Chapter 69: Mount Bai Long Grand Event

After paying a spirit stone at the marketplace entrance, Song Qingming soon successfully entered the Mount Bai Long marketplace. Although there were quite a few guard cultivators at the entrance of the marketplace, their inspection was unexpectedly loose, let alone verifying and registering the identity of the cultivators, they were even too lazy to issue identity tokens for the cultivators.

Song Qingming, who walked into the marketplace, still could not believe that this was the famous Mount Bai Long marketplace, and did not understand why the manager here was so casual.

The Mount Bai Long marketplace was only slightly larger than Qinghefang. Similarly, there were two rows of shops on one street, but the east-west street was much longer than Qinghefang, and the entire marketplace had about two hundred shops.

However, it looked much more prosperous than Qinghefang. The large number of cultivators coming and going on the street made Song Qingming, who was in the Mount Bai Long marketplace, feel as if he had returned to Guiyunfang again.

Song Qingming rushed to the Mount Bai Long marketplace and spent quite a bit of time. Now that he had been rushing on the road for seven or eight days, he was also a bit tired and wanted to find a hotel in the marketplace to stay in first.

Seeing the crowded street, Song Qingming wandered around the street, inquired about the news, and then walked directly into a hotel in the middle of the street.

The hotel was unusually lively and noisy. Quite a few cultivators were already discussing something with several clerks in the shop, and they seemed to be cultivators who had just arrived here not long ago.

Song Qingming's eyes turned around in the hotel and found that a clerk in front had just finished entertaining a guest. Seeing this clerk smilingly send the guest into the back hall and hand him over to another cultivator in the shop, Song Qingming seized the time and hurriedly walked over.

After arriving at the clerk's side, Song Qingming immediately asked directly: "Fellow Daoist, may I trouble you to ask, are there any vacant cave dwellings on the mountain for short-term rental?"

This clerk was also a cultivator. Although he did not look younger than Song Qingming, his cultivation was still low, only at the third layer of Qi Refining. It was clear that he was a person with low spirit roots and no hope for the Dao path.

Seeing someone coming to rent a cave dwelling again, this clerk immediately said enthusiastically: "Fellow Daoist is also here to participate in the Mount Bai Long Grand Event, right? Fortunately, you arrived early. There are still quite a few vacant cave dwellings on the mountain. However, even for short-term rental of cave dwellings here, it must be rented for at least one month. I hope Fellow Daoist knows this."

"As long as there are cave dwellings, then arrange for me to rent one for a month first." Seeing so many cultivators in this shop renting cave dwellings, Song Qingming also knew that these people must be like him, also here to participate in this Mount Bai Long Grand Event.

The Mount Bai Long Grand Event would probably be held in half a month. Next, quite a few cultivators would certainly rush here. The number of people coming to rent cave dwellings would certainly be more and more. Fortunately, he set off early and arrived here a little earlier, so he would not have a headache about this matter.

"The cave dwellings in Mount Bai Long are divided into three types: high, medium, and low. I don't know what kind of cave dwelling Fellow Daoist needs. Looking at Fellow Daoist, although you look young, your cultivation should be about to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining, right? If you want to live more comfortably, I recommend that Fellow Daoist choose a medium-grade cave dwelling for late-stage Qi Refining cultivators to rent.

This type of cave dwelling is relatively close to the top of the mountain, and the spiritual energy is relatively sufficient, much richer than the spiritual energy in the marketplace, and will absolutely not affect Fellow Daoist's daily cultivation. Renting this kind of cave dwelling, although the price will be higher, it will not be too expensive, only five low-grade spirit stones per month."

Song Qingming smiled and said: "Although the fellow daoist's cultivation is not high, his vision is quite extraordinary, and he could see my cultivation so clearly so quickly, which really surprised me. However, I am here this time to purchase spirit items and will not stay for too long, so there is no need to waste a medium-grade cave dwelling on me. I will just rent a low-grade cave dwelling."

Seeing that Song Qingming did not listen to his suggestion, the clerk's face slowly became somewhat unpleasant, and then he said somewhat plainly: "There are also low-grade cave dwellings now, located in the west of the marketplace, requiring three spirit stones per month. Fellow Daoist just needs to hand over the spirit stones, and you can get the cave dwelling restriction and move in directly.

However, the spiritual energy in the primary cave dwelling will be much thinner, which may not be enough for your Qi Refining cultivators with relatively high cultivation to cultivate. If you want to change the cave dwelling, you are welcome to come and find me at any time."

After handing over two spirit stones, Song Qingming took the white jade talisman given by the clerk and soon left here.

The Mount Bai Long marketplace was not as large as Guiyunfang. Song Qingming did not spend much time and soon found this cave dwelling he rented in the west of the marketplace.

After moving into the cave dwelling, Song Qingming sensed the spiritual energy here and felt it was okay. The spiritual energy was much more sufficient than in the marketplace, although it was not enough for his cultivation, it would not affect much. Besides, he would stay here for at most half a month before leaving here.

Mount Bai Long was originally a second-grade top-quality spirit mountain. The spiritual energy in the high-grade cave dwellings at the top of the mountain was unusually abundant, enough for seven or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators to cultivate together.

The more than one hundred medium-grade cave dwellings built under the top of the mountain were also prepared for those late-stage Qi Refining cultivators who came here. Now that the Mount Bai Long Grand Event was approaching, that place must already be full of high-tier cultivators.

Song Qingming, whose cultivation was still in the mid-stage of Qi Refining, would inevitably attract the attention of some late-stage Qi Refining cultivators with intentions if he lived there. Now that he had nearly a thousand spirit stones on him, including the three hundred spirit stones given to him by Xu Ziyan, in order to be cautious, he chose to live in a safer low-grade cave dwelling.

After all, Mount Bai Long was not as safe as Guiyunfang. Although there were Foundation Establishment cultivators sitting in town on the mountain, and cultivators were prohibited from fighting in the marketplace, the cultivators who came here were mixed with fish and dragons. Many people who looked unusually kind on the surface could be those who killed without blinking an eye behind their backs.

The next day, Song Qingming left the rented cave dwelling early in the morning, found a small shop in the marketplace to purchase some spirit rice, and by the way, inquired about the specific time when the Mount Bai Long Grand Event would be held.

Under the introduction of the shop boss who was full of spring breeze and talking endlessly, Song Qingming slowly learned about some specific situations of the Mount Bai Long Grand Event.

Since the establishment of the Mount Bai Long marketplace, a Mount Bai Long Grand Event would be held in the marketplace almost every five years. Every grand event, Mount Bai Long cultivators would release quite a few rare spirit items that were difficult to purchase in ordinary marketplaces.

Every Mount Bai Long Grand Event would attract quite a few nearby cultivators and loose cultivators from other parts of the Wei Kingdom.

However, the time for Mount Bai Long to hold the grand event each time was not very fixed. It would only let people release the news of holding the grand event in the marketplace one or two months in advance before each grand event was held.

Through the slow spread of passing cultivators, soon a large number of loose cultivators would rush here to participate in the Mount Bai Long Grand Event.

When the grand event started, Mount Bai Long would also open the mountain protection formation, completely closing the mountain, prohibiting all cultivators from entering or leaving, until the end of the grand event.

This practice naturally would also have quite a few cultivators like Song Qingming who were afraid of missing this grand event and rushed here more than half a month in advance, making the marketplace much more prosperous than usual.

Cultivators who arrived here would go to the marketplace to wander around when they had nothing to do. In this way, even if the income from holding the grand event was not counted, the income of various shops in the marketplace during these one or two months would also be several times higher than usual.

The influx of a large number of cultivators would also cause the cave dwellings on Mount Bai Long to be rented out, and would also bring quite a bit of income to Mount Bai Long.

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