Chapter Twenty: Flowing Clouds Marketplace

  One month later, Western Xia Kingdom.

  This is a desolate mountain, often shrouded in mist. It's said that people who enter will become dizzy and disoriented, then stumble out in a daze. Villagers say there are ghosts inside, don't go in!

  Of course, this is a secular saying. In fact, for those who practice immortal cultivation, this place is a famous market! Flowing Clouds Market.

  Liúyún Fāng is owned by the Jiǎn family. It's said that a thousand years ago, the Jiǎn family had a powerful Yuányīng period strongman who was the Supreme Elder of Luóyún Zōng, and his power was unmatched at the time. After the Yuányīng cultivator died, the Jiǎn family slightly declined, but they were still a well-known aristocratic family. The descendants of the Jiǎn family formed the Jiǎn family Xiūxiān clan, which is said to have a Golden Elixir Ancestor. Additionally, as the Jiǎn family was an important branch of Luóyún Zōng, they were able to occupy Qīngfēng Mountain, a place with spiritual energy, and established Liúyún Fāng within it.

  A mountain valley on the outskirts of a desolate mountain, Wang Chen carefully activated his Spiritual Eye Technique, and instantly the fog inside disappeared! The thick fog that had lingered for years was just an array set up by cultivators to prevent ordinary people from accidentally entering.

  Array method is also one of the hundred arts of refining truth. Practitioners use various materials to engrave talismans, form arrays, and ultimately mobilize the power of heaven and earth. However, the cultivation of array methods is extremely troublesome, and it does not have a direct promoting effect on cultivation, so there are very few people who study it!

  However, as a means of achieving victory through weakness, the formation is indeed unquestionable, and even in large-scale battles between cultivators, formations play a crucial role!

  The formation outside the city is simply ineffective and only serves to ward off ordinary people's confusion arrays! Even the simplest spiritual eye technique can see through it!

  Wang Chen took advantage of the effect of his spiritual eye technique and walked for half a time, and the thick fog indeed disappeared.

  After the thick fog disappeared, a town appeared in front of him. King Chen took a look and confirmed that it was indeed a town, only to find that this town was as big as Cangzhou City. King Chen walked on the street without showing any curiosity, pretending to have been here many times!

  As mentioned earlier, many frustrated cultivators rely on deception and even murder new cultivators to survive. If they reveal that they don't understand anything, something bad might happen!

  Strolling slowly on the street, there are many stalls scattered on both sides of the street. These people obviously sell things they have obtained themselves and do not want to sell at a low price to the purchasing merchants in the market, so they set up stalls to sell them.

  The Immortal's Bazaar is actually equivalent to a bustling street in the mortal world, but because of the scarcity of cultivation resources, conflicts often arise among cultivators. Therefore, high-level cultivators or family clans organize a bazaar to ensure the safety of transactions between cultivators.

  Of course, the organizers will also collect a certain amount of spirit stones as a fee! For example, setting up a stall in Liuyunfang City requires paying a certain amount of spirit stones.

  "Trifoliate orange flower, a material for practicing qigong in the early stage of qigong dispersal"

  "Qingyang flower, a medicinal material for later-stage internal elixir after practicing qigong"

  "Clear Wind Sword, a wind-attribute magic weapon. The spiritual energy it emits is slightly weaker than my Rainbow Sword magic weapon. It should be a mid-grade magic weapon, what a great thing!"

  …….

  Wang Chen looked at them one by one, referring to the various materials recorded on the jade slip. The light in his eyes flashed, "They're all good things!" However, after thinking about it, he didn't have a single spirit stone on him and couldn't help but feel a wave of depression.

  The stalls in the market are not many, and most of the vendors here are reclusive scattered cultivators, so the goods on the stalls are very cheap, suitable for Qi-refining period cultivists to exchange with each other!

  Wang Chen slowly turned around, his eyes dazzled by the numerous goods on display. He had walked through several streets of stalls and finally, with a tinge of regret, he glanced at a few more stalls before heading towards one tucked away in a corner!

  Gongfa, dan medicine, and faqi are all things that Wang Chen needs very much. However, there aren't many valuable things on Wang Chen's body to begin with, so he can't exchange for that many things and can only find the most essential things to trade!

  No spiritual stones or cultivation resources, this time the items exchanged must be able to continuously earn spiritual stones!

  The things on this stall are very messy, with a few pieces of demon beast materials, messy blank talismans, a bottle of low-grade elixir Refining Qi Powder and other items needed by low-grade cultivators. Wang Chen picked one up to take a look, then put it down, and after a moment, Wang Chen shook his head again!

  "Friend, what have you opened up! I can give it to you cheaply!" The stall owner asked without thinking. Wang Chen listened to this sweet voice and looked up, unable to help but be stunned!

  "What a beautiful girl! In the prime of youth, slender as a willow branch, with skin as white and flawless as jade, shining brightly like the autumn moon!"

  Wang Chen stared blankly for a moment, then came back to his senses, and couldn't help but secretly blame himself. The girl was also looked at by Wang Chen and became shy, lowering her head, with a blush on the back of her neck!

  Wang Chen coughed and said, "Fellow Taoist, I'd like to take a look at the talisman over there!" The girl heard this and handed over the talisman that Wang Chen was pointing at.

  Black brush, smooth pen holder with a cool breeze, upon closer inspection, the fur of the nameless monster below actually had a subtle five-color pattern of red, yellow, gold, green and blue. Wang Chen's eyes flashed with satisfaction as he transmitted his internal energy to the brush. Suddenly, the brush revealed a faint five-colored pattern!

  Playing with the pen, Wang Chen asked faintly: "How much is this pen?"

  "Sixty spirit stones!" The young girl gritted her teeth and said a ordinary price!

  Seals, like the Dan furnace, are generally quite expensive. For example, a low-grade seal pen would cost at least 100 spirit stones. Although this seal pen is of low grade and has decent workmanship, its five-elemental attribute is destined to be unpopular, and even moderately wealthy seal makers would choose a better seal pen!

  So sixty spiritual stones is also reasonable!

  "Sixty spirit stones isn't expensive at all, a low-grade artifact brush is almost the same price as one hundred spirit stones. Although this brush's attributes are slightly worse, it's absolutely not a loss. Besides, if I didn't want to buy an attack artifact, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to sell!" The girl saw that Wang Chen wasn't speaking up, so she spoke up to persuade him!

  Wang Chen heard the girl's words and a hint of smile flashed in his eyes, then he took out the low-grade artifact Rainbow Sword from his storage bag and handed it over!

  The girl took over the law enforcement instrument, and the smile in her eyes couldn't help but reveal itself. She opened her mouth and said: "Add 15 pieces of spiritual stone! Will you exchange this law enforcement instrument for a symbol pen?"

  The girl stared at Wang Chen with a look of expectation. Wang Chen glanced over and replied, "It's possible, but you have to add those fifty talismans and the cinnabar!"

  "Good!" The young girl excitedly put away the rainbow sword and handed over the talisman paper and cinnabar to Wang Chen. After that, Wang Chen chatted with the girl for a while, got some news about Liuyunfang Market, and then excused himself to leave!

  Liuyunfang City is divided into multiple regions. The areas near the entrances of several maze arrays are the most prosperous trading districts in Fang City, where monks can set up stalls by paying a small amount of spiritual stones.

  This street market is divided into four areas, located in the east, west, south and north of Fang City. Walking forward along the market are all sorts of shops. Some shops are relatively small, run by individuals or small cultivator families. But some other shops are astonishingly large.

  For example, in the Flowing Clouds City, there are four major shops. Jian's Flowing Cloud Pavilion, Luo Yunzong's Listening Rain Pavilion, Qingyunmen's Cloud Heaven Pavilion, and Wanshou Sect's Wanshou Pavilion. Among these four major shops, the Flowing Cloud Pavilion is the most prosperous, after all, the Jian family behind it is the local snake, occupying all the advantages. However, if we talk about the preciousness of things in the shop, the three major Xianmen schools of Xia Guo are still better!

  Jian family is the main household of Liuyunfang City, occupying an extremely vast area. The two mountain peaks with small spiritual veins on all sides of Liuyunfang City are the residence of Jian family cultivators.

  The spiritual energy of the land of spiritual veins is 30-40% higher than that of ordinary mountains. Although it's only three or four layers, the cumulative effect over the years is astonishing. On the path of cultivating immortality, every step you fall behind makes it harder to catch up!

  Of course, it's impossible for all the members of the Jian family to open up a cave on the mountain peak. Except for the foundation-building period cultivators, only the core members of the family have this treatment. Other members can at most find a place with more spiritual energy at the foot of the mountain.

  There are also places for cultivators to live and rest in the Flowing Clouds City. However, Qi-refining stage cultivators can only rent caves near the city. Those who are willing to pay enough spirit stones can also rent caves on the Spiritual Pulse Mountain Peak, but few cultivators do so, after all, being frugal and cautious is an iron rule in the cultivation world!

  Of course, if it's a foundation-building period cultivator, you don't need many spirit stones to rent a cave nearby. Strength determines treatment, this is universal everywhere!