After Xia Qingqing earned the spirit stones, the first thing she wanted to do was spend them.
The shop where she sells monsters has a lot of items, but the prices aren't exactly cheap.
Xia Qingqing selected several low-grade pills that ordinary people could use, each bottle containing ten pills, costing a total of twenty spirit stones.
Lu Jiaojiao frowned upon seeing this: "Sister Qingqing, I also have these pills here, and I can give you the flowers you want."
"It's nothing, I just wanted to spend some of the spirit stones I earned, otherwise I wouldn't feel comfortable, hahaha," Xia Qingqing said with a smile.
Lu Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment, then nodded helplessly: "Okay, how about I take you shopping? The things at the stalls outside are much cheaper than in the stores."
"Okay, okay!" Xia Qingqing said excitedly.
She's read a lot of fantasy novels where the female protagonists always find treasures at street stalls. She wonders if she'll have that kind of luck.
Xia Qingqing followed Lu Jiaojiao to a market, where rows and rows of stalls were set up.
According to Lu Jiaojiao, when Xuantian Sect disciples go out on missions, they keep all the items except those required by the mission. They can keep what they need and sell what they don't need at the market.
Of course, some disciples who are skilled in alchemy, weapon crafting, and talisman drawing will also frequently come out to earn extra money.
Xia Qingqing strolled around, not caring whether the items were useful or not. She bought whatever was cheap, as these were all specialties of the cultivation world and she might not be able to buy them again later.
Before long, they came across a stall selling talismans. The stall owner was a boy who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. When he saw people coming to his stall, he immediately greeted them warmly: "Fellow Daoists, please take a look! I have all kinds of talismans here. Don't miss it if you pass by."
"What kind of talismans are these?" Xia Qingqing asked curiously.
The stall owner smiled and introduced, "Peace charms, cure-all charms, rain-making charms, evil-repelling charms..."
Lu Jiaojiao was speechless. They were all low-level talismans. These talismans didn't seem very useful. Ordinary people might think they were powerful, but they were practically useless to cultivators.
She looked at the stall owner with a puzzled expression: "Why are you making so many useless talismans?"
"How can you say it's useless? There are so many new junior brothers and sisters in the sect, surely some of them have relatives in the mortal world. It would be great to buy some talismans to give back to their relatives," the stall owner said matter-of-factly.
Lu Jiaojiao: "......"
That makes sense, and it seems there's no way to refute it.
Not all cultivators can draw talismans. Some specialize in alchemy, some in weapon crafting, some in swordsmanship, and some in magic...
Every five years, the Xuantian Sect goes to the mortal realm to recruit disciples. When these disciples reach the fifth level of Qi Refining, they have the opportunity to go down the mountain to visit their families. Most of them will prepare some longevity pills or talismans to take back to their families.
The chances of meeting again are slim. Time flies in cultivation, and decades may pass in the blink of an eye. By the time one has the chance to go home again, one's family will no longer be there.
Lu Jiaojiao thought the talismans on the stall were useless, but Xia Qingqing liked them quite a bit and bought dozens of them in one go.
Because these talismans are intended for newly initiated disciples, they are not expensive; some cost one spirit stone each, while others can be purchased for several spirit stones.
The stall owner happily stuffed the spirit stones into his storage bag and waved to Xia Qingqing and Lu Jiaojiao with a smile: "Fellow Daoist, come again next time."
"Sister Qingqing, is there anything else you want to buy? It's about time to meet up with Senior Brother Meng and the others," Lu Jiaojiao said.
Xia Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "Where can I buy the spirit rice and spirit meat that we ate in the canteen before?"
"Oh, the spirit rice shop and spirit meat shop should have them, right? I'll take you there," Lu Jiaojiao said, pulling Xia Qingqing's hand as they headed towards the spirit rice shop.
The price of spirit rice here is not cheap, costing one spirit stone per kilogram, so many low-level cultivators would rather eat fasting pills than spirit rice.
Xia Qingqing directly asked for a thousand catties of spirit rice, and she also had a lot of spirit stones that Xiao Youling had given her in her system warehouse.
But before she could even take out her spirit stones, Lu Jiaojiao directly tossed ten mid-grade spirit stones onto the counter.
"Jiaojiao," Xia Qingqing wanted to say something, but was stopped by Lu Jiaojiao.
"Sister Qingqing, please don't stand on ceremony with me. I can afford to pay for this little bit of spirit stones. After all, I'm a second-generation cultivator," Lu Jiaojiao said in a teasing tone.
I first heard the term "second-generation rich kid" from my mother. She said that she was very lucky, having been protected by her parents since birth, unlike her mother who had to struggle on her own.
Xia Qingqing knew that she really didn't lack this little bit, so she hugged her hand and said with a smile, "Then I won't be polite."
"There's no need to waste money buying monster meat. We can just catch a few ourselves after we finish the quest."
"Okay, then hurry up and meet up with your senior brothers and sisters."
They agreed to meet at the entrance of the market. When Xia Qingqing and Lu Jiaojiao arrived, the three of them were already waiting there.
Upon seeing the two, Meng Jiayu exclaimed dramatically, "Junior Sister Lu, you've finally arrived! We were all about to come looking for you!"
"Oh dear, thank you for keeping us waiting, senior brothers and sisters. Let's get going!" Lu Jiaojiao said with a smile.
Liu Xinjia stepped forward and patted her head: "Listen to your senior brother Meng, he himself has only been here for a short time."
After leaving the market town for a while, Mu Yuankai summoned his flying boat and signaled for everyone to board.
After the airship had been traveling for most of the day, Xia Qingqing had even taken a nap on it: "Jiaojiao, are we still not there?"
"Sister Qingqing, don't worry, we'll be there soon."
Not long after Lu Jiaojiao finished speaking, about ten minutes later, the airship began to descend.
They landed in a forest, which was shrouded in mist and looked quite ethereal.
Xia Qingqing took two steps forward out of curiosity, but Lu Jiaojiao grabbed her arm and said, "Sister Qingqing, don't move around. The miasma in this Earthly Fiend Forest is poisonous. You need to take a detoxifying pill before you go in."
"Ah, this is all miasma?" Xia Qingqing said in surprise.
"Yes, everyone, hurry up and take the pills," Lu Jiaojiao said, taking out a bottle of detoxifying pills from her spatial bracelet and distributing them to everyone.
After consuming the elixir, the group cautiously entered the Earthly Fiend Forest.
Their mission this time was to find a Nether Mist Lotus, which can only be found deep within the Earthly Fiend Forest.
Furthermore, such rare and precious materials are usually guarded by demonic beasts, and they learned that the demonic beast guarding the Nether Mist Lotus was a Golden Core stage Poison Toad.
Several groups of disciples from various sects had taken on this task before, but without exception, they all failed.
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