The East City Market in Yunzhong City

is the largest market in Yunzhong City, because the East City is the slum of Yunzhong City. There are a large number of independent cultivators here. The items they buy and sell are not enough for the businesses in the city, so this big market was born.

The rules of the big market are very simple. If you pay a spirit stone to the city manager, he will give you a stall, which is about two or three square meters in size. You can set up a stall for one day. If you subscribe to a monthly or annual package, there are discounts. Lin Jiang directly rented a stall for five years.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, have you heard that someone has found the cave of the predecessor in the Yunzhong Mountains outside the city..."

One day, Lin Jiang was setting up a stall to sell spirit talismans. A cultivator next to him talked incessantly in front of Lin Jiang. The general meaning was that someone found the cave left by the foundation-building predecessor in the Yunzhong Mountains outside the city, and found the skills, secret techniques, elixirs, spirit stones, etc., which were worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. Suddenly, he became tall, rich and handsome.

This set off a treasure-hunting fever among the lower-level cultivators in the city. You should know that the Yunzhong Mountains are very large, and a large number of cultivators have settled there. Some cultivators died unexpectedly or never returned, and their caves became treasure houses in the eyes of the lower-level cultivators.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, I am not interested in treasure hunting, you can go by yourself,"

said Lin Jiang. He now uses the alias Jiang Lin and is a casual cultivator in Yunzhong City. The man next to him is also his neighbor. The cave he rents is the same as his, but they live in a house with four people, while Lin Jiang lives alone.

As for the treasure hunt, Lin Jiang has no interest in it. As early as when he was at the Lin family, Lin Die told him that this kind of thing is most likely a trap, and it is a message deliberately spread by some bandits. You want to go treasure hunting, but they want your life.

"Hey, Brother Jiang, how much money can you make from selling talismans like this? It's not even enough to cover your rent. You might as well try your luck. If you don't try your luck, how can you possibly build your foundation?"

"Brother Zhang, go by yourself. I'm only thirty years old. There's no rush."

​​Lin Jiang refused again. Now he had shaved his beard and restored his original appearance. However, Lin Jiang claimed to be thirty years old. Among casual cultivators, thirty-year-olds in the late stage of Qi training are considered elites. If they were younger, they would be suspicious.

Seeing that Lin Jiang was not interested, the people around him stopped talking and went to look for other people. He had always been very interested in treasure hunting, but because of his low cultivation level, he didn't dare to act alone, so he always wanted to find a team.

Lin Jiang withdrew his thoughts, stopped talking nonsense with him, and concentrated on selling talismans. Lin Jiang already had a clear plan for his future. He would not participate in treasure hunting, exploration, hunting monsters, etc. He just wanted to stay alive.

Why? Because Lin Jiang's biggest advantage is time. If he doesn't have money, he can earn it slowly. Others can earn 100,000 or 80,000 spirit stones a year, but he can earn 300 or 500. It will take him 100 or 80 years at most. Anyway, he can afford it.

So waiting is the best way. He can wait for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and then do other things when his cultivation level is improved.

So now Lin Jiang has made a plan. He still practices for two and a half hours every day, and then draws talismans for another two and a half hours. This is unshakable. The rest of the time is mainly to sell spirit talismans and practice magic. If the spirit talismans can't be sold, he will sell them to the business. Of course, the purchase price of the business will be one spirit stone lower than the retail price, so there is no need. He will not go to the business to sell talismans.

"Time is up, close the stall."

After a while, Lin Jiang saw that the time was almost up, so he put away the spirit talismans and went home. On the way, he saw some stalls selling food, so he bought some and even saved the time to cook.

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Half a year later, Lin Jiang walked out the door again and ran into a strange cultivator. He took the initiative to greet him and said, "Fellow Daoist, I am the new neighbor Jiang Feng, hello."

"I am Jiang Lin."

"So you are still from the same family. I don’t know where you are from, but from..."

"No, I’m from Anhua City."

"Okay, I thought you were a relative."

"Where is Fellow Daoist Zhang?"

"Fellow Daoist, you mean the previous owner. He should be dead. The landlord came to see him because he didn’t pay the rent for a month. His roommate said that he hasn’t been back for several months. He went to Yunzhong Mountains to hunt for treasure."

"Well, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Lin Jiang waved his hand, turned around and left, heading to the big market to set up a stall. The man's fate was already within Lin Jiang's expectations. During that time, he had found a lot of people to form a team, and he was probably targeted by someone a long time ago. "

Brother, hello."

When he came to the stall, the stall next door was also replaced by a teenager in his early teens. He also brought a younger girl with him. There were more than ten spiritual herbs on the stall, but they were all low-level.

"Hello, you set up a stall by yourself?"

"Yes, brother." "

What's your name?"

"My name is Zhang Ruifeng, and this is my sister Zhang Ruifang. Our family farms for Zhonghang Sect..."

The little boy was quite familiar with him. Lin Jiang didn't ask much, but he told him his origins, which made Lin Jiang laugh and cry. He was so young and inexperienced, and he didn't know how his parents could let him set up a stall. Did they really think there were no bad people in Yunzhong City?

After a while, the guards of Yunzhong City patrolled here and saw Zhang Ruifeng and his sister. They stopped and talked to him enthusiastically. The vendors around saw them and couldn't help showing surprised eyes.

When the guards left, many people talked to the little boy. Soon, half of the people on the street knew that the brother and sister had connections in Yunzhong City, and some secretly coveted eyes disappeared.

Yunzhong City was built by the two giant sects of Yunzhou, Zhongxing Sect and Yunjian Sect, and they jointly controlled and managed it. As giants of Yunzhou, the two families also had countless territories, many of which were rented out. Of course, not everyone could rent them. Basically, they were vassals of the two families, or relatives of their disciples.

Several of Zhang Ruifeng's relatives were outer disciples of Zhongxing Sect, and his parents rented the spiritual fields of Zhongxing Sect to grow spiritual medicine, so the Zhang family specially called on fellow disciples on duty in Yunzhong City to take care of Zhang Ruifeng.

Lin Jiang couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he heard the news. Sure enough, no one who got involved was simple. Even a boy in his teens had connections behind him.

"Brother, are you hungry? I have a cake."

After a while, Zhang Ruifeng came over to talk again and handed a cake to Lin Jiang.

"Thank you, little brother. I brought my own food."

Lin Jiang waved his hand. When he was out, he would not easily eat and drink other people's food. He still had this vigilance. Besides, Lin Jiang also brought his own food.

Lin Jiang never treated himself badly. When he was in Lingtao Villa, he would only sell the silver arrowfish, silver light fish, and colorful pigs he raised when he was tired of eating them.

When he came to Yunzhong City, the food here was more abundant, and even the flesh and blood of the third-level monsters occasionally appeared. Lin Jiang had already feasted on them. After that, life slowly returned to normal, but Lin Jiang always bought the meat of the second-level monsters to eat.

The meat of the second-level monster has more spiritual energy. One pound of meat is equivalent to one-tenth of the spiritual energy of the Gathering Spirit Pill, which is very beneficial to cultivators. Lin Jiang has been eating it for a long time.

"Well, my mother's pancakes are delicious."

"I believe it, so little brother can't let your mother down, you have to finish the pancake yourself."

"Yes, brother, then do you want to buy our spiritual medicine? Our spiritual medicine is of very good quality. My father is a first-level high-quality spiritual plant husband. The spiritual medicine is old enough and has thick spiritual energy. He will not cheat."

"Little thing, you see, I am a talisman painter, not an alchemist, so I don't need your spiritual medicine."

Lin Jiang was already a little impatient. The little guy was too familiar and was simply a chatterbox.

“Brother, you can also learn to make alchemy. Alchemists make a lot of money. Among the four arts of alchemy, elixirs, talismans, weapons and formations, alchemy is the most important...

" “Brother, you..."

“Brother..."

Zhang Ruifeng couldn’t understand Lin Jiang’s impatient expression, and he was still talking to Lin Jiang on his own, his chatterbox nature was revealed. Lin Jiang gritted his teeth and said, damn it, I’m going to close the stall.

"Brother, why are you leaving so soon? It’s only noon now."

Zhang Ruifeng tilted his head, wondering why the brother next door was so wasteful. Isn’t the stall fee money? Why did he leave at noon?