Chapter 107: Fellow Countryman, Is That You!
Song Jiulai felt this idea was feasible.
It was too conspicuous for all the Players to be concentrated in the Longevity Sect; dispersing them to other places could also briefly divert attention.
They could also take the opportunity to join the Peach Blossom Sect and others…
Of course, if people asked where the Players came from.
Rogue cultivators.
It was a simple matter; rogue cultivators had always appeared in these county towns before.
Thinking of this, Song Jiulai decided to go to the Netherworld Sect later.
It was said to be an Artifact Refining Sect as well, located north of the Flying Sparrow Sect, about three to four days’ journey away.
The journey was quite long.
Perhaps it was because this body was still different from the Yunzhou Continent, but Song Jiulai felt her Spiritual Energy growth rate was quite fast.
Her recovery speed was already faster than that of local Cultivators.
She wouldn’t encounter any bottlenecks in the later stages, only needing a catalyst to Breakthrough.
The place she was challenging was already very close to the border of Cave Demon Valley.
After a period of extensive searching in the vicinity, Song Jiulai also encountered Disciples from the Flying Sparrow Sect and Peach Blossom Sect garrisoned at the border of Cave Demon Valley.
These were relatively close.
The Peach Blossom Sect and Flying Sparrow Sect would send Cultivators with higher Cultivation to train and garrison here. Senior Sister Qiao, whom Song Jiulai saw at the time, was a member of this team.
There was a small supply point at the garrisoned location.
Its full name was the Cave Demon Valley Market.
More than ten simple houses were built in a row to form a street, and there were also Pharmacies and Artifact Refining Workshops here.
However, there were even more active Cultivators than those seen in Wang’an County, because everyone here was a Cultivator.
This was because many Cultivators would directly trade after killing Demonic Beasts here.
Song Jiulai didn’t notice this at the time because Cave Demon Valley was also some distance from First Mountain, and it wasn’t easy for Players with low Cultivation to pass through the encirclement of Tier 2 Demonic Beasts to get here.
She only discovered the trading point after killing Tier 2 Demonic Beasts for several days and continuously moving in this direction.
Song Jiulai was visiting for the first time.
She estimated that Han Tian and his group would arrive soon.
Most Cultivators walked with hurried steps, and their appearances all exuded a sense of poverty that Song Jiulai was very familiar with.
Those who could come out for training had mostly used their assets to purchase Magic Treasures or some precious Spirit Materials, leaving them with not many Spirit Stones.
Not only were there shops buying Demonic Beast Materials, but some Cultivators would also set up stalls to urgently purchase materials they needed that were not available in the shops.
It was somewhat similar to the Black Market Song Jiulai had seen at the Guanhai Sect.
However, its scale was much smaller than the Black Market, and the Things sold were not as good.
At most, one could see some Tier 3 Spirit Materials.
No one would sell truly good Things here.
【Tier 3 Golden Winged Bead for Tier 3 Diamond Silk, exchange only, not for sale! 】
【Selling Tier 3 Spirit Snake Scorpion Tail Bull Bone, serious buyers only! 】
【Buying Tier 3 Demonic Butterfly Insect, must be alive! 】
【Buying large quantities of Tier 3 Blood Bead Grass and Tier 3 Spirit Benefiting Grass! 】
…
Cultivators wouldn’t shout; they would just hang a sign in front of their stalls.
Because everyone was thin-skinned.
Song Jiulai watched with great interest.
Most of these Tier 3 Spirit Materials were not common in Cave Demon Valley, but they weren’t considered extremely rare either.
It was just that the difficulty of acquiring them varied.
For example, the Demonic Butterfly Insect had to be alive, and only Cultivators skilled in Beast Taming could capture it.
Then Song Jiulai noticed someone selling Spirit Ore.
【Selling large quantities of Tier 2 Ice Butterfly Ore, negotiable 】
Ice Butterfly Ore?
This Thing was quite rare.
There were many types of Ore for Artifact Refining. Besides the commonly used ones, most were uncommon and difficult to refine.
Just like many Pills for Alchemy were uncommon.
As the name suggests, Ice Butterfly Ore contained ice, but its attribute was that of Ore. It was said that during Artifact Refining, there was a certain chance that the Ice Butterflies within the Ice Butterfly Ore would cover the Magic Treasure, allowing the Magic Treasure to summon Ice Butterflies to attack.
Ice Butterflies were neither Demonic Beasts nor conventional species, as they could only be found within Ice Butterfly Ore.
This Thing, to put it simply, was tasteless when refined at higher tiers, and couldn’t be refined at lower tiers.
Ice attributes and fire were inherently incompatible, and the difficulty of refining it increased exponentially.
Generally, very few Cultivators sold these ores.
Considering the large number of Players now, there might be someone causing trouble, so Song Jiulai walked over and asked the Female Cultivator selling the Ice Butterfly Ore, “How much are you selling this Ice Butterfly Ore for?”
The Female Cultivator looked up and, seeing Song Jiulai, a stranger, paused before saying, “I have 100 pieces of Ice Butterfly Ore. If you take it all, I’ll only charge you 10 Mid-grade Spirit Stones.”
It wasn’t that she was selling it cheaply, but that no one wanted this Thing.
And the price was quite fair.
“Ice Butterfly Ore must have a vein. The fact that you could dig it out and bring it here means there’s quite a bit of it. Ten Mid-grade is too expensive.”
After returning from Liuxian City, she had just over ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones from Player donations and sales, and it was unrealistic to waste them on this.
Song Jiulai glanced at the ores piled together, feeling a chill just by looking at them, with butterflies faintly visible dancing within. She said, “Let’s just be friends. How about five Mid-grade for all of it?”
The Female Cultivator suddenly looked at Song Jiulai.
At that moment, shock, confusion, and disbelief seemed to flash in her eyes.
Then, she leaned closer to Song Jiulai and lowered her voice, “Do you have any shame?”
Song Jiulai: “…”
Such familiar dialogue.
A flash of inspiration struck her, and she exclaimed in shock, “It’s you! Fellow Countryman!”
Female Cultivator: “…”
After parting ways in Liuxian City that day, she never expected to meet again.
Song Jiulai also didn’t expect that this Female Cultivator had worn a simple disguise in the Black Market, and she looked quite similar to how she did back then.
Only much prettier.
Indeed, the best disguise was not to disguise oneself much.
The Female Cultivator straightened up, and she also had a strong impression of this Cultivator who had bought her Diamond Silk and shamelessly haggled: “So it’s you.”
Song Jiulai immediately seized the opportunity: “Look, our reunion is fate. I already said we’re fellow countrymen, fellow countrymen! Your Ice Butterfly Ore will just sit here until the New Year with no one buying it. I happen to be interested in doing some research, so sell it to me cheaply. If you have more stock, I’ll order from you in the future?”
The Female Cultivator’s expression seemed to soften slightly, but she still said, “Impossible. When will you change your habit of cutting prices in half? Do you think a mentally sound person would sell it to you?”
“Fellow Countryman, we have embarked on the path of Cultivation now; we can’t be considered ‘people’ anymore.”
Female Cultivator: “…”
She was still shocked by Song Jiulai’s thick skin. In the end, she said, “Eight pieces. No lower, or I won’t sell it. Go find someone else.”
This was the other party’s bottom line, and Song Jiulai knew it was unrealistic to push further.
But she put on a pained, utterly despairing expression: “Back then, my father, before he died, told me to buy a batch of Ice Butterfly Ore no matter what. Now that I’ve found it, I regret not having the Spirit Stones to acquire it…”
The Female Cultivator said expressionlessly, “Then your father died in vain.”
“…”
Seeing that the other party was not biting at all, Song Jiulai decisively took out eight pieces.
“Bought.”
