Cultivation World 40: Hehuan Sect's Stall
When approaching the address of Hehuan Sect, Xie Yunsui only saw a vast mountain range with no signs of life at the foot of the mountain.
"Maybe they've set up a fog array. Do you want to break it open?"
Ling Xiyuan leaned out of the flying boat and looked around.
Xie Yunsui raised his hand and crushed the communication stone: "No need to go through so much trouble, just call Yin Hongxue directly."
Yin Hongxue had been waiting for them for a long time.
"Your flying boat is too slow. Try a faster one next time."
Xie Yunsui glanced at her: Have you ever seen anyone rushing to work?
The Hehuan Sect was quite well hidden, with three outer formations alone. After breaking through layer by layer, Xie Yunsui and the others finally saw the palace on the top of the mountain.
"That's Taigu Mountain. On top is my sect master's hall, the Floating Cloud Palace. The surrounding hills are where the elders live. My hill is over there."
Yin Hongxue was really in a hurry. She didn't even give Xie Yunsui and the others a proper introduction and went straight to her own Zuoshui Peak.
Zuoshui Peak is still bare now, and it is obvious that the peak master has not taken good care of it.
"Alas, if the sect leader hadn't said that he would recruit new disciples next year and wanted to select a few for me to lead, I wouldn't have thought of cleaning up Zuoshui Peak." Yin Hongxue stroked her long hair, not very willingly.
When I'm alone, I can do whatever I want.
I haven't been in the Hehuan Sect for ten or eight years, and the water peak has grown hair.
Xie Yunsui steered the flying boat around Zuoshui Peak. The mountain was tall and sharp, and it didn't look suitable for living, but it was full of spiritual energy.
"Where do you want to stay?" Xie Yunsui asked.
Yin Hongxue thought for a moment and said, "A few years ago, I seem to have penetrated a section of the Green Wood Spiritual Vein at Zuoshui Peak. It should be in the center of the mountain. Just pick a place with the most spiritual energy for me."
Xie Yunsui: "Spiritual vein?"
This thing is a good thing. The Qingmu Spiritual Vein has endless spiritual energy. It is said that only an arm's length of Qingmu Spiritual Vein is needed to revive the dead.
Of course, for cultivators, their bodies are not easily damaged after being tempered by thunder tribulations. If it really reaches that level, the speed at which the Qingmu Spiritual Vein grows may not be able to keep up with their speed of death. Therefore, the Qingmu Spiritual Vein is a bit useless to most cultivators above the Jindan stage.
Xie Yunsui was attracted by its ability to make plants flourish.
He originally wanted to create a portable space specifically for farming. Without the rotation of the sun and moon in the space, he could only rely on the spiritual veins to make the seeds germinate.
It is useless in the world of cultivating immortals, but it is a magical weapon in other worlds.
Yin Hongxue: "That was given to me by an old lover. I can't remember where he got it."
Xie Yunsui sighed.
Yin Hongxue's eyes rolled. "I've dug that Qingmu Spiritual Vein into the mountain for quite a few years now, so it should have grown quite a bit. If you spare me the Spiritual Stones, I'll give you half of the Spiritual Vein and take it with me."
"Deal." Xie Yunsui agreed.
Spirit stones can be earned again, but it is not certain when the Qingmu Spirit Vein will be found next time.
Seeing that Yin Hongxue had almost finished giving instructions and was getting ready to leave, Ling Xiyuan hurriedly stopped her.
"Senior Sister Yin, we are new to your sect, so we must pay our respects to the Sect Master and Elders."
Yin Hongxue paused and said, "Well, I've already reported it. They all know that you set up the formation for me. Normally, no one would come to bother you."
"It's a courtesy."
"Hey, let me be honest. You two are both good-looking. It's better for you to see less of my disciples. Those with lower cultivation than you can do nothing to you. The elders have plenty of ways to make you submit."
Xie Yunsui: "..."
Ling Xiyuan: “…”
Yin Hongxue waved her hand and said, "If you have anything, please contact me through the communication stone. I have to leave quickly, otherwise I will miss the Sword Sect's trial."
Yin Hongxue left as soon as she said she would. Xie Yunsui and Ling Xiyuan looked at each other and got off the flying boat in silence.
Because of the green wood spiritual vein, Zuoshui Peak is lush with trees and grass. There are also clever little animals that come from nowhere in the forest, and from time to time they show their backs as they flee in panic.
"Perhaps in the future we can also find a place like this where we can live in seclusion."
"Okay, wait until you finish the plot line."
"That's going to take some time. We have to wait until Xie Yan ascends to the level of a Tribulation Crossing Ancestor. By then, we will have reached the Fusion Stage at least."
For a cultivator in the fusion stage, moving mountains and seas is no problem. He can even build a hidden mountain by himself.
As the two talked, the further they walked towards the mountainside, the more they felt the spiritual energy was abundant, and they also felt that the breath of living creatures here was increasing.
These little beasts instinctively know that spiritual energy is a good thing. Places with abundant spiritual energy gather small beasts of many species. At a glance, there are four or five species, living in harmony and peace.
Perhaps they have been nourished by spiritual energy for many years and are showing signs of enlightenment, so they are not frightened when they see two strangers.
Looking at the pairs of transparent and clear animal eyes, Xie Yunsui and Ling Xiyuan did not show any hostility.
"Is that it?" Ling Xiyuan asked.
Xie Yunsui looked around and said, "Let's go up a little further. The Linglong Tower makes a lot of noise and might disturb them."
Ling Xiyuan took a few steps and said, "Hmm? Come and see what's on the ground?"
Ling Xiyuan pointed to a trace of trampling on the ground, which was obviously a human footprint.
Xie Yunsui released his spiritual sense and said after a moment: "It seems that Yin Hongxue has not returned for several years. This mountain has trained many disciples for her."
Xie Yunsui's spiritual consciousness disturbed several disciples who were practicing meditation in the mountains. These people hurriedly gestured to stand up and came to Xie Yunsui.
"Meet, meet the two seniors."
They were all timid and wore the uniform school uniform of the Hehuan Sect.
Xie Yunsui didn't even need to ask any questions, these people confessed everything.
Every sect has some disciples who are not valued.
How could the elders who had accepted so many disciples take care of so many people? Most of them just gave them some secret manuals and let them go.
These young disciples have only been here for a few years, and some are not very talented, some are not very tactful, and their cultivation is all about hard work, so there is nothing outstanding about them.
There is no such person in the Hehuan Sect.
Suddenly one day, one of them discovered that the spiritual energy in such a mountain was almost as dense as that in the training room.
They knew that this mountain belonged to Senior Yin Hongxue, but Senior Yin had not returned to the sect for many years, and the spiritual energy on the mountain had been wasted.
The practice room in the sect required the purchase of permission to use spirit stones or contribution points. They had to save their spirit stones and contribution points to purchase elixirs and magical instruments for practice, so they thought that they could save as much as possible, so they might as well use this free practice room.
"We really are just using this place for cultivation. Not a blade of grass, a tree, or a stone on the mountain has been moved!"
Xie Yunsui thought to himself that since he had already used it, he might as well do it more thoroughly. If he were to come, who knows how many spiritual plants he would have planted on the mountain.
Even though he thought so, he still had to put on the dignity of a Jindan senior.
"Zuoshui Peak is about to set up a mountain protection formation. You guys shouldn't come here again."
However, during the month that Yin Hongxue returned to the sect to collect materials, she didn't even notice that there were more people in her mountain?
These disciples were obviously relieved, as long as they were not angered.
They didn't dare to discuss it out loud until they reached the foot of the mountain.
"Who are these two seniors? I don't think I've seen them before."
"Perhaps he is an elder who was training outside before we entered the sect?"
"Didn't he say he wanted to set up a mountain protection formation? He must be a weapon cultivator, right?"
"Ah, that's the person Senior Yin brought. Has Senior Yin come back yet?"
"I guess Senior Yin doesn't care about our existence..."
"What a pity for this Feng Shui treasure land. I have to spend contribution points to rent a training room again."
"I was just about to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill to prepare for a breakthrough, but now I don't even have the spirit stones to rent a training room."
"I wonder when the sect lowered the prices of those elixirs. I heard from a senior sister who went out that the prices of elixirs and magic tools outside are 20% cheaper."
…
Xie Yunsui raised his eyebrows, obviously having heard the disciples' mumbling.
Ling Xiyuan paused: "You don't mean to forget to do business while setting up the formation, do you?"
"The one who understands me is Xiaoxi."
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Inside the Hehuan Sect market.
Yun Yang has been stuck in the late stage of Qi training for a long time. He only needs one foundation-building pill before he can officially prepare to break through to the foundation-building stage.
He had been working hard to save up contribution points and was about to go to the Deacon's Hall to exchange one pill when his good friend suddenly came over and said mysteriously that he had found a newcomer at the market who was selling high-quality pills cheaply.
Then he was dragged here.
Hua Qingyi said, "I'm not lying to you. There really is a new stall owner here. His foundation-building pills are all top-grade, and each pill only costs 200 spirit stones. Although you can only buy them with spirit stones, you and I can pool our money and buy a few pills. We can then sell them to others and make a profit. Once you successfully build your foundation, you can buy a new magical tool."
He whispered, "I'm only telling you this because of our good relationship. When something good happens, you're the first person I think of!"
The Foundation Establishment Pill is precious. It takes 300 contribution points to exchange one from the sect, and it is of medium quality. The top-grade and best-quality pills are in the hands of the elders, waiting to be used to reward their favorite disciples.
It is difficult for ordinary disciples in the Qi training stage to accumulate contribution points on a daily basis, so naturally a place like a market was derived.
Here you can use contribution points, spirit stones, or a mixture of the two, which greatly facilitates cultivators who don't like to do sect missions.
The Hehuan Sect is hidden in the mountains, mostly because the senior elders have accumulated too many emotional debts outside.
The protective mazes outside are to prevent those people from attacking us if we have a disagreement.
The sect was therefore forced to retreat from the world, but fortunately, as long as they successfully established their foundation, they would be able to break through the maze and get out.
Before building the foundation, Qi-cultivating cultivators can only get some useful things here.
There are elixirs, magic tools, robes, talismans, and even cooking utensils.
Yun Yang was pulled over and saw the masked monk at a glance.
The man was as tall as a bamboo, sitting alone in the corner of the market, casually tearing a piece of cloth in front of him, with only a few wooden medicine bottles on it.
Yun Yang was unconvinced: "A top-grade pill is so precious, yet it's placed in a wooden bottle? There's not even a formation on it to preserve spiritual energy."
"Hey, you can't judge a book by its cover, and the same goes for elixirs. You can't go wrong by listening to me."
Hua Qingyi was obviously very satisfied that this treasure stall owner had not been appreciated by many people yet, and hurriedly pulled Yun Yang over.
"Brother, we're here to buy Foundation Establishment Pills. How many do you have left?"
Ling Xiyuan raised his eyes and said, "I have as much as you want."
Hua Qingyi hissed, looking quite arrogant, but he didn't wave his hand to take up all the Foundation Establishment Pills. He turned around and signaled Yun Yang with his eyes, "How many spirit stones do you have left?"
Yun Yang stretched out his hand: "I want to see the quality of the Foundation Establishment Pill."
Ling Xiyuan: "Please do as you please."
He pushed a small wooden vial forward.
Yun Yang looked around and found that there was no protective formation on the stall. Isn’t this senior brother afraid that someone will take his pills and run away?
Such situations are rare, but they do happen.
Along the way, all the stalls that had valuable items had protective formations set up, for fear of such uncultured monks.
Just as he was thinking about it, a hand suddenly reached out from the side, snatched the bottle of pills from Yun Yang's hand, and disappeared in a flash.
Yun Yang was startled and grabbed a swift talisman to chase after him.
Hua Qingyi was also caught off guard, and after a few moments of silence, he finally reacted: "Great, he's snatched it right in front of me!"
He was about to catch up when he was suddenly shocked by a powerful pressure.
The monk who was almost out of sight suddenly felt his knees weaken and fell to the ground, wailing incessantly.
Ling Xiyuan said softly: "Bring the things back."
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