Chapter 596: Long Qi Cheng

Yan Buji ran into a small city to settle down, where mortals and cultivators live mixed together, and occasionally a few demon race members can be seen.

"Yo, what would you like to order, guest?"

"I'll take a private room."

"All right, a solo seat at Packed House!" the waiter shouted.

Yan Buji looked up at the tavern's name, which was Packed House, and found it somewhat strange.

Afterwards, Yan Buji went up to a private room on the second floor, sat down, and called out, "Waiter."

"What would you like to order, guest?"

"What dishes do you have?"

The waiter came over, smiling obsequiously, and said, "Guest, you've come to the right place; recently our shop hired a chef who can prepare spiritual food, using spiritual materials and demon beast meat, and the most praiseworthy of all is the Dragon Phoenix Banquet."

"Hmm, skip the Dragon Phoenix Banquet; bring a few dishes of spiritual food and two jars of aged wine."

"All right, guest, please wait a moment."

Yan Buji took out a jade slip and began to contemplate it.

After a while.

The waiter brought the food and drink, then respectfully withdrew.

Yan Buji tossed him a packet of spiritual stones, sat down, and ate while reading.

"This Great Alchemy Guide is quite rich in content."

"The steps of alchemy are just three, but the Great Alchemy Guide refines the step of processing spiritual materials, dividing it into two stages: first refining, then transforming."

"First process it, then treat it; although it can't be stored for too long, in the second step it can be refined more perfectly." Yan Buji studied, and before he knew it, it grew dark.

At night, Yan Buji summoned the waiter to clear the dishes, heated a tub of water, and sat inside to bathe.

Yan Buji stepped into the tub, looked at his body covered in wounds, then touched his aged cheeks.

"In the blink of an eye, five hundred years have passed."

Looking back on these past few hundred years, his experience was either robbery or theft, followed by being hunted and dragged into vortices he couldn't handle.

Fortunately, he persevered step by step, and now possesses this strength.

Yan Buji lay back, staring at the ceiling, cleared his mind, rarely thinking about trivial matters, calmed himself, and enjoyed the rare peace.

Generally speaking, Yan Buji does not dislike enjoyment, but sometimes he must force himself to seize time; otherwise, the more he indulges in pleasure, the more easily his will is eroded.

But "today's wine, today's drunkenness" is not unlike the life every cultivator aspires to.

Yan Buji stepped out of the tub, changed into fresh clothes, and immediately sat on the bed to continue his cultivation.

After a period of time.

Yan Buji left the small town, intending to go to larger cultivator cities, and then begin his reputation-building plan.

In short, it's about building momentum.

To receive good treatment, strength and reputation are key.

As a cultivator who has only recently arrived in Zhong Tian Zhi Yu, Yan Buji naturally cannot quickly find a foothold here; moreover, he does not want to settle for less, and directly takes Paolong Sacred Land as his goal.

Therefore, the city Yan Buji has chosen this time is a major cultivator city near Paolong Sacred Land.

"Long Qi Cheng."

Jade Dragon soars three million, chilling the cosmos!

Yan Buji looked up at the city wall over a hundred meters high, then passed through the gate and entered.

The prosperity of Long Qi Cheng surpasses that of many cultivator towns Yan Buji has seen; cultivators of all realms walk the streets, yet no one erupts in conflict here, and it appears quite harmonious.

"The senior brothers from the Sacred Land have arrived!"

Yan Buji turned his head with the crowd and saw a group of cultivators wearing the yellow robes of Paolong Sacred Land stride over, neither arrogant nor servile, each with spirited expressions and vigorous aura.

The surrounding cultivators looked at them enviously, whispering, "I wish I could join Paolong Sacred Land too."

"You? With what strength do you even meet the entry requirements?"

"Can't you at least say something?"

Yan Buji left the crowd and wandered about.

It wasn't exactly idle strolling; Yan Buji mainly intended to investigate the commercial situation here.

After more than ten days, Yan Buji visited every shop, strolled the surrounding streets, and roughly reached a conclusion.

"Everything is available—medicinal pills, spiritual materials, accumulation devices, formations, talismans... even niche gu worm and puppet shops." Yan Buji thought.

But he wasn't here to do business; he came to build momentum.

Since it's about building momentum, he should make use of his strengths and avoid weaknesses; thus Yan Buji mainly investigated medicinal pills and discovered that the city actually had not a few sixth-rank alchemists.

However, most of those people are Nascent Soul or even Spirit Transformation cultivators, so he naturally dare not approach them lightly; yet judging from the pills they sell, they are all market-demand medicines, making it hard to stand out.

"Moreover, I may not even attract the attention of those Paolong Sacred Land disciples, and even if I befriended them, it wouldn't help much."

It's hard for the disadvantaged party in social relations to reverse their position; for example, if Yan Buji befriended those disciples, later when he tried to rise he would inevitably cut ties with them. And since they themselves are Sacred Land disciples, even if they aren't overly arrogant, winning their favor is still difficult.

At first, Yan Buji had no intention of starting with those Sacred Land disciples.

"But he can't just appear out of nowhere; he needs to make a start first."

Thinking this, Yan Buji entered a medicinal pill shop.

"What do you need, fellow cultivator?"

"I've just arrived; boss, do you buy medicinal pills here?"

The boss raised his eyebrows: "We do buy pills; what pills do you have?"

"This one."

Yan Buji produced a bottle of pill; the boss frowned, opened the cap and sniffed: "Hiss... heavy medicinal toxicity, this property... could it be the Hundred Tribulations Demon Pill?"

"Exactly."

The boss pinched their chin: "This Hundred Tribulations Demon-Relieving Pill is at least over ten thousand years old; in recent years, a few people have discovered it. I've heard that the Anming Sect from the Medicine King's Legacy appeared once; could you be from the Anming Sect?"

"No." Yan Buji shook his head: "I'm just a lone cultivator."

"A lone cultivator?"

The boss glanced at them, then immediately smiled and said: "Since that's the case, fellow cultivator, what's your price?"

"Just go by the market price; I still have plenty here."

When Yan Buji arrived, he happened to try his hand at refining a few batches of Hundred Tribulations Demon-Relieving Pill using the Great Alchemy Guide; since he couldn't use that much, he simply took them out to exchange for some Spiritual Stones.

"Hmm.... This thing doesn't have many uses, wait a moment. Fellow cultivator, please sit here for a while; I'll go handle some business." The boss seemed to think of something, returned the pill bottle to Yan Buji, gestured for him to sit aside, then turned and went to the back hall.

Yan Buji didn't understand why, but still sat here waiting.

Elsewhere.

The boss who had entered the back hall looked around, saw no one, then went into the kitchen and saw a middle-aged person cooking over a fire.

"Fellow cultivator Yuan Chong."

"Hmm?"

The middle-aged person named Yuan Chong looked at them and asked: "What's wrong?"

"I remember that thing has already gone to Paolong Sacred Land, right?"

"Hmm, according to our information, it should be inside Paolong Sacred Land."

"In that case, we could make a little money from this opportunity; what do you think?"

"Oh?"