Chapter 105 Liuxian Tower
Zhongzhou Liuxianlou, to put it simply, is like a large commercial complex. Apart from Liuxianlou, the streets outside and the various shops along the way have everything.
In addition to cultivators, there are also mortals, but most of the mortals who can get here are either rich or noble.
Everyone can buy everything they need for practice here - of course, you have to have money.
But Ling Ye and Liu Yuan are not short of money, so I am richer than I thought.
[You've never been poor, have you?! Some hosts in the business department next door have to find ways to make money on their own—]
Okay, okay, thanks to you all.
【hey-hey. 】
So easy to coax.
However, Ye Qinghui mentioned Liuxian Tower because of this gathering of aristocratic families. Many children of aristocratic families would go there to barter. The background of the aristocratic families who usually stay in seclusion is much deeper than people outside think, so you can see many things that are usually priceless and countless rare treasures.
But these things can't be obtained just by having money.
So before I left Chongguang Sect, Ling Ye handed me another storage bag, which was filled with various magical instruments and treasures.
...I have to say that Ling Ye didn't accept disciples before, otherwise it would not be my turn.
The longer you live, the richer your family will be.
I just didn't expect to go to Liuxian Tower so early. I had originally planned to go after the rally was over.
Ye Qinghui specifically mentioned it, so I should go there first. He wouldn't say that for no reason.
After all, this is an important clue to an important NPC.
After saying goodbye to Ye Yingying, I adjusted the direction of the white jade boat and flew towards Liuxian Tower. Many people along the way had the same destination.
Some magic weapons even have family crests, and some noble families brought a lot of people with them. People like me who come alone are the minority.
I feel like I'm going to enter a cycle of being looked down upon - being provoked - being slapped in the face - and then showing off.
[…Your random associations are truly remarkable. How many similar novels have you read?!]
[You can call me! Now I feel that I am terrifyingly strong.]
[No, no, no, local specialty, you better control your power. If you're kicked out of this world, you'll end up in a dark room—]
Flying magic tools are not allowed to enter the territory of Liuxian Tower at will, so everyone landed at about the same time. For cultivators above the Jindan stage, riding on clouds is a very simple thing, so many people have put away their magic tools and started to go shopping while floating in the air.
The vendors hawking their wares around were also working very hard. Most of them had reached the Qi Refining stage, and many were at the Foundation Establishment stage. I even saw some mortals.
Very inclusive - if I hadn't seen the mortal today, I would have almost forgotten that there are mortals in this world.
Mortals actually make up the majority. After all, only one in a million can practice cultivation.
The whole street was bustling with activity. I was wearing a breath-concealing pendant, white clothes, and a dart around my waist, so I was not noticeable in the crowd. Surrounding me were some popular low-level elixirs and some ordinary magic tools. The most common items were various decorations, most of which were sold to female cultivators. They were robes with no protective ability or benefit effects, and their main focus was on beauty. There were also some hairpins and gold hairpins, the spiritual energy on them was negligible, but they were all made very beautifully.
How come you in the cultivation world also know that it’s easy to make money from female cultivators’ spirit stones!!!
I continued walking forward. The closer I got to Liuxian Tower, the higher the quality of the goods became, the more expensive they became, and even the vendors' skills became higher and higher. However, these things were still not what I needed.
In the past three years, I have participated in the sect disciple competition and won the first place as expected. I entered the treasure house of Chongguang Sect, and then found that there was no "Soul-shaping Pill". Although Liu Yuan didn't say it, I also knew that her situation would not last long, otherwise someone who doesn't like to go out would not take the initiative to go down the mountain to look for opportunities.
If the hidden injuries on her body cannot be cured, she will have no way out when the thunder tribulation of ascension comes.
What's going on? Why am I the only one in this family who's so worried?!
[Maybe you're just being a bit of a worrier. Haven't you realized you just love to worry? ? ]
Shut up! I'm just caring about my family!
[Hmm. Hmm.]
When I arrived at Liuxian Tower, there were basically no people around. This was something I didn't expect. Theoretically, shouldn't Liuxian Tower be a place that everyone flocks to?
"This cultivator, if you want to enter Liuxian Tower, you need to pay a certain amount of spirit stones."
Just as I was about to go in, a boy stopped me and I looked at him.
This boy is not a real person, but more like a refined magic weapon, and he actually has the cultivation level of a golden elixir.
"How much do you want to charge?"
I asked him.
If they charged an entrance fee, I would understand why there were so few people.
I guess the collection is not low.
"Ten high-grade spirit stones per person, no bargaining."
The little boy said, "Liuxian Tower has seven floors. If cultivators want to go to the top two floors, they have to pay an additional fifty high-grade spirit stones."
"What's on the top two floors?"
I was curious. Ten high-grade spirit stones were enough to buy a luxurious seven-day tour of the Demon Realm, which was a huge sum of money for many cultivators, let alone fifty. Many small sects could not even come up with so many high-grade spirit stones.
Although spiritual power can be used to condense spiritual stones, cultivation requires a large amount of spiritual power to advance. Not many people would use the spiritual power they have worked so hard to cultivate to condense spiritual stones - not to mention that most cultivators use spiritual stones to practice without a good cave, so how could they be willing to put the cart before the horse?
"The top two floors are for the auction, which will begin in a quarter of an hour. Once you enter the Liuxian Building, you can see what the items are. Do you still want to enter, cultivator?"
The boy answered my question without any hesitation. I thought for a moment and handed him ten high-grade spirit stones. "Then I have to go in and take a look before I consider whether to hand over the fifty spirit stones."
The little boy took the spirit stone and said, "It's no problem, cultivator. If you want to go up, just find a little boy similar to me on the fifth floor." Then he pointed at the door behind him. A golden light floated on the door, and the exquisitely carved wooden door slowly opened. He walked to the side and made a "please" gesture to me.
"The monk will go in."
I can feel the eyes around me looking at me. It seems that many people are paying attention to this side, so I guess many people will know that I am here.
——Even though I live a secluded life like Ling Ye, I am still quite famous.
I heard that many of Ling Ye’s admirers are staring at me every day to see if I am worthy of being Ling Ye’s first disciple.
I walked into Liuxian Tower. The moment I stepped in, the door closed, blocking those inquiring eyes. I glanced around and saw that there were actually quite a few people. Most of them were dressed luxuriously and had various attendants around them.
Liuxianlou charges per person, and those who come in with servants really have a lot of money.
The things inside are indeed different from those outside. The worst vendors on the first floor are already cultivators in the Jindan stage. Many things can no longer be bought with spirit stones alone, and the starting price is basically one hundred spirit stones.
It feels like entering a high-end luxury store.
The first floor mostly contained raw materials, which were popular among monks who made weapons and medicines, but were of no use to me, so I took a look around and went up to the second floor.
Some rare elixir recipes, weapon refining methods, and exercises beneficial to cultivation began to appear on the second floor, and there were also a lot more people here.
Then came the third floor, where there were more magical instruments, and various elixirs and magical instruments could be customized. The vendors had already reached the level of Golden Elixir.
Next are the fourth and fifth floors.
There are the most people on these two floors, at least hundreds of them. Both floors have barter areas. I looked around and saw only one fifth-grade "Ningxu Pill" that might be of some use to me.
Condensing the empty energy in my meridians makes my spiritual power more solid - it will be easier to break through, and it will be less likely for impurities to cause the breakthrough to fail.
It can be used by people of all levels of cultivation. The higher the grade, the better the effect. It is like the icing on the cake.
"How much is this Ningxu Pill for, Daoist friend?"
I asked.
The one selling the pills was a female cultivator, in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm, with a pretty face and wearing a light blue robe. However, this robe looked very similar to those beautiful but actually useless skirts worn outside, but it was even more luxurious.
The whole person is like a beautiful vase.
——But she doesn’t look like a casual cultivator pretending to be rich.
There is some sense of disobedience.
"Five hundred high-grade spirit stones, or a high-level magical weapon."
"It's too expensive. Ningxu Pill is not worth so much."
I pushed it back without thinking. Even if I have money, I am not a sucker.
"But this is a fifth-grade elixir." She seemed to be surprised by my straightforward answer and raised her eyebrows. "Five hundred for a fifth-grade elixir is already a low price."
I glanced at her and said, "Ten mid-grade spirit stones can buy a second-grade Ningxu Pill. If I take a thousand second-grade Ningxu Pills, I can achieve the effect of a fifth-grade Ningxu Pill—it's just a little slower."
"Ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones are equivalent to about a hundred high-grade spirit stones."
"...Then how many spirit stones did you ask for, fellow Daoist?" Her expression looked a little unhappy.
I thought about it and shook my head, "Daoyou, you should find another buyer——"
"My fellow Daoist, since you've already asked for a price, please state your desired price. Simply asking without stating your price might give the impression that you're trying to undercut your competitors—"
Just as I turned around to leave, a voice came from the side.
A young man dressed in white and gold walked towards us. The golden family crest on his body made my eyelids twitch.
This is what they call enemies meeting on a narrow road.
Why are you Xuanyuan family members here?
"This is my first time in Liuxian Tower, and I didn't know there were such rules," I said calmly, then looked at the female cultivator next to me, "I was rude."
The young man from the Xuanyuan family walked towards me and looked me up and down.
"I see that fellow Daoist is quite extraordinary. It's not possible that he can't even come up with 500 spirit stones, right?"
I:……
You guys are engaging in moral kidnapping, right?
"My fellow Daoist, you must have seen it wrong. I'm extremely poor. I came to Liuxian Tower just to broaden my horizons. I can only afford one hundred and fifty spirit stones to buy this Ningxu Pill."
As long as I have no morals, I won’t be kidnapped!
Female cultivator: "...Fellow Daoist, please find someone else. If I sell this elixir for 150 high-grade spirit stones, I'm afraid my family will blame me."
You see, as long as I bargain hard enough, I won’t be ripped off.
The young man seemed to be surprised that I would speak so bluntly, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
So I said, don't talk to me about morality. I have always been flexible and should be more straightforward when finding fault - but looking at him, I probably understand one thing.
That is, he knows me, knows who I am, and has a certain hostility towards me.
I just don’t know whether this hostility is due to my identity as Ling Ye’s first disciple or because he knows my background.
But he's only in the early Nascent Soul stage, so maybe he's jealous that I'm younger and have a higher cultivation level than him—
[That's a bit cocky, host.]
"In that case, I will take my leave now, fellow Taoists."
I smiled at the two people and turned to walk towards the stairs to the fifth floor. There stood a little boy who looked very similar to the one at the door. He was holding a booklet in his hand, which was probably the auction booklet I mentioned.
I walked straight over, picked up the booklet and started flipping through it.
"Fellow Daoist, aren't you very poor? To go upstairs, you have to pay fifty high-grade spirit stones, and the items up there all start at one thousand spirit stones—"
The young man followed again.
No, buddy, you are just an elementary school student. Even my brother wouldn't do such a childish thing.
I looked at him expressionlessly.
"In that case, of course I have to go up and take a look—"
I placed fifty spirit stones in the child's hand.
Then he stepped onto the stairs. He wanted to follow but was blocked by the little boy.
"If you still want to follow me, why not hand over fifty spirit stones..." My eyes swept over the family crest on his clothes. "A descendant of the Xuanyuan family shouldn't even have fifty high-grade spirit stones, right?"
Then I watched his face slowly turn red, and he was so angry that he was speechless.
No, wait a minute, man, I was just being sarcastic for a moment, why did you snap?
You really don't have any money, do you?
[Ahem, host, so you didn't investigate the Xuanyuan family at all before you came out——]
The Xuanyuan family earns all their spiritual stones on their own. The family doesn't give any pocket money to non-core children besides for daily living and cultivation. Therefore, the children of the Xuanyuan family are either lazy or poor. Do you think everyone in the world can have a wealthy master and a wealthy mother like you?!
…
Oh, so what I said not only meant to him that he had no talent and was not a core player, but also that he was not competitive enough.
I'm sorry for poking Brother Bai Jin's lung.
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