Mu Jiuxiao held the Spirit Stone in his hand, feeling extremely envious deep in his heart. They were all tenant farmers, so how did others manage to do so well, even equipped with the standard Storage Bag of the cultivation world!
As for himself, he had never even used a storage talisman.
Storage talismans could be used for temporary storage; after being used a few times, the space inside would collapse, but they were still very convenient for temporary storage.
However, even the cheapest such storage talisman cost at least three Spirit Stones, and Mu Jiuxiao couldn’t bear to waste them.
After obtaining the Spirit Stones, Mu Jiuxiao immediately went to buy two stacks of talisman paper. The person selling talisman paper was a young girl, and after much pestering, he managed to get her to throw in a box of talisman ink as well. With ten Spirit Stones remaining, he once again came to the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion.
With ten Spirit Stones, he could buy another Cold Iron Sickle, but this time he stared at it for a long time and ultimately couldn’t bring himself to do it.
The new batch of Gold Spirit Rice hadn’t been planted yet, so buying a Cold Iron Sickle now wasn’t very useful. It would be better to buy some defensive Magical Artifacts.
However, defensive Magical Artifacts were far beyond comparison with the Cold Iron Sickle in terms of price. The cheapest knife required twenty Spirit Stones, and beyond that, they ranged from dozens to hundreds of Spirit Stones. Unaffordable, completely unaffordable!
Finally, Mu Jiuxiao set his gaze on magical robes. The Spirit Stones in his hand were just enough to buy the cheapest spiritual robe. This spiritual robe had dust-repelling and cleaning talismans engraved on it. If he bought this spiritual robe, he would gain a bit more immortal demeanor from then on, and no longer have to worry about being covered in dust!
But Mu Jiuxiao still shifted his gaze away. Dust-repelling and cleaning weren’t very useful to him for the time being. In the end, Mu Jiuxiao only bought three Fireball Talismans and one Lightning Bolt Talisman.
These four talismans originally cost six Spirit Stones, but since everything was peaceful in the mountains near the Seven Stars Sect with no battles, the demand for such combat talismans wasn’t too high. After much persuasion, he finally obtained them for five Spirit Stones.
With the remaining Spirit Stones, he planned to buy some Pills to enhance his strength!
With five Spirit Stones coming to the Pill Pavilion, he could only buy one bottle of Meridian Opening Pills. One bottle contained ten pills, whose function was to protect the meridians and slightly improve cultivation efficiency. Taking this Pill could allow low-level cultivators to cultivate for several more hours daily without damaging their meridians, making it an essential item for cultivators who drove themselves hard.
As for higher-level Spirit Gathering Pills, Yuan Gathering Pills, and so on, low-level Qi Condensation cultivators couldn’t use them yet.
Of course, he also couldn’t afford them!
After putting away his purchases, Mu Jiuxiao carried the little mouse, planning to try his luck at the place in the north of the market specifically for selling spiritual beasts.
North City, said to be a place for selling spiritual beasts, actually contained mostly spiritual beasts that hadn’t entered any rank. They were mostly descendants of spiritual beasts that cultivators had captured from the Spirit Beast Mountains and bred, but their bloodlines had degraded.
Those truly Yellow-rank spiritual beasts were things many Seven Stars Sect disciples couldn’t obtain even if they sought them, so how could they possibly reach tenant farmers like them?
However, some tenant farmers had good luck; after buying these bloodline-degraded spiritual beasts, they nurtured them back home and had the chance to produce true spiritual beast offspring. Because of this, many people with a bit of money would come here to try their luck.
Buying a spiritual beast could provide both companionship and help with farming and field work. If it could give birth to ranked spiritual beast offspring, then one would strike it rich.
When Mu Jiuxiao arrived, North City was bustling, with many spiritual beasts that dazzled his eyes.
There were spiritual beasts called Pack Rays, gentle in temperament, with strong carrying capacity, capable of both flying in the sky and diving into the sea, making them an unrivaled choice for transporting goods. However, the Pack Rays here had bloodlines so degraded they couldn’t fly at all, lying there like giant stupid fish with wings!
There were also spiritual beasts called Kui Bulls, gentle in temperament, capable of carrying loads and pulling carts, said to have voices like thunder with the ability to intimidate evil spirits. Unfortunately, here they were just hornless lame green oxen.
Some spiritual beasts like spirit foxes, spirit cats, spirit cranes, and the like, because of their spiritual elegance, lightness, and cuteness, even though they hadn’t entered any rank and had no special abilities, still made many female tenant farmers compete to buy them.
Of course, besides these gentle-tempered spiritual beasts, there were also some like the Mighty Devil Ape, Heaven-Swallowing Python, and others that sounded very majestic as combat spiritual beasts. However, their bloodlines had all degraded, and presumably these battle pets locked in iron cages were just sellers’ boasts.
Nevertheless, Mu Jiuxiao gained considerable knowledge. Even these unranked spiritual pets with degraded bloodlines broadened his horizons and gave him great visual satisfaction.
If these unranked spiritual beasts were already so astonishing, he truly couldn’t imagine what real spiritual beasts would be like!
After touring most of North City, Mu Jiuxiao tried to sell the little mouse in his hand, but not a single person wanted to buy it. There was even a stall owner who laughed at him, “Are you so poor you’ve gone mad? You caught an unranked burrowing mouse and eagerly came out to sell it!”
“This isn’t an ordinary burrowing mouse. Its fur and tail are completely different from a burrowing mouse’s. Clearly, you just don’t know quality goods!”
“Don’t know quality goods? Clearly, it’s you, a country bumpkin, who doesn’t understand the trade. Don’t you know that Demon Beasts can evolve and mutate? This burrowing mouse might have mutated, but a mutated burrowing mouse is still a burrowing mouse. Besides burrowing and destroying crops, what else can it do? Call it once, can it respond?” Get faster updates on novelping.com.
“…”
Mu Jiuxiao was momentarily speechless. The stall owner snorted triumphantly, gently stroking the fiery red fox beside him, “Little Li, dance for this country bumpkin.”
“Ying ying.”
This red fox actually tilted its head toward him, responding with remarkable human-like manner, then began moving rhythmically. Because of this fox’s performance, several female tenant farmers immediately gathered around, admiring it greatly and competing to spend money to buy it.
Originally, red foxes weren’t as popular as white foxes, but red flowers also need green leaves to set them off! And Mu Jiuxiao’s clumsy mouse in hand was the obvious green leaf!
Soon, the stall owner sold his red fox. He packed up his stall, stood up, and patted Mu Jiuxiao’s shoulder, “Thanks for cooperating, little brother. Much offense, please forgive.”
After speaking, he was about to leave. Mu Jiuxiao stopped him, “Senior, is this mouse in my hand really just a mutated burrowing mouse?”
“How would I know?”
The stall owner stopped walking, shrugging at Mu Jiuxiao, “Actually, I’m also a tenant farmer, just with two more red foxes raised at home.”
Hearing his words, Mu Jiuxiao couldn’t help but feel somewhat disappointed. In this market, he wouldn’t be able to learn the true identity of this little mouse.
Tenant farmers weren’t like Sect disciples; they only had the responsibility of cultivating low-level spirit fields for the Sect. Wanting to obtain a bit of knowledge was extremely difficult!
“You, truly stupid, not even comparable to a fox, no wonder no one wants to buy you!”
Mu Jiuxiao patted the little mouse in his hand twice, helplessly carrying it back again.
Since no one wanted it, he would just raise it himself. After all, he couldn’t afford other pets either. Raising a little mouse was fine too; from now on, he would count as someone with a spiritual pet.