Chapter 133: Stalls on the Guest Ship

Lin Zhangqing used the jade plate voucher in his hand to open Room Jia-Fifteen. He found that the layout was the same as the one on Chen Zi Ya's side, so he had no interest in exploring it.

However, he still had to check the room carefully to see if there were any surveillance arrays or other things that could monitor him. Fortunately, after searching around, he didn't find anything.

Sitting in the living room, he thought about the destination this time, Jinzhou Prefecture. Calculated according to the current travel speed, it would take about four or five days to reach a prefecture, and then there would be one or two days for loading and unloading goods and waiting for guests.

Then, to reach Tongshan Village, it would basically take about a month. Fortunately, Lin Zhangqing and the others were not in a hurry.

It was no wonder that few Foundation Establishment cultivators would choose this kind of guest ship for travel; it was really too slow.

Unless it was a relatively long journey, for example, crossing multiple spheres of influence, then this method was the safest.

However, Lin Zhangqing didn't intend to go on such a long-distance trip for the time being, so he just understood it.

On the guest ship, Lin Zhangqing didn't dare to exhaust all his energy, so the time for practicing the Thunder True Scripture had to be reduced.

But it was only a little past the Chen hour now, and it was still early; it wasn't the time to practice the Thunder True Scripture yet.

The Purple Crystal Scorpion swarm in the Three Treasures Spirit Beast Bracelet was fed last night, and there were also ice crystals and mysterious crystal rocks in the space where they were for them to gnaw on, so there was no need to worry about them for the time being.

Chu Yi had to be let out to get some air; after all, it was used to flying freely, and it wasn't good for it to stay in the Spirit Beast Bracelet space all the time.

With a thought, Chu Yi appeared in front of Lin Zhangqing. Seeing its master, Chu Yi became excited, but unfortunately, the living room space was relatively small, and it couldn't fly.

Lin Zhangqing held it and stroked its feathers, while Chu Yi used its head to nudge Lin Zhangqing. This could also be considered an interaction between master and servant.

Now Chu Yi was already a first-grade late-stage spirit beast, but unfortunately, it had only entered the late stage for a short time.

It had only been three or four months, not even half a year. Lin Zhangqing really didn't dare to improve its strength; he would wait for a period of time.

After playing for a while, he remembered that he still had a white spirit-seeking rat. He had given it a little Hundred Flowers Drunken Soul Wine to treat the injuries on its soul. Several days had passed; it should have woken up, right? He probed his divine sense into the Three Treasures Spirit Beast Bracelet and saw a white mouse sleeping soundly in a small space. Could it be that it hadn't woken up yet?

Lin Zhangqing was a bit suspicious in his heart. He took it out of the Spirit Beast Bracelet and held it in his palm.

He felt the spiritual pressure emanating from its body; it was already first-grade late-stage, proving that it had successfully absorbed and digested all the Hundred Flowers Drunken Soul Wine.

He poked its belly with his finger. The little guy was quite alert. Feeling someone poking it, it woke up immediately and looked at the person and bird in front of it.

It couldn't help but shudder. The gaze of this natural enemy was really too unfriendly; staring at it was like looking at food. It was too terrifying!

Lin Zhangqing didn't care about that much and said directly to it, "Little guy, have the injuries on your soul healed? If they are healed, you call four times. If they aren't healed, you call two times."

Soon, the little guy called four times. It knew that this golden-winged bird was this human's spirit beast, and this human wanted to sign a contract with it. It also wanted to sign one, so it could ensure it wouldn't be eaten by its natural enemy.

"Since you have already recovered, then I will sign a contract with you. Are you ready?"

The little guy raised its two front paws, squatted with only its two hind paws, and kept nodding at Lin Zhangqing. Its little appearance was quite cute.

Lin Zhangqing laughed; this little guy looked quite clever.

At this moment, with a thought, he began to chant the incantation for the master-servant contract, and then used the Golden Thread Escape Light Needle to prick his finger, forcing out a drop of essence blood containing his own spiritual energy, and dripped it onto the little guy's forehead. Soon, it was absorbed into the little guy's sea of consciousness. In his heart, he could immediately sense the little guy's existence, and through the contract, he could also feel the waves of submission coming from the little guy.

Since it was his mouse now, he would give it a name. Seeing it was all white and fluffy, he would call it Mao Qiu!

He transmitted the meaning to it through the contract. He didn't expect it to agree immediately, and it looked quite happy, jumping around on the table.

Actually, it was just like this. Lin Zhangqing was willing to raise spirit beasts that didn't consume many resources. If it were that kind of spirit beast that required a lot of resources, Lin Zhangqing wouldn't want it.

Now, the pressure of raising this group of Purple Crystal Scorpions was already very great for Lin Zhangqing. Every other day, they had to gnaw on a portion of first-grade upper-grade spirit crystals.

Each portion was worth about 150 spirit stones, so that was 2250 spirit stones a month, and 27000 spirit stones a year. Ordinary cultivators simply couldn't afford to raise them.

Now, not counting those few upper-grade spirit stones, Lin Zhangqing's entire net worth was only about 65000 spirit stones, which could only support the consumption of the Purple Crystal Scorpion swarm for about two and a half years.

They were simply super resource-consuming giants. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were raised on spirit stones.

And if they advanced in the future, they would definitely have to change to higher-grade spirit crystals, and the consumption would definitely be even greater. It was really a bit unaffordable.

So if another resource-consuming giant came, Lin Zhangqing might go bankrupt directly.

Thinking about it, Chu Yi was the best; it could be self-reliant, and its consumption was low. If it advanced to the second grade in the future, it might even be able to earn spirit stones to support the family.

The Lu Youqiang family was also very good. Anyway, they just needed to eat grass, and they could help with work, catalyze spirit herbs and spirit plants, and could even moonlight as spirit healers. They were simply representatives of good employees in the cultivation world! Now there was another spirit-seeking rat, Mao Qiu. Looking at it, it was also a spirit beast that could work and didn't eat too much.

When they reached a place like the Qingyun Mountain Range in the future, Mao Qiu would have plenty of room to show its talents. Lin Zhangqing liked this kind of spirit beast the most.

Seeing that it had just joined Lin Zhangqing's pet family today, he decided to reward it with a Spirit Nurturing Pill. It should have eaten this thing before, and it buried its head and gnawed on it as soon as it held it in its hand.

Now the guest ship was flying in the sky, and it was still early. Lin Zhangqing thought about going to the first floor of the guest ship to take a look. He had already been itching to see the stalls when he saw someone setting up stalls just now.

It just so happened that he had time now, so he would go take a look first! He put Chu Yi back into the Spirit Beast Bracelet. As for Mao Qiu, he hesitated for a moment before putting it into his bosom and telling it not to make a sound.

Then he went out and opened the restriction on the door with the jade plate voucher in his hand. He glanced at the tightly closed door of Room Jia-Sixteen next door. Lin Zhangqing thought for a moment but still didn't call Chen Zi Ya.

From the top floor down to the first floor, as soon as he entered the first floor, he immediately felt the noise. At a glance, there were more than a hundred stalls, and there were quite a few cultivators strolling through the stalls, at least two or three hundred people.

Lin Zhangqing liked this atmosphere the most and immediately started strolling from the first stall at the entrance.

The stall owner was a middle-aged cultivator. Approaching him, one could even smell a faint fragrance of pills.

The things he sold were also several common pills. He looked like an alchemist, but unfortunately, Lin Zhangqing wouldn't buy pills from scattered cultivators outside.

After walking a few steps, another stall was selling spirit talismans and talisman-making supplies. Lin Zhangqing stopped and searched the stall for a while. Finally, he bought several bundles of first-grade upper-grade talisman paper. Anyway, this thing was a consumable, and his mother would use it up no matter how much he bought.

The next stall was selling all kinds of sundries: low-grade dharma artifacts, storage bags, piles of empty jade boxes, jade bottles, etc. Lin Zhangqing had a pile of them on him, so naturally, he wasn't interested and didn't stay.

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