Chapter 191: A Nest of Stone Eggs

After Zhao Liyu left, about half an hour later, Lin Zhangqing set off to return to the Jinzhou Market.

When he returned to the inn smoothly, it was already evening, and the sky had clearly darkened.

Sitting in the room, he went through the plan from beginning to end again, and after confirming there were no major omissions, he felt relieved.

He collected his emotions, calmed down for a while, and then spent about an hour and a half completing today's spell and divine ability cultivation task.

After resting appropriately for a while, he began to cultivate the Thunder True Scripture again until all the energy in his body was exhausted.

Only then did he go outside to clean himself up before returning to lie down and rest.

The next morning, Lin Zhangqing finished his cultivation of the Five Elements Chaos Sutra.

Originally, today was the most important day of the entire plan, and he should stay in the room and reduce going out, which would reduce some potential trouble.

But considering that he hadn't been to the Stall Square here two or three times, he decided to stroll around this morning to see if there would be any special discoveries.

So, after Lin Zhangqing finished his cultivation, he rested for a while, and when the time was about right, he activated the restriction on the door and left the inn to walk toward the Stall Square.

Passing by the Gambling Stone Workshop in the middle, he couldn't help but glance at it. Seeing that the super-large raw stone was still placed there, Lin Zhangqing felt relieved.

He didn't stop and soon arrived at the Stall Square. The time now was just right; it was the liveliest time of the square, and there were many people setting up stalls and browsing.

He scanned it roughly; there were about six or seven hundred stalls. To be honest, Lin Zhangqing liked this liveliness the most; many of his gains were encountered at the stalls.

Of course, he had to thank the Innate Merit True Eye, but he hadn't browsed the stalls for a long time. Seeing this situation today, it felt like his bloodline had awakened, and he felt a bit hot-blooded, looking forward to it in his heart.

He walked straight in and began to browse. His luck today seemed very good!

Just after browsing a few stalls, he saw several Demon-Alluring Grasses. Lin Zhangqing valued this kind of spirit grass the most; after all, he raised a large pile of spirit beasts and spirit insects.

In the future, if they reached the time to nurture offspring, the demand for this kind of Demon-Alluring Grass would definitely be huge.

So every time he saw it, as long as the price wasn't too outrageous, he would buy it.

At this stall, there were a total of five Demon-Alluring Grasses, one of which had a relatively large age, estimated to be seven or eight years old.

The rest were one or two-year-old seedlings. Lin Zhangqing spent a total of thirty spirit stones and bought them all.

With gains, his interest was even higher. Actually, browsing the Stall Square most often encountered various spirit grasses, spirit herbs, and materials from demon beasts.

However, Lin Zhangqing only looked for those spirit herbs and grasses that could be replanted, so he had gained the most of this kind along the way.

Now he had browsed about half of the stalls and had collected thirty or forty spirit herbs. He had no other gains.

After browsing for a while longer, Lin Zhangqing finally saw the thing he had been looking forward to appear: a bright golden halo appeared on a stall.

Lin Zhangqing suppressed his excitement and observed the entire stall. This was a stall mainly selling demon beast materials. On the stall, there were tendons, bones, and skins of demon beasts, as well as several spirit herbs that had been picked for a while and were clearly a bit withered.

However, these were not Lin Zhangqing's targets. The thing emitting the halo was a stone nest larger than a palm, inside which were six stone eggs.

"Owner, can I pick this up and take a look?" Lin Zhangqing asked.

The owner looked at him and greeted him enthusiastically, "Sure, it's fine to pick it up and look, as long as you don't break it."

Lin Zhangqing nodded, then picked up the stone nest from the stall and observed it carefully.

It looked like some demon beast had used this stone nest as a lair an unknown amount of time ago and laid eggs in it.

But for some reason, they didn't hatch, and after an unknown amount of time, they had become six stone eggs, and they had fused with the stone nest.

He didn't know yet whether the treasure was the stone nest or these six stone eggs. But since the Innate Merit True Eye had marked it, he must take it down. Regardless of what it was, he would buy it back first.

He looked at the owner and asked directly, "Owner, what are these stone eggs in your nest?"

The owner also looked at Lin Zhangqing and said helplessly, "To be honest, I don't know either. This was discovered by a Spirit-Seeking Rat I raised.

At that time, I didn't know how to handle it, so I could only cut this stone nest directly from the rock wall, which is what you see now."

Lin Zhangqing was a bit enlightened. Even the owner didn't know what it was, so he could only talk nonsense.

So he said, "This looks a bit like spirit beast eggs that have naturally petrified over a long time. However, at first glance, it is indeed quite attractive, and looking at it makes one curious, making one want to pick it up and play with it."

The owner nodded, "It does have the feeling you described. Many people are just curious and want to take it to study."

"I have also studied it for quite a while, but I still don't know what it is. If you say it's a spirit beast egg, it can't be contracted. If you say it's a spirit object, it only has first-rank spirit pressure itself.

I personally think it should be considered a strange object! It's just that I haven't found its use yet."

Lin Zhangqing felt that the owner might have guessed correctly, so he decided to buy it early so he could feel at ease.

So he continued to ask, "Then how do you sell this? I think this thing is most suitable for giving as a gift. Regardless of whether it's a strange object, at the very least, the person receiving the gift will definitely remember you."

Hearing Lin Zhangqing's words, the owner laughed, feeling that what he said made some sense. He was indeed prepared to sell this thing; anyway, he couldn't study anything out of it.

However, he prepared to open with a relatively high price to test the situation. In case he really met someone who was interested, he could make a big profit.

So he said, "If you are interested in buying this strange object, I'll count it as 2,000 low-grade spirit stones!"

Hearing this, Lin Zhangqing opened his eyes wide and said in surprise, "A plaything with unknown use for 2,000 spirit stones? Then I might as well just buy a top-grade artifact to give as a gift, which would have the same effect and wouldn't need so many spirit stones.

If you really want to sell, give me a selling price! If it's suitable, I'll buy it; if not, forget it."

The owner thought for a moment and said, "Then how many spirit stones are you offering? The top-grade artifact you mentioned isn't as attractive as this strange object."

Lin Zhangqing considered that if he offered too little, the owner wouldn't talk, and if he offered too much, he was afraid of attracting attention. So after consideration, he decided to offer 500 spirit stones.

He said to the owner, "I'm planning to buy it as a gift, so if the price is too high, it will exceed my ability to bear. 500 spirit stones! If it works, it works; if not, forget it."

The owner shook his head, "500 is too little. 1,000 spirit stones! Perhaps you might really discover the wonderful use of this strange object in the future!"

Lin Zhangqing also shook his head, put the stone nest back on the stall, stood up, and said to the owner, "I was just a bit curious and thought this thing was suitable as a gift.

But 1,000 spirit stones is indeed too high; I can't afford it! I'll go look elsewhere!"

After Lin Zhangqing finished speaking, he walked away, preparing to look at the next stall. The owner hurriedly got up and grabbed Lin Zhangqing, saying, "Add another 100 spirit stones, and I'll sell it to you for 600."

Lin Zhangqing still shook his head, "Forget it. Now that I think about it, I was actually going to use 500 spirit stones to buy a stone nest just now; that's still too outrageous. Forget it, forget it, I don't want this thing anymore."

Hearing Lin Zhangqing regret it, the owner was anxious. He picked up the stone nest from the stall, stuffed it into Lin Zhangqing's hand, and said, "500 spirit stones, I'll sell it to you! It's a deal!"

Lin Zhangqing was already acting now. He pretended to stuff the stone nest back to the owner and said, "Owner, sorry, I didn't think clearly just now. I don't want this stone nest; it's too expensive."

Hearing this, the owner glared at Lin Zhangqing angrily and shouted loudly, "You were the one who offered 500 spirit stones just now, and I have agreed to sell it to you now.

Even if you go to the Garrison Office, I'm the one who's in the right. Don't talk nonsense, pay the spirit stones quickly."

Seeing the owner shouting like this, Lin Zhangqing could only be helpless and paid 500 spirit stones in pain.

Then, with a look of having been bullied, he didn't even browse the stalls anymore and left angrily.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 192 =====