Chapter 14

Seeing that Song Qingming seemed to have recognized himself, Qin Zhen looked at the wooden sign in front of the stall and continued: "Look at the sign you wrote that you need pills. I happen to know a good friend who often sells pills, but the other party doesn't want other things, only spirit stones. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Fellow Daoist Qin, Little Brother came here to help the clan collect pills that increase cultivation. If someone can provide them long-term, that is extremely good, and it also saves my family from often going to the market to purchase."

It turns out to be a family cultivator nearby. No wonder this person is young, and every gathering can take out dozens of spiritual talismans for sale. It turns out that most of these spiritual talismans are refined by his family elders.

Pills, this kind of tight cultivation resource, are basically controlled by major cultivation families in Qinghe County. Relying on the accumulation of several generations, most of them have complete pill formula inheritance, which is easier to cultivate alchemists than loose cultivators.

Even if there are a few people with outstanding talent among loose cultivators, relying on their own opportunities to obtain some alchemy inheritance and become alchemists, if they want to obtain more pill formulas to improve their alchemy level, they can only choose to join them and become the offerings of these cultivation families, helping them refine pills for a lifetime.

The only market in Qinghe County, Qinghe Market, was jointly established by large and small cultivation families in Qinghe County. The pills refined by loose cultivators also cannot compete with these cultivation families in Qinghe Market.

Of course, there are still some alchemists who are unwilling to collude with these cultivation families and choose other ways of survival. However, the pills they refine generally can only appear in these small gatherings.

The pills sold here are generally a bit cheaper than the market. Nearby cultivation families covet the profit of a few spirit stones and come here to purchase pills, which is also a common thing.

After hearing Song Qingming's words, Qin Zhen felt relieved and said: "I said Fellow Daoist is young, why do you need so many pills? It turns out to be purchasing for the family."

"If Fellow Daoist can introduce the way, in the future, when you come to me to buy spiritual talismans, they will all be at ninety percent of the market price, okay?"

After speaking, Song Qingming also pulled a few "Clearing Heart Talismans" that this person loved most from a pile of spiritual talismans in front of him and stuffed them into Qin Zhen's hands.

"Okay, okay. After the gathering ends, Fellow Daoist, wait for me here for a while."

Seeing that Song Qingming was so sensible, Qin Zhen happily agreed. Loose cultivators like him often mix in various gatherings. Besides going out to take risks to hunt demonic beasts, they can only rely on buying and selling some information in the market and gatherings to exchange for some cultivation resources.

Not long after sending Qin Zhen away, another beautiful woman wearing a veil came to Song Qingming's stall.

This woman has clear eyebrows and bright eyes, white teeth and red lips, wearing a light pink palace dress, with a delicate and translucent figure. The skirt is embroidered with light blue butterflies spreading their wings and about to fly, and she is covered with a layer of white light gauze. Her cultivation is even higher than Song Qingming's, reaching the fifth layer of Qi Refining.

Song Qingming has been on Mount Caolu for several months, and this is the first time he has seen such a stunning female cultivator, so he couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

After this person stopped in front of Song Qingming's stall, she looked at the word sign on the stall table carefully, thought for a while, and opened her mouth to say: "Do you accept mid-grade Silver Leaf Grass?"

Song Qingming only felt that this voice was clear and entered his ears like a wind chime. After coming back to his senses, he hurriedly replied: "I don't accept mid-grade ones, low-grade ones are okay."

Silver Leaf Grass is also one of the spiritual herbs needed to make blank spiritual talismans. It's just that Song Qingming is still only a low-grade talisman maker, and using mid-grade materials is really a bit wasteful. He doesn't have many spirit stones in his hand, so naturally, he won't waste spirit stones to acquire this.

Seeing that Song Qingming did not agree, the woman in pink clothes was a bit unhappy. After hesitating for a while, she continued: "I have some low-grade pills that increase cultivation. Will you exchange them for all the Clearing Heart Talismans on your table?"

"Pills that increase cultivation? Let me see which kind first."

Hearing that this woman wanted to take pills to exchange for his spiritual talismans, Song Qingming was also a bit surprised. I don't know what kind of strange wind blew today. In the past, few people in this market took pills to exchange for spiritual talismans. Why did he meet two people who could exchange for pills in a row today?

After hearing Song Qingming's words, the woman in pink clothes did not answer, but took out a small bottle and placed it on the table.

After taking the small purple bottle handed over by the other party, he opened the jade bottle, poured out a pill, lowered his head, and carefully identified the medicinal properties.

"This is 'Nourishing Qi Pill'."

Song Qingming took out his own small bottle and loaded three pills, and put the remaining pills in the bottle together with the dozen or so Clearing Heart Talismans on the table in front of the other party.

"This Nourishing Qi Pill of yours is about three spirit stones each on the market. These dozen or so talismans of mine are only worth three of your pills. If you agree, we will exchange."

The woman in pink clothes did not hesitate, nodded refreshingly, quickly collected the pills and spiritual talismans, took a look at Song Qingming, and turned away gracefully.

After completing this transaction, Song Qingming seemed to have run out of good luck. He never encountered such a good thing as exchanging for pills again. However, the sales of the spiritual talismans he put out were always very stable. In one day, he sold seven or eight out of ten, and also collected some talisman-making materials. Only the black stone that Ninth Uncle left with him was still motionless, and no one asked about it.

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At dusk, the sun was setting. On the west side of Mount Caolu, Song Qingming looked at the person selling pills introduced by Qin Zhen and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The familiar figure in front of him was precisely the woman in pink clothes who exchanged pills for his spiritual talismans today. It was just that he hadn't thought at all at that time that this woman would also sell the remaining pills.

It's a pity for those Clearing Heart Talismans he worked so hard to make.

This woman in pink clothes was still wearing that white veil. Although Song Qingming had never seen the woman's face clearly, he quickly confirmed from the clothes she was wearing that she was the stunning woman who traded with him half a day ago.

The woman in pink clothes was also a bit surprised to see Song Qingming and asked Qin Zhen: "Fellow Daoist Qin, is this the person you said wants to purchase pills?"

"Immortal Gao, this is Fellow Daoist Song, who is also a family cultivator nearby. His reputation at the Caolu entrance is quite good. This time he came to purchase some pills for the elders in the family."

Qin Zhen seemed to be a bit respectful to this woman, and his tone was everywhere, a bit afraid that she would not be satisfied enough with Song Qingming, the trading partner.

After hearing Qin Zhen's introduction, the woman in pink clothes asked Song Qingming again.

"Are you a person of the Song family on Mount Funiu?"

"Mount Funiu, Song family, Song Qingming."

Song Qingming saw that this woman knew his origin all at once, thinking that she was a person who had been practicing nearby for many years, so he didn't hide it anymore and said his name generously.

After hearing Song Qingming's answer, the woman in pink clothes thought for a long time, and finally seemed to have made up her mind, and threw a yellow cloth bag towards Qin Zhen.

After Qin Zhen took the cloth bag, opened it and took a look, he nodded towards the two with a happy face and quickly left here.

Until Qin Zhen walked out of the two people's sight, the woman in white slowly opened her mouth: "I don't know what kind of pills Fellow Daoist Song needs?"

"Like Nourishing Qi Pill, pills that can increase magic power are all needed, the more the better."

"I only want spirit stones, I don't want other things."

"That is natural."

After the woman in pink clothes finished speaking, she took out several purple jade bottles and placed them in Song Qingming's hands. Song Qingming took them and looked, and there were three full bottles of Nourishing Qi Pills that he had been dreaming of. He was shocked and couldn't help but have a few more guesses about this woman in pink clothes.

Being able to take out so many Nourishing Qi Pills at once, this woman's alchemy level must be very superb, which is not comparable to that kind of primary alchemist like Second Sister. She is at least a mid-grade alchemist. Such characters are not many in Qinghe County.

"The quality of my pills is all excellent. If you want a whole bottle, I can give you two fewer spirit stones."

Song Qingming nodded in agreement. After accepting a bottle of pills, he took out a bag of spirit stones and handed them to the woman.

"I came out in a hurry this time and didn't bring many spirit stones. Today I only need one bottle. For the rest, you come to find me at the place of the last gathering next month. I will set up a stall here every month. As long as the quality is guaranteed, I can acquire them long-term here."

"As long as you have spirit stones, the quality of the pills I refine is guaranteed. However, if you want long-term cooperation... I have one more requirement."

"Please speak, Immortal."

"You cannot reveal the transaction between us to your clan members. This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

Regarding the strange requirement of this woman in pink clothes, although Song Qingming was a bit puzzled, he didn't think much. This woman in pink clothes' alchemy inheritance might come from Qinghe Market, and she didn't want them, these family cultivators, to know her identity, which is also understandable.

"Yes!"

Compared to her, Song Qingming didn't want the clan to know the secret of him earning spirit stones now. For him, being able to stably exchange for pills to improve his cultivation is the most important thing now.

At most, he only dared to take a little of these pills to the family's Treasure Pavilion to exchange for talisman-making materials. If he took them all, and the Fourth Elder asked him where he got the spirit stones to purchase the pills, how could he explain it clearly? In the eyes of other clan members of the Song family, he could have at most twenty or thirty spirit stones on him.

The woman in pink clothes counted the spirit stones, put them into the storage bag with satisfaction, and was about to leave gracefully.

"May I ask the Immortal's name?"

"Gao Yuyao."

(End of chapter)