Chapter 38: Book Treasure

Having a harvest just after shopping for a while gave Lin Zhangqing great encouragement, and he decided to make persistent efforts. He wanted to see if the scattered cultivators of these seven prefectures could bring him some surprises.

Walking and stopping along the way, he saw many novel things, such as mechanical puppet beasts, driven by spirit stones, and the power seemed quite good. However, he just took a look and didn't buy them.

He even saw people selling mineral raw stones and raw materials for manufacturing talisman paper. It was a pity that his mother didn't know how to manufacture talisman paper; otherwise, he could have bought some for her.

Thinking of this, his heart moved, reminding himself to pay more attention and bring some high-quality talisman paper for his mother as a gift.

He strolled around again for a while and finally had a shocking surprise. His hands were trembling slightly with excitement. If the occasion hadn't been inappropriate, Lin Zhangqing would have jumped up happily! He hurriedly collected his excited mood. Another colorful halo! This was a stall selling only books. The stall owner was an old man of eighty or ninety years old at the third layer of Qi Refining. He had white hair, and his cyan clothes were washed until they were a bit white.

Lin Zhangqing originally liked reading books. Even if he hadn't seen this colorful halo, he would have stopped to see if there were any books he liked.

This was the second time Lin Zhangqing had seen a colorful halo; the first time was when he saw the spirit seeds of the Void Heaven-Piercing Willow.

Lin Zhangqing squatted down and looked carefully. Many of them were customs, hearsay, legends, and travel biographies from various places.

It recorded a cultivator named Lei Wu, who liked to travel and explore everywhere since the Foundation Establishment stage, and there were some opportunities, adventures, and harvests in the middle.

Flipping to the last book, he found that the final record was that his cultivation base had reached the late stage of the Golden Core. He was traveling with friends and was about to set off to explore a place called the Void Sky Secret Realm. Fearing he wouldn't return, he specifically left the record.

And he warned his descendants that if he didn't return this time, he forbade his family descendants from going to the Void Sky Secret Realm to explore and seek treasures, and even more so, not to think about using the bloodline secret method to find his relics in the secret realm.

And he suggested that if they saw the soul lamp he left behind go out, they should arrange for the family's outstanding descendants to change their names and surnames, disperse to various places to branch out and spread leaves, reduce their targets, and disperse the danger, so as not to be wiped out by enemies.

It seemed that this Golden Core True Person named Lei Wu had very powerful enemies, at least at the Golden Core stage. There should be many stories in here!

In total, there were sixty or seventy books. Among them, the one with things was in the third travelogue, but Lin Zhangqing planned to buy them all. The knowledge of hearsay and travel inside was also precious.

"Boss, how do you sell these books?"

The stall owner looked at Lin Zhangqing and said, "Ten spirit stones each. Which ones do you like?"

Lin Zhangqing said, "Too expensive, make it cheaper."

"Look at how many you like; if you buy more, I'll make it cheaper for you." The old man said with a smile:

"Buy them all, five spirit stones each, how about that?" Lin Zhangqing tried to bargain.

"No, how can it be so cheap? This is the hearsay and travelogue of my ancestor, a Golden Core True Person, original and authentic, precious and incomparable. If you buy them all, the cheapest is nine spirit stones each."

"Books are not things where you can copy as many as you want. Who knows if you made them up? Buy them all!"

"I already said they are originals. There are seventy-two books in total here. If you want them, take them all for 648 spirit stones."

"Still too expensive, 500 spirit stones. I like this extensive travel and want to broaden my horizons. After reading them, I can send them to the family Scripture Pavilion for others to see; otherwise, I wouldn't spend so many spirit stones."

"No, no, if it weren't for the fact that my grandson is waiting for resources to cultivate, I wouldn't be willing to take out these treasures of my ancestors to sell. Truly, the descendants are unfilial! Take them for 630 spirit stones!"

"I'll add a little more for you, 550 spirit stones! The price is too high, I can't afford it!"

"Selling the treasures of ancestors is already a great disrespect. If I sell them cheaply again, I won't have the face to see my ancestors even if I die. 600 spirit stones is the lowest; I won't sell them for any less."

Lin Zhangqing had never seen such a person who could talk nonsense. Sure enough, the old man was sophisticated! He saw that he really wanted to buy these books. There was no other way! Besides, the old man finally lowered it to 600 spirit stones and wouldn't lower it anymore. Lin Zhangqing was also afraid of long nights and many dreams, so he agreed to the deal for 600 spirit stones. He counted out 600 spirit stones and handed them to the old man. The seventy-two books were wrapped up and put into the storage bag. Only then did he put his heart down!

Lin Zhangqing said to the boss: "Boss, you won't produce another seventy-two books of hearsay and travelogues of Golden Core cultivators in a while, right?"

The boss smiled awkwardly, "How is that possible? No. I guarantee they are written by a Golden Core Great Cultivator, original and authentic content."

With the two extra words "content," Lin Zhangqing knew he had been fooled by this old man. Just as he wanted to ask him to return some spirit stones, the old man ran away in a flash.

My sun!

This action was too skilled, right? At such an old age, his hands and feet were still so nimble. It seemed he wasn't the first one to be fooled, so that was okay! The stall owner next to him said: "Young man, you've been fooled. This old man Qiu has been selling hearsay and travelogues in dozens of markets in these seven prefectures for more than ten years."

"How can there be originals to sell to you! Why don't you come and look at my spiritual artifacts? These were discovered in an ancient cultivator cave abode and are very precious and rare. If you are interested, I'll make it cheaper for you."

Lin Zhangqing was speechless. Was he that easy to fool? He walked away without looking back.

He thought in his heart that this old man might really have made a mistake once and sold the originals to him. This time, he didn't know who was taking advantage of whom! After calming down his emotions, he still had to continue shopping. His younger sister's gift hadn't been found yet! He had to hurry and find it.

He happened to encounter a stall selling talismans, and there was also talisman paper for sale. The quality felt quite good, so he bought 10 dozen. This was a gift for his mother.

He didn't find his younger sister's gift, but he did see the stone gambling workshop again. Without saying anything, he went in directly. There were even more people than the first two times.

The raw stones placed were also more and larger than before, but the problem was that after walking around, he didn't see any glowing raw stones! He was happy for nothing! However, since he was already here, he would buy two pieces to test his luck!

He picked two raw stones the size of a human head and went to the boss to settle the bill. The two raw stones cost Lin Zhangqing 280 spirit stones. It was really not cheap! This time, he didn't need the boss to introduce him; he directly asked him to call the stone-cutting master, and he met the master surnamed Hu who solved the stones for the first time again.

He asked him to solve both raw stones directly. Master Hu nodded, took out his tools, and ground them bit by bit. Soon, a little red crystal was exposed, and the crowd watching around immediately boiled over.

Experienced people had already judged that this was a mid-grade fire spirit stone. Such a large piece of fire spirit stone must be able to cut out twenty or thirty mid-grade spirit stones! This was a big rise.

Lin Zhangqing's heart moved. Why not just give this to his younger sister and let her hold it to cultivate directly? The effect would definitely be better.

Okay, let's do it!

He directly rejected the boss's proposal to exchange the raw ore for 3800 spirit stones.

He asked Master Hu to solve the other one too. Master Hu nodded and began to use the dharma artifact to grind the raw stone bit by bit. Perhaps his luck had been used up; this time, he only solved out a small piece of low-grade wood spirit stone, which was probably worth a dozen spirit stones!

He simply gave this low-grade wood spirit stone raw ore to Master Hu; consider it a reward for the first piece.

Solving out a mid-grade spirit stone was equivalent to giving the boss a wave of publicity. Taking advantage of everyone paying attention to picking raw stones, Lin Zhangqing hurriedly slipped out.

He went directly to the agreed place to meet. When he arrived, he found that he was the first to arrive.

The others hadn't come over yet. Looking at the sky, it was still a bit early from the agreed time.

After thinking about it, he walked toward the Myriad Treasures Pavilion again.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 39 =====