At this moment, she was holding all sorts of things, asking the stall owner about prices. Seeing how nice the stall owner was, she thought he was being too honest.
They didn't make me feel like a lamb to the slaughter at all; the prices quoted for everything were very reasonable, all a few spirit stones, a dozen spirit stones, or twenty spirit stones.
It can only be said that Tang Baozhu was too naive. There was no merchant who didn't want to rip off their customers. If Xu Rui hadn't been there, given how high-class her monastic robes looked, she would have been taken advantage of by the stall owner long ago.
The robes Tang Baozhu was wearing were all prepared for her by Xu Rui; they were all top-quality items, with even the lowest-grade ones being top-tier spiritual artifacts.
Tang Baozhu initially asked all sorts of questions, trying to conceal her true intentions and avoid making them too obvious.
When she felt it was about right, she picked up the thing that had aroused her; it looked like a wine gourd and was a dull gray color.
But this gourd gave her a different feeling; it was an indescribable feeling, more of a feeling in her heart.
"Honey, I want this gourd, can you buy it for me?"
She tugged at his sleeve, pleadingly expressing her desire for the gourd.
Xu Rui was instantly captivated. His wife was being affectionate with him, and the smile on her face was impossible to hide. He felt like a flower was blooming in his heart. He wouldn't hesitate to buy anything, let alone just one item. He could buy everything on the stall.
He quickly asked the stall owner on the other side, "How many spirit stones is this wine gourd?"
The stall owner across the street thought to himself, "Is this guy a complete idiot? He buys everything just because a woman acts cute." But for him, it was a good thing. After all, who wouldn't be happy to have spirit stones delivered to his door?
"This wine gourd was brought out from an ancient cultivator's cave. It has no other use but to hold wine. Twenty spirit stones will do. After all, it was brought out from an ancient cultivator's cave."
The stall owner originally wanted to boast a bit, but looking at the big shot next to him, how could he dare to boast?
However, it was indeed brought out from an ancient cultivator's cave, but it didn't seem to have any use. It could only be used to store spirit wine, and the spirit wine inside had no other function, which is why it was sold cheaply.
Tang Baozhu knew that the stall owner didn't know the value of the item and hadn't recognized it as a good one, so she quickly tugged at Xu Rui's sleeve and urged him to buy it.
Because if I were to buy it myself, there's no guarantee that there wouldn't be some insightful experts nearby who would also recognize it as a valuable item, while I, a mere newbie, would be outmatched.
Let Xu Rui buy it. After all, he's a powerful figure in the Tribulation Transcending stage, and there aren't many who can defeat him.
Moreover, if you want to make a move on Xu Rui, you should first consider whether you can defeat him.
Xu Rui did not disappoint her. Without saying a word, he took out 20 spirit stones from his ring and handed them to the stall owner, while also putting the wine gourd into his spatial storage.
Although he couldn't figure out what the gourd was for, he still trusted his wife's judgment; anything she set her sights on was bound to be good.
Now that they had the goods, Tang Baozhu didn't linger. She took Xu Rui's hand and left the stall, intending to check out the other stalls to see if they had anything good.
On the way, Xu Rui couldn't help but ask, "Wife, can you tell what that thing is for?"
Tang Baozhu shook her head. Someone as inexperienced as her didn't have the eye to spot hidden gems; it was just a matter of perception.
"I can't tell, but that thing is definitely a good thing. It feels better to me than the spiritual herbs that can be used to refine pills for the Tribulation Transcending and Mahayana stages that I picked in the forest."
Then she whispered in his ear, "It might be something of the celestial artifact level."
Fortunately, Xu Rui had already created a protective shield for the two of them when Tang Baozhu leaned close to his ear, so they didn't have to worry about their whispers being overheard.
After Baozhu finished speaking, he felt that from now on, whenever his wife spoke to him, a protective shield would be essential, so that she wouldn't accidentally say something shocking.
There are very few immortal artifacts in the cultivation world. Each immortal artifact is kept as a tribute in various major sects, and even he himself does not have one.
He never expected that his wife would find a celestial artifact so easily. Although it didn't look like an offensive celestial artifact, even if it was just a support type, it was still a good thing, and he didn't mind at all.
"Let's find a safe place and then we can look into it. For now, let's continue shopping and see if we can find anything else good."
Tang Baozhu wasn't uninterested in the gourd, but since the place they were in wasn't very safe, she could only continue wandering around and come back to see what the gourd was for when she found a safe place.
Their luck wasn't so good after that; they didn't encounter any more celestial artifacts, but they did find a few items taken from the caves of ancient cultivators.
It looks like a flower basket, and it has a very rustic appearance. If you're not careful, it's easy to mistake it for a flower basket that's just casually woven from vines in the wild.
Every time Tang Baozhu saw something good, she would ask Xu Rui to give her the spirit stones, and the item would stay with him so that she wouldn't feel unsafe carrying it herself.
The two strolled around until dark. Tang Baozhu originally thought that by the time it got dark, the crowds on the street would have thinned out, and she and Xu Rui could find an inn to settle down.
Unexpectedly, the streets became even more lively after dark. A transparent protective shield appeared in the sky, and it was so bright that it made the whole city look like it was daytime.
Tang Baozhu was particularly surprised by this scene. It looked like a modern-day city that never sleeps, but much more beautiful.
The shop owners' houses, somehow made, would light up when the lights on the protective shields were turned on.
It was so beautiful that Tang Baozhu didn't even want to find an inn to rest.
This experience broadened the horizons of this country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
"Honey, why are there more people on the streets after dark?"
Xu Rui saw that his wife seemed to be enjoying herself, so he quietly watched her. Seeing her amazed expression, he thought that he should take her out to see more places in the future so that she would realize that it was nothing special and there was nothing to see.
"For cultivators, there is no need to sleep at night, so they don't feel the difference between day and night. In addition, with the city lights, there are even more people coming out to watch the excitement at night, so it looks like there are more people than during the day, but in reality, it's about the same."
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