What surprised Old Xiaoyi was that Xianlai Town not only had a cultivator's shop, but also a cultivator's ghost market!
Every morning, some cultivators would spontaneously gather in a small alley in Xianlai Town. They would mingle with the town's residents and display their goods.
On the left were those who bought radishes, on the right were those who sold leafy vegetables, and in the middle were those who sold talismans, pills, and other cultivation items. It looked strange, but it was hard to believe that they got along so well with each other.
It was like a small flea market. It lasted for less than two hours in the morning, and after that, it would disperse.
For Itinerant Cultivators, there was nothing they could do about it. When they went to the shops to trade, they would buy at a high price and sell at a low price. The shops would always have to take some of the difference. For Itinerant Cultivators like them who needed to be careful with their spending, they were very unwilling to do so. Thus, the most ancient method of bartering came into being. Each took what they needed, and it was fair and reasonable.
However, this kind of spontaneous trading method had the possibility of being deceived and tricked. There were gains and losses, and there was nothing they could do about it.
With their methods, they naturally couldn't tolerate the shops on the ground, so they couldn't set up stalls on the only street in Xianlai Town. They could only mingle with the mortals who sold vegetables and meat. The suffering of Itinerant Cultivators at the bottom was obvious.
Most of the cultivators who set up stalls had one thing in common — they were talkative!
Regardless of whether you were talkative or not, setting up a stall here forced you to be talkative. Otherwise, how could you sell your goods?
During this process, Lou Xiaoyi learned a lot. This was actually a stage that ordinary Itinerant Cultivators had to go through. They would slowly enrich themselves through exploration, waiting for a possible opportunity to rise up.
He also finally understood that the Middle Parallel Qi Art really existed in the cultivation world! Furthermore, it was a very famous, very common, and very popular cultivation method. This was because it didn't have any influence on a cultivator's future. It was a basic cultivation method.
However, the Middle Parallel Qi Art Lou Xiaoyi had obtained was just a modified and simplified version of the Cultivator's version. However, the basic principles were the same …
He still couldn't understand how he had succeeded in stepping into the Dao under such impossible circumstances.
In this market where agriculture and cultivation coexisted, there was a rogue cultivator who stood out!
His hair was messy and untrimmed, and he probably hadn't washed his hair. A long scar ran from the corner of his left eye all the way to his right chin. He had a fierce gaze, and his entire body exuded an unruly temperament.
After conversing with the other cultivators, Lou Xiaoyi learned of this person's name. It was Liang Kuangren!
Liang was not a surname, but a nickname for the place where he came from. It meant that he was a crazy person who came from the land of Liang!
To be able to win such a reputation among the cultivators, even if it was at the lower level of the Qi eating stage, it showed that this person had extraordinary strength and a crazy and willful personality.
In fact, in the cultivation world, the behavior of cultivators was not much different from that of street thugs in the mortal world. The soft feared the hard, the hard feared the tyrannical, and the tyrannical feared the fearless …
Liang Kuangren was such a fearless person. On top of that, his strength was indeed very high, and there were a few fierce things that were spread in the cultivation circle, such as slaughtering an entire family, cutting open their stomachs, and so on. This created an impression that ordinary cultivators did not dare to provoke him.
Even if they were not weaker than him, even if they had the advantage of numbers, and even if they had reason, they would still try to keep the peace.
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong was the most basic human trait. In fact, it was not only limited to humans, but also other intelligent creatures.
For some reason, such a person had appeared in Xianlai Town in the past few days and set up a stall in the flea market to ask for medicinal pills, Qi-nourishing Pills, and Qi-eating Pills!
Unlike the stinginess of others, Liang Kuangren's stall was generous and straightforward. Hundreds of low-grade spirit stones were lined up in a small pile, and there was a cloth curtain next to it with the exchange price.
He had no choice but to set up his own stall because the shops in Xianlai Town had suppressed the price too much. Here, even someone as arrogant as Liang Kuangren did not dare to look down on the orthodoxy of Crane Mountain. This was the exchange price set by Xianlai Town, and all the shops in Xianlai Town could only obey.
Liang Kuangren was dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do. He had no choice but to set up his stall, hoping to meet a cultivator in need so that they could barter without a middleman.
The so-called Kuangren only had influence among the rogue cultivators. When it came to orthodoxies, there were only obedient people, and no Kuangren.
Lou Xiaoyi spent ten days to figure out the general situation of Xianlai Town's cultivation market. This might just be the tip of the iceberg, but for him, this tip was enough for him to digest. He could not care less about what was below the surface, as he did not have the ability to do so.
Thus, he settled the bill and led his horse out of the town, heading east …
In an ordinary courtyard in Xianlai Town, a voice sighed. "He's really not buying anything! He's really poor! "
Another voice sighed. "But this kid is still very clever. He's already plucked the horse's limbs, and we can't find them …"
The first voice said, "Why are you looking for him? You shouldn't have spent so much effort on him. Even if it's the most common tracking device, it still has a cost! If you have the time, why don't you just keep an eye on others? "
"Alright! I think that Kuangren is about to lose his patience. He'll be leaving in a few days! We've been secretly preventing others from trading with him all this time, so that we can vent his anger … But, have you prepared your men? This guy is quite famous, and his subordinates are tough. I'm afraid I won't be able to handle him if there aren't enough people around him! "
Lou Xiaoyi headed east, but after a few hours, he changed directions and headed north. Half a day later, he arrived at a hunter's house at the foot of an unknown mountain at dusk. This was the house he had stayed at before. The owner was very hospitable, but he had the temperament of a mountain dweller. When he saw someone he liked, he couldn't wait to entertain them with everything he had.
Leaving the two horses here, they accepted the host's banquets until the hunter was dead drunk and settled down a little. Only then did they take advantage of the night to turn around and head back. Traveling through the night and wearing the moon, they rushed back to the outskirts of Xian Lai Town before dawn. They sat cross-legged and recuperated, waiting for the right time.
At nine in the morning, Lou Xiaoyi did not change his attire too much. He swaggered into Xianlai Town because he knew that those mortal disguises could not be hidden from intentional cultivators. Since that was the case, why did he have to do something superfluous?
He directly went to the flea market in the alley. As expected, Liang Kuangren's face was full of impatience. He didn't expect that in this somewhat famous market in Anshun, he couldn't find anyone who could trade with him for more than a hundred spirit stones!
If he had known, he would've gone to a more distant and more familiar market. It would've been better than wasting his time here. He had decided that today would be the last day. If no one came to trade with him, he would find another place tomorrow. He wouldn't let those dirty goods in the market take advantage of him!
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