Chapter 85: This Divine Art is Destined for Me!

Jinyun Mountain Market.

It is one of the several large-scale official markets opened to the public by the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

This market is backed by a Spirit Vein of at least Second Tier superior quality, and several Spirit Mine veins with mining value have been discovered near the Spirit Vein.

Therefore, the Immortal Sect attaches great importance to this place, and relying on this Spirit Vein, the Immortal Sect's Array Masters have set up a multi-coordinated Pseudo-Third-Tier Array.

With a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator stationed here and a Spirit Tool activated as the array eye, even if a Golden Core Great Cultivator were to come, they would only return in defeat.

When Su Ping transformed into the White Crane Boy and walked to the foot of Golden Cloud Mountain.

He discovered that several small towns, which looked newly built at a glance, had actually been constructed at the foot of the mountain.

The towns were mainly composed of two- or three-story wooden buildings.

The residents were at least martial artists with decent attire, and Loose Cultivators were also not uncommon.

Su Ping arrived at the gate of a small town and waved his hand gently; a sharp-eyed Loose Cultivator immediately trotted over, asking with a humble face what the Immortal Master required.

Su Ping gave him a Blood Qi Pill and learned about the changes in Jinyun Mountain Market from this gate-keeping Loose Cultivator.

Recently, the Immortal Sect's territory has not been peaceful, and the Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator of Jinyun Mountain Market suddenly released news that as long as a certain amount of Spirit Stones are offered every month, non-Immortal Sect members or retired Cultivators are permitted to bring a certain number of clansmen to build towns and reside at the foot of the mountain.

After hearing this, some immortal cultivation families arranged for a portion of their collateral family members to come to the side of this large market.

Once the news spread, there was no lack of Loose Cultivators who smelled danger and decisively gave up being wealthy landowners in the countryside, bringing their families to seek refuge with these immortal cultivation families.

This has made the high-quality population of these small towns at the foot of the mountain grow, and they have gradually developed a trend of prosperity.

Although the small town they are in does not receive the protection of Jinyun Mountain Market.

They have been given a verbal promise that if a crisis occurs, they can be the first to enter Jinyun Mountain Market for refuge.

Furthermore, within the protection of the Jinyun Mountain Market array, a number of small Cave Abodes of varying levels available for rent have recently been expanded according to the distinction between inside and outside.

As long as visiting Cultivators or even Loose Cultivators can afford the Spirit Stones, they can bring their families in to rent and live, enjoying the protection of the array for better safety guarantees.

As Demon Beasts that slipped through the net appear more and more frequently in the mortal realm.

The business of these Cave Abodes has become increasingly prosperous.

When the Loose Cultivator mentioned this, his eyes were full of envy and longing.

He also wanted to take his wife and children to live in a Cave Abode.

After Su Ping understood this information, he sighed to himself that the manager of this Jinyun Mountain Market also seemed to be someone who knew how to earn Spirit Stones.

However, analyzing the situation seen along the way so far.

This Jinyun Mountain Market is still quite peaceful; at least the surrounding Order can still be guaranteed.

That Foundation Establishment Cultivator also seems to be someone who follows the rules, which is very important!

There are no such strange events happening, like ancient ruins being unearthed or a certain city being subjected to a Blood Sacrifice.

Su Ping satisfiedly rewarded the Loose Cultivator with another Blood Qi Pill, and under the other's grateful flattery and the awe-filled and envious gazes of others, he left the foot of the mountain and headed toward the market's array entrance.

The array entrance is a giant stone gate a hundred meters high.

On the gate plaque, the five large characters "Jinyun Mountain Market" are written in Immortal script.

A pale white light curtain continuously extends from both sides of the stone gate, surrounding the entire mountain.

The sky is filled with Immortal Qi and looks normal, yet it blocks all detection, including Divine Sense; once someone tries to fly in directly, they will immediately be attacked by the array and die without a burial place!

"A Cultivator I haven't seen before?"

"Hmm?"

"It's a Qi Refining Late Stage Great Cultivator who cultivates both body and Dharma!"

The small leader guarding the gate is an Outer Sect Disciple at just the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, holding a position of great responsibility thanks to a Copper Mirror Dharma Artifact.

At first, he was indifferent; it is not rare here to be unable to see someone's cultivation at first glance, as there are plenty of Cultivators with Dharma Artifacts that conceal their cultivation.

But after discovering the true cultivation of the Cultivator who looked like a white-robed Daoist boy through the Copper Mirror.

This Outer Sect Disciple gasped, quickly showing a sincere smile and taking the initiative to welcome him.

"Daoist name White Crane Daoist?"

"From the Immortal Crane Illuminating the Moon and Listening to the Wind Temple deep in the Western Desert?"

The Outer Sect Disciple personally handled the registration proof for Su Ping to enter the market.

Although he did not quite believe that this young Cultivator, who looked like a heaven-gifted talent, really came from the Western Desert and a small, unknown sect.

After testing the spiritual power Mark and confirming that this person was not one of the evil cultivators or traitors wanted by the Immortal Sect.

The Outer Sect Disciple recited the incantation and, in coordination with the Copper Mirror Dharma Artifact, cast a blue light onto the Wooden Tablet.

Then, he respectfully handed the Wooden Tablet to Su Ping:

"Daoist White Crane, please keep this safe. This is the Temporary Identification Plate for entering Jinyun Mountain Market. It is valid for 24 hours. Please leave or extend the time before the time is up..."

Su Ping hurriedly thanked the other party, and after paying the Entry fee, he stepped into the stone gate.

Swish!

Once inside the stone gate, Su Ping was finally able to see the true face of Jinyun Mountain Market!

This Jinyun Mountain Market is truly worthy of being one of the few large-scale markets opened to the public by the Immortal Sect!

Calling it a market is not as accurate as calling it a mountain city built against the mountain, an Immortal City!

Compared to the layout of Nine Leaves Mountain, this place can only be considered a shanty!

Looking toward the top of the mountain, Su Ping could even see an oval floating platform covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters, connected to the mountain-top buildings by only a few wooden passages.

Docked on the platform were Immortal Boats of various shapes from the Central Region and even further away.

From time to time, Immortal Boats tens or even hundreds of meters long would soar into the sky, breaking through a golden light membrane before disappearing into the sea of clouds.

Walking along the mountain road, the worst of those coming and going were Loose Cultivators.

Those who opened shops and did business were mainly Cultivators from immortal cultivation families.

However, Su Ping still discovered that the White Crane Boy he was roleplaying as still stood out a bit from the crowd.

As he was in the Qi Refining Late Stage and also in the late stage of Body Tempering, as long as his cultivation level was seen through, it would immediately earn him looks of awe or even fear from others.

Su Ping also encountered for the first time, while walking on the road, a female cultivator on the upper floor of the Xianmiao Pavilion who took the initiative to call out for him to come up and have fun, and it didn't even require Spirit Stones...

It was just that the female cultivator, who looked simple and gentle like a neighbor's big sister, had only called out a few times before she was suddenly pulled back by another female cultivator.

With the enhancement of his Saint Body, Su Ping's hearing was not bad, and he could faintly hear a female cultivator's scolding coming from the pavilion:

"Are you tired of living! Don't be fooled by that appearance; that male cultivator is in the late stage of both Dharma and body cultivation, he is either an Inner Sect Elite Disciple or a true disciple from some other sect!"

"This kind of heaven-gifted talent who deliberately walks on the street looking harmless is most likely temperamental. With your meager skills, if you get drained dry, the pavilion owner won't stand up for you!"

Su Ping's body paused slightly, then quickly returned to his normal pace.

Only, in his heart, he was complaining: Is it a mistake in the Cultivation World to have a young face and look harmless?

However, Su Ping also understood that if he encountered a cultivator like White Crane Boy on the street, while being shocked by the other party's youth, he would probably also be twelve points cautious, right?

Fortunately, after entering the mountainside, Su Ping soon discovered the Great Golden Light Temple's station in this place.

A single-door, single-courtyard building with decent incense offerings.

Considering that this was the Jinyun Mountain Market, the treatment could be considered not bad.

Su Ping walked in, and after paying a catty of Spirit Rice as incense money.

Su Ping declined the Warding Evil Artifacts promoted by the reception monk.

These Dharma Artifacts were good, but they were just too expensive; the cheapest one cost fifteen Spirit Stones!

Su Ping remembered that when he was still in the Immortal Sect, one could buy Warding Evil Artifacts of similar quality for at most seven or eight Spirit Stones.

It seemed the Great Golden Light Temple also understood market laws.

After Su Ping stated his reason, he was led into the temple's backyard, where he saw a stone stele over three meters tall standing there.

On this stele, streaks of golden scripture were constantly falling down like a waterfall.

Su Ping recognized a few, discovering they were all Buddhist scripture stories containing great truths.

He lost interest, instead going to touch the stele to check the specific rewards on the Merit Ranking.

The reception monk was not surprised by Su Ping's request.

Ever since the Sealed Dharma Artifacts were distributed in batches, managers from various outside sects' elites and even big families from the Immortal Sect side had come to check.

The reception monk was still quite welcoming of this.

Of course, if they could also donate a little incense money and buy some consecrated treasures, that would be even better.

Su Ping's mind immersed itself into the Merit Stele.

The moment he touched the Merit Stele, Su Ping felt as if he had put on a virtual reality headset, and a large number of categorized pages for redeemable items appeared before his eyes.

Su Ping scanned the items that could be directly redeemed from the Merit Stele at a glance.

The items inside were all-encompassing, from small things like Spirit Rice and Spirit Stones to large things like Spirit Tools, divine arts, and even the ownership of certain Spirit Veins.

As long as the merit was sufficient, the Great Golden Light Temple was willing to take them out to reward those with merit.

"It seems all parties have bled for this; even under the emphasis of all parties, most of the resources they brought out should be able to be recovered by them in large part!"

"These remaining resources are also a great Immortal Fate for countless bottom-tier cultivators!"

"And it is my opportunity too!"

Su Ping soon saw several items suitable for himself.

Among them, there were the fragments related to Foundation Establishment from the Greedy Wolf Chapter of the Big Dipper Death-Marking Scripture.

There were Qi Refining techniques that could be cultivated from Qi Refining all the way to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and then breaking through to Golden Core.

There were also over a thousand types of Divine Ability Seed templates available for selection.

It was also here that Su Ping learned that divine abilities could not be learned just by reading books.

Each set of divine abilities required a specific environment, auxiliary Arrays, and the most critical Divine Ability Seed to have a high probability of success.

In addition, there were some divine abilities with harsh conditions, having special requirements for physique, Bloodline, and even the environment of one's childhood growth.

The Great Golden Light Temple was quite decent, not splitting these things up to sell them.

When introducing them, they would also mark them in red as a reminder.

Su Ping finished reading all the redeemable divine abilities.

After thinking for a while, his gaze looked toward the divine ability template that required the third most merit in the divine ability ranking:

【Thousand Hands Ten Thousand Arms Great Freedom Primordial Spirit Dharma Image Divine Ability】

This was one of the divine ability foundations from the Great Golden Light Temple; a High Monk who achieved the Dao could condense the Tathagata Dharma Image, while a disciplinary monk could condense the Ashura Faxiang, which had a great reputation in the Western Desert.

After reading the description of this divine ability, Su Ping felt it was very suitable for his combat style.

The Thousand Hands Ten Thousand Arms were all condensed from mental power; once proficient, one could use them like fingers and arms, and they had many wonderful uses!

Under the Qi Refining Great Perfection, this divine ability could condense nearly a hundred mental power hands.

Su Ping only had to think that in the future, he could disdainfully look at the enemy sideways and recite one word: Trash.

Behind him, hundreds or thousands of mental power hands of various sizes could appear in the Void, holding weapons ranging from Automatic Rifles to Gatling guns, from Rocket Launchers to rapid-fire Fire God Cannons, with the muzzles aimed at the opponent.

Su Ping knew.

This divine ability has a connection with me!

"This divine ability is definitely promising for the future!"

"After Foundation Establishment, I can achieve the thousand hands described; at Golden Core, I can reach ten thousand arms, and as my state of mind forms, I can form a Primordial Spirit Dharma Image!"

"I probably won't be able to become the Buddha Tathagata Dharma Image or the Ashura Faxiang, but perhaps an Avatar of the Great Mercy and Great Compassion Bodhisattva Dharma Image spinning at 36,000 revolutions per second wouldn't be bad either?"

"The weapons used can also get bigger and bigger, and I can even borrow the main guns of battleships or even railway guns to use!"

"And because it is a divine ability, the speed of the mental power arms is related to my cultivation level, and it can keep up with the speed of cultivators of the same realm!"

"Firing at the opponent's physical body at close range, I don't believe this can be dodged!"

Su Ping was very excited in his heart, until he glanced at the price, and was cooled down and quieted by those several zeros.

"Good things are also more expensive; even if it only provides a divine ability template and entry-level assistance, with no follow-up support, it still costs a lot of merit."

"It's fortunate that I have an entire world to support me, and no one to share the merit with; if I save slowly, I will eventually have enough merit."

Su Ping took a few deep breaths in excitement, detached from the Merit Stele, and left the temple with satisfaction.

After the guest-welcoming monk saw Su Ping off, he retreated to his room.

A few minutes later, a vivid portrait of the White Crane Boy was drawn by this monk and handed to the Abbot.

The old Abbot looked at the portrait and frowned slightly:

"I have never seen such a heaven-gifted talent in this territory."

"If we had seen one, we certainly wouldn't have forgotten!"

"If it were a disguise, the Merit Stele should have reacted... so, is he truly a disciple of that Crane Gazing at the Moon and Listening to the Wind Temple?"

"Strange, how have I never heard of a place that could cultivate such a young cultivator?"

"Sigh, am I old, and have my channels for obtaining information become blocked?"

The old Abbot fell into self-reflection.

Su Ping, meanwhile, was playing the role of the White Crane Boy, relying on this identity to not fear being exposed, and began to sell off the five Demon Beasts he had hunted last time!

The Demon Beasts this time were not the weaklings driven by Waste Pills that could only be sold as discounted special dishes at restaurants.

Whether it was the mountain demon or the demon wolf, they were very popular among the wealthy patrons and merchants of the Jinyun Mountain Market.

Especially that giant ape with the split head, which sold for the price of the other four combined!

Su Ping was not afraid of being discovered; these Demon Beasts had all been butchered and cleaned.

The buyers could at most see that certain parts of the Demon Beasts had been hit by great force.

Similar Dharma Artifacts, or even Flying Swords and flying hammers, were not common, but they did exist.

As for Secret Techniques and secret methods, there were even more of those.

Everyone was buying to make money; no one would suddenly go crazy and want to study how this Demon Beast died.

Those who truly had such a spirit of research shouldn't be here; they would either be locked up at home or in the Immortal Sect's Seeking Dao Academy.

After the five Qi Refining Late Stage Demon Beasts were sold.

The Spirit Stones on Su Ping reached an unprecedented height.

It was thanks to it being a large market like the Jinyun Mountain Market.

Otherwise, if placed in the Jiuye Mountain Market, one Qi Refining Late Stage Demon Beast would likely have drained the liquid capital of that Wanbao Pavilion.

Su Ping entered the beautifully decorated and grand market restaurant for the first time.

Then, he did not dine there, but chose to pack up various foods and Spirit Wine.

The Spirit Wine was mainly different types of Spirit Rice wine.

Perhaps it also had to do with Spirit Rice being one of the few crops that remained uncontaminated after being improved.

The wealthy patrons who could afford to consume in such a place likely knew a thing or two about the secrets within.

Su Ping left the restaurant, turned around, and went to other shops to continue his big shopping spree.

In the distance, several young men and women from the same immortal cultivation family were staring at the back of the White Crane Boy, hesitating.

"Brother, we've checked; he is an outside cultivator."

"But I heard from the Junior Martial Brother that this cultivator seems to be a dual cultivator of Dharma and Body! And both have Late Stage cultivation!"

A male cultivator who looked like a child with a flushed face ran over like a monkey to inform the leading male cultivator.

The male cultivator dressed as a swordsman was stunned upon hearing this, immediately shook his head, and signaled his subordinates to disperse.

Those who were dual cultivators of Dharma and Body were all monsters; their small family could not afford to provoke them!

Similar to this young male cultivator.

Those merchants who bought the White Crane Boy's Demon Beast materials might not have had malicious intent, but the people below them were a bit jealous.

It was only after they inquired about the true ability of this seemingly harmless Daoist boy.

That they suddenly realized why they couldn't sense the specific cultivation of this Daoist.

At the time, they had thought it was a disguise spell or Dharma Artifact.

But they didn't expect him to actually be an expert!

And an expert who looked so young!

Can't provoke! Really can't provoke!

Su Ping, now wealthy, also bought a large number of books and materials on alchemy, artifact refining, and talisman making.

He did not, however, go on to buy Waste Pills.

With the worker Zhou Xuan, the little Daoist who was single-mindedly seeking the Dao, Su Ping believed that he could be completely self-sufficient regarding things like Waste Pills.

Afterward, Su Ping specifically found a pharmacy and discovered that there were no more Body Tempering Medicine Packs for sale there.

However, they did sell a better type of body tempering auxiliary medicine—Body Refining Spirit Liquid.

Unlike the Body Tempering Medicine Packs that the mortal world could provide, this specially made Body Refining Spirit Liquid could only be bought with Spirit Stones.

And as for the effect, you get what you pay for; as long as the Body Cultivator can endure it, one bottle of Body Refining Spirit Liquid is worth ten packs of Body Tempering Medicine Packs in the early stages of Body Tempering.

The key is that, unlike Body Tempering Medicine Packs, whose effects grow weaker as Body Tempering cultivation increases.

Body Refining Spirit Liquid can be used at least until Body Tempering Great Perfection without any obvious decrease in effect!

Su Ping was always generous with things that could enhance his own great power.

He took out his Storage Bag, poured out a large amount of Spirit Stones that hadn't even warmed up yet, and traded them with the stunned pharmacist for all the Body Refining Spirit Liquid stock in their shop.

This made the pharmacist exclaim that he had finally met a wealthy patron!

The big shopping spree ended, and after Su Ping left the mountain gate of the Jinyun Mountain Market.

Su Ping summoned Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui, then frowned slightly.

He had acted so magnanimous and generous.

Why were the gazes tracking him becoming fewer and fewer?

Sigh, it seems he would not be able to find a way home and then conveniently counter-rob a Robber Cultivator.

However, it did not matter; the massive shopping spree after selling the Demon Beast materials this time had already allowed him to purchase a large amount of cultivation resources and related materials.

Even if he were to obtain some more things from Robber Cultivators, they would just be a bonus.

Su Ping began to return the way he came, and after entering a dense forest, he circled around a few times.

Emerging from the other side of the forest, Su Ping finally restored his disguised true form and sped toward the direction of Jinque City.

Meanwhile, at Jinyun Mountain Market.

The influence brought by Su Ping gradually disappeared.

Just at dusk, the Foundation Establishment great cultivator stationed here finished his meditation and casually glanced at the briefing submitted by the people below.

After lingering on the two characters "White Crane" for a moment, he marked it with the word "interesting" and let it go at that.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator and a proper member of an Immortal Sect, he would not stoop to taking action over a few materials.

Furthermore, in his view, a sect capable of cultivating such a disciple, no matter how small, should have a Foundation Establishment cultivator backing it.

It is a troubled time, so it is better not to sour relations between fellow practitioners!