Chapter 60: Purchase

Li Xiangping and the others waited for a while, and simply chatted by the shore, laughing and talking about interesting things from their childhood, and finally saw a faint silver light rising in the center of the lake.

"Is this the large boat for picking us up?"

Only then did they see a swaying wooden long boat driving over from the center of the lake. The wooden boat was hung with a large sail covered with pale white feathers, and the boat body was flowing with spiritual light, which also looked like a good treasure.

Before the boat was close, they heard a light drink:

"Fellow Daoists in front, do you want to go to the Moon-Watching Lake market? Why are you so late."

"Exactly!"

Li Chijing and the others responded repeatedly and replied with apologies:

"We are coming to the Moon-Watching Lake market for the first time, but we don't understand the rules, so we missed the time."

"Hahahaha, Fellow Daoists are too polite."

That person laughed loudly and drove the large boat toward the shore.

Li Chijing stepped forward, identified it carefully with spiritual sense, did not trust this person, and said cautiously:

"Is Fellow Daoist here to pick us up to the market?"

"Exactly!"

That person laughed loudly, seeing Li Chijing and the others not stepping forward, but looking at him cautiously, he pursed his lips and said:

"One catty of spiritual rice or equivalent spiritual items per person."

Seeing him ask for a price, Li Chijing felt relieved instead. He patted the brocade pouch with his left hand, and a pale cyan token flew out.

The token was suspended in the air, slowly projecting a few large characters:

"Mount Qingchi Sect, Green Spike Peak."

Only then did Li Chijing say loudly:

"I am Li Chijing, a disciple of Green Spike Peak of the Mount Qingchi Sect. I am executing official business and passing through this place. Many thanks, Fellow Daoist, for giving us a ride."

Seeing this token, the large boat shook violently and paused for a few breaths, as if identifying something. Only then did an old man with grey hair come down, bowing respectfully and replying:

"So it is an Immortal Sect disciple, disrespectful, disrespectful, please board the boat."

Li Chijing nodded, and the few boarded the boat. They saw that the cabin was fully equipped with tea tables and tea sets, and the decoration was quite luxurious and antique.

"The few didn't have any acquaintances in the market to accompany them, so the old man was also very afraid, and didn't dare to come out of the cabin to welcome them when we met. Only after seeing this Immortal Sect token did I feel relieved."

The grey-haired old man smiled and apologized repeatedly.

"Not at all, it should be like this when going out."

Li Xiangping replied with a smile, and then heard the old man say:

"The few had better arrive at the Zi hour next time. The surrounding families all enter at this time, which is the most convenient for purchasing spiritual rice and selling spiritual items."

"So that's how it is!"

The few chatted with the old man for a while, and felt the large boat shake violently, with faint clamor coming. Looking out the window, they saw the Moon-Watching Lake market.

This market was built on a small island in the lake. The area was not large, about half the size of a village. Small lights emitting white light hung on the street. At this moment, the flow of people was still quite large, and people stopped from time to time to watch the goods on the street and bargain with the stall owners.

"The old man dare not collect this passing fee."

The white-haired old man docked the boat and hurriedly refused the spiritual rice taken from the storage bag by Li Chijing, saying nothing would he accept it.

The few had to bid farewell to the white-haired old man and walked along the street with great interest. Li Tongya looked at the things on the stall and compared them with the Crown Cloud Peak market.

"The items sold are roughly similar, but the items sold in the Moon-Watching Lake market are mostly bulk, and the spells are all split one by one, rather than sold in volumes."

Just pondering, he heard Li Chijing in front smile:

"The items on this stall are of mixed quality. To buy things, you still have to go to the counter to buy them."

After walking a few steps, the stalls gradually became fewer. A few shops appeared in front. Li Chijing looked for a while, picked a shop selling magic tools, crossed the threshold, and entered the shop.

"Go and ask your shopkeeper if he is interested in fire evil energy."

The clerk who came up was stunned. Seeing Li Chijing stop talking after saying that and looking at the many magic tools on the wall, he hurriedly went down.

Not long after, a man with his upper body bare hurried in from the back courtyard, pushing the door, approaching like the wind, with many iron tools hanging on his body clanging.

"Fellow Daoist, do you have news about fire evil energy?"

The man had a stubble, looked rough, but his voice was quite soft.

"Not bad, I am Li Chijing of Mount Qingchi Sect, and I have a portion of fire evil energy for sale."

"So it is an Immortal Sect disciple."

The rough man cupped his hands and smiled:

"I am Chu Minglian, and I opened a small shop in this market. I don't know what price you want for this portion of fire evil energy?"

Li Chijing raised his eyebrows and said sternly:

"Seventy spirit stones, it's best to use items to offset."

Chu Minglian shook his head and smiled:

"A bit expensive. I don't know what item in my shop you have taken a fancy to?"

"Talisman brush."

Li Chijing didn't have much time, so he went straight to the point, pointed to the two talisman brushes hanging on the wall and said:

"I don't know if you can introduce them."

"Naturally."

Chu Minglian nodded, took down the two talisman brushes, picked up the cyan one and explained:

"The brush body uses spiritual cyan jade, and the brush hair uses the tail hair of a peak Embryonic Breath weasel monster, which is suitable for both Embryonic Breath and Qi Refining. It costs fifteen spirit stones."

Putting it down, Chu Minglian picked up another talisman brush with a milky white brush body and said:

"This one uses Ye-Spirit Wood brush body, and the talisman brush refined from the tail hair of a Qi Refining stage fox monster. At least a Qi Refining stage cultivator can use it. It costs sixty spirit stones."

Li Chijing waved his hand, naturally pointing to the cyan jade brush, and smiled:

"That's it."

"Also need a storage bag, an ordinary one used by Qi Refining stage cultivators will do."

Chu Minglian smiled lightly, took a brown-grey brocade pouch from the shelf, and said sternly:

"Three feet square, thirty spirit stones."

After some bargaining, Chu Minglian exchanged the fire evil energy with these two magic tools plus twenty spirit stones, feeling very satisfied.

Li Chijing walked out of the shop holding the storage bag and the talisman brush. Before the Li Xiangping and the others behind him could feel the pain, they saw Li Chijing enter another shop.

"Three hundred sheets of Embryonic Breath realm talisman paper, ten spirit stones."

Li Chijing pointed to the three stacks of brown-yellow blank talisman paper on the counter and said sternly:

"It is indeed Green Mugwort Wood talisman paper, right?"

"Exactly, exactly."

The clerk knew that an expert had come as soon as he saw Li Chijing, and hurriedly replied.

He counted ten spirit stones and handed them over, put the talisman paper into the brocade pouch, and only then did Li Chijing hand the storage bag in his hand to Li Xiangping, muttering to himself in a low voice:

"Talisman brush, talisman paper, storage bag, and ten spirit stones left, how should I spend them."

This set of Li Chijing's flowing operations made the Li Xiangping and the others, who were the masters, look at each other, and they hurriedly stepped forward:

"The remaining spirit stones will be kept in the family in case of need."

Li Chijing nodded, looked at the market where the crowd was slowly thinning, stretched, and smiled:

"Does the family have any other important matters?" ===== CHAPTER 61 =====