Chapter 53 Night Visit
Chapter 53 Night Visit
At night, Lin Shan sat cross-legged in the house to practice.
After chatting with the Grand Elder and Master Huang for a while during the day, I had a general understanding of the independent cultivators in the capital and the Yichuan market. Now I just have to wait for tomorrow to meet the cultivators that Master Huang mentioned.
Master Huang told him that before each departure, there would be an exchange meeting within the small circle.
That is, each cultivator would take out the things he didn't need and exchange them with other cultivators, or buy them with spirit stones. The purpose was to enhance their strength or financial resources before going to Yichuan.
After all, on the way to Yichuan, these casual cultivators who were in the early to middle stages of Qi training could easily become targets of robbery.
What Lin Shan was worried about was that he was short of spirit stones and had no idle treasures.
If you really want to, you can give me the Nuan Yang Jade Pendant given by Lei Zhenzi. However, it is a low-level refining material after all, and I don't know if anyone wants it.
As for the Purple Spirit Fruit core and the Soul Wood Fish remains, these things must be of great value, so we must find a big buyer in the Xiuxian Market.
And now the most urgent thing for him is that he needs some powerful spells, magic tools, or talismans. He always feels that the trip to Yichuan may not go smoothly.
……
Around three o'clock in the morning, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in!"
"Squeak~"
The door was pushed open, and the person who came in was the Nightingale Grand Elder.
Lin Shan finished his training and opened his eyes. "I wonder what brings you here so late at night, Elder."
The Grand Elder closed the door, sat down opposite Lin Shan, shook his eyebrows, pushed a three-foot-long brocade box in front of Lin Shan, and said with a smile:
"Master Lin, I came here to ask you for a favor."
Lin Shan didn't look at what was in the brocade box. The Supreme Elder would not come to the temple for no reason. His coming must be for something important. As for why he didn't say anything during the day, it was probably to avoid Master Huang.
"You're not inviting me to be a worshiper, are you? I'm still young and want to go to Yichuan Market to broaden my horizons. I'm afraid I can't obey your order for the time being. But maybe I can't make it there in the future, so I'll have to ask the Great Elder to take me in!"
Lin Shan didn't say anything too decisive, leaving himself a way out.
The Supreme Elder chuckled and didn't mind at all that Lin Shan treated him as a backup. He was certain that Lin Shan would come back sooner or later.
Young people, you will not come back without experiencing the beatings of society. I have already seen through everything!
However, the Grand Elder did not reveal anything and just pointed at the brocade box with his hand.
"Let's not talk about offerings for now. Don't worry, my friend. The door of Nightingale is always open to you. I came here tonight for another request. You can open it first and take a look!"
Lin Shan opened the brocade box as he was told, and the next second his face was filled with various colors.
In the three-foot-long brocade box, colorful spiritual stones were neatly arranged, shining brightly in the wooden house illuminated by the oil lamp.
After a rough count, there are as many as forty or fifty of them with different attributes!
"call!"
Lin Shan's breathing immediately became heavy. He had never seen so many spirit stones before! Was Nightingale so rich?
Thoughts flashed in his mind. After about five breaths, Lin Shan forced himself to look away. He did not touch the spiritual stone in the box, but asked the Supreme Elder: "Can you tell me what it is first?"
The Grand Elder smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. I just want to ask Master Lin to buy something for me in Yichuan. As long as you can bring it back safely, the remaining spirit stones will be given to Master Lin."
"What?"
"Xiantian Zhu Fruit!"
Lin Shan found this strange. Could it be that the Supreme Elder knew some clues?
The Grand Elder said pointedly, "I know that a while ago, Xiantian Zhu Fruit appeared in Jingxiang. I think Master Lin must have gotten it. If Master Lin is willing to give it up, I will give you these 50 spirit stones!"
"Unfortunately, I have already used it up." Lin Shan shook his head. If he had known that the Vermilion Fruit could be exchanged for 50 Spiritual Stones, he might have hesitated. However, it seems that the Supreme Elder knows clues to other Vermilion Fruits.
"No problem." The Grand Elder nodded, with a look as if he had expected this.
"I have been searching for relevant information for decades and learned that the wild red fruits in the mortal world are hidden in deep mountains and swamps. Most of them are not easy to find. However, some major cultivation sects or cultivation families have spiritual fields to cultivate them to this day."
"Some large shops in Yichuan have the shadow of immortal cultivation forces behind them. And the Baibao Pavilion has stocks of Xiantian Zhu Fruit. According to some cultivators, this ordinary spiritual object is similar to a low-level magic weapon and can be obtained for about 30 spirit stones."
"Unfortunately, I am a mortal, not a cultivator, so I cannot enter the Xiuxian Market, so I can only ask Immortal Master Lin to do it for me."
Lin Shan listened thoughtfully and had some understanding of the basic prices in the cultivation world. However, when it comes to the selection of immortal masters for purchasing, it should not be his turn.
"Why don't you look for Master Huang, Elder? After all, we have known each other for more than 20 years. I am a newcomer. How can I deserve such trust?" Lin Shan raised his doubts.
Speaking of Master Huang, the Grand Elder looked helpless:
"Master Huang's cultivation is too low. He has never left the capital since he came back 20 years ago. This time, his death is approaching, and he decided to take the risk to go there in order to prepare for his funeral. It is still unclear whether he can come back."
The implication is that you feel unsafe.
In addition, the Grand Elder shook his head and said, "Master Huang likes to be smart, otherwise why would he be cheated by a loan shark? It's all because of his greed! Humph! How dare I entrust a great cultivator to be sold as a slave?"
After hearing this, Lin Shan understood that Master Huang was indeed a cause for concern. If it were him, he probably wouldn't dare to entrust him with the task.
At the same time, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart, this Huang Xianshi is so unreliable, his small circle of cultivators won't be unreliable! If we go to Yichuan together, won't there be any moles?
The two discussed again for a long time at night, and Lin Shan finally accepted the 50 spirit stones.
Anyway, it's a convenient business, and I can make a net profit of 20 spirit stones, so I might as well do it.
As for what the Supreme Elder wanted to do with the innate red fruit, Lin Shan was too lazy to ask. It was the other person's business how to deal with it.
Finally, Lin Shan entrusted the Supreme Elder to use the Nightingale channel to help him find out whether there was any news in the past two years that any prince or noble in the capital had brought back a giant black lotus Buddha statue from Zangke County in southern Xinjiang.
The Grand Elder readily agreed and claimed that he would be informed as soon as there was any news.
……
On the second day, Lin Shan went to look for Master Huang early.
The old man came out in disheveled clothes, hugging his maid. He dressed up reluctantly and then left the Nightingale headquarters with Lin Shan.
The street outside the Marquis Bowang Mansion was crowded with people. The morning market in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty opened relatively early, and countless people in the city began a day of hard work.
Lin Shan asked curiously along the way, asking whether Master Huang, who was almost a hundred years old, still had the same vigor and vitality. Master Huang hesitated and avoided the question.
At this time, four people had been waiting for a long time in a private room on the top floor of a teahouse in the south of Bianliang City.
One of the green-robed old men was chatting and laughing with the people around him: "That old man Huang from Nightingale finally came out this time. I don't know what made him so brave to come back to Yichuan! Didn't he have a psychological trauma from being cheated that year?"
Another middle-aged woman who looked like a Taoist nun in a black robe covered her mouth and laughed, "According to what Old Man Huang said in the sound transmission note, this time he followed a young man in the middle stage of Qi training. I think this is his reliance."
"Hmph!" A middle-aged man with a hooked nose put down his teacup. "Over the past twenty years, Old Man Huang has accumulated a fortune worth hundreds of spirit stones! His cultivation is so low, isn't he afraid of being treated as a fat sheep and being snatched away by others?"
The green-robed old man next to them laughed strangely, and the black-robed Taoist nun seemed to be thinking about something.
Finally, there was a man wearing a bamboo hat who said nothing and just listened to their conversation quietly.
……
Half an hour later, Master Huang brought Lin Shan into the teahouse.
(End of this chapter)