Chapter 363: Be careful when sailing the ship of ten thousand years, it is always good to be cautious (two chapters in one)
"Tap, step, step..."
Slight footsteps sounded in the street , Lin Li walked into a shop selling spiritual stones.
Just as he thought when he first stood outside the store, the store selling spiritual stones was quiet inside, with no one else except the dozing clerk.
Lin Li thought to himself as he stared at the clerk at the counter, with his right hand supporting his cheek, his eyes closed, and his head shaking, as if he was about to lie down on the table and sleep at any moment.
"This clerk is really generous, and he is not afraid of thieves sneaking in and stealing things."
Lin Li walked forward, came to the counter, stretched out his right hand, and knocked on the counter.
“Dong dong dong…”
As the sound of knocking on the counter came, the clerk who was dozing with his eyes closed was startled and opened his eyes immediately.
“Uh…”
"Hello, sir, do you need anything?"
The clerk who woke up quickly rubbed his eyes, then stood up from his chair and greeted Lin Li.
The clerk in front of me is actually not very old. He looks to be only fourteen or fifteen years old at most. He is not tall, only 1.6 meters tall.
Lin Li looked down at the young clerk, then he reached into his pocket and took out a fist-sized piece of spirit stone ore and placed it on the counter.
“I have some spiritual stone mines of this quality, and I want to exchange them for spiritual stones. Do you accept them here?”
The young clerk did not reach out to touch the spirit stone mine that Lin Li placed on the counter. He nodded and said, "Please wait a moment."
After that, the young clerk The clerk left the counter and ran to the door of a room in the store.
Lin Li saw the clerk knocking on the door, and then said, "Uncle, there is a customer who wants to exchange some spirit stone mines for spirit stones."
Uncle? It turns out that this young clerk is a relative of the shop owner! No wonder he dared to doze off while sitting at the counter while working.
After all, if it were anyone else, they would not dare to sit and doze off during working hours, because if they were discovered, they would be fired...
Through the young clerk's words, Lin Li understood the relationship between him and the shopkeeper. Then, he saw the door that had been knocked opened, revealing a middle-aged man in his fifties with thinning hair. Walk out of the room.
"Hello, sir." Under the guidance of his nephew, the shopkeeper came to Lin Li and greeted him with a smile.
"Hello." Lin Li nodded in response, and then saw the other party pick up the spirit stone mine he put on the counter.
Immediately afterwards, a wave of spiritual energy emanated from the shopkeeper.
At the beginning of the second stage, Lin Li felt the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the shopkeeper, and made a mental judgment about his cultivation.
"Sir, the quality of your spirit stone ore is good..." After checking the quality of the spirit stone ore in his hand, the shopkeeper said with a smile.
“How many spiritual stones can this spiritual stone mine be exchanged for?” Lin Li asked.
The shopkeeper weighed the spirit stone ore in his hand and said, "You can exchange it for seven."
The fist-sized spirit stone ore can be exchanged for seven spirit stones the size of pigeon eggs. , the shopkeeper of this shop is quite honest in doing business, and there is no evil intention to lower the price. Lin Li nodded with satisfaction.
Then, with a thought in his mind, he took out more than thirty pieces of different sizes of spirit stones that he had previously obtained in the cave, from the mysterious island, and placed them on the counter in front of him.
The shopkeeper and his nephew suddenly opened their eyes in shock after seeing what Lin Li did.
“With empty hands, I just waved my hand, and so many spirit stone mines appeared out of thin air. This guest is a practitioner who has awakened the power of storage space!”
Lin Li After taking out all the spirit stone mines on the mysterious island, he said to the shopkeeper who looked at him with wide eyes.
"Shopkeeper, please help me replace all these spiritual stone mines with spiritual stones."
The shopkeeper who came back to his senses immediately responded with a smile, "Okay, sir, Please wait a moment, and I will help you calculate how many spirit stones these spirit stone mines can be exchanged for.”
Later, through some calculations by the shopkeeper, Lin Li obtained dozens of spiritual stone mines of different sizes from this treasure hunt, which could be exchanged for a total of 320 spiritual stones.
Originally, Lin Li estimated that the spirit stone mines he obtained could be exchanged for 300 to 400 spirit stones. Now the number of 320 spirit stones is just within the range he estimated. .
After the shopkeeper calculated the results, Lin Li didn't say anything more and directly asked the other party to exchange them for spiritual stones.
"Sir, where did you get all these spiritual stones?" At this time, the shopkeeper asked subconsciously.
Then he felt that it was a bit impolite to ask, so he quickly added, "Sorry, if it's not convenient to say it, you don't have to answer."
Lin Li didn't expect that the shopkeeper would ask about the origin of the spirit stone mine, but when the other party asked, he just said it casually, but it didn't really matter. This was not Blue Star anyway.
“I accidentally picked up these spiritual stone mines outside the city...”
“Sir, you are so lucky...Xiao Ke, please take these spiritual stone mines. Put it away and I'll go get the spirit stones for the customers."
Of course the shopkeeper didn't believe what Lin Li said. After all, if you said you accidentally picked up one or two pieces of spirit stones outside the city, it wouldn't matter. Normally, it is obviously impossible to pick up so many at once.
The store manager asked casually, and Lin Li answered casually. The two parties did not continue on this topic.
Then, he ordered his nephew to pack up the numerous spiritual stone mines, and then entered the room from which he came out earlier.
Seeing his uncle leave, the young clerk immediately took out a linen bag from the cabinet under the counter and put the spirit stones on the table into the linen bag piece by piece.
When he put all the spirit stones into the linen bag, the storekeeper who left walked out of the room again. This time, he was holding a wooden box in his hand.
"Sir, all three hundred and twenty of your spirit stones are here. Please check them."
The shopkeeper placed the wooden box he was holding on the counter. , then he opened the box and saw many crystal clear spiritual stones that were as big as pigeon eggs stacked in the wooden box.
Because it was the first time to trade with this store, the trust between both parties was not high, so Lin Li followed the other party's instructions and began to check whether the spiritual stones in the wooden box were genuine.
It took a few minutes to check all the spirit stones in the wooden box and found that there were no problems. Lin Li immediately put the wooden box containing the spirit stones into the mysterious island.
The shopkeeper had no objection to Lin Li taking away the wooden box, because even the spirit stone and the box were originally meant to be given to the other party.
"It's a pleasure to cooperate. If I still have the spirit stone mine in the future, I will come to you again..." Lin Li said to the shopkeeper with a smile.
Then, with the other party's warm greetings, he left the shop selling spiritual stones.
"Uncle, this is the first time I have seen a practitioner who has awakened the power of storage space." The young clerk said as he looked at Lin Li who stopped a carriage on the roadside and left in the carriage. "Don't tell me it's you, it's the first time I've seen him, and I just felt that he was exuding the first stage of the second stage of spiritual energy fluctuations." The shopkeeper said with emotion.
"The second stage of the first stage? Uncle, are you not mistaken? This guest doesn't look very old! He is so young, and he has reached the second stage of the first stage." Age The young clerk said in surprise.
"I can't make a mistake. If I still make a mistake when sensing at such a close distance, my store has been open for so many years in vain." The store manager said.
Then, he withdrew his gaze from the carriage leaving in the distance, turned back to the counter, picked up the linen bag containing the spirit stone ore, and entered the room where he was before.
The young clerk saw the shopkeeper entering the room, and he sat back on the chair behind the counter.
Then, he held his cheek with his right hand and looked at the passers-by on the street outside the store. He thought back to the young guest he had just entertained and murmured to himself.
"The first stage of the second stage. If I can practice to the early stage of the second stage before the age of thirty, I will burn high incense."
The carriage drove towards the destination in an orderly manner, sitting on Lin Li in the carriage looked at the busy street scene outside the window, and the thoughts in his mind spread outward.
“This time I went to Bibo Lake to hunt for treasures, and finally harvested 320 spiritual stones. If converted into cash, it would be 16 million.
It took half a day of hard work to earn 16 million. Before, I would have never dared to think about it. There are so many opportunities to make a fortune in the spiritual world! ”
Next, Lin Li will take a carriage to a restaurant that specializes in selling oysters. According to the plan he conceived during lunch, he is going to purchase a batch of pearls in case of emergency.
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The sun is setting in the west, and night will fall in more than an hour.
The bright red sunset rises over the mountains on the horizon, turning the backs of the mountain peaks into a gorgeous layer. color.
Most of the world is dyed red by the setting sun at this moment. Tired birds return to the forest, and flocks of birds return to their homes under the setting sun.
When caravans walking in the wilderness see that the sky is getting dark, caravans closer to the city will choose to speed up to the city, hoping to enter the city before dark.
The caravan, which was still far away from the city and could not enter the city before dark even if it speeded up, began to look for a flat place to set up camp peacefully and prepare to spend the night in the wild.
On the shore of Bibo Lake, at a gentle location, a large caravan consisting of dozens of carriages stopped.
Because it was too late to reach Dongwu City before dark, the caravan chose to set up camp here.
The carriages were connected end to end to form a huge circular fortification, and then the caravan personnel set up tents in the circle. After the shelter was set up, everyone began to prepare a fire for cooking.
Large pots were set up on the bonfires. Water from Bibo Lake was poured into the pots. After boiling, the chefs with average skills began to put noodles into the pots.
A middle-aged man full of energy and extraordinary temperament sat in front of a small round table. He picked up the tea poured by the servant, took a sip, and said to the guard captain standing in front of him.
"Captain Wang, it's going to be dark soon. Have you arranged the personnel responsible for night security?"
The guard captain responsible for the safety of this caravan is a man with two abilities. The strong man at the middle stage of cultivation heard his employer asking about the night watch and immediately answered.
"Shopkeeper Wu, we escorted your caravan all the way to Dongwucheng. You have also seen that we are professionals, so please be at ease!"
"Captain Wang, your professionalism I approve of the sex, but be careful when sailing.
After dawn tomorrow, it will take another half a day to reach Dongwucheng. This trip is about to reach its end, and I don’t want anything to go wrong at this last moment.
Please remind your people that everyone should be in high spirits tonight. Don’t do it. There is something wrong.
When we get to Dongwu City, I will find a restaurant and treat everyone to a feast," the caravan manager said in a sincere tone.
The reason why he was still so vigilant when he was about to arrive in Dongwu City was because he had encountered similar lessons before.
When he was young, he once led a caravan. The night before he was about to arrive at his destination, because everyone relaxed their vigilance, the caravan was successfully attacked by alien beasts that night, causing unforeseen consequences. Minor casualties and damage to cargo.
Since that time, the caravan manager never dared to let down his guard again. Every time he went out for business, after dark, he would give countless instructions to the guards escorting the caravan.
Hearing what his employer said, the guard captain nodded and said, "Okay, I will remind my brothers later."
The caravan manager smiled with satisfaction. Laughing, then he glanced at his servant, who understood, then took out an envelope from his arms and handed it to the guard captain with both hands.
The guard captain took the envelope handed over by the servant, opened it and took a look. There was a wad of cash inside.
A bright smile suddenly appeared on his face, he put the cash into his arms, and then immediately turned around and left. It seemed that he was going to find his brothers to explain the vigilance tonight.
"I hope everything goes well tonight. After tonight, I will leave after dawn tomorrow and arrive at Dongwu City at noon." The caravan manager leaned back on his chair, raised his head, and looked at the bright red sky. The sunset, he said to himself.
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Under the bright red sunset, a carriage ran quickly on the stone road.
"Huh..."
The driver driving the carriage pulled the reins in his hand and signaled the horse to stop.
The horse immediately slowed down after receiving the signal, and the carriage stopped at the door of a villa.
"Sir, we've arrived." The coachman turned back and said to the passengers in the carriage.
"Okay." Lin Li came out of the carriage, reached out and handed the fare to the coachman, and then jumped out of the carriage.
Just now he went to a restaurant specializing in selling oysters to buy pearls. Because the restaurant owner had not returned from a long trip like last time, so the person who entertained him this time was the restaurant owner's assistant Liu Yun.
We are all old acquaintances, and the process of acquiring pearls went very smoothly.
Because Lin Li had just purchased a large number of pearls not long ago and came to purchase them again soon after, Liu Yun was very curious, but she did not ask.
After trading the pearls, Liu Yun enthusiastically persuaded Lin Li to stay and wanted to invite him to dinner at a restaurant.
Unfortunately, Lin Li had already made arrangements, so he declined Liu Yun's kindness.
Last time he failed to persuade Lin Li to stay for a meal, and this time he failed again. Liu Yun wanted to make amends for this.
So, she asked the hotel's chef to pack a lot of food for Lin Li and let him take it away.
It’s hard to deny kindness, and it can be accommodated on the mysterious island without taking up much space, so Lin Li accepted the other party’s kindness with a smile.
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(End of this chapter)