Chapter 390 Restaurant Master
Once he became a casual cultivator again, without the supporter behind him, even Li Qing felt a little uncomfortable for a while.
You may be bound by some rules in the sect, but it is far better than the lonely life you have now.
But things have already happened, and since there is no way to change it, Li Qing can only try his best to adapt.
Next, after resting in the Shuiyue Merchant Guild's territory for a few days, and after his injuries had recovered a lot, Li Qing decided to go out and start collecting some information about the Wilderness Territory.
"Although I have become a loner, I still have to live my life."
"Cultivating the Tao, what are you cultivating? It is nothing more than fighting for the road."
Li Qing sighed, with mixed thoughts in his heart.
The peaceful monastic life was broken by the Shangqing Sect and the Chi Demon Clan, and the next journey was destined to become bumpy.
As a casual cultivator, Li Qing naturally understands how difficult this road is.
The only good news now is that he is already a monk in the middle stage of foundation building, and his combat power is not bad. With his various methods, he can still fight even if he encounters opponents in the late stage of foundation building.
At least he has a certain ability to protect himself, and is not as weak as he was during the Qi refining period.
After walking out of the territory of Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce, Li Qing walked around in Xiangyang City.
“The first thing is to find a suitable spiritual place. No matter what, practice cannot be delayed.”
“Only the improvement of one’s own strength is the real meaning. No matter what you do in the future, you can’t do it without your own cultivation.”
In this way, Li Qing walked around the city alone for a long time, and finally found a restaurant where many immortal cultivators gathered.
Li Qing deeply understood that as a casual cultivator, he must make more friends with other cultivators to broaden his channels for obtaining information.
Especially when he now knows nothing about the surrounding area, he needs to get more information. Even if it doesn't work, he has to ask where there are nearby spiritual vein caves that can be rented.
This building faces the wind on all sides. As soon as Li Qing walked into it, a mortal boy came up to him with a flattering smile on his face.
"This immortal master, please come inside!" The young man was very discerning. Although he was just a mortal without spiritual roots, he immediately looked at the storage bag and beast control bag hanging on Li Qing's waist. Li Qing's identity as an immortal cultivator emerged.
Li Qing nodded slightly, and then followed the boy to the second floor of the restaurant. The view here was wide and he could see several streets in the city.
At this time, many monks were already sitting in the restaurant, talking loudly in groups.
"Master Immortal, I wonder what kind of wine you would like to drink? We have it in Huafeng Tower."
As the boy reported a series of wine names and dish names, Li Qing gently With a smile, he said: "Let's have a pot of Eight Immortals Brewing and a plate of cold braised Jade Chicken."
"Okay, Immortal Master, wait a moment!" the boy said neatly.
While waiting quietly, Li Qing closed his eyes slightly and used his keen hearing to absorb all the loud talks of the monks around him.
"If you ask me, Zhuyue Palace has been hiding from the world for so long, and this time it actually goes to war against the Guhua Immortal Dynasty for a female disciple. I'm afraid this matter is definitely not that simple."
"Should I? Zhuyue Palace also wants to take action against the declining Guhua Immortal Dynasty, right? That would really overwhelm everyone."
"How come, Zhuyue Palace has never participated in any disputes between forces, this time it should be There is something else hidden.”
“Hey, maybe the identity of that female disciple is not simple? You know, Zhuyue Palace has not elected a new saint in the past hundred years, so it’s almost time for a new one. Is it time for the saint to be born?”
As soon as these words came out, all the monks in the restaurant turned their attention to the monk who said the saint's conclusion, even Li Qing was no exception.
"Does this Taoist brother know something hidden? Please tell me quickly!"
"Yes, yes, you might as well tell me more. Could it be that the female disciple is chasing Isn’t the newly elected saint from the Moon Palace successful?”
It can only be said that everyone has the desire to gossip, and even those who are cultivators of immortality are not immune to such secrets.
“Well, what can I know as a person in the mountains? I’m just guessing.”
The person who said these words was a middle-aged Taoist priest who looked like an old magician, with a goatee and a green Taoist robe.
“Waiter, please give this Taoist priest a pot of Eight Immortals Brewing and let him have a good talk with us.”
“Okay! A pot of Eight Immortals Brewing Pot! "
Soon, the waiter came up with two pots of Eight Immortals Brewing and a plate of cold braised chicken. His movements were very neat.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? I haven't lived enough yet, how can I dare to discuss the secrets of Zhuyue Palace and Guhua Immortal Dynasty." The middle-aged Taoist priest pretended to have a look of fear and uneasiness. .
However, the others laughed loudly and said: "You can talk drunkenly and blow away in the strong wind! Even if the Taoist priest says so, we are all casual cultivators."
"Yes, Zhuyue Palace and What kind of force is the Guhua Immortal Dynasty, and how can it care about people like us?"
"Besides, our Julu Prefecture is the territory of the Ghost Sword Sect, which is far away from Zhuyue Palace, Taoist priest, are you afraid? What, do you want to cheat on the wine? "
As the casual cultivator said something to me, the middle-aged Taoist priest picked up the wine bottle and took a sip.
“Ha, we have to start with the tradition of Zhuyue Palace. According to legend, Zhuyue Palace has two criteria for selecting a saint. First, it must win over other candidate saints, and secondly, it must compete with those in the palace. A strange moonstone resonates”
"Only if these two conditions are met at the same time, can one become a saint of the Moon Palace, one is indispensable!"
"This is also the reason why no new saint has been born in the past hundred years, but just now There were rumors a year ago that something happened to the inherited moon stone of Zhuyue Palace! "
"You must know that each generation of saints of Zhuyue Palace can eventually become the palace master, and why did the ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty decline? But you dare to provoke Zhuyue Palace at this time?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone began to think about it.
On the side, Li Qing was just sipping the Eight Immortals Brewing that was presented to him, and tasting delicious dishes from time to time.
Of course, he never missed a word of what these monks were talking about, he heard them all in his mind.
After a long time like this, Li Qing finally had a certain understanding of the basic structure of the Great Wilderness Territory today.
Guhuaxian Dynasty!
There was once an extremely prosperous dynasty of cultivating immortals. In its most glorious period, its territory even spanned nearly half of the wilderness.
Almost every generation of emperors are monks in the Nascent Soul stage!
Unfortunately, there is no force that never sets. In the following years, the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty gradually declined, and in the Great Wilderness Territory, powerful immortal cultivating forces emerged one after another, such as the Ghost Sword Sect. In this situation where the wolves are eating the tigers, the complete collapse of the Guhua Immortal Dynasty has become almost inevitable.
Now the heroic leader of the Immortal Dynasty has entered his old age, but among the children he has given birth to over the years, either they have no spiritual roots, or their spiritual roots and qualifications are extremely poor!
In the past when it was at its peak, this would not have been a big problem. As long as they had spiritual root qualifications, the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty could rely on a large amount of immortal cultivation resources to forcibly pile up a prince into the Nascent Soul stage. The monk!
If one person can't do it, then two or three people are just a small problem for the prosperous Immortal Dynasty.
But the current Guhua Immortal Dynasty cannot support such exaggerated resource consumption.
Among the descendants of the ancient emperor of the Immortal Dynasty, the person with the highest cultivation level is only in the early stage of forming a pill, and this is the result of consuming a lot of resources. Just the spiritual objects needed to form the pill. The prince didn’t know how much he used!
If word spreads, it will definitely make some monks in the foundation building stage feel dizzy.
“It’s so sad that the ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty, which had suppressed both good and evil so much that even a combined effort could not defeat them, actually relied on this method to maintain its existence.”
“Placement The princess came to Zhuyue Palace to fight for the position of saint, hoping to win over a powerful alliance. If she can use this method, it seems that the ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty is really at the end of its rope. "
"Taoist Priest, who are you? You don't even know such secrets?"
Just when someone wanted to pay attention to the identity of the middle-aged Taoist Priest, they found that this person disappeared without knowing when. Gone.
Even Li Qing was slightly stunned, and then realized that he must have met an expert in the world of gaming in the tavern today!
“No wonder he can tell so many secrets so clearly.” Li Qing murmured to himself.
At this moment, he truly realized how extraordinary the Great Desolate Territory was.
In the past, it was rare to see even a Nascent Soul stage monk in Qingling Territory. Almost every top power here had a Nascent Soul stage monk.
Even if you can even find a restaurant to drink in a restaurant, you can encounter this kind of expert in the world of games and tell the secrets in detail. This is almost impossible to happen in Qingling Territory.
“This domain is really exciting, but such excitement also comes with a lot of dangers that can kill people at any time. You have to be more cautious in the future.”
In my heart. Li Qing, who was thinking like this, had already eaten up all the spiritual brew and dishes.
He knocked on the table and called the waiter to pay.
"This immortal master will charge you a total of twenty-six spiritual stones!"
It's so expensive!
This was almost Li Qing's first reaction, but there was no expression on his face, and he calmly took out thirty spiritual stones.
"I have something to ask you. If your answer satisfies me, I will reward you with these four spiritual stones." Li Qing said softly.
As soon as these words came out, the boy's eyes lit up instantly.
"Master Immortal, I don't know if you have anything to ask, just ask!"
"I know everything I know, and I can tell you everything."
Li Qing nodded and spoke. Asked:
"I just came to this city not long ago, and now I want to find a place to stay in the Lingmai Cave. Is there a suitable place nearby?"
The boy quickly answered: "Yes. Yes, we have used formations in Xiangyang City to absorb the spiritual energy of several spiritual veins, and the caves on those spiritual veins are also rented out!”
"Master Immortal, if you want to rent a cave, I suggest you go to several spiritual peaks in the south outside the city. Not only can you live in seclusion and practice there, but there is also a market where immortal masters conduct daily transactions. Even many immortal masters in the foundation building period They will all be haunted!”
Southside outside the city.
Li Qing silently remembered these words in his heart. It seemed that he would have to find time to go there in the future.
"Well, that's right. I heard that there is Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce in the west of the city. I plan to go to Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce next. I don't know how reputable this chamber of commerce is. Tell me what you know about this chamber of commerce. Let’s go.”
This is to inquire about the Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce. After all, Li Qing lives in his place and must find out the ins and outs of this chamber of commerce.
"This is a long story. In fact, the Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce has a good reputation in our Xiangyang City and has been open for a long time."
"There is no need to worry about the reputation. After all, if the reputation is not enough, the reputation It can’t be as loud as it is today.”
“As for the Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce, of course it started seven years ago. At that time, the leader of the Chamber of Commerce was Senior Mo Weifeng, who was an architect. A monk in the basic period."
"Later."
Li Qing listened quietly to some of the past of Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce, and soon got an idea in his heart.
It's not that complicated. Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce was founded by Mo Weifeng, who is the son of Old Man Mo and the father of Mo Yatou.
Later, the situation of the Chamber of Commerce became increasingly prosperous. In order to gain a foothold in Xiangyang City, Mo Weifeng invited an alchemist he had befriended to join the Chamber of Commerce, that is, Alchemist Yan.
With a second-level alchemist in charge, the Shuiyue Merchant Guild has a better life in the city, attracting many monks in the Qi refining period.
But the good times did not last long. One time, Mo Weifeng encountered an accident while on a business trip. The entire team of traders was completely destroyed and could never come back.
"Logically speaking, a person of President Mo's status would not do business in person. No one knows what he was escorting that time!"
"It caused quite a stir in the city that year. Everyone was speculating on what President Mo had obtained. Anyway, it was definitely worth a lot of money, which attracted the covetousness of others."
" Later, the Shuiyue Merchant Guild suffered heavy losses and was unable to recover. The pressure suddenly fell on Alchemist Yan. "
"Fortunately, Alchemist Yan is really good at alchemy with his skills. With his skills, he managed to repay a lot of bad debts owed by the Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce."
The next thing is what Li Qing knows.
It is simply that Master Yan plans to take Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce as his own, which is very reasonable. After all, without him, Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce would have completely collapsed long ago.
"I see. That's right. Keep these spirit stones. I'll reward you with them!" Li Qing handed the spirit stones to the boy.
"Thank you, Master Immortal! Thank you Master Immortal! I wish Master Immortal a bright future! May you achieve immortality as soon as possible!" The boy thanked him repeatedly.
In this way, amid the grateful voices of the waiters, Li Qing left the restaurant and walked back to the west of the city.
“I know people well but not their hearts. I was almost used as a weapon by Old Man Mo. He’s such a good person!”
“You can’t get mixed up in this muddy water. Only by protecting yourself wisely can you survive as a casual cultivator. We must leave as soon as possible!”
(End of this chapter)