Chapter 41 Buying a Spiritual Beast

The shopkeeper was an old man in gray with white hair and beard, who had the cultivation level of the fifth level of Qi Refining.

"My fellow Daoist, what do you want to see? Our store has a full range of goods. Would you like me to introduce them to you?" As soon as Shi Yue walked in, the old man in gray walked over quickly and said with a smile.

"How much do you sell the fifty-year-old spiritual medicine?" Shi Yue asked calmly.

"What a coincidence, fellow Daoist, our store has just purchased two fifty-year-old yellow phoenix flowers, sixty-eight spiritual stones each." The old man in gray said with a smile.

"Sixty-eight spiritual stones?" Shi Yue frowned when he heard this.

The old man in gray noticed the change in Shi Yue's expression and hurriedly explained: "Sixty-eight is already very cheap. If you buy two, I will charge one hundred and thirty spiritual stones. I wonder what you think."

After speaking, his eyes were fixed on Shi Yue.

"How much do you charge for fifty-year-old spiritual medicine?" Shi Yue pondered for a moment and asked.

"It depends on what kind of spiritual medicine it is, how good it is, and whether the roots and stems are damaged. Different spiritual medicines have different prices, and the quality and integrity will also affect the price." The gray-clothed old man said word by word.

"These two fire yang ginsengs, the shopkeeper, please see how much spiritual stones they are worth." Shi Yue hesitated for a moment and said this. After that, he took out two green wooden boxes about a foot long from his sleeves.

The gray-clothed old man took the two wooden boxes and opened them. He saw that there were red ginsengs about a foot long inside, exuding a faint medicinal fragrance.

He narrowed his eyes, picked up the two fire yang ginsengs and examined them carefully, and sniffed them from time to time.

"The quality of these two fire yang ginsengs is average, but considering that this is your first visit to our store, how about 55 spiritual stones for one plant and 110 spiritual stones for two plants?" The gray-clothed old man put the fire yang ginseng back into the wooden box and said lightly, as if the quality of the two fire yang ginsengs was indeed average.

If a rookie who has just entered the world of immortal cultivation is a newbie, he may be fooled by the gray-clothed old man's superb acting skills. Shi Yue grew up in Taixu Sect and would not be fooled by the gray-clothed old man.

He knew that the price of these two fifty-year-old fire sun ginsengs was fifty-five spirit stones. The gray-clothed old man said this just to lower the price.

"Since the quality is average, I will take it to other shops to ask." Shi Yue put away the two wooden boxes and turned to leave.

"Ah! Don't! Daoist friend, the price can be negotiated." Seeing this, the gray-clothed old man's face changed, and he hurriedly stopped Shi Yue and said with a smile on his face.

"It can be negotiated, but these two fire sun ginsengs were picked by me at risk. If the price given by the shopkeeper is too low, I can only go to other shops to ask." Shi Yue said lightly.

"How about fifty-eight spirit stones per plant?" The gray-clothed old man raised his eyebrows when he heard this, thought for a while, and asked.

"No, sixty-five." Shi Yue bargained.

After hearing this, the gray-clothed old man thought for a moment and said, "No more than sixty. Although our store is small, the annual rent is not a small amount. If you still can't accept it, then go to another store!"

"Deal." Shi Yue heard this, thought about it, nodded and agreed.

After saying that, he took out two wooden boxes and handed them to the gray-clothed old man.

The gray-clothed old man opened them and looked at them carefully. After confirming that they were correct, he took out a medium-grade spirit stone and twenty low-grade spirit stones and handed them to Shi Yue.

Shi Yue put away the spirit stones and left with a smile on his face.

Next, Shi Yue went to several grocery stores and sold all the Huoyang ginseng on his body at a similar price, exchanging for more than six hundred spirit stones.

When Shi Yue came out of a grocery store, it was already dark.

With more than 600 spirit stones on his body, Shi Yue walked more energetically.

A quarter of an hour later, Shi Yue came to a magnificent palace with dragons and phoenixes carved on it. On the silver plaque above the door were three golden characters "Palace of Hundred Beasts".

The palace was more than ten feet high, and there were many cultivators entering and leaving the palace. They all had spirit beast bags hanging around their waists. From time to time, the roars of tigers and wolves could be heard from the palace, and the pedestrians around were not surprised by this.

Shi Yue looked around and confirmed that there were no disciples of Taixu Sect nearby, so he walked in.

Entering the palace, Shi Yue glanced around and was slightly startled.

The hall was very wide, and there were many iron cages of different sizes on the ground, in which various spirit beasts were locked.

A giant green wolf several feet high, a red tiger with two heads, a silver leopard several feet long, a giant black eagle several feet long, a beast with a lion's head and a tiger's body...

Shi Yue was shocked when he saw this scene. He saw no less than thirty or forty kinds of spirit beasts, but they were all first-level spirit beasts.

A dozen servants in uniform were explaining something to the immortal cultivators who looked like guests. If someone bought a spirit beast, they would open the iron cage, put the spirit beast inside into the spirit beast bag, and then hand it over to the buyer.

These huge and strange spirit beasts seemed unusually docile in the cage, and there was no sign of them suddenly attacking and hurting people.

As soon as Shi Yue entered the door, a green-clothed attendant came up to him quickly and said with a smile on his face: "Fellow Daoist, what kind of spiritual beast do you want to buy? Do you want me to introduce it to you? Our store sells spiritual beasts from small to large, from level one to level two."

"I want to buy a larger, um, cheaper spiritual beast. Can you introduce it to me?" Shi Yue thought for a moment and asked.

"Of course, fellow Daoist, please follow me." The green-clothed attendant agreed with a smile and led Shi Yue to several large cages, in which were relatively large spiritual beasts.

"This first-level high-level green wind python crawls faster, has thick skin and flesh, and even top-grade magic weapons can hardly hurt it. It can release wind blades to attack the enemy. Buying it is equivalent to having an extra fearless warrior. The price is not very expensive, six hundred spiritual stones." The green-clothed attendant pointed to a green giant python that was seven or eight feet long and introduced it enthusiastically.

Shi Yue shook his head when he heard this. Although he could afford this Qingfeng Python, his purpose was to buy a spiritual beast that urinated a lot.

"It doesn't matter if you don't like this Qingfeng Python. How about this two-headed flame tiger next to it? Although it is only a first-level intermediate spiritual beast, it is flexible, runs very fast, and can release fireballs to attack the enemy. It is really the best choice for a spiritual beast. You can take this two-headed flame tiger home for only 500 spiritual stones." The green-clothed attendant pointed to a red giant tiger about ten feet tall with two heads and introduced it.

Shi Yue's face was moved when he heard this.

The size of this two-headed flame tiger met his requirements, but 500 spiritual stones was a bit expensive.

"What do you usually feed it? For example, are there any special food requirements?" Shi Yue's expression moved and he asked.

"There are no special requirements for food. Daoist friends, you can feed it some spiritual grains or ordinary meat. If that doesn't work, you can take it to the wild and let it hunt some wild animals." After hearing this, Shi Yue shook his head. With the size of this two-handed flame tiger, it must eat a lot. He doesn't have so much spiritual grains to feed it. Even if it can catch wild animals, Shi Yue can't take it out to hunt every few days!