Chapter 583: Nothing Gained

Fortunately, the Fang family were all ordinary mortals, and they had no way to go too far to fish or collect pearls.

They could only make a living in an area seventy or eighty miles away from Golden Pearl Island.

So he only spent a short while finding the place that Fang Xiaoli told him about.

The depth of this sea area wasn't deep, probably about twenty or thirty zhang.

Lin Zhangqing used that place as the origin, dived to the seabed to search, and searched the area of a hundred miles in radius two or three times.

Besides seeing all kinds of corals and shells and pearls, as well as a small amount of low-grade fish demonic beasts with weak aggression.

He only found a few First-Tier spirit grasses, and nothing else was discovered! Lin Zhangqing, who wouldn't give up, expanded the search range outward.

He spent about half a month here, and searched the range of several hundred miles, but in the end, he gained nothing.

For such a result, Lin Zhangqing could only accept it helplessly; after all, he couldn't waste all his time here.

So after confirming the direction, he released Chu Yi, and then rode it to fly toward the location of Changlong Island.

For the first time traveling a long distance on the sea alone, at first, it felt very spectacular and vast.

After all, the boundless sea and sky-colored landscape were very attractive, making people feel broad-minded, but seeing it too much was just like that! The most troublesome thing was that he had lost many things, resulting in not even having a spirit boat on him.

So every day, almost by dusk, he had to find a place to stay.

Sometimes he was lucky and could find one or two small isolated islands, but most of the time, he could only spend the night resting on reefs exposed above the water.

Therefore, Lin Zhangqing decided that no matter what, after arriving at the market, he must get a spirit boat to carry with him; otherwise, it would be too inconvenient!

Fortunately, five days had already passed, and normally, he should be able to reach Changlong Island today! Sure enough, after flying for only an hour or so, he had already encountered two or three batches of Qi Refining cultivators.

However, those little guys, seeing that his mount was actually a Second-Tier spirit beast, knew that the person above must be a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

So they didn't dare to approach, but instead avoided him from far away; they should be afraid of bumping into him and being cleaned up by him! Lin Zhangqing didn't care; originally he wanted to find someone to confirm again, but now it seemed it wasn't needed!

And he couldn't possibly take the initiative to rob them; now that he knew the direction of his flight was correct, he wouldn't cause any more trouble! So he communicated with Chu Yi, let it speed up, and continued on his way; the cultivators he encountered later were even more numerous, both Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Finally, after noon, he saw a very huge island, and his heart understood that this should be Changlong Island!

Golden Pearl Island was only fifty or sixty miles in size, while this Changlong Island felt like its land area wouldn't be less than five or six hundred miles.

And most importantly, coming to this vicinity, Lin Zhangqing could clearly feel that the spiritual energy here was a bit richer than elsewhere.

Then it meant that there should be a spirit vein on this island, just didn't know what grade the spirit vein was before landing on the island.

Accelerating and approaching, he could see from the sky that some towns and villages were distributed on the island in an orderly manner.

He could see many ordinary people working in the fields, proving that there should be quite a few ordinary people on this island. According to his experience, he flew toward the place where the spiritual energy was richest, and sure enough, he discovered a formation with a large coverage area in the very center of the island.

However, based on his experience, it was easy to distinguish that this was a shielding formation to prevent ordinary people from breaking in at will.

To pass through this kind of shielding formation, one only needed to cover the body surface with spiritual energy, and one could enter and exit at will; many markets had this kind of formation on the periphery.

However, since he had already found the place, he didn't want to be so high-profile, so before passing through the shielding formation, he first received Chu Yi back into the Spirit Beast Bracelet.

Then he mobilized some magical power, covered it on his body surface, and then easily passed through the shielding formation.

What came into view was a tall city wall; this was the first time he had seen a building of such a large scale in this world.

Following the city wall, he found the entrance to the market, and seeing it written "Changlong Market South Gate," he knew he hadn't found the wrong place! Two Qi Refining cultivators were guarding the gate; Lin Zhangqing went over, spent one lower-grade spirit stone, and handled the entry and exit certificate for the market.

Afterward, he entered directly; only after formally entering the Changlong Market did he feel the difference between inside and outside.

The spiritual energy here was more than ten times richer than outside.

This place should have at least a Second-Tier Upper-Grade spirit vein or higher, which was enough to satisfy ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators to settle down and cultivate here.

Listening to Shui Changdong's meaning, among the several hundred islands nearby, this was the only market, so the number of cultivators in the market should be quite large.

However, for Lin Zhangqing now, the most important thing was to find a place and get some more spirit stones.

Otherwise, with the remaining nine hundred-plus lower-grade spirit stones on him, he couldn't buy anything decent.

So he began to stroll around the market.

Actually, the main purpose was to find out if he could find shops like stone gambling workshops.

After spending more than an hour walking through the entire market, he found that the layout of the Changlong Market was quite regular.

Two main roads, one vertical and one horizontal, divided the market into four areas: east, west, south, and north.

On both sides of the main roads were shops, and in the four areas, there were courtyards of different sizes, and there should be quite a few courtyards that could be rented inside.

But Lin Zhangqing walked through the entire market and found nothing; he didn't know if there was a stone gambling trade in this world! Since he hadn't found a channel to quickly get spirit stones, he felt he should carefully consider his future planning! At the very least, he should find a method that could allow him to quickly and stably earn spirit stones; combined with his own situation, spirit planting wouldn't be mentioned, as it was difficult to see results in the short term.

Alchemy, he only knew one or two pill formulas, so he could only be considered a bottom-tier alchemist.

Besides, whether he could find a large amount of basic spirit herbs for refining Qi Gathering Pills in this world was still an unknown! So this path of alchemy should also be impassable in the short term.

Besides, low-grade alchemists would be lucky not to lose money, so it was impossible to earn a large amount of spirit stones in a short time!

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