Players have always regarded Dongshan Village as their home, and they all want to build it into a well-known market town.
Perhaps they will have few opportunities to come back in the future, but the sense of accomplishment of personally participating in the establishment of a market town will stay with them for a long time.
What's more, now that Lin Xiang has shown his strength, everyone feels that this place is likely to continue to grow stronger and will not just be a novice village.
If you have never been to the markets or sects in the outside world, you will not know how happy it is to be in the markets of the universe.
There is abundant spiritual energy, items are cheap, even accommodation and tasks are guaranteed, and there is no need to worry about safety issues.
Many markets only maintain superficial order.
There were many assassinations, robberies and thefts happening behind the scenes.
The Universal Marketplace has essentially taken shape, its framework complete. It's a bit like a shopping mall that's built with its entire framework and internal structure, only lacking investment and customer traffic.
Therefore, after hearing that Aaron was sent by Baibao Pavilion, Ganhedian was extremely excited and wanted to kidnap him directly to the market.
He had never been to Taichang Market, but he had read the feedback from Yu Xiaoqi and others on the player forum and knew the status of the Treasure Pavilion.
Tan Mengru was observing nearby, and after hearing the heart-wrenching sound, she immediately returned to the land temple.
"Greetings, Senior." Tan Mengru, now a cultivator, would refer to herself as "junior" when encountering someone with a higher cultivation level. She continued, "I am the caretaker of the Huanyu Market. Thank you, Baibao Pavilion, for taking the time to come and inspect it."
Aaron's face was a little surprised. His spiritual sense scanned the young woman in front of him, and the feedback he gave was that she was a spirit.
For current cultivators, it is not surprising to encounter spirits every night when walking in the wild.
They also knew that some people turned into ghost cultivators in order to prolong their lifespan, but they were usually old people who were nearing the end of their lifespan and had great strength.
But the Tan Mengru in front of him was very weak, and she was standing openly in the sun, like a living person, without any restrictions at all.
I think the special one should be the spirit being worshipped here, not her.
Aaron became even more wary of the sacrificial spirit that had never appeared.
What level of master must one be to be able to make ghosts and spirits get rid of their fear of sunlight!
"Our boss heard that there will be an auction in your city in a few days, so he wanted me to come and take a look at the items here. I hope I won't cause you any trouble." A'long decided to go straight to the point. A'hu was still waiting for him outside. If he delayed too long, the other party might go back to report the death.
"If the scale allows, our Treasure Pavilion would like to offer one or two items for auction."
This is actually just Aaron's free play, giving both parties a way out and letting the other party see the profit.
Tan Mengru actually doesn’t know much about business. All she can do is follow instructions and treat people sincerely.
"Of course I won't make it difficult."
She pointed to the three-story building in the center of the city. Its carved beams and painted pillars looked particularly magnificent. "That's our auction venue. Let's go over there and take a look."
As they walked, Tan Mengru introduced the place, saying, "Huanyu Market is home to a mid-level spiritual vein, capable of supporting the daily cultivation needs of a large number of cultivators. Currently, many young warriors come here to cultivate. Most of them possess spiritual roots and are willing to help others. Some have already successfully joined sects like the Tianjian Sect, the Wanmiao Pavilion, and even the Yueying Palace."
"In fact, we are trying to contact these sects to see if they are willing to come directly to the market to recruit disciples. I believe that there must be disciples among these cultivators who meet their requirements."
This was actually Lin Xiang's idea, he just didn't have enough time to communicate, so he could only hand it over to Tan Mengru and let her hint at it when she had the chance.
Just like there are sect guides in Taichang Market, why can’t there be some in Huanyu Market?
In this way, we can directly connect with the cultivation sects in Dagan, which will not only provide them with fresh blood, but also provide players with more, better, more convenient and faster choices.
There is no need to travel through mountains and rivers to find the headquarters of the cultivation sect. You only need to quietly reach level 10 in the market town and then you can choose a sect, which is more in line with the definition of a novice village.
If a sect really sends a guiding envoy, then their daily practice and actions will also produce benefits and send positive signals to other practitioners.
Of course, this kind of thing is still far away and cannot be realized for the time being.
Tan Mengru just mentioned it briefly to convey her willingness to cooperate.
"Senior, look, if you go through the market and head north, you can directly reach the Shiwan Mountains. Taichang Market is quite far away from the Shiwan Mountains. If the monks can complete their supply work in and out of the mountains here, it can save a lot of time and energy."
There was no road there originally, but due to the six hundred players walking back and forth, they managed to create a path in the wilderness.
This is a behavior only performed by low-level cultivators. Those who are slightly higher in level can fly.
To be honest, the largest number of people in the world of cultivation are actually cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.
The Ten Thousand Mountains are an important place for low-level cultivators in Guanlin Prefecture and even the surrounding prefectures to obtain resources. They risk their lives to collect spiritual medicines, kill monsters, and gather spiritual objects. Of course, it would be best if they could quickly rest after coming out of the mountains.
Of course, Aaron had also been to the Shiwandashan Mountains, but he didn't go too deep.
Looking at it from this angle, he couldn't help but agree: "This place is indeed very close to the Hundred Thousand Mountains. I didn't expect that there is a huge spiritual vein hidden here."
The choice of a market town is never accidental; the most basic condition is the spiritual vein.
Otherwise, no matter how advantageous the geographical location is, it will be useless without spiritual veins.
Medium and low-grade spirit veins can be moved, but the cost is extremely high. Once moved, a large amount of spirit stones will be needed to make up for the damage to the spirit veins, and they will also face factors such as karma.
There are a large number of spiritual veins of varying heights in the headquarters of many large sects, most of which have migrated back from outside.
It is this act of enclosure that has caused the spiritual energy content in the mortal world to drop significantly. The spiritual veins in the wild will continuously release spiritual energy in all directions, maintaining a relatively stable content.
However, when the wild spiritual veins are enclosed by sects, cultivation families or individual cultivators, their spiritual energy will be trapped in a corner and will no longer be transmitted to the surrounding areas.
Over time, the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding area naturally decreases.
Without the nourishment of spiritual energy, even if a child with spiritual roots is born among mortals, he or she will eventually become like everyone else and will not be discovered.
Dongshan Village is now the location of Lin Xiang's Taoist temple. The spiritual energy emitted from the Universe Cave not only fills the Universe Market, but also spreads to all the surrounding territories he controls.
"Let's put the matter of the spiritual vein aside for now. Please follow me, senior." Tan Mengru led the way in front. She brought A Long into the auction venue, and all the auction items were floating in the center of the venue!
The elixir wasn't even placed in the jade bottle, and the thousand-year-old spiritual fruit was floating in the air. There was no sense of any formation or restriction around.
"Senior, please look, all the auction items have been placed here. Fellow Daoists who want to buy can come and check them out directly, but they can only look and not touch."
Lin Xiang is not one to hide things. He predicted that someone might come to check the items in advance and raise funds after confirming their authenticity.
The name and the image on the jade slip alone are not as shocking as having the real thing in front of you.
Even Aaron couldn't help but have evil thoughts in his heart.
It seems that the cultivators in the market town are very weak. If I try to snatch the Foundation Establishment Pill, the Rejuvenation Pill and the Millennium Spirit Fruit and run away, what is the probability of success?
He had been in the great perfection of Qi training for ten years, but he still had not been able to collect enough spirit stones for a foundation-building pill.
If I could obtain this foundation-building pill, I would be able to break through the realm and become a master of the foundation-building stage!
His calm heart began to fluctuate, and he even swallowed twice.
Where is the mysterious priest and the head of the temple?
Could it be fishing/enforcement of the law?
If you deliberately place the good stuff in an open area, once you try to rob it yourself, you might be suppressed before you even leave the auction venue!
"It's really cruel!"
Tan Mengru smiled and said, "Senior, you can observe it closely, but these things are under the spell of the Lord of Sacrifice Spirits, and ordinary people can't lift them at all."
"Is it true? Can I try it?" Aaron decided to try it in this friendly way, just in case he could really hold it in his hand.
"Of course, please be careful, senior."
Tan Mengru walked aside carefully to avoid being hurt by mistake.
She actually didn't know whether the protection measures on these pills were perfect enough. Anyway, that's what her master said at the time, and she was just passing it on.
Aaron cautiously reached out his hand to the foundation-building pill he had been thinking about. He was about to hold it in his hand, but there was an invisible wall blocking his palm and the pill, and he could not move forward at all.
He used his spiritual power and various means of attack, but was unable to cause any harm to it, and it didn't even move at all.
"It seems that the sacrificial spirit dares to put things in the open, it does have enough protective power." Aaron finally understood. He was only in the Qi Refining Stage, so of course he didn't understand the methods of those powerful people.
"Fellow Daoist Tan, I have an unwelcome request that I hope you will agree to."
"Senior, as long as I can make the decision, that's all that's fine."
"Can I use a photo stone to record these items? If I can show them to the shopkeeper more directly, he'll be able to make a decision more quickly."
"Senior, please do as you please."
Tan Mengru only hoped that the expert in front of her was not the only potential buyer who came to seek the truth.
The remoteness of Dongshan Village is only for mortals. For cultivators who can fly and hide, these distances are nothing.
Aaron quickly put the photo stone into his space bag and said goodbye to Tan Mengru.
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"Master, the visitor from the Treasure Pavilion has already left with the photo stone." Tan Mengru returned to the land temple and met Lin Xiang who had just returned from deep underground. She immediately took the initiative to report.
"Well, it seems that the Treasure Pavilion is still relatively cautious. The other forces should also appear one after another. I will leave the Ink Dragon to you. Call it if there is any danger."
Lin Xiang had just collected enough fire essence deep underground and was ready to return to Qingwei Sword Sect to upgrade after practicing the Fire and Water Extinction Divine Light.
Tan Mengru suggested, "Sir, I think many of the young heroes have made very reasonable suggestions. They are very proactive in this area and may bring us more surprises. I plan to recruit several of them to take on relevant positions, responsible for the operation, promotion, and development of the market. I wonder if it will work."
"It's up to you. If you think they can do it, then it's fine."
In terms of round-of-operations, Lin Xiang is indeed no match for these players.
Many players are powerful figures in real life, and their working abilities and knowledge are much better than his. If these players give their all to help, the market may be able to make faster progress.
In fact, there are many hidden talents among these players, and there are all kinds of talents.
Players in the fields of architecture, art and design are constantly improving the appearance of the market town. Some players are even practicing in the game, doing various art creation and restoration work.
Lin Xiang has always trusted the people he employed and never employed those he doubted.
Facing his subordinate's suggestion, he replied seriously: "You are the person in charge now. I only look at the results, not the process."
This is a test for Tan Mengru. If she can successfully complete the task entrusted to her, she will definitely be able to be counted on to be her right-hand man in the future.
If she fails to complete these tests, she will only be an ordinary ghost messenger in the future, responsible for collecting souls and saving people.
"I'm going to practice in seclusion now. Don't disturb me unless it's something important."
After saying this, Lin Xiang teleported from the land temple in the market town to outside the Universe Cave Heaven, completely becoming a hands-off boss.
Seeing the players' levels constantly improving, I knew I would be caught up if I didn't work harder.
If we don't work hard to upgrade, the Dongshan Village Taoist temple will not be able to expand, and it will not be able to provide players or other monks with sufficiently good things in the future.
Before, I had to handle everything myself, so I had no time to practice. Now, I finally have someone to help share some of the work.
After returning to the Universe Cave Heaven, Lin Xiang did not start practicing directly. Instead, he sensed all the movements inside his own Taoist temple and used the skill of abundant harvest on the flowers, plants and trees, allowing the spiritual rice and silver arrow grass to grow quickly.
The embryonic buds of the Thunder God Apricot have already emerged from the ground. Just that little green bud can consume a large amount of spiritual energy and make the cave flow exceptionally smoothly.
With such an acquired spiritual root to suppress the luck in the cave, Lin Xiang didn't worry about the luck fading away at all.
The thousand-year-old spiritual fruit trees that were transplanted in the distance are full of vitality. With the blessing of acquired spiritual roots, the fruits they produce in the future will be more potent.
Lin Xiang used the meditation grass to weave a cushion for himself, and after sitting on it, he took out the fire essence that he had collected with great effort.
The crimson fire essence emitted a slight heat, which was then absorbed into Lin Xiang's body and then flowed along the designated meridians.
[Skills successfully learned—Fire Extinction Divine Light, Fire Extinction Sword Technique!]
The biggest advantage of having a game template is that he doesn't need to study and try and error like other NPCs. He only needs to follow the instructions of the game system and run it once to learn it directly. It is very efficient.
The skill of Five Elements Extinction Divine Light is still in a gray state, and all five elements must be gathered before it can be used.
Lin Xiang stood up from the cushion, and his spiritual power rushed outward along his fingers. A crimson light shot towards the broad leaves of the thousand-year-old grape vines in the distance.
A hole was instantly burned in the middle of the green leaf, but the surrounding area remained intact, and the killing power was concentrated in the light.
This skill can expand the attack area according to your own needs, for example, it can be the size of a light spot or the size of a light beam.
The spiritual power consumed by different attack areas is also different.
Lin Xiang felt that it was extremely convenient to use, and this Divine Light of Extinction was hard to defend against, and could be used from the fingers, eyes, and even the pores all over the body!
In order to verify the penetration and attack range of this skill, he specially came to the place where the cold iron ore was stored in the cave.
Under normal circumstances, the other five elements spells cannot penetrate cold iron ore, so it is the best target.
The Fire Extinction Divine Light suddenly appeared on his finger and rushed into the cold iron ore at lightning speed. Then Lin Xiang was surprised to find that this Fire Extinction Divine Light actually penetrated three watermelon-sized pieces of ore in a row and stopped at the fourth piece of ore.
If it were the body of a human or a monster, it would not be able to withstand the attack of this extinction divine light!
He conducted various experiments at distances of ten, twenty, thirty and even one hundred meters in order to obtain accurate results.
After trying out the Divine Light of Extinction, he summoned the Golden Spirit Sword Pill, attached the Divine Light of Extinction to the flying sword, and attacked the cold iron ore.
The Fire Extinction Divine Light was actually not compatible with the properties of the Golden Spirit Sword Pill. Even so, it still added extinction power to the sword pill, allowing it to easily penetrate into the pile of extremely hard ore without even knocking away the stone chips. You can imagine how concentrated the attack was.
"The Golden Spirit Sword Pill needs to be mixed with the essence of the gold element. These cold iron ores are not enough."
The essence of fire is provided by endless earth fire, but the essence of metal needs to be slowly refined by finding ores.
Fortunately, he found a cold iron ore in the Mo Jiao's lair, otherwise he could only go to other markets to buy it or wait in the center of the earth for the spiritual iron ore to come to him.
He tentatively decomposed the cold iron ore and finally found that nearly a thousand kilograms of cold iron ore could be used to extract one portion of gold essence, which means that ten tons would be enough!
The main reason is that the cold iron in the ore is not pure. If it is refined cold iron, it definitely does not require a quantity as large as one ton.
If he couldn't afford so much spiritual iron ore and spiritual iron ingots, he could only decompose and refine them bit by bit in the spiritual energy. The low efficiency might drive him crazy.
When Lin Xiang thought of this, he couldn't help but think of the players.
Some players can help themselves extract the essence of the five elements from the spiritual energy, while other players can help themselves design a cultivation version of a steelmaking furnace.
With this steelmaking furnace, you can smelt the mined spiritual iron ore into iron ingots, making it easier for you to extract the essence of gold.
"There's no spiritual iron ore in my dojo, and players can't go into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to mine. They have to do it themselves."
The interior of the Shiwan Mountains was extremely dangerous. Even Lin Xiang himself didn't dare to travel through the forest surface, only burrowing underground. If players were allowed to go in and mine, they would probably all come back lying down, slowing down their leveling.
But Lin Xiang didn't want to turn himself into a miner. At the moment, he had no choice but to spend money to buy some cheap spiritual iron ore in the market.
"I hope I can find traces of spirit iron ore after my dojo is upgraded and expanded."
As for the essence of the wood element, it is actually very easy to deal with. If you are not afraid of karma, you can just collect the essence of plants and trees in the forest, and the plants will wither wherever you go.
The quickest way is to find tree demons or thousand-year-old spiritual trees and obtain the essence of wood from their trunks.
Lin Xiang also has a more reliable way, which is to use the growth and cultivation of spiritual trees to obtain the wood essence fed back by the other party.
In the Universal Cave Heaven, he had many choices for cultivation objects. The best one was of course the Thunder God Apricot, which was an acquired spiritual root. Several thousand-year-old spiritual fruit trees were also available.
Just as he was about to try to practice with Lei Shen Xing and obtain the essence of the wood element, he suddenly heard the prayers coming from the believers.
"Lord of the Land, please save our Xiufen!"
"Xiu Fen finally got pregnant, and now she's fainted again. God of the Earth, please help this poor child!"
"My Xiufen, why is your life so miserable!"
"Grandpa Earth, please show up as soon as possible. I will do anything for you, even a slave!"
Prayers and calls echoed in his heart; these were the most sincere requests of the believers.
It was impossible for Lin Xiang to turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear, so he immediately teleported from the Universe Cave Heaven to the place where the group of people were worshiping.
The spacious and bright red brick house replaced the previous dark and narrow thatched house. There was a large square table and long benches in the house.
On the straw mat on the ground, a young woman with a slightly bulging belly was lying on it, her face pale and her brows furrowed.
Although the living conditions in Dongshan Village have improved, she still looks very thin.
"Stop crying and feed Xiufen some sugar water!" an old lady said, "It's obvious that the child is starving. What sin has Xiufen committed? She won't let anyone eat even when she's pregnant."
An honest, toothless old man in the room stamped his foot and said, "Aunt Zhou, don't say that. Ever since Xiufen married into our Wang family, she's never been short of food. Yesterday, we even killed an old laying hen for Xiufen to nourish her body, but she's getting thinner and thinner. She eats more rice every day than the two of us combined."
"Where is Dinghai? He wasn't even there when his wife fainted?"
"Dinghai went to find a doctor. Our village is in dire straits without a doctor. We have no choice but to go to Xishan Village to recruit one."
Just as they were chattering away, Lin Xiang suddenly appeared in the main hall. He seemed to have walked out of a portrait on the wall, causing the villagers to quiet down and kneel on the ground.
"Grandpa Land, you finally showed up!"
"Please save our Xiufener quickly. She's pregnant and so weak. She fainted once before."
"Master Jiling appears!"
"There's help, there's help!"
The village chief Wang Minghai and the toothless old man Wang Minggui are cousins, and the woman lying on the ground is Wang Minggui's daughter-in-law Xiufen.
When they saw Lin Xiang appear, they were all very excited, and their originally nervous expressions became much more relaxed.
As long as Lord Ji Ling is here, there will be no danger.
Lin Xiang looked at Xiufen, first checking her lifespan, then using his spiritual sense to check her condition. He then said to the villagers, "She's just very physically depleted and needs to be healed. She's not in immediate danger of death."
In a place where the villagers could not see, the spiritual energy was slowly absorbed into her abdomen and then absorbed by the fetus.
This is actually a child with spiritual roots!
"Master Ji Ling, how can we nourish her? Our family killed the New Year pig in advance and stewed the old hen, but her health is getting worse. Can I go to the mountains to dig some ginseng?" Wang Minggui said nervously. He really couldn't bear to see his daughter-in-law like this.
Lin Xiang shook his head: "She is not lacking in flesh, but in spiritual energy."
Wang Minggui was a little confused when he heard this, but the village chief Wang Minghai and clan elder Wang Xiuyuan next to him were so excited that their faces flushed.
Wang Xiuyuan's hands were shaking violently. He asked tentatively, "Lord of the Land, are you saying that Dinghai's wife is pregnant with a child who can cultivate?"
No one else in Dongshan Village knew about the Wang family's ancestors. Only the village chief and the elders knew this secret.
"Indeed, her situation is quite special. The mother and child were in an environment with abundant spiritual energy, and the child's spiritual roots immediately manifested. However, she didn't realize that the mother was just an ordinary person. The fetus needs spiritual energy to develop, and it can only be consumed bit by bit by the mother's body. Therefore, no matter how much meat she eats, it can't make up for it."
Of course, fortunately, they ate hens and pigs that had been baptized by spiritual energy. Even if they were not spiritual beasts or monsters, there was more or less a trace of spiritual energy left in their bodies, which saved Xiufen's life.
"Dissolve this pill in water and feed it to her. It should help a lot." A Qingxin Pill popped out of Lin Xiang's hand. This pill was used to replenish spiritual power.
"After that, it won't be a problem to have her come to the Earth Temple every seven days to get the elixir."
After saying that, Lin Xiang disappeared in front of everyone.
Xiufen was not destined to die, and the child in her body seemed to have good aptitude, otherwise such a thing would not have happened.
After he left, the villagers all knelt down and kowtowed.
"Thank you, God of Land, for saving my life!"
"The Land God is so kind."
"When this child is born, he must kowtow to the God of Land."
"The God of Land has always been blessing us."
Wisp after wisp of incense value was passed to Lin Xiang, and these common people had a clear understanding in their hearts.
It is clear who is truly kind to them and who is just being hypocritical.
Compared with the others, Wang Minghai and Wang Xiuyuan were even more pious than Wang Minggui and his wife next to them.
"Thanks to our ancestors, after all these years, our Ji family finally has another child with spiritual roots!"
"God has mercy on us, our ancestors bless us, the God of Land bless us! Our lineage can finally continue!"
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