Chapter 679: Entering the City
Chapter 679: Entering the City
Looking at the female cultivator’s hesitation in front of him, the cultivator guarding the city sneered.
“Hurry up and pay, there are still people in line behind you, don’t delay things! If you can’t pay the spirit crystals, don’t enter the city.”
Xu Chuniang expressionlessly took out ten spirit crystals and handed them over without a word.
I guess this person saw that she had just ascended up and had no one to rely on, and clearly wanted to charge more spirit crystals.
Right now, hurrying into the city to convert her aura is the right thing to do, so ten crystals is ten crystals.
After collecting the spirit crystals, the cultivator guarding the gate gave a light grunt, and only then did he let her through.
He has seen a lot of cultivators flying up from the lower realm, all of them think they are the pride of the sky, and they are high and mighty.
In reality, these people are just lucky, when they go to the battlefield, less than one-fifth of them will survive.
Instead of dying on the battlefield with the remaining spirit crystals, it would be better to give them to him.
Xu Chuniang stepped into the city, not caring about the small interlude just now, and observed the cultivators coming and going in the city without leaving any traces.
She realized that none of these cultivators wore storage spells on their bodies, so it was no wonder that the man guarding the gate just now guessed that she was from the lower realms as soon as he saw her.
It seemed that the Spirit Realm’s storage means were even more skillful.
Xu Chuniang put away the storage ring she wore on her hand and stepped into an inn.
The inn’s fellow greeted her, “Senior, are you stopping over or staying?”
Xu Chuniang sighed in her heart, this place was worthy of being the Spirit Realm.
The fellows running around in a random store were actually at the YuanYing stage.
“I want to stay in a store, how do you charge here?”
“We have several sizes of guest rooms, the charges range from five spirit crystals a night, to several hundred spirit crystals, which one does the guest want?”
Being new to the Spirit Realm, Xu Chuniang only had on her the one hundred Spirit Crystals that were issued after participating in the service, and she had also spent ten of them when she entered the city.
It was a long way to the southwestern battlefield, so it was better to save the spirit crystals.
She asked for a room with five spirit crystals and prepaid for two days.
Two days should be enough time for her to finish converting her aura.
A room of five spirit crystals a night naturally could not be called luxurious, it was merely a place to land.
Xu Chuniang was not particular about this, and after sweeping her divine sense around the room, she sat down on her knees and ran her gong methods.
As the gong method operated, between one breath and the next, the spiritual qi, which was countless times more pure than that of the Qianluo Realm, was absorbed and inhaled into her body, replacing the original spiritual qi.
After lasting for an entire day and night, the aura in her body finally completed its conversion, a bit faster than expected.
Xu Chuniang opened her eyes, a bright light flashing in her eyes.
After completing the aura conversion, her cultivation hadn’t changed in any way, but her strength was more solid.
This was because the quality of the aura in the Spirit Realm far exceeded the quality of the aura in the Qian Luo Realm.
She tried to utilize her aura, and the consumption of her aura returned to normal, no longer wanting to be consumed in large quantities at the slightest movement of a divine ability technique like before.
Originally, Xu Chuniang had planned to continue her journey once her aura had completed its transformation.
However, she had paid the room fee for two days, and now she had only stayed for one day, so she might as well leave tomorrow.
There was nothing to do today, so it was a good time to go around the city and familiarize herself with the spirit world.
Xu Chuniang stepped out of the inn and walked down the street.
In the town, cultivators were not allowed to casually probe out their divine senses to startle others, and on the whole, the town was fairly stable.
Xu Chuniang swept past the stores along the street, which were magnificently decorated and imposing, and at a glance, one could tell that the things inside weren’t cheap.
She only had eighty lower-grade spirit crystals on her, so she probably couldn’t even afford the cheapest spirit items.
Turning around two streets, it immediately became lively in front of her eyes, with many cultivators haggling in front of the ground stalls.
Mixed with some hawking sounds, they intermittently reached their ears. At the stall closest to her, a thin-bodied male cultivator pointed at a small section of yellow root on the stall and shook his head.
“This Earth Spirit Essence of yours doesn’t look too good, it’s a bit smaller and a bit absent.”
The stall owner, a female cultivator, rolled her eyes nonchalantly at the words.
“Saying that my earth spirit is small and absent-minded? Then go to the Immortal Medicine Workshop, their Earth Spirit Essence can be more than this price.”
The male cultivator’s face flushed red, if he could afford the earth spirit essence from the Immortal Pill Workshop, why would he need to come here?
“Forget it, let it be smaller, it’ll work just fine.”
He muttered in a low voice and threw down thirty-two spirit crystals, buying away a copy of the earth spirit essence.
The stall owner was free and swept Xu Chuniang a glance, “This sister, new to the lower realms, right?”
Xu Chuniang didn’t expect that after putting her storage ring away and transforming her aura, she would still be recognized at a glance.
She was noncommittal on her face, but in her heart, she pondered, how on earth was she seen?
Seeing this, the stall owner smiled and waved his hand.
“Don’t think too much, I’ve set up a stall here for more than a hundred years, my eyes have long been practiced, and I can see people accurately.
This Qu City is the closest small city to the Receiving Office, and quite a few cultivators who have just ascended up from the lower realms will pass through here.”
Listening to the stall owner’s explanation, Xu Chuniang’s taut heartstrings relaxed quite a bit, not that she deliberately concealed her identity, but really did not want to cause unnecessary trouble.
“I have indeed just ascended from the lower realms.”
Hearing her admit it, the stall owner immediately came to life.
Not all cultivators from the Lower Realm were poor.
“Fellow Daoist is new to the Spirit Realm, and I don’t think you have many Spirit Crystals on you, do you?”
The stall owner smiled slightly, “Since you can ascend to the Spirit Realm, you must be a person in the Lower Realm as well, so if you have any spirit items on you that you can’t use, you can sell them directly to me.
In terms of price, I will definitely not let you suffer.”
It turned out that this stall owner, played with the idea of making a deal with her.
Fifth-order spirit, Xu Chuniang really remembered one thing, the Earth’s Heart Lotus.
In addition to the Earth Heart Lotus, those unknown clays she had dug up when she was in the Desolate Realm should not be of a lower grade than fifth rank.
As for that piece of jade with a cold body, the grade was only a little higher.
After pondering over it, Xu Chuniang did not hastily take out the Earth Core Lotus.
Before figuring out the market for the Earth Heart Lian, there was no need to expose it to people.
However, as someone who had ascended from the Lower Realm, it was rather unorthodox to not be able to take out a single high-grade spirit.
Xu Chuniang took out a Yuan Magnetic Xuan Stone and displayed the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light within it, “I wonder what this spiritual object, is worth?”
Seeing that what she had taken out was only a grade four spirit artifact, disappointment flashed in the stall owner’s eyes.
She took the Yuan Magnetic Xuan Stone and used her finger to test the sharpness of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light.
“Fourth rank extreme, twenty-eight lower grade spirit crystals if you offer it.”
Xu Chuniang swept a glance at the Earth Spirit Essence on the stall, which was a fourth-ranked top-grade spirit medicine and sold for thirty-two spirit crystals.
This Yuan Magnet Divine Light of hers was of a higher grade than the Earth Spirit Essence, but the price was not much different.
The stall owner swept the earth spirit essence along with her gaze and said indifferently.
“Earth Spirit Essence is a consumable type of spirit material, it is supposed to be scarce, I’ve set up a stall here for more than a hundred years, the price is most fair.
If you don’t believe me, feel free to ask at other stalls to see if anyone has offered a higher price than me.”
(End of chapter)