Chapter 154 Buying Gifts (4200 words, please subscribe)

That was in June this year. After the tens of thousands of cultivators who had been summoned from all over the world by Bailingmen to join the war against demons a year ago evacuated the territory of Jiaomang Lake, two Jindan masters of Bailingmen, Lingfu Zhenren and Lingzhen Zhenren, led the power of Bailingmen and thousands of Bailingmen cultivators to directly attack the territory of Jiaomang Lake.

In just half a month, Bailingmen seized more than 40,000 miles of territory in Jiaomang Lake at lightning speed.

During this period, the only Jindan early stage water dragon in Jiaomang Lake did not resist at all.

This 40,000-mile territory was also divided into four counties of Shuiyuan, Hanyue, Qinglin, and Xiyang by Bailingmen. Like Bingjiao County, these four new counties belong to Jiaozhou.

Because the territory occupied this time was too large, there were too few foundation-building cultivators born in this war against demons.

In addition, some casual cultivators became lone rangers after entering the foundation-building stage and were unwilling to establish a family.

As a result, only the second-level spiritual veins in the two counties of Shuiyuan and Bingjiao were exchanged by some newly promoted Qi training families and scattered foundation-building monks from Bailingmen with contribution points to open up and establish foundation-building families.

The spiritual veins in the other three counties were all guarded by Bailingmen monks, who opened up spiritual fields and planted spiritual veins on the spiritual veins.

In the newly opened four counties, Bailingmen imitated the past and built a market on the highest-grade spiritual veins in each county, named after the counties, namely "Shuiyuan Market, Hanyue Market, Qinglin Market, Xiyang Market".

In order to prevent the counterattack of the monsters in Jiaomang Lake, Bailingmen also deployed heavy troops in Xiyang Market, Xiyang County, which is closest to Jiaomang Lake. The spirit formation real people of Bailingmen also stationed there, just like the ones stationed in Huaishui Market back then.

"With these territories, Bailingmen has fully controlled the three states. With these territories as a foundation, it won't be long before Bailingmen can catch up with Xuanyangmen, the largest force in Yan State." Ling Xiaohua guessed and revealed another important news.

"According to a Bailingmen Qigong cultivator stationed here, on January 1 next year, Bailingmen will hold a disciple-recruiting conference in Bailing City, Ningzhou, two years ahead of schedule. The requirements of Bailingmen this time have also been lowered a lot. Those who reach the middle stage of Qigong before the age of 18 can join Bailingmen. If they have a hundred arts, they can directly join the sect."

"There are many people who have reached the middle stage of Qigong at this age even in my Ling family. In my opinion, Bailingmen is just pretending to recruit disciples this time. In fact, they want to recruit some disciples with low cultivation to take care of the spiritual fields opened up on the many spiritual veins in the three counties of Hanyue, Qinglin and Xiyang."

"This disciple-recruiting conference is probably just to deceive those casual cultivators."

Yang Qiuyun agreed on the side. "That's right. Some time ago, I heard from my eldest brother that the Yang family has issued an order not to allow any clansmen with four or five spiritual roots to join the Bailing Sect. I guess they are afraid that these clansmen with poor qualifications will rashly join the Bailing Sect and be used as chores by the Bailing Sect."

"However, there is nothing wrong with casual cultivators joining the Bailing Sect. With the support of the Bailing Sect, they have something to rely on. It is better than venturing into the world of immortal cultivation alone. Besides, casual cultivators have never had many resources. Those who are only eighteen years old can enter the middle stage of Qi training. Nine out of ten have good talents."

"Perhaps, a few of those casual cultivators who join the Bailing Sect can really turn over, enter the foundation building stage, and become a strong man. After all, the probability of obtaining foundation building spiritual objects in the Bailing Sect is easier than in the outside world."

Speaking of the foundation building spiritual objects, Yang Qiuyun stopped talking and looked at Ling Pengyun.

Ling Xiaohua is the same.

Ling Pengyun saw the expressions on his parents' faces and the matter of the spiritual objects for foundation building just mentioned, and naturally understood what his parents meant.

"Dad and Mom, I made great contributions to the discovery of the Xuanshui iron ore vein. The Third Ancestor had already promised me that the family would jointly purchase a portion of Bailing Water with me. Now that I can earn spiritual stones from refining tools and spiritual plants, it is not a problem to buy a portion of the pulse protection pill."

"There is such a thing. The family treats you well. If you can build a foundation in the future, remember not to let the family down." Yang Qiuyun was shocked and said.

"That's right." Ling Xiaohua on the side also agreed.

Ling Pengyun looked serious and nodded.

"Dad. Mom, I understand this truth."

Ling Xiaohua and his wife were more relieved when they saw this.

They all came from the family and were blessed by the family. Naturally, they didn't want their children to be people who forgot their loyalty.

The three of them didn't want to talk more about this topic, so they changed the topic and chatted.

For example, they talked about which arrogant clan member got a female cultivator pregnant and was irresponsible, or which famous independent cultivator in Yunshui County improved his cultivation.

After lunch, Ling Pengyun left the grocery store alone and wandered around Yunshui Market.

According to his childhood memory of Yunshui Market, he found a shop selling Taoist robes and spiritual skirts.

As soon as he entered the shop, a beautiful middle-aged woman in a colorful skirt came up to him.

"Sir, are you here to buy a Taoist robe?"

Ling Pengyun shook his head and said. "Buy a spiritual skirt, let me take a look."

Hearing this, the beautiful middle-aged woman did not say anything more, but waited quietly.

Ling Pengyun walked to the right side of the store where spiritual skirts were specially displayed, and his eyes swept over dozens of spiritual skirts of different styles displayed in the store, and finally his eyes stopped on a gorgeous red dress.

"When mom wears this spiritual dress, dad will be completely fascinated." Ling Pengyun said secretly.

This time, Ling Pengyun, a grown man, came to this store to buy a spiritual dress because he wanted to buy one for his mother Yang Qiuyun.

Since he entered Taoism, his mother has never bought a nice spiritual skirt, but left most of the saved spiritual stones for him to practice.

His father is the same.

Now that he has earned such a large number of spiritual stones by refining magic tools for the family, he naturally wants to honor his parents.

As for not bringing Yang Qiuyun to buy the spiritual skirt in person, it is also very simple. He is afraid that Yang Qiuyun will not be willing to spend spiritual stones on these. After all, he is only making a small fortune this time, not having a large amount of spiritual stones without worries.

In this case, it is better to do it first and then ask for permission than to drag Yang Qiuyun to buy things together.

And the things bought to honor his father are other things.

After making up his mind to buy this long skirt, Ling Pengyun stretched out his hand, pointed at the spiritual skirt he liked, and asked the middle-aged woman who had been waiting for it.

"How much is this spiritual dress worth?"

The woman manager's eyes lit up when she heard this, but in order to avoid being scared away by the price of this dress like other cultivators who had taken a fancy to this red dress in recent years.

The beautiful woman carefully explained the characteristics of this dress, and then she spoke the price of this dress.

"Sir, you have a good eye. This dress is not only beautiful, but also of high grade, reaching the first-grade middle grade. The magic spell attached to this dress is rocket magic. As long as you inject spiritual power into this dress, you can summon a rocket in an instant, and the power is comparable to that of an ordinary cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training who uses all his strength to perform this spell."

"After using it once, this dress needs half a day to accumulate spiritual power."

"However, the price of this dress is relatively high, requiring 110 spiritual stones."

Ling Pengyun felt that this price was appropriate. The light Taoist robe he was wearing now was also purchased for 110 spiritual stones, so he didn't say much, and directly paid 110 spiritual stones, and asked the lady to wrap it in a gift box.

The size of the spiritual skirt can be automatically extended and retracted, so there is no need to measure the waist circumference, etc.

After leaving the spiritual skirt shop, Ling Pengyun went to the largest shop selling magic tools in Yunshui Market, "Bailing Qitang".

This Qitang is run by Bailingmen. There is a "Bailing Qitang" in every market built by Bailingmen, as well as Bailing Futang, Bailing Zhentang, Bailing Dantang, etc. After all, Bailingmen is famous for its hundred arts, and there are all kinds of people in the gate.

Even though there are few people in Yunshui Market, there are still many fine magic tools in this Bailing Qitang, and there are hundreds of types. Even Ling Pengyun, who is a weapon refiner, can't help but be dazzled.

And this is just the magic tools sold on the first floor of Bailing Qitang. Bailingmen is divided into two floors.

The magic tools sold on the first floor are all first-level lower and middle-grade, and the second floor sells first-level upper-grade magic tools.

This store is very famous in the market because the magic tools sold are of good quality and it is opened by Bailingmen.

Now there are many customers buying magic tools in this store. Two shop assistants and a manager take turns to serve them.

Ling Pengyun, a customer, can only look at the magic tools in the store by himself.

After walking around the store, Ling Pengyun finally stopped in front of more than ten jade bracelet magic tools.

Ling Pengyun glanced at the more than ten bracelet magic tools in front of him, and finally fell in love with a first-level medium-quality white jade jade bracelet magic tool.

"The appearance of the magic tool looks more exquisite and rich. It is very suitable for my mother to wear it." Ling Pengyun muttered to himself.

After a long time, when a shop assistant of Bailing Qitang served a visitor who bought a magic tool and sent him away, he walked to Ling Pengyun without stopping and served Ling Pengyun.

"Sir, do you want to buy a jade bracelet magic tool?" The shop assistant asked.

"Well, can I have a look at that white jade bracelet?" Ling Pengyun pointed at the white jade bracelet he liked and said.

The young man walked into the counter quickly after hearing that, took out the white jade bracelet Ling Pengyun pointed at, handed it to Ling Pengyun, and introduced it to Ling Pengyun.

"This item is called Qianjun Bracelet. During the battle, this item can be transformed into a size of five feet, with a force of a thousand pounds, and this item has good hardness, and can also be used as a defensive magic weapon. Because of these two effects, the price of this item is also higher than that of ordinary first-level medium-grade magic weapons, and the selling price is 120 spiritual stones."

After listening to the introduction of the clerk, Ling Pengyun became interested. He took the Qianjun Bracelet handed over, injected spiritual power into it, and saw that the size of the Qianjun Bracelet in his hand was indeed gradually increasing as the clerk said.

At the same time, the weight of the jade bracelet was also increasing.

When the size of the jade bracelet reached five feet, the weight just reached a thousand pounds.

"The price of a dual-purpose weapon is so fair. No wonder there are still many visitors to the Bailing Weapon Hall in the sparsely populated Yunshui Market." Ling Pengyun couldn't help but sigh when he saw the power of the Qianjun bracelet.

"But in front of the Bailing Weapon Hall's advantages, I don't know if anyone will buy the first-level low-grade magic weapons I put in the grocery store."

Thinking of this, Ling Pengyun was quite troubled.

After a sigh, he came back to his senses and said to the young clerk in front of him. "I want this Qianjun bracelet. I wonder if your store sells demon python skins for the initial and middle stages of Qi training, as well as first-level low-grade and middle-grade black gold?"

In addition to magic weapons, the Bailing Weapon Hall also collects or sells refining materials.

The young clerk was delighted when he heard what Ling Pengyun said, and said secretly. "Big customer."

Then, the young man replied. "We do have python skin and black gold. The price of python skin is better. After all, recently, tens of thousands of cultivators followed our sect into the Jiaomang Lake to kill monsters, which made the market flooded with monster materials. The price of monster materials is also cheaper. You can buy two python skins for three spirit stones in the early stage of Qi training, and you can buy one for four spirit stones in the middle stage of Qi training, which is half a spirit stone and one spirit stone cheaper than the normal market price respectively."

"But this black gold is spiritual iron, and my Bailing Sect has a great demand for it, so the price will be higher than the market price. One catty of first-grade low-grade black gold costs three spirit stones, and one catty of first-grade middle-grade black gold costs six spirit stones, which is one spirit stone more expensive than the market price."

"If the guest has a large demand for black gold, we can also give some discounts."

Under normal circumstances, the market price of the python skins in the early and middle stages of Qi training is two and five spirit stones respectively.

The price of first-level lower and middle-grade Xuanjin on the market is generally about two to five spirit stones per pound.

Ling Pengyun thought about it carefully and said.

"Ten pieces of demon python skins of the initial and middle stages of Qi training, and forty pounds of first-level lower and middle-grade Xuanjin."

The materials required for traditional refining of golden scale inner armor are one demon python skin and four pounds of Xuanjin.

As for buying only this amount of spiritual materials for refining golden scale inner armor, it is not that Ling Pengyun is reluctant to spend spirit stones, but he dare not spend too many spirit stones in this store. After all, one must be on guard against others.

When the young man heard the number of spiritual materials Ling Pengyun wanted, his heart was beating wildly, and an uncontrollable excitement appeared on his face. Just the transaction of demon python skin and Xuanjin, he could at least get a commission of five spirit stones.

However, as a disciple of Bailingmen, although he was only the worst errand disciple, he had seen some of the market and quickly adjusted his mentality.

Because the transaction amount was too large, in order to avoid being seen by someone with ulterior motives, the clerk invited Ling Pengyun into a quiet room nearby for a secret discussion.

This quiet room was not big, and the furnishings were relatively simple, with only a small table and a few chairs.

After the clerk invited Ling Pengyun to sit at the small table, he took out an abacus from his storage bag, kept fiddling with it, and then spoke. "The fifty pieces of Qi training initial and intermediate demon python skins you need require fifteen and forty spirit stones respectively."

"Forty catties of first-level lower and middle-grade Xuan gold require one hundred and twenty and two hundred and forty spirit stones respectively."

"These spirit materials require a total of four hundred and fifteen and a half spirit stones, plus the Qianjin bracelet, a total of five hundred and thirty-five spirit stones."

Ling Pengyun had calculated the spirit stones that would be needed for the batch of refining spirit materials he wanted to buy before entering the store. Because he was mentally prepared, he paid the spirit stones very happily.

As soon as the spirit stones were given, the waiter came out of the quiet room with an excited look on his face and called the manager in. The manager personally handed over the many spirit materials that Ling Pengyun needed to Ling Pengyun.