Chapter 52: The Hutong
Chapter 52 The Hutong
Not long after walking, a young guy at the second level of the Qi Refining Realm came over and said respectfully, ”Senior, are you new to the Moon Worshipping Immortal City? Do you need a guide? It’s only one inferior spirit stone a day.”
Su Yu looked at him, this youngster was skinny and dark looking, like a small leather monkey, with a little shrewdness in his respect.
Su Yu nodded and said, “Then follow.”
The teenager was overjoyed and hurriedly followed behind Su Yu, carefully asking, “Where does senior want to go?”
Su Yu said, “Take a casual stroll, you talk about the Moon Worshipping Immortal City.”
The teenager realized, and while following along, he said, “The Moon Worshipping Immortal City was created by the Moon Worshipping True Lord, and under the True Lord’s command, there are three personal disciples, who control the three halls of the Immortal City’s Spirit Hall, Battle Hall, and True Hall respectively.”
“The Spirit Hall controls the harvest of all the spiritual fields and spiritual objects in the Immortal City, including the inner and outer domains of the city, except for the core region, and the sale and purchase of houses.”
“This is controlled by the True Great Disciple ‘Elder Tian Pu’.”
“The Battle Palace controls all of Immortal City’s guards, including the Battle Squad.”
“This is controlled by the True Lord’s second disciple, ‘Fairy Wind Spirit’.”
“The Hall of Truth controls the Immortal City’s recruitment of Immortal Cultivators who are proficient in all arts, created shortly by Xu Wansheng, the third disciple of the True Man.”
The young man continued, “The concentration of aura in the outer domain of the Immortal City is roughly equivalent to a first-order spirit vein blessed land, and most of the people living there are in the Refinement Realm as well as those without spiritual roots, making it rather cluttered.”
“The inner domain houses or caves are equivalent to the concentration of second-order spirit vein blessed land, where most of them are late-stage qi refining realm as well as seniors of the foundation building realm; at the core, there are caves with the aura of third-order spirit vein blessed land.”
He looked down at Su Yu and carefully asked, “Does senior want to stay in the outer domain or the inner domain?”
Su Yu pondered for a moment and said, “Let’s go, head to the inner domain.”
“Do you know of any good places houses for sale in the Inner Domain?”
“Know know.”
The teenager asked about Su Yu’s requirements, and then led Su Yu to the inner domain of the Moon Worshipping Immortal City, another layer of large formations separating the inside and outside.
The moment he passed through the entrance and exit of the inner domain’s city gate, an even denser heaven and earth spiritual qi pounced on his face.
The teenager led Su Yu to five places, and finally picked an empty courtyard at the very back in an alleyway.
The courtyard was not big, with a front garden and three houses.
Underneath the three houses were secret chambers for seclusion.
Su Yu had spent 1,300 lower grade spirit stones to buy it, of which the Spirit Hall had charged nearly 100 lower grade spirit stones for the transaction.
There were six courtyards in the same hutong, and apart from Su Yu’s courtyard, the other five courtyards were all inhabited.
The teenager was quite familiar with the place and knew what kind of people lived in the five courtyards.
“The courtyards across from senior live with two fairies, I heard that they are from the Drunken Immortal House, senior definitely has a blessing for the eyes when living here.”
“And the courtyard neighboring senior’s is inhabited by a first rank upper grade refiner.”
“This outermost courtyard seems to be inhabited by a family of four, mainly operating the spirit fields of Immortal City.”
“There are also two other homes, one is occupied by a first-rank upper-grade talisman master, and it is heard that he has joined the True Hall and is a cultivator of the True Hall.”
“There is also another family that is a senior at the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm, who lives in deep seclusion and is seldom seen, and I don’t know what he does.”
After completing the transaction procedures for the courtyard, Su Yu followed the teenager to stroll around the neighborhood again, purchasing things for the courtyard in the meantime.
A few blocks away from here was a workshop market.
Inside, there were quite a few scattered cultivator stalls in addition to stores, very lively.
Su Yu also saw stores selling second-order demonic beast blood, second-order talismans and other materials.
When he came back, the teenager brought Su Yu around and went to see the Drunken Immortal Building that the teenager had mentioned.
A fairy in the guise of a singer and dancer, looking from afar could make one curse ‘Shameless, why didn’t you call on me’, and proceed to walk over.
But Su Yu just looked from afar, listening to the sound of zither and music that vaguely emanated from the Drunken Immortal Building, he pondered.
The hundred arts of Immortal Cultivation, including the art of music.
It was just that he didn’t know if the music arts in here were proper.
Ahem.
Go back.
Giving the teenager an extra lower grade spirit stone to be considered as a hard work fee, Su Yu returned to the courtyard alone and tidied up the room he was staying in. Then laying down a set of first rank top grade top defense formation for the courtyard, as well as laying down a set of spirit gathering formation in the room’s secret chamber.
“Great work done.”
Su Yu nodded with satisfaction, temporarily having a nest in Immortal City.
Although it was still very simple, anything that was missing could be purchased slowly later.
Afterwards, Su Yu sat down on his knees in the secret room and began today’s cultivation.
Buying the small courtyard had cost Su Yu 1,300 inferior spirit stones, and now Su Yu still had a small treasury of nearly 3,000 inferior spirit stones in his hand.
It seemed quite a lot, but in reality, he might have to consume eight hundred and one thousand lower grade spirit stones in a year of cultivation.
On top of that, there was also raising the rank and proficiency of alchemists, talisman masters, and puppet masters.
Especially for the puppet master, that second-ranked Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast was still missing half of its materials.
That was still at least two thousand lower grade spirit stones to smash in.
“When we settle down, we still have to figure out how to make money.” Su Yu secretly pondered.
The three of alchemy, talismans, and puppets could all be used to make money.
But –
He wasn’t prepared to show them all.
“So, it’s better to use the identity of an alchemist on the surface.”
“If alchemy isn’t enough to maintain a balance between income and expenses, then secretly you can sell some talismans.”
After completing today’s cultivation routine, Su Yu thought of Chen Sisi who had previously come to sit in the stronghold of Moon Worshipping Immortal City.
After pondering for a moment, Su Yu secretly said, “We’ll invite her to get together when we settle down.”
After all, she was an old acquaintance.
Late at night, the two women wearing face scarves returned to the hutong arm in arm, and could not help but let out a shocked gasp, “Someone from across the street moved in?”
The next morning, when Su Yu was still practicing the Golden Cicada Technique, there was a knock on the door from outside.
When Su Yu went out and opened the door, a woman wearing a light blue dress and a white veil stood in front of the door.
Although she couldn’t see her appearance, she could at least have an eight in general.
Moreover, the woman also had a strange dusty temperament, like a fairy in the red dust.
Seeing the other party, Su Yu really felt stunning for a moment.
However, very quickly, Su Yu recovered and said with a bit of surprise, “You are…”
The woman laughed lightly handing over a fruit basket in her hand, saying, “I am the neighbor across the street, named Lan Shi, last night I saw that you moved in, so today I took the liberty of coming to pay a visit, here is a bit of unusual spirit fruits, I hope that you don’t mind.”
Su Yu took the fruit basket and said, “Su Yu. As for disdain of course I won’t, many thanks fellow Daoist.”
Then with an apology, he said, “It should be me who pays a visit to the door, sorry sorry sorry.”
After a few moments of small talk, the woman asked, “I still don’t know what Fellow Daoist Su specializes in?”
Su Yu said, “Alchemy, I’m a first rank upper grade alchemist, if you, Fellow Daoist Lan, have any need for pills, you can look for me.”
Lan Shi’s eyes brightened slightly, “Alchemist? Haha, good, when the time comes, Dao Friend Su must give a discount. This way, counting fellow Daoist, we have an alchemist, an artifact refiner, and a talisman master in this hutong, giggle giggle.”
Not long after, the woman excused herself and left.
After chatting, Su Yu had a deeper understanding of the other neighbors, and the woman’s sister was named Blue Palace.
Both of them were professional musicians at Drunken Immortal Mansion, specializing in zither instruments.
Lan Shi was at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm and Lan Gong was at the seventh level of the Qi Refining Realm cultivation.
Su Yu pondered about going over to pay a visit or two later, as for a gift, he could send a bottle of Qi Refining Dan.
As a courtesy, he would visit the other neighbors when he had the chance.
How to carry out the matter of refining pills to earn money, he still had to think carefully.
(End of chapter)