Chapter 153

Just after entering the door, a shop clerk immediately came up to greet them, but Lin Zhangqing waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need an introduction and would just look around himself.

The clerk didn't force it, bowed, and then retreated.

This gambling stone shop was quite large, and there were more than a dozen guests inside picking raw stones, but that had nothing to do with Lin Zhangqing, and he couldn't be bothered with them now.

Just after stepping into the shop, Lin Zhangqing had already been severely shocked by the scene before his eyes.

More than a dozen halos of different sizes and brightness entered his vision all at once. Lin Zhangqing couldn't believe this was real.

He tried hard to adjust his emotions and first checked the halo closest to him. This was a dark red halo.

According to past experience, red meant high-grade fire spirit stones, so what did this dark red represent? Could it be top-grade fire spirit stones? Was that possible? And to have ten top-grade raw stones appear at once—he didn't even dare to think like that in his heart, so there was basically no possibility of that.

Then it was nine times out of ten medium-grade fire spirit stones; this was very possible. There were fifteen halos here, thirteen of which were relatively dim, and two were normal-colored halos like before.

He first took the two raw stones emitting normal-colored halos into his hands—one big and one small. The big one was estimated to be about a hundred catties, and the small one was about the size of a human head, estimated to be thirty or forty catties.

He didn't take many of the raw stones with dark-colored halos either. He chose one that was also about a hundred catties and another smaller one estimated to be seventy or eighty catties. In total, there were these four.

He didn't dare to take too many, mainly because he didn't want to attract too much attention. Three or four at a time was just right; it wouldn't be too high-profile.

After choosing his own, he finally had time to pay attention to Chen Zi Ya. He saw that she was studying a raw stone.

He walked to her side and asked, "Junior Brother Zhang, have you chosen?"

Chen Zi Ya nodded and pointed at the raw stone she was studying, signaling that she had chosen this one.

Lin Zhangqing glanced at the raw stone she pointed at and didn't see a halo, knowing it would definitely be a bust.

But that was fine too; letting her know that stone gambling had risks was good. If she were to win every time she gambled, it would actually harm her instead.

Fortunately, this raw stone wasn't big either, so it shouldn't cost many spirit stones.

So Lin Zhangqing just nodded, considering it an approval of her choice, and didn't say anything more. The two called the boss to settle the bill; Chen Zi Ya's raw stone was 220 spirit stones.

Lin Zhangqing's four raw stones totaled 1,780 spirit stones. After both paid their spirit stones.

They declined the boss's suggestion to help them open the stones and left with the few raw stones. They didn't go anywhere else and followed the original path back to the suite in the Ping'an Inn.

"Junior Brother Zhang, we will leave the market earlier tomorrow. Let's set the time at the Mao hour, third quarter. We will use our current faces; we should be able to avoid a lot of trouble."

Chen Zi Ya smiled and said, "Alright, I understand. I'll go sign the contract with that little guy first. See you tomorrow morning, Senior Brother Gao!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded and then returned to his own room. After checking everywhere and confirming it was safe, he activated the Small Five Elements Illusion Array.

Only then did he sit down and think about what happened today. The first thing was that young disciple of the Bai family, a local Foundation Establishment family force.

They would likely go out tomorrow. If he still dared to come and find trouble, then Lin Zhangqing wouldn't mind sending him on his way.

To be honest, if it wasn't a cultivator in the mid-to-late Foundation Establishment stage taking action, Lin Zhangqing wouldn't care too much. Just a few Qi Refining stage cultivators; it wouldn't take much time to deal with them.

The second thing was about the Mystic Tiger cub bought this morning. Lin Zhangqing hadn't planned to raise any more spirit beasts.

At the very least, he wouldn't consider raising such large spirit beasts that consumed too many resources, unless they had particularly outstanding aptitude and a very high ceiling.

This Mystic Tiger cub was best suited to be given to Lin Changling now. She was at a lively and active age, and having such a cute spirit beast for company should make her much happier.

So Lin Zhangqing didn't plan to sign a contract with this Mystic Tiger cub. He decided to raise it for now, and after returning to Nine Peaks Mountain in a while, he would give this little guy to Lin Changling.

The third thing was the four raw stones just bought. The raw stones with normal-colored halos could be ignored for now; anyway, he knew what was inside. It was those two raw stones with dark-colored halos that needed to be opened first to see if they were indeed the medium-grade raw stones he guessed. He took out that smaller raw stone and the specialized stone-opening dharma artifact.

He chose a place that was easier to open and started grinding. He was now experienced, and his stone-opening speed was quite fast.

Soon, a bit of blue color was revealed at the ground spot, emitting the fluctuations of medium-grade spirit stones. Seeing this, Lin Zhangqing knew what was going on in his heart.

He took out the other raw stone and ground it as well, following the same process. Soon, a bit of red was revealed, and it also emitted the spiritual pressure of medium-grade spirit stones.

Now it could be confirmed that the dark-colored halo represented medium-grade raw stones.

In other words, after his Innate Merit True Eye absorbed the good deeds from that three-colored sarira, the Merit True Eye had been strengthened or advanced.

Lower-grade spiritual objects that couldn't be seen before could now be seen; this could be considered an improvement in ability!

However, the feeling it gave Lin Zhangqing was that its effect wasn't very great, or perhaps he hadn't found the correct way to use it yet!

But the fact that the Merit True Eye could be strengthened or advanced was definitely a good thing! As for the four newly bought raw stones, those two that hadn't been ground could just be thrown into the deep pit for Lin Changliu to absorb and digest later.

The two medium-grade spirit stone raw ores that had been ground open would be kept for now; when he was short of spirit stones in the future, he would take them to the gambling stone workshop to exchange for spirit stones.

Today's harvest, up to this point, could be considered processed. Now it was too early to rest.

So this time couldn't be wasted; he would use it to cultivate the Thunder True Scripture. He estimated that in about half a month, he would be able to open another thunder aperture.

However, before cultivating, he had to handle some trivial matters. After entering the inner space, he interacted with the enthusiastic Lu Youqiang and Lu Xiaoling for a while. After feeding them Spirit Nurturing Pills, he let them go play by themselves.

He went to check on where Lu Xiaoya was sleeping. Her changes were already very significant; her body size had grown quite a bit. Fortunately, everything was normal in all aspects. He estimated she would wake up in another two or three days.

Last time Lu Youqiang advanced to the second stage, it took about fifteen or sixteen days. Lu Xiaoya should be about the same time. Seeing that she was fine, Lin Zhangqing walked away.

He had originally wanted to buy some materials to build a courtyard, but Chen Zi Ya had been following him, so it wasn't very convenient to do these things. He could only wait until later.

Also, the sixty sealed containers used for brewing wine took up too much space in the storage bag, so this time he put them all into the inner space together.

Anyway, they would be used here in the future, including those wine yeast, yeast, and some small tools given as gifts; they were all left here.

After finishing these, he walked to the edge of the deep pit and threw the two high-grade spirit stone raw ores into it. After a while, a trace of joyful emotion came from the bottom of his heart; this was Lin Changliu's feedback to Lin Zhangqing.

This feedback was already much clearer than before, proving that the Earth Soul Fruit was still quite useful. When the Earth Soul Fruit matured again in a while, he would still have to prioritize supplying it to Lin Changliu.

He had planned to get fifty mu of land to plant flowers, but now he had only managed ten mu. As for the remaining forty mu, he would slowly manage it when he returned to the passenger ship and had time! After patrolling a circle and finding no problems, he left the space.

He also fed all the various spirit beasts in the spirit beast bracelet, including that newly arrived Mystic Tiger cub, and also got some demon beast meat to feed it.

Next, he could finally cultivate with peace of mind. Operating the Thunder True Scripture, the thunder spiritual energy began to stimulate his acupoints. The familiar feelings of soreness, numbness, swelling, and pain attacked Lin Zhangqing once again.

Soon, two hours later, the sweat flowing from where Lin Zhangqing sat cross-legged had formed a puddle. His face, arms, and body were covered in sweat.

It was the same operation: he released the Purple Crystal Scorpion swarm to hide around and protect him. Only then did he release Xu Meiniang.

Now she had experience; suddenly changing the spatial environment, her emotions also seemed very natural, not too surprised, and she also had some tacit understanding with Lin Zhangqing.

After Lin Zhangqing cleaned his body outside, he returned to the array and began to enjoy the massage service provided by Xu Meiniang.

And Xu Meiniang had already massaged Lin Zhangqing two or three times, accumulating some experience more or less, so Lin Zhangqing was increasingly satisfied with her skills.

(End of chapter)