Chapter 52: Fellows in the Capital

Chapter 52: Fellows in the Capital

Chapter 52: Fellows in the Capital
"Yichuan!"

This was the second Xiuxian Market that Lin Shan had heard of! He immediately asked impatiently.

Master Huang had no choice but to slowly tell him about the situation in Yichuan, which was similar to the Yinchuan described by Guangnan Sanren, both in scale and flow of people.

Lin Shan hurriedly asked about Yi Chuan's whereabouts. Master Huang did not hide anything and told him that the specific location was somewhere in the Yanyun Mountains, and how to enter and exit the magic circle outside the market town, etc.

Seeing Lin Shan's eager expression, Master Huang advised him not to go alone. The Yanyun area in the north was not very peaceful, and there were often some cultivators who would commit murder and robbery.

"So how did you get there, brother?"

Lin Shan was very suspicious about how Master Huang went there. It seemed that his strength in the early stage of Qi training was even worse than his own.

Immortal Master Huang hesitated for a moment, thinking that he only had a few years left to live. The Supreme Elder also hinted that he probably wanted to keep Lin Shan to succeed him as the head of Nightingale.

He simply told Lin Shan about his past experiences to help him avoid trouble.

It turned out that Master Huang had only obtained a casual cultivation inheritance when he was fifty years old, and luckily entered the Qi training stage. After three years of cultivation, he reached the peak of the third level of Qi training and encountered a bottleneck.

He estimated that it would take twenty years to break through this bottleneck.

This was the first time Lin Shan heard of someone cultivating so slowly! He and Guangnan Sanren both took a year and a half! It turned out that there was no worst aptitude for cultivation, only worse.

Master Huang didn't care about Lin Shan's expression. He said that he had no choice but to travel around looking for opportunities. As a result, he was spotted by the current Nightingale Grand Elder. After saying that, he glanced to the side.

The Grand Elder had a blank expression on his face as he drank his tea.

It is not difficult to predict what will happen next. The Supreme Elder hired Master Huang as a priest, paying him five spirit stones a year according to the market price.

Speaking of this, Lin Shan's face turned unhappy. This Huang Xianshi is worth five dollars, and I am only three dollars?

The great elder next to him was a little embarrassed, but as he had grown older and thicker-skinned, he just gave a dry laugh.

Immortal Master Huang was unaware of the conflict between the two men. He said that he had been a guest official for less than a year when he heard other fellow cultivators in the capital city talk about the northern immortal cultivation market "Yichuan".

Huang Xianshi heard this for the first time and was overjoyed. Before he even had time to sit down, he immediately resigned from his position as a worshiper to the Grand Elder and ran directly to Yichuan!
When he arrived at the Yanyun Mountains, he couldn't find the entrance. He happened to meet another casual cultivator who invited him to go to Yichuan together. Huang Xianshi followed him happily, but he was deceived.

After that man brought Master Huang to Yichuan Market, he instigated him to borrow money from a loan shark!
That’s right! There is also loan sharking in the world of cultivation!
Originally, Master Huang thought that he didn't have a single spiritual stone in his pocket, and he was a poor guy, so he was not worth anyone's attention. Moreover, if someone wanted to kill him, he could do it in the Yanyun Mountains because his cultivation was so low, so there was no need to help him enter Yichuan.

So without any precautions, he believed the man's lies.

But I didn't expect that the casual cultivator was actually a human trafficker! To be more precise, a human trafficker in the world of immortal cultivation!
Huang Xianshi borrowed the loan at high interest rates, but he spent all the money in less than a month. Then, because he could not pay back the interest, he was forced to sign a 20-year indenture with the organization that lent the money.

In the next twenty years, he became a member of the slave market in the cultivation world and was sold to other cultivators. He served others all day long like a servant.

After 20 years, the cultivator who bought him was still trustworthy and released him. Of course, it could also be because he was over 70 years old and no longer qualified for labor.

Just like that, after Huang Xianshi regained his freedom, his subsequent experience was similar to that of Guangnan Sanren. He worked everywhere and encountered setbacks everywhere. Finally, he could not make a living and had to leave Xiuxian Market and return to the mortal world.

After returning, Master Huang shamelessly went back to Nightingale and found the Supreme Elder.

This old guy has been on the run for twenty years, and he still has the nerve to come back! The Supreme Elder naturally wouldn't treat him well, but he still treated him as a guest official.

From then on, Master Huang gave up the idea of ​​cultivating immortality and simply stayed at home enjoying himself all day long. This has been going on for another twenty years.

...After listening to Master Huang’s experience, Lin Shan was completely speechless.

It's ok that there are human traffickers in the world of immortal cultivation, but you even dare to touch loan sharks! You are really bold.

However, Master Huang's experience did remind him that the world of immortal cultivation was far more dangerous than he had imagined, and low-level immortal cultivators were just lambs in the eyes of some people.

However, Lin Shan had made up his mind and decided to go.

Seeing that he could not persuade Lin Shan, Master Huang could only give the Supreme Elder a helpless look, but he did provide Lin Shan with a piece of news.

"About every ten years, the cultivators in my small circle in the capital will go to Yichuan Market to exchange some things. You can go with everyone. It will be safer with more people!"

Lin Shan's eyes lit up and he quickly asked how long it would take.

"Within a month!" Immortal Master Huang had a look of urgency on his face, and added: "I will go this time too, and I can take you with me then.

Lin Shan could certainly wait for about a month, and it would be easier to take care of them with more people.

However, Lin Shan was a little worried about the fellow cultivators that Master Huang mentioned: "Brother Huang, what are the cultivation levels of those fellow cultivators you mentioned?"

Immortal Master Huang smiled softly, "Don't worry, those who wander around in the secular world are basically in the early and middle stages of Qi training. As for the cultivators in the later stages, they will generally try to stay in the spiritual veins and try every means to cultivate to perfection in Qi training, and strive for a chance to break through the foundation-building stage."

Then the old man thought about it again, took out a stack of paper talismans from the storage bag on his waist, put them to his mouth and said something unknown, and then the talismans scattered, flew out of the hall and disappeared.

Lin Shan looked at Master Huang's operation in amazement, not knowing what was going on.

Huang Xianshi stroked his goatee and explained to him with a smile: "I'll inform a few fellow Taoists in advance that you're going to Yichuan together. By the way, we usually have to meet before we set off, so let's set it tomorrow and I'll take you to meet them!"

Lin Shan nodded and asked about the paper talismans.

Immortal Master Huang explained the sound transmission talisman and told him that it was worthless. One spirit stone could buy one hundred of them in Yichuan. It could fly to a designated location within a radius of ten miles. The disadvantage was that it might be intercepted by other cultivators.

Lin Shan asked around how many immortal cultivators there were in the entire capital. But this time, Master Huang was stumped.

He thought hesitantly, "On the surface, probably about thirty or forty, but secretly, probably seventy or eighty."

"so much?"

Lin Shan suddenly felt that the capital city was not very safe.

The Grand Elder at the side also explained to Lin Shan at this time: "The capital is the headquarters of all the major forces in the world. For example, Nightingale is hiding in the mansion of Marquis Bowang. Other dukes' mansions and even royal mansions have powerful forces in charge. There are quite a few forces that can afford to support the Immortal Master."

Lin Shan suddenly remembered that the greatest power in the Song Dynasty was the royal family.

"What about the royal family? They probably have more immortal masters."

The Grand Elder and Huang Xianshi on the side showed a rare solemn look:
"They don't need to worship an immortal master, because the royal family was originally supported by the cultivation world, and there are three major sects of foundation-building cultivators stationed in rotation! No villain dares to trespass into the palace!"

Lin Shan, who was standing by, heard that there was a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage in the palace!
Then wouldn’t his fantasy of secretly watching the concubine taking a bath be shattered?

(End of this chapter)