As for matters concerning the market, Shenxian'er can make any decisions she wants; Li Changzhou has no say in them.

He was pondering what had just happened.

He made it sound so easy, and if the other party dared to say they would kill him, he would treat them like a nobody. But the other party had a Nascent Soul cultivator as their master to replenish their magic, so if they found him, they really could kill him.

After all, Shenxian'er was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining, and her ability to replenish magic was far inferior to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

How could the other side have a Nascent Soul stage cultivator as a human pillar?

Did they abandon their initial choice?

Or is it a value game where each player's choices are different based on their style and preferences?

Perhaps.

It's hard to imagine that Chang'e, with her personality, would guide a man or an ugly woman to cultivate—this is Li Changzhou's prejudice against Chang'e. If she weren't a single beauty at the start, Chang'e would have declared the game over.

So why does the value game give him gods and hanged ghosts?

It's a pity the hanged ghost was sold, otherwise we could have interrogated it to see what it had in common with the fairy, and thus understand ourselves.

On the other side, because Li Changzhou had previously "displayed his great power", the three little ones were full of expectations for the future and discussed it all the way.

When the three of them had become Golden Core stage experts in their own ideals, the flying boat arrived at Qingyuefang.

"You guys come back with me first, we'll put our things away, and then I'll go with you to get your things," Xu Ni said.

"Mm." The fairy nodded.

This was agreed upon beforehand.

Since the spirit rice and spirit vegetables have just been planted, we will stop farming.

They were going to Humingfang and didn't have time to manage the spirit fields.

Secondly, now that they have money, they will inevitably come to the market more often to buy cultivation supplies. Once this happens frequently, everyone will know that they are rich, and the cultivators will definitely target them again.

Since that's the case, they simply moved into the market and shared an apartment with Xu Ni.

The market town has the Qingyue Sect's enforcement team, so while it's not guaranteed to be safe, it's certainly safer than living at the foot of Lingtian Mountain.

“We also went down this path,” Jiang Xiaoyue sighed on the way to Xu Ni’s house. “Many of our predecessors actually farmed, and after they made money, they all moved into the market town.”

"The shopkeeper said that the Zhou family's ancestor was him. He used to live in a courtyard on Lingtian Mountain, and then somehow he became rich." Xu Ni knew a lot of inside information.

The Zhou family patriarch had just celebrated his 150th birthday before Shenxian'er arrived, and Xu Ni had even gone to join in the festivities.

All the cultivators who farmed in the same generation as this Old Ancestor Zhou died out, and none of them reached the Foundation Establishment stage, leaving him as the sole survivor.

This already surprised everyone.

Even Foundation Establishment stage families cannot produce Foundation Establishment stage cultivators generation after generation, let alone independent cultivators. Therefore, the Zhou family patriarch must have obtained a fortuitous opportunity back then.

Many cultivators who have undergone tribulations grew up listening to their parents' regrets, saying that if they had kidnapped Ancestor Zhou back then, they would be the ones who founded their own families now.

"We've also gotten a lucky break this time!" Xu Ni said excitedly.

"It was Xian'er who got the opportunity," Jiang Xiaoyue said with a smile. "She just ran out casually and met a senior, thus embarking on the path of cultivation."

“It was my destiny,” Shenxian’er smiled happily, “but it wasn’t just meeting you seniors, meeting you Xiaoyue and Nizi was also my destiny.”

Jiang Xiaoyue and Xu Ni smiled brightly.

The three of them continued to wander through various places, choosing areas where there were few people.

Shenxian couldn't help but laugh, remembering what the deity had said: only those with treasures but no ability take this kind of path, isn't that right?

The three of them are people who have treasures but lack the ability to use them.

I wonder if Zhou Laozu ever took this path back then.

Upon arriving at Xu Ni's house, they placed the anchovies in a water tank and affixed the oxygen-providing talisman they had bought along the way.

Some died, bitten to death by silver-ringed snakes, which are still kept in the fish basket.

After hiding the treasures of the five cultivators, Xu Ni closed the door, and the three of them headed towards Lingtian Mountain.

The sight of the three people sitting on a carrying pole made Li Changzhou suppress his laughter.

Shen Xian'er and Xu Ni have magic swords, but magic swords are not flying swords and cannot carry people. They can't just hold onto them and fly, can they?

“My place is too small, just one room, and there’s nowhere for three people to sleep. We have to fetch our own water and empty our own chamber pots. The three of us are sharing a place, so we should rent a better one.” Xu Ni started to dream about the future again.

"Aren't we supposed to be clearing land?" Shenxian'er said. "There's no need to rush to rent a house, is there?"

“That makes sense.” Xu Ni nodded in realization.

The three little witches rode on a carrying pole and safely returned to Lingtian Mountain.

When she got off, Xu Ni rubbed her bottom and complained that the carrying pole was uncomfortable to sit on.

The fairy-like girl, with the reserve of a beautiful woman, secretly rubbed the buttocks when the other two weren't paying attention.

Jiang Xiaoyue rolled her eyes: "Sit if you want, don't sit if you don't."

She stubbornly refused to rub her buttocks!

Shenxian'er returned to her courtyard, packed her clothes—the same bundle she had taken when she escaped from Liu Yuanwai's house.

That's all. I've run out of talisman ink, and I only have a few books, a bag of spirit rice, and some spirit vegetables.

She took one last look at the pile of weeds under the eaves, at the buttocks print on it, and at the dried water stains on the ground, before turning and leaving.

Jiang Xiaoyue didn't have much luggage either; as a rogue cultivator, she was basically penniless.

Her most important possession was that spirit sheep.

After taking one last look at their lodgings, Jiang Xiaoyue said, "Let's go."

“What’s there to miss?” Xu Ni said dismissively. “Your home is in the market town.”

"Huh?" the fairy asked curiously.

"Can I tell you?" Xu Ni asked Jiang Xiaoyue.

"Whatever." Jiang Xiaoyue harnessed the spirit sheep to the cart, which was loaded with spirit rice and spirit vegetables—the previous oxcart had been rented.

Xu Ni turned to look at Shen Xian'er:

"Xiaoyue's parents and my parents used to be cargo carriers. They were once wealthy, but they were killed because of their wealth."

"After my parents died, I chose to stay in the neighborhood. The shopkeeper, who was close to my parents, took me in, while Xiaoyue took the sheep that my parents left her—"

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