Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 36

[Chapter 36 Exchange Meeting (Seeking Recommendation)]

“What? Zong Fu Master… so sudden?”

Fang Xi was shocked.

Zong Wu was the talisman master from whom he often went to buy talismans. Of course, Fang Xi thought more about his Taoist partner Lu Zhi, who had a hot body and an even hotter temper.

“oh!”

He looked at Chen Ping and wondered why he looked a little happy, but he forced himself to hold back.

“Alas… Fellow Daoist Lu has lost his lover, I have to go and comfort him, but… I don’t have the spiritual stones to hand to mourn the Grandmaster now.” Chen Ping looked at Fang Xi, his eyes filled with the intention of collecting debts.

Fortunately, Fang Xi came here to repay his debt, and he immediately took out five spirit stones: “Thanks to Brother Chen, Fellow Daoist Di, and Fellow Daoist Jiuxuan for their help last month, here are five spirit stones, please Brother Chen, please return them to the two fellow Daoists on my behalf…”

“Of course!”

After Chen Ping got the spirit stone, he hurried to buy gifts to comfort the widow.

This made Fang Xi feel depressed.

He hadn’t had the chance to speak for himself before he could use the Talisman to break the ban. He could only secretly criticize this bastard who valued women over friends.

…

Master Zong Fu was wealthy and had rented a cave in the Qingzhu Mountain Market.

As soon as he entered, Fang Xi immediately felt a pure spiritual energy coming towards him, and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly: “Is this the cave of the first-level spiritual vein? If I had such a rich and pure spiritual energy to assist in my cultivation, I would probably have been able to practice the Changchun Jue technique to the peak of the third level, and then try to break through the middle stage of Qi Refining, right?”

The Southern Wilderness’s world of immortal cultivation also divides spiritual veins into several levels, corresponding to the realms of Qi Refining and Foundation Building.

A first-level spiritual vein can only roughly meet the needs of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.

The second-level spiritual vein can be used for foundation building and meditation practice.

There is a first-level spiritual vein in Qingzhu Mountain, which is usually locked by a formation and is only used within the market.

Just like Fang Xi, a casual spiritual farmer, he can only enjoy a little bit of residual energy from the spiritual veins outside the formation of the market town, and can barely be considered to be practicing on a second-rate spiritual vein.

In terms of effect, it is only slightly better than ordinary ones.

“Fellow Daoist Jiuxuan, Fellow Daoist Di!”

After entering the cave, Fang Xi saw two familiar faces.

Taoist Jiuxuan was still wearing his Taoist robes, looking like an immortal. When Di Qi saw Fang Xi, he smiled and said, “Fang Daoist Friend is truly a trustworthy person!”

“It seems that Chen Ping returned the spirit stones to these two people and did not embezzle them… Well, he is still a friend worth making.”

Fang Xi was really worried that Chen Ping would just embezzle his spirit stones.

After all, there were three people who borrowed his spirit stones together.

When they walked into the inner room together, they saw many cultivators there, who seemed to be Master Zong Fu’s original connections.

His Taoist companion Lu Zhi was wearing mourning clothes and took out spiritual tea and snacks to entertain the guests.

After not seeing each other for a few days, Fellow Daoist Lu looked a little haggard, but his charm was still as good as ever.

Especially if you want to look smart in mourning, the attire at this time will make people imagine more.

For example, Chen Ping was staring at something.

“Huh? These two are here too?”

Fang Xi glanced around and saw Shen Haoran and Fairy Yunmeng beside Chen Ping, and couldn’t help but speak in a low voice.

“Humph, they are just two arrogant people…”

Di Qi also saw Shen Haoran and suddenly said with embarrassment.

“oh?!”

Fang Xi looked at Di Qi thoughtfully, then at Shen Haoran, and immediately understood.

These people are all Chen Ping’s friends, and they must have interacted with each other on a daily basis.

But Shen Haoran and Fairy Yunmeng are superior to Di Qi in terms of family background and cultivation. Moreover, judging from the last incident at Mingqing Pavilion, they are definitely not the kind of people who would respect others for their humbleness.

Di Qi probably suffered a loss before and was holding some grudge.

“Fortunately, I didn’t say that I looked down on people. This guy is quite shrewd.”

Fang Xi nodded secretly, and then discussed with Master Jiuxuan, and together they offered a low-grade spirit stone as a gift.

…

“Everyone!”

After a round of tea, Lu Zhi stood up from the main seat and bowed politely: “On behalf of my dead boss, I would like to thank you all for coming!”

“You’re welcome!”

“No, no…”

Fang Xi and others quickly returned the greeting.

“Ahem… I wonder why Master Zong Fu died?” Shen Haoran asked, holding a white jade folding fan, looking like a handsome young man.

Immediately, Lu Zhi replied, “My dead ghost didn’t listen to advice and went out of the market to look for opportunities, and was killed by the robbers… According to the information I got, the enemy is probably the ‘Three Evils of the Kou Family’!”

“It’s actually them?” Di Qi took a breath of cold air.

Seeing that Master Jiuxuan was a little confused, he explained to him: “The three evil men of the Kou family are three brothers. It is said that their cultivation has reached the late stage of Qi Refining. When they fight together, they can fight against those who have reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. They have always been wreaking havoc in various places, with blood on their hands, and have killed countless people…”

“Ah, so cruel?” Master Jiuxuan widened his eyes.

Although he calls himself “Master”, he is actually just a rookie in the early stage of Qi Refining. Facing such a thug, I am afraid he won’t even be able to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Fang Xi watched coldly, and saw that after the enemy’s name was announced, all his friends suddenly fell into a strange silence.

No one vowed to avenge Master Zong Fu.

I couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, the world of immortal cultivation is extremely fickle.

The living Zong Fu Master is a first-class mid-grade Fu Master with a bright future, but the dead one is worthless.

It is not worth it for the monks to get involved with powerful men like the Three Evils of the Kou Family!

“snort!”

Seeing this, Lu Zhi snorted in dissatisfaction.

But soon, she calmed down again, took out a piece of plain brocade handkerchief, and wiped her eyes: “My dead ghost is finished, and I, a weak woman, can’t support this family business. I plan to sell everything and go back to my hometown… Thank you all for coming, I will hold an exchange meeting here!”

Hearing this, many people’s eyes lit up.

Including Fang Xi!

Unfortunately, thinking about his empty wallet, Fang Xi couldn’t help but shake his head and smile bitterly: “Alas… I don’t even have the strength to be a vulture…”

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The auction in the world of immortal cultivation is a grand event!
Many Taoist friends will occasionally hold small exchange meetings, mostly in the form of bartering, exchanging what they have.

This time Master Zong Fu passed away, and many fellow practitioners came. I’m afraid they got the news!

The next moment, Lu Zhi’s voice rang out: “This is the Xuanzi Cave No. 8 in Qingzhu Mountain. The lease still has five years left. The base price is fifty spirit stones…”

“I want it!”

“I’ll offer fifty-one spirit stones!”

Soon, the lease was acquired by an old Taoist in a yellow robe for fifty-five spirit stones.

Lu Zhi then took out a talisman pen: “A first-grade top-grade talisman pen, the hair of the pen is made of the hair of the Silver Moon Wolf…”

This time, many talisman masters came after him.

When Fang Xi saw Chen Ping’s face flushed, he secretly discussed with Shen Haoran and Fairy Yunmeng, but did not start the auction.

“Could it be that the talks broke down?”

Just as he was thinking secretly, he saw Lu Zhi take out an old yellowed jade slip: “My dead ghost’s talisman-making notes, which contain the methods of making many talismans…”

“One hundred spirit stones!” The eyes of an apprentice talisman master who had previously competed for the talisman pen lit up.

“One hundred and fifty spirit stones! This is the talisman inheritance of the sect’s talisman master. You are dreaming!” another old talisman master immediately scolded.

After a fierce competition, the price reached 176 spirit stones and would not go up any further.

After all, cultivators are all shrewd people and will not lose their minds for a piece of talisman inheritance.

“Two…two hundred spirit stones!”

Suddenly, another voice sounded.

Fang Xi looked over and saw that it was Chen Ping!
Chen Ping’s face was pale and his lips were moving, but his expression was very firm.

“Okay!” Lu Zhi was a little surprised, but she agreed readily: “Two hundred spirit stones, my late husband’s inheritance of the Way of Talismans will be handed over to Fellow Daoist Chen.”

“Yeah, thank you.”

Chen Ping was laughing foolishly, but Fang Xi felt something was wrong.

Even if this Daoist Chen had some savings, it was only a few spiritual stones. He had spent most of his money with Fairy Hongfeng. How could he still have so many spiritual stones?
Unless… Shen Haoran and Fairy Yunmeng lent them to him.

However, these two people were not good people. They had to have extremely harsh conditions to lend so many spirit stones to Chen Ping!
Moreover, there was something about Chen Ping that was worth their attention!

Otherwise, there are many independent cultivators who are extremely poor, but no one has successfully borrowed a large amount of spirit stones.

Just as Fang Xi was thinking about it, the exchange meeting had come to an end, and Lu Zhi cleared out all the talismans in the sect’s talisman master’s inventory.

He even sold several talismans that the other party had treasured.

One of them made Fang Xi’s breathing pause.

“A first-class, top-grade forbidden-breaking talisman, a rare and exquisite talisman. My dead man spent a lot of money to buy it and wanted to copy it… Sigh… If you fellow Taoists like it, you can take it with thirty spirit stones.”

Lu Zhi took out a wooden box and opened it. There was only a talisman inside. On the light yellow talisman body, strokes of silver ink looked like iron painting and silver hooks, extremely complex.

There even seemed to be a slight twist between the silver runes.

This is exactly the talisman that Fang Xi urgently needs to break the ban!

Unfortunately, after paying off his debts, he was still penniless.

“What a shame! If I had a little more time…” He was secretly hating it when he heard a talisman master stroke his beard and say, “A first-level forbidden-breaking talisman can only break first-level restrictions and formations, so it’s not very useful… If it were a second-level one, its value would be ten or a hundred times higher.”

The first-level formation is nothing. The formation used by the Situ family to protect the Qingzhushan Market is a second-level formation.

If those robbery cultivators were to obtain a second-level forbidden-breaking talisman, the entire Qingzhu Mountain Market would be in trouble!
However, Fang Xi knew that this level of forbidden-breaking talisman was still very useful. This old talisman master was trying to lower the price!

Sure enough, the next moment, the other party’s voice continued to be heard: “In the Heavenly Talisman Hall, a first-grade upper-grade forbidden-breaking talisman in good condition is sold for about thirty-five spirit stones. Daoist friend, your price is a bit high…”

“Humph, the spiritual energy of this forbidden talisman of mine has not leaked at all, and I even gave you five spiritual stones for free. How can that be considered high?”

Lu Zhifeng glared, and her aggressive spirit returned.

“well……”

Looking at this scene, Fang Xi could only sigh inwardly: “Not all opportunities I see are mine…”

He had no spirit stones to sell, so he could only wait until the next time he sold monster meat and accumulated enough spirit stones before trying his luck at the Tianfu Palace.

(End of this chapter)