Chapter 415: Both Joy and Worry

"The third thing: we have not embezzled the demon cores you handed over."

"At that time, they will all be handed over to the sect and converted into sect contribution points for you. If you have any needs, you can go to the sect's Affairs Hall to exchange them yourself."

"You all understand these things, so I don't need to say much more!"

As soon as Chen Shan Zhenren's voice fell, all the Qingyun Sect disciples were in an uproar.

Especially those cultivators who felt they certainly couldn't snatch a spot and didn't go out to participate in the demon hunt.

Missing such a good opportunity, of course, meant no sect contribution points! They felt they had suffered a huge loss.

Even for the one-hundredth place, if all the demon cores were converted at a two-to-one ratio, there would be at least fifty thousand sect contribution points.

And a Purple Mansion Tongxuan Pill of the Qingyun Sect only required ten thousand sect contribution points, so this was already equivalent to half a Purple Mansion Tongxuan Pill!

As long as they continued to work hard to accumulate sect contribution points and gathered ten thousand, they would have a chance to impact the Purple Mansion Stage! This made those cultivators who hadn't participated in the hunt from the beginning envious to death.

But there was no other way. Cultivation was like this; one step ahead, and you would be ahead every step of the way in the future.

If you don't work hard, it's possible that your Junior Brother today will advance and become your Senior Uncle tomorrow.

And Lin Zhangqing was also thinking about how the demon cores he handed over would be handled, because he was not a disciple of the Qingyun Sect.

He had no way to use the Qingyun Sect's contribution points, but he certainly wouldn't ask about it now. After all, he still had Great-Grandmother! So he wasn't particularly worried.

At this moment, Great-Grandmother spoke up: "Alright! Everyone stop arguing! If you missed the opportunity, you missed it!"

"Learn to be smarter next time and strive for it again. Now, everyone stop crowding here; all of you, set off for Linyuan City!"

After Great-Grandmother finished speaking, everyone didn't dare to say anything more. Subsequently, they all piloted their artifacts and flew toward Linyuan City! Lin Zhangqing was the same as before; he released his spiritual artifact flying boat, carried Chen Ziya and the other three, and followed the main force in flight.

At this time, Zhao Mingxia spoke: "Senior Brother Lin! This time, our speed must be a bit faster!"

"Don't be like last time, where we couldn't find a place to stay in the market!"

Hearing her say this, everyone laughed.

Hu Yunna spoke: "This Linyuan City is quite different from the Chaoyin City Market. We shouldn't need to be too nervous about accommodation!"

Lin Zhangqing felt a bit strange and couldn't help but ask: "It seems Junior Sister Hu knows something. Tell us about it and let us broaden our horizons!"

Hu Yunna saw that it was Lin Zhangqing who wanted to know, so she didn't keep him in suspense and spoke directly: "I also heard my Grandmaster mention it."

"She said that this Linyuan City is quite special. There are relatively few mortals inside; basically, they are all cultivators."

"Unlike other cities, which are mostly ordinary mortals, and then they circle out a suitable place to build a market for cultivators to cultivate and live."

"Here, the entire Linyuan City is basically cultivators, so there is no market. Therefore, there must be more inns and cave abodes for cultivators to live in than in other places."

"So I think we shouldn't need to worry too much about the accommodation problem for these few days!" Hearing her say this, everyone felt it made sense and didn't say anything more.

After flying about seventy or eighty li, Lin Zhangqing finally saw a black city that occupied a massive area.

It was truly quite large. He couldn't specifically estimate the size of Linyuan City because he couldn't take it all in at a glance. Just the city wall alone was visually over a hundred zhang high!

Furthermore, rays of light would occasionally flash across the black city wall. He guessed that the city wall was either reinforced with arrays or runes, or it was built using special materials.

Anyway, just looking at it, one knew it was a sturdy city. At this time, they were standing at the entrance of the city gate, waiting to process their entry and exit credentials.

That was why they had time to carefully examine these city walls. Looking up, it gave people a very heavy and solid feeling.

Soon it was their turn. However, in this place, Foundation Establishment cultivators had no special treatment. They processed an entry and exit credential and were charged ten low-grade spirit stones each.

The charging level here was clearly much higher than that of the Qingyun Corner. He felt it was necessary to spend some time to roughly understand the prices and consumption level here.

So as not to cause too big a misunderstanding later. He gave this suggestion to everyone, and it received everyone's approval.

So, after everyone entered Linyuan City, they didn't rush to find an inn, but instead went into the shops they saw along the street to understand the situation.

After spending two or three hours, everyone finally had a rough understanding of the price level here.

The result was both joy and worry. The prices on the two sides actually differed by about two or three times.

Moreover, the various spiritual objects and resources here were indeed far richer than those in the Qingyun Corner.

To Lin Zhangqing, if one were to compare the Qingyun Corner with this place, it was like the difference between a county town and a city. He knew this time he had come to the right place.

To give a simple example, in the Qingyun Corner, a Foundation Establishment Pill cost about fifty thousand spirit stones, and it wasn't always available.

It was necessary to wait for an auction to have a chance to obtain it, whereas here, one only needed twenty thousand spirit stones to buy it in some relatively large shops.

In the street they were strolling through, Lin Zhangqing asked about two shops that sold Foundation Establishment Pills.

One of them even had Purple Mansion Tongxuan Pills for sale, and the price wasn't too expensive; one could buy one for twenty thousand low-grade spirit stones.

This truly broadened his horizons and also let him know that, at the very least, the problem of the Purple Mansion Tongxuan Pill needed for his family to advance to the Purple Mansion Stage had been solved.

For him, this could be considered very good news. Of course, logically, he would focus on spiritual objects for Core Formation in the future.

But with good news came bad news: many prices here were much higher than in the Qingyun Corner.

For example, the Gathering Spirit Pills used for cultivation in the Foundation Establishment Early Stage were about twice as expensive as those in the Qingyun Corner.

A second-stage low-grade ordinary spiritual artifact flying sword cost about two thousand low-grade spirit stones in the Qingyun Corner, while here it required over three thousand, and it also depended on the specific quality! This immediately made him think that if he moved his clansmen here, their daily cultivation expenses would undoubtedly double. For the family, this was not a good thing.

It could even be said that ordinary clansmen who hadn't reached Foundation Establishment were simply not suitable for this place and didn't have the ability to survive here.

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