Chapter 1169 – Purchasing Vestments
After seeing a few people into the city, Xu Chuniang walked unhurriedly towards Sand City.
She still had some injuries on her body, and although they weren’t very serious, they needed to be taken care of as soon as possible.
The vines also had several serious injuries and needed to recuperate.
The situation was pretty much understood, and the rest, there was no rush.
Being new to the city, Xu Chuniang planned to enter the city first, purchase some essential items, and then find a place outside the city to camp and recuperate.
The annual entry fee of three hundred and sixty thousand magic crystals, although she could afford it, she didn’t intend to spend the magic crystals here.
At the city gates, two cultivators guarding the city stopped her, “Please show the entry order.”
The city entry order Xu Chuniang naturally did not have, she thought about it and took out ten medium grade magic crystals and paid the one day fee.
The cultivator guarding the city took the magic crystals and handed her an earth-brown circular token.
“This is the entry order, with this token, you can stay in the city for one day, and if you are unable to renew the fee after one day, you must return this order and leave Sand City.”
Xu Chuniang took the token, it was extremely heavy in her hand, and it was estimated that heavy stones had been added to the refining of this token.
“If I want to camp outside the city, how many magic crystals are allowed to be paid?”
The guards were half-surprised by her question; in fact, there really weren’t many cultivators who could afford to live in Sand City.
Other than the people from the Chamber of Commerce, it was mostly merchants and cultivators who had properties in the city.
Most of the cultivators who came to Sand City would choose to be stationed outside the city, and usually would not enter the city at all if there was nothing going on.
“To camp outside thirty feet, you need to pay six thousand magic crystals per month, and to camp outside a hundred feet, you need to pay three thousand magic crystals per month.
If the location of the encampment is more than three hundred zhang away from the sandy city, no fees will be charged.”
From the guards’ mouths, Xu Chuniang learned that the effect of the city walls to adsorb sand and dust was limited, and that the closer the walls were to the city, the better the effect, and the more expensive the fees would be.
Once the distance exceeded three hundred feet, the effect was negligible, almost negligible.
In addition to the yellow sand flying in the sky, and the dust storms and turbulence that could appear at any time, the ubiquitous sand beasts in the Prisoner Sand Mountain were also a major threat.
Camping outside the city was usually fine when nothing happened, but once they encountered dust storm turbulence and a wave of sand beasts, they would be in a critical situation.
At such times, cultivators stationed outside the city would often take emergency shelter and temporarily enter the city.
That was why the closer the camping location was to the sand city, the safer it was.
Xu Chuniang thanked the guards and entered Sand City.
To the eye, there were earth-brown houses that matched the color of the city walls, and the streets were sparsely populated, with few people walking around.
In the stores that were operating on both sides, the fellows sat idly on the steps in front of the entrance, yawning in boredom.
When they saw Xu Chuniang, their eyes lit up and they stood up with a whoosh, enthusiastically soliciting business.
“Do you have anything you need, we have all kinds of tanned sand beast skins in our store, whether it’s used to make leather armor or talismans, it’s all excellent, want to take a look?”
“Our store has a long term supply of dustproof vestments and dustproof camping tents, the vestments and camping tents come with formations, the price is not expensive, do you want to know about it?”
“Although the sand beast skin and dustproof vestments are good, they can’t save your life when it’s critical, when you’re walking outside, it’s always right to prepare a few life-saving elixirs, the elixirs of our Rare Dan Pavilion are one of the best in Sand City!”
Xu Chuniang swept her gaze across the stores, finally looking towards the vestments held aloft in one man’s hand.
“How do you sell this vestment?” The yellow sand of the Imprisoned Sand Mountain was different from normal sand, the sand and dust here was very hard, and it also contained subtle and crushing law powers within it.
If there was no magic qi to protect the body and block these yellow sands, not only could they easily grind through the clothes, but once they were poured into the mouth and nose, they would even leave many tiny scars in the body.
The Gui cultivator and a few others who led the way for her just now were wearing this kind of vestments.
It was just that the vestments they were wearing looked gray, very worn out, and had a lot of patches on them.
The spirit of the fellow selling the vestments lifted and his tone was slightly higher.
“Fellow Daoist really has a good eye, this vestment is the best selling style in our store, both male and female cultivators can wear it, and it has an excellent effect in resisting yellow sand.
What’s more, the price isn’t too expensive, only sixty-eight thousand eight hundred magic crystals!”
Just a dustproof vestment, the selling price was actually as high as nearly seventy thousand, no wonder the vestments on the Gui surname cultivator’s several people were worn out and worn out, but they still couldn’t afford to replace them.
“Don’t think it’s too expensive, such a vestment, can wear at least ten years, on average, less than seven thousand magic crystals per year, accounting for the daily cost, less than twenty magic crystals!”
Seeing that she was silent, the fellow said kindly, “If you don’t have a vestment to protect your body, once you leave the city, you will have to protect your body with magic qi to resist the yellow sand.
If you continue for a day and night, the amount of magic qi consumed will be many times more than twenty magic crystals! And there’s no need to be distracted by that when fighting.”
Xu Chuniang hooked her lips, “This algorithm of yours, this is the first time I’ve heard of it, bring me a vestment.”
She did intend to acquire a dustproof vestment, saving her from having to divide her mind and magic qi against the yellow sand at all times when she went out of town.
On the way back to the city, cultivator Gui had informed her that the Prisoner Sand Mountain’s climate was unpredictable, but every twenty to thirty years, it would usher in a short period of stabilization.
Merchant caravans would often take advantage of the smooth period to bring a large amount of goods and rush back to the Northern Realm from Sand City.
The last stable period was less than ten years ago.
For the next ten or twenty years, she was afraid that she would have to spend them in this Prisoner Sand City.
“Alright!”
The fellow sharply took out a brand new vestment and handed it to Xu Chuniang with both hands, while grinning and asking skillfully.
“Dust-proof camping tent made of the same material, would you like to bring one? The tent is not only dust-proof, but also comes with an anti-peeping array and a space array, so whether you’re camping outside the city or going out to use it, it’s all very convenient, and it’s priced at a mere one hundred and twenty-six thousand, six hundred magic crystals.”
After the vestments were bought, the camping tent naturally had to be bought as well.
After all, the cultivators who came to Prisoner Sand Mountain to make a living were all clustered outside of the city, if she lived in the city, wouldn’t she be openly telling the other cultivators outside of the city that she had a lot of magic crystals on her?
“Alright, bring me one.”
The fellow smiled happily, and after accepting the magic crystals, he sharply handed the camping tent to Xu Chuniang, while solemnly promising.
“Guest is really quick, any item purchased in this store, once a problem arises during use, within ten years, it can be brought in for repair at any time!”
Xu Chuniang accepted the camping tent and draped the vestments over her body.
The original wide vestments immediately changed the moment they were put on, eventually fitting perfectly on her body as if they were tailor-made.
More importantly, this vestment was as thin as a cicada’s wing, and when worn on her body, she couldn’t feel its weight in the slightest.
Xu Chuniang was satisfied in her heart, this magic crystal had not been spent in vain.
After purchasing the vestments and the camping tent, she stepped into the other stores and purchased the topographical map of Prisoner Sand Mountain and other necessary items.
As for the pills, the healing effect wasn’t as good as the laws she had comprehended, so there was no need to buy them.