buying treasures, are actually taking the opportunity to see beautiful women.
After walking around a few times, Tianjiu had a preliminary understanding of the situation in the hall. In the hall, there are all low-level magic weapons, and the pills are also the most sparse and ordinary Qi Pills, Qi Replenishing Pills and the like, and the material level is also very low, all of them correspond to the second and third layers of Qi refining, and even Pei Yuan Dan is very rare.
Tian Jiu saw that the counter on the right was relatively empty, and only two or three Qi Refining Stage cultivators were watching, so he walked over. There was only a round-faced nun at the counter who was listless. Seeing Tianjiu and them coming, his eyes immediately radiated brilliance.
"Senior brothers, what do you need? I have a lot of good talismans here, and the prices are real, I'll show you!" the round-faced nun hurriedly introduced.
"Talisman?" Tian Jiu nodded, although he didn't know much about the talisman, but the last time the earth talisman saved his life, it was real. "What haode talisman is here, take it out and take a look!"
βhaodeοΌhaodeγ The round-faced nun hurriedly grabbed a large handful of various colored talismans from behind the counter.
"This is the Fire Cone Talisman, which can shoot out ten feet long Fire Cone at a time, and it can threaten monks below the third level of Qi Refining within three zhang. This is a burst charm, the explosive power can destroy the grinding disc-sized granite five zhang away, this is a strong charm, can bless its own mana fifty percent to maintain a stick of incense. This is a flying talisman, which can experience the flying in the sky that only monks in the Jindan period have, and the distance of a flight is twenty miles, but the height above the ground must not exceed five feet. β
"Alas, beauty, is there anything more powerful, these ......" Tianjiu smiled and shook his head.
"Big brother, magic talismans are all one-time consumables, for our low-level disciples, the cost performance is not high, you see most of them are to buy magic weapons, although those are expensive, but they can be used repeatedly. Yu Zicong reminded on the side.
Wan Bao also nodded, clearly supporting this view.
"Who said that, they are too short-sighted. I've got a few talismans here, and you're sure you'll be able to use them. The round-faced nun took out a stack of talismans from the bottom again.
"This is a water escape charm, which can escape three miles away at a time, and this is a soil escape charm, which can escape two miles at a time when attached to the body, and can be used three times repeatedly. This is an armor-piercing talisman, and low-level stainless steel armor can be broken as soon as you poke it. This is a thunder stone talisman, which can split thirty thumb-thick thunderbolts, and monks at the seventh or eighth level of qi refining can't avoid it. β
"Well, yes, how do you sell these?" a gleam flashed in Tianjiu's eyes.