Chapter 48 The Prodigal Son Nan Xianshi
Chapter 48 The Prodigal Son Nan Xianshi
Yinchuan Market is a gathering place for immortal cultivators, but it is more like a loose cultivator alliance. There are also organizations established by high-level cultivators to maintain and establish order.
Simply put, it means not to keep idle people.
After all, there are billions of living beings in the world, and there are also many independent cultivators, but there is only one spiritual vein in the market town. If there are too many cultivators, there will not be enough spiritual energy to be distributed, so there must be a limit on the number of people.
If you want to live and practice in the market town, rent is essential. Some places with rich spiritual energy may even cost dozens of spirit stones a month.
Guangnan Sanren was a poor guy, with only sixty or seventy spirit stones as his belongings. He had no choice but to rent a small house on the outermost floor, but it cost two spirit stones a month.
However, Guangnan Sanren did not rent a place just to practice. He understood the situation there at the time. The cultivators all had their own livelihoods and could earn spirit stones to ensure their stay here.
So he started applying for jobs, first going to a weapon making workshop to work as a blacksmith for a weapon making master.
However, the equipment needed by cultivators for their magic tools must be at least low-level spiritual objects.
Ordinary iron becomes steel after being forged a hundred times, and becomes fine steel after being forged ten thousand times. It takes a hundred thousand times of forging to become the equipment for cultivating immortals, which is the so-called first-level spiritual material - fine iron.
Although Guangnan Sanren was in the middle stage of Qi training, he was already seventy years old, and his physical strength could not keep up with the long-term iron forging. As a result, his iron forging "output" was far less than that of the weapon training apprentices of the same period, and he was finally dismissed by the weapon forging workshop.
He refused to admit defeat and tried to work in the alchemy workshop as a fire boy. However, he did not understand pharmacology and kept making mistakes, ruining several furnaces of medicinal materials and was driven away.
After that, he tried a series of jobs, such as being a salesman in an auction house, a feeder in a spirit beast pen, a buyer in a formation pavilion, a craftsman in a puppet house, a quality inspector in a talisman building, etc., but was fired one by one.
Finally he realized that without a skill, he would not be able to gain a foothold in the Xiuxian market.
At this moment, the spiritual fields and plants outside the market town were recruiting farmers and workers, and Guangnan Sanren realized that the opportunity had come.
Farming? That's my specialty!
So he went there excitedly, only to find that the pests in the spiritual fields were much more difficult to deal with than those in the mortal world, and he also needed to learn spells such as rainmaking, fertilizing, and temperature control. It was not as simple as growing vegetables in the mortal world.
Guangnan Sanren made up his mind and spent twenty spirit stones to buy a book called "A Complete Guide to Planting Spiritual Fields and Spiritual Plants" in the market. It not only contains various farming experiences, but also some basic spells such as making rain and applying fertilizer.
Through diligent study and practice, he, who had a natural talent for farming, learned how to cast the spell of controlling the clouds and rain. The spiritual fields under his care gradually regained their vitality, and the spiritual valleys became visibly fuller day by day.
But the good times did not last long. Just when Guangnan Sanren's side was starting to get better, he happened to run into a fight between immortal cultivators outside the market town. One of the fighters was a disciple from the Beast Taming Valley, one of the three major sects in the immortal cultivation world.
The Beast Taming Valley is good at controlling all kinds of poisonous insects. During the battle, some poisonous insects were accidentally left behind, and later they slowly wreaked havoc in the spiritual fields outside the market town, becoming an insect plague.
Finally, seeing that the situation had become a serious matter, the masters of the foundation-building stage in the market town took action and finally eliminated the insect plague, but all the spiritual fields were abandoned.
The farmer was also a senior businessman. After learning that the culprit was a disciple of the Beast Taming Valley of a large sect, he did not dare to seek justice and could only grit his teeth and endure it. Perhaps he felt that the spiritual farm was a risky business and could be ruined by others if he was not careful, so he gave up the business.
Guangnan Sanren was in tears. He had just learned a skill, but his boss went bankrupt! He was totally at a loss.
After two years of struggling in Yinchuan Market, he had spent all his spirit stones and finally could not pay the rent. This old man in his seventies had to sadly leave this immortal cultivation market that he was reluctant to leave.
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After returning to the secular world, Guangnan Sanren found his old friend in a dejected state. He regretted not listening to his friend's advice and poured out his heart to him.
His good friend comforted him and advised him again to become a servant of a mortal king, to enjoy himself leisurely, wouldn't that be happy?
So Guangnan Sanren found the prince he had worshipped before. That prince was quite open-minded and did not hold a grudge against the past, and continued to let him worship.
Guangnan Sanren completely gave up on practicing and devoted himself to enjoying himself. He died at the age of over 90.
Before he died, he returned to his hometown, left behind a legacy, and made a jade slip for his younger generations, hoping that they would learn from it and avoid taking detours.
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Lin Shan opened his eyes with a complicated expression, thinking about Guangnan Sanren's life, which was inexplicably similar to the experience of most people in his previous life. He lost at the starting point when he was born, and then went to the big city to fight, but he couldn't survive without skills, and was finally forced to leave the big city and return to the corner of his hometown to spend the rest of his life.
"Alas, is this the current situation of ordinary immortal cultivators? No wonder Senior Brother and Sister Nanxian chose to be guests in the Chu Palace. They must have read the biography of Guangnan Sanren."
Lin Shan made a comparison and found that apart from the enhanced panel, he seemed to be inferior to the Guangnan wanderer who had just entered Yinchuan Market in other aspects.
Others have practiced Qi at the sixth level, while I have practiced Qi at the third level; they have at least 60 or 70 spiritual stones, while I only have 8; at the very least, they have learned how to plant spiritual fields, while I don’t have any skills at all
Could it be that finding a big power to serve as a guest official is the right choice for a casual cultivator?
Could it be that the immortal master worshipped by Nightingale’s headquarters in Beijing is also this kind of poor and independent cultivator?
Lin Shan felt that his guess was probably pretty close.
But suddenly I remembered that after Guangnan Sanren came back from Yinchuan, he served in the palace for more than 20 years! Calculating, he had at least hundreds of spiritual stones left in his hands before he died! And the skill book "Spiritual Field Spiritual Plant Planting Encyclopedia"!
Lin Shan hurriedly rummaged through his storage bag. Eight spirit stones were lying there quietly, and nothing else.
In a trance, Master Nan was quietly laughing at him.
"Fuck! Damn loser!"
Lin Shan couldn't help but jump up and cry out in grief, "Hundreds of spiritual stones! And a skill book! Just gone like that?"
He could guess that Master Nan got the inheritance three hundred years later, and then practiced to the middle stage of Qi training. He found "Yinchuan" by some unknown method and spent money to buy elixirs for his sister. After that, he felt that farming had no future, so he simply sold his skill book and then spent a lot of money to buy defensive talismans and healing talismans.
I rely on!
Lin Shan felt sorry for Guangnan Sanren when he thought about it. He had saved up his fortune for so many years, but it was all wasted by this spendthrift Nanxianshi!
If it were me, I would either directly exchange for elixirs to improve my cultivation, or buy a skill book to learn and acquire a skill to make money first.
As for this guy, Master Nanxian, he simply chose to lie down, spend his money, and live paycheck to paycheck.
Then I will go back to the mortal dynasty in the countryside to be a guest official. As long as I am bad enough, the capitalists in the immortal world will never be able to exploit me!
Damn! There is no way to support a wall with mud!
Lin Shan was angry, but he didn't recall at all that he had thought the same in his previous life. He wanted to experience the big city first, and then return to his hometown, a small county, to get married and have children. It could be simply summed up in one word.
Just "muddle" and it's over!
……
After a while, Lin Shan had to accept the fact.
Master Nanxian’s choice is actually not unreasonable. If a casual cultivator does not have a heaven-defying opportunity, it is indeed difficult to climb up.
However, Lin Shan has an enhanced panel, so he is naturally unwilling to be ordinary. He is only 18 years old and has unlimited possibilities.
After learning about the subsequent great realms, especially the Nascent Soul Stage which has a lifespan of nearly a thousand years, he developed an endless yearning for it.
What’s more, on the night when he obtained the ancient charm in the wild temple in the mountains, the powerful person who was against the will of heaven, the “enhanced panel”, personally prompted and introduced him.
Buddha in the fairy world.
Even looking at him from across the distance.
"This world is big, and I still have a bright future!"
Lin Shan clenched his fists, his eyes full of ambition and lofty aspirations.
Then he remembered that he had something else in his hand, which might bring him an unexpected surprise before going to the capital.
"Innate Red Fruit".
(End of this chapter)