Chapter 149: Fish not for sale! [Two chapters in one]
The moment Li Chu's sword fell.
Far away, in the tree hole, in front of the mirror.
Huo Zhuge and King Kong Slave both covered their eyes with their hands, shook their heads and smacked their lips.
Hmm…
Grandma Liu died such a tragic death.
It's really unbearable.
A red dragon appeared out of nowhere and instantly swallowed up its "weak" body, then turned into smoke and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Not a single hair was left.
This little Taoist priest is so vicious!
Thinking back to when he wanted to join forces with Granny Liu, Huo Zhuge couldn't help but feel a little scared. If Granny Liu hadn't been so concerned about her reputation and insisted on letting them stay here and watch, he would probably have been in trouble.
Thinking of this, he paid more tribute to Grandma Liu who had "disappeared from the face of the earth".
The King Kong slave was a little restless. He twisted and turned on the tree stump and said to himself, "I really want him to chop me with his sword."
Huo Zhuge quickly reached out and held him down, "Don't, you'll die if you try."
When he said this, his voice was still trembling, because Li Chu's sword was beyond all his previous imagination.
At this age, could he be the reincarnation of some earthly immortal?
There is absolutely no other explanation.
Even if one is born with an immortal body, it is impossible to have such cultivation.
It’s just that the reincarnation of an immortal... generally will leave a lot of arrangements for himself, with magical weapons all over his body, a lot of immortal secrets, and powerful protectors, to ensure that he can quickly return to the cultivation level of the first life and avoid being strangled by the enemy.
This little Taoist priest, except for a sword, really has nothing that can be called a treasure. Not to mention a budget warrior, even among the civilian cultivators, he is a relatively simple one, really a bit...poor.
Of course, the poverty of the strong cannot be called poverty, it should be said that it is... low-key.
No wonder the seven dead died so easily.
Only one wall of Deyun Temple was replaced.
After all, this little Taoist priest is so powerful, and his master’s cultivation... is hard to imagine, it can only be described as unfathomable.
Rushing into someone's lair like that is literally the same as committing suicide.
King Kong Slave asked, "Then we won't deal with him?"
Huo Zhuge said coldly: "I don't intend to give up easily."
"Why don't you let me try? You definitely can't beat him." King Kong Slave said bluntly.
Huo Zhuge was not annoyed, and smiled and said: "The Jianghu is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly wisdom."
King Kong Slave rolled his eyes.
Another riddle.
He didn't need to guess, Huo Zhuge explained himself: "Of course I am no match for this Taoist priest, but... Actually this Grandma Liu is not a powerful monster. After all, most tree monsters are dull, even if she has practiced for a long time, she is just so-so. But I happen to know that she had a lover in the past... who is a rare genius among tree monsters. That person is quite powerful."
King Kong Nu was shocked: "How can someone with this appearance have a lover?!"
Looking at his face with his mouth wide open in disbelief, it was obvious that his young childhood values had been severely impacted.
"Hmm..." Huo Zhuge was also a little speechless. After thinking for a long time, he could only say: "Sometimes, it's hard to tell the taste of a great demon."
…
In order to avoid accidentally hurting Wang Longqi, Li Chu only used a trace of spiritual power in this sword.
Fortunately, I successfully killed the willow monster.
A rather satisfying amount of experience points were collected into the body, but as the level gradually increased, the experience bar had grown to a frightening extent. This willow monster only filled up about one tenth of it.
When the figure of the willow demon disappeared, the sword energy and red dragon also dissipated. Immediately, there was a plop, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.
Li Chu was delighted.
He hasn't exploded anything in a long time.
In fact, with the current strength of his sword energy, it would be difficult for anything to explode.
After all... with one sword, the body of the thousand-year-old demon was instantly annihilated, and ordinary magic weapons and materials could not escape the fate of evaporation.
But correspondingly, anything that could survive his sword was definitely not an ordinary item.
Apart from anything else, at least the toughness must be maxed out.
For example, the last time the bones did not dissolve.
He walked forward quickly and saw a piece of black wood on the ground. It looked normal, just a piece of rotten wood that had been burned by fire.
I picked it up and held it in my hand, weighing it; it was quite heavy.
At this time, Wang Longqi, who had fallen to the ground, just recovered and cried out: "Wow——"
The monk Shenmu who was behind him just came over and heard him crying, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
Wang Longqi cried and said, "I am not clean anymore..."
The monk Shenmu frowned and said, "Li Chu is late? You have already been..."
Wang Longqi choked and spoke intermittently, "It would be great if it was a female ghost... No, an old and ugly female ghost, or a witch? It doesn't matter. Anyway, she absorbs yang energy, not like that... She absorbs it like this..."
"How to suck?" Shenmu was puzzled.
"I... she... has such a big tentacle... wow..." Wang Longqi gestured, but was too embarrassed to explain it too clearly. After explaining for a long time, he still couldn't understand it. Finally, he could only say: "Do you know the fifth sentence of the twelve zodiac signs?"
"Hmm?" Monk Shenmu was stunned. "What does this have to do with anything?"
He counted silently in his mind: Rat, Ox... Tiger, Rabbit... Dragon, Snake... Horse, Sheep... Monkey, Rooster... Dog, Pig...
etc……
I think I understand something...
…
With the help of Wang Longqi's great sacrifice, the issue of Lanluo Temple was also successfully resolved.
After finishing his work at night, Li Chu rushed back. When he returned to Deyun Temple, it was morning again.
Early in the morning, Yan Xiaoyao's radiant figure was seen walking out of the temple, her face full of rosy cheeks.
Li Chu nodded and saluted.
Yan Xiaoyao seemed a little shy. She glanced at him, said hello and left without saying anything.
When I stepped into the backyard, I saw the master sitting leisurely under the old locust tree. His face was full of pride and all the bitterness from before was gone.
When he saw Li Chu, his smile suddenly became even more intense.
"Haha, my good disciple, you are finally back. I missed you so much!"
Li Chu was somewhat flattered. Although his master had always been very caring towards him, he had never been so enthusiastic in his life.
Before he could think about it, he heard Yu Qian'an say, "Come on, take another photo for me."
“…”
So that's why.
No wonder.
Li Chu said: "Okay, but I have a question to ask."
"Oh, feel free to say it." Yu Qian'an said with a smile.
He usually only shows this attitude to the little koi.
Li Chu clearly felt that his status had suddenly improved, although it was due to some strange reasons...
He placed the large black piece of wood in his arms on the stone table and asked expectantly, "I got this from a willow demon last night. What treasure is it?"
"Oh?" Yu Qian'an looked at it, touched it with his hand, and then moved closer to smell it. He seemed to want to lick it with his tongue, but luckily he finally retracted it.
After a while, the old Taoist priest replied: "This is lightning-struck wood."
"What is that?"
"As the name suggests, it refers to the wood that remains after being struck by lightning. However, in the cultivation world, this lightning specifically refers to the lightning tribulation in the heavenly tribulation."
"This lightning-struck wood is the last piece of wood essence with supreme yang energy left behind by a tree demon that was annihilated in the heavenly tribulation. It contains at least a thousand years of cultivation of a tree demon and the yang power of the heavenly thunder tribulation. It is a very rare treasure of heaven and earth."
Li Chu's eyes flickered repeatedly, and after a pause, he asked, "Is it worth money?"
Yu Qian'an smiled and gave an answer that satisfied him.
"In terms of the highest value, it's slightly worse than the incorruptible bone you bought last time. However, incorruptible bone is in short supply and there are very few buyers. It's easy to be bargained down, so I advise you to keep it. The lightning-struck wood is different. Many immortal sects buy it, especially my Taoist sect. If you take it back to refine magic weapons and artifacts, it often has the miraculous effect of restraining Yin objects, and it is very popular."
"You can take it to the Dan Ding Pavilion in the city and sell it. It should be able to fetch a good price."
Li Chu couldn't help but smile.
After a moment, he raised his fingers.
"Master, my disciple is here."
"oh--"
Under the sun.
The old Taoist priest groaned in pleasure.
…
There are many sects and cultivators in the world.
When there are many people, there will be business.
However, the world is so big that it is inevitable that some things that cultivators need are extremely rare, and some treasures that cultivators obtain are difficult to sell.
At this time, the importance of the platform is reflected.
Some large sects used their own reputation to start operating trading platforms that combined functions such as shops, auction houses, and pawnshops.
Whenever practitioners need something, they can go to the platform to look for it. If it is temporarily out of stock, they can also "place an order" and ask the platform to help keep an eye out for it.
If a cultivator has rare treasures that he cannot use, he can also sell them to such platforms in exchange for cultivation resources.
Of course, when platforms purchase items, it is inevitable that they will severely reduce the price. If the cultivator is not in a hurry to use the money, he can also choose to "list and sell".
That is, you deposit your items here and the platform will sell them on your behalf. Although the rules of the industry require a commission of at least 10%, the final price is often much cheaper than if the platform purchased the items.
Among these large sects' platforms, Danding Pavilion is the best managed.
Danding Pavilion is the most worldly of the Twelve Immortal Sects.
Because it can be said that it started out by doing business.
Alchemy and weapon refining are the two absolute means passed down from generation to generation in Danding Pavilion.
By refining elixirs and magic weapons for others and selling their own finished products, Danding Pavilion became one of the twelve immortal gates. Later, relying on its familiar business methods and the reputation of an old immortal gate, Danding Pavilion's shops flourished and opened all over the world.
Nowadays, there is a Danding Pavilion shop in every capital city of the Heluo Dynasty.
Because of this, its efforts in collecting natural treasures far exceeded those of other sects, so more practitioners were willing to choose it as their first choice. Over time, a virtuous cycle gradually formed.
…
Hangzhou Prefecture, Danding Pavilion.
The huge shop with two floors is magnificent. In front of the door of the first floor stood four beautiful women with high slit skirts. Unlike the good girls who solicit customers, their temperament is noble and elegant, but they are used to dissuade customers.
This scene can make many people who carry strange things and always hope to try their luck to see if they are valuable treasures feel ashamed and dare not come to the door.
One day, a young Taoist priest in green came to the door with a beautiful girl.
Seeing the young Taoist priest, the eyes of all the welcoming ladies could not help but light up, and their thighs unconsciously stretched outwards, showing off their beautiful body curves.
These two people are Li Chu and Xiao Jinli.
Yu Qian'an said that if you take the little koi with you when you go out to do business, you might get unexpected gains.
Li Chu felt the same.
When the two of them walked up to the door, they saw a group of beautiful girls nodding their heads in unison. The first one asked, "Welcome, Taoist priest. Are you here to buy or sell treasures?"
Li Chu patted the package in his arms and said, "I have something I want to sell."
"Please follow me."
As she spoke, she moved her waist and took Li Chu up the stairs to the second floor.
The first floor is more spacious, and the hall is filled with a wide variety of treasures, as well as some samples for people to browse.
The second floor is even quieter and is divided into several private rooms of moderate size, which are obviously used for people to discuss business.
The woman led Li Chu to a room and said, "Mr. Chen happens to be free. You can discuss your treasure with him in detail, young Taoist priest."
Having said this, she led the people in and quietly left.
As Li Chu walked into the room, he saw an old gentleman in quaint clothes sitting beside a beast-shaped incense burner with a copper mouth, smiling at the two of them: "Please sit down."
Directly opposite the old gentleman, there was a huge bronze mirror that just covered the entire body of the two of them.
As soon as he sat down, the colorful body of the little koi appeared in the mirror, and the old man couldn't help but take a glance.
Not long after, the woman came back and served tea, then quietly left, closing the door behind her.
The atmosphere is extremely comfortable.
The old man then slowly asked, "I wonder what the young Taoist priest has for sale?"
Li Chu spread the package on the table, revealing the piece of wood that was struck by lightning.
"oh?"
The old man was slightly surprised and quickly took a closer look.
He looked at it, touched it, smelled it, and finally licked it.
Then he said in amazement: "This is a huge piece of lightning-struck wood."
Li Chu couldn't help but secretly feel a sense of respect - the master didn't lick it at the beginning.
Well, the master is really amazing!
After a long while, the old man said, "This item is indeed a rare treasure, and there are many buyers. I believe it can be sold for a good price. At least three thousand Qi Gathering Pills will be needed."
Before Li Chu came, he had already learned that among cultivators, the currencies used in transactions were mostly not gold or silver.
After all, most practitioners think that gold and silver are of little use.
Instead, it is a Qi Gathering Pill that can infinitely increase your true Qi.
This Qi Gathering Pill is considered one of the magical pills that Dan Ding Pavilion started with. Of course, being called a magical pill doesn't mean it's very expensive. On the contrary, it's not very valuable.
About three or five taels of silver can be exchanged for one.
The effect of a Qi Gathering Pill is not outstanding. After taking it, it can only increase a little bit of true Qi for the cultivator.
However, its greatness lies in the fact that it can be taken indefinitely.
Unless you reach a bottleneck, you can continue to improve. This means that a cultivator can rely on the Qi Condensation Pill to advance from the early Qi Sea Realm to the peak of the Qi Sea Realm in a few days. If he can also break through to the Shenhe Realm, he can then be promoted to the peak of the Shenhe Realm in a few days.
Of course, there are too many shortcomings to list them all.
This kind of elixir, firstly, has a high demand and is a hard currency, and secondly, the annual output is fixed, so there is no need to worry about sudden depreciation. It soon became popular all over the world and became one of the equivalents circulated among cultivators.
Although there were many imitators later, the efficacy of the imitation elixirs was not as good as that of Danding Pavilion, so their value was greatly reduced and did not threaten the status of Danding Pavilion's Qi Ju Dan.
In addition to the Qi Gathering Pill, there are ten more that can be exchanged for the advanced Small Huan Dan, Large Huan Dan, and the highest level Golden Dan.
No need to say more.
"Then I'll trouble you, old sir." Li Chu nodded slightly.
"Well, let's make it clear in advance that we at Danding Pavilion will do our best to sell this treasure for you at the highest price. But afterwards, no matter how much it sells for, we will take a 10% commission." The old man reminded.
"Okay." Li Chu nodded.
This is the rule of the underworld, and he asked about it before he came.
After a few words, the deal was finalized and the contract was signed, Li Chu and the little koi got up and left.
When he turned around, the little koi saw his huge fish body in the mirror and let out a cry. Then he quickly covered his mouth and pointed at the bronze mirror to Li Chu.
The hair on his forehead has already stood up.
Li Chu smiled slightly and shook his head.
It was just a magic mirror. Although he had never seen one before, he had heard his master talk about it. Danding Pavilion was a wealthy place, so it was not an exaggeration to put one in every room.
"Uh." Seeing this, the old man said, "I have something to say, young Taoist priest..."
"Huh?" Li Chu turned around.
"Are you going to sell this koi?" the old man asked. "There are many wealthy families who come to my sect to buy koi with good fortune. Especially such a rare seven-colored koi. The price will definitely satisfy you."
"Huh?!" The little koi widened his eyes.
shock!
You, old man, look kind and gentle, but it turns out you are not a good person!
Fortunately, Li Chu did not hesitate and answered directly: "This fish is not for sale!"
The little koi's hair began to fall down.
Just as he turned around and was about to leave, he heard the old man ask again: "I have one more thing to say, I don't know if I should say it or not..."
Li Chu wanted to say something that was inappropriate, so let’s not say it…
But after all, he still had to do business with him, so he looked at the old man politely.
Then he asked, "I wonder if you are... selling yourself? Ah, I'm not talking about selling yourself. There are many wealthy female cultivators who come to my sect to buy young and handsome cultivators as companions... This only takes a few times, and the price is quite high. Young Taoist priest, if you don't want to work hard..."
hehe.
Isn't this selling yourself?
Danding Pavilion's approach is quite wild...
Li Chu quickly replied: "That's not necessary."
He hurried away with the little koi.
Well, if I stay here any longer, I’m afraid even the master at home will be sold out.
Walked out of Danding Pavilion and onto the street.
I saw the little koi fish constantly taking something out of its pocket and eating it, making a crunching sound.
Li Chu was curious, as it seemed that he didn't bring any snacks for her before going out.
He asked, "What did you eat?"
The little koi smiled and took out a handful of black pills. "I don't know what it is, but it tastes sweet. Do you want to try it?"
Li Chu was startled: "Where did this come from?"
Then the little Koi said angrily, "I found it in that bad old man's house!"
It was originally over 5,000 words, but after a lot of work, it was reduced to 4,999. That’s pretty conscientious, isn’t it?
(End of this chapter)
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