“Give me a jade slip of the map of Tai Su Market.” A muffled voice came out, immediately silencing the cacophony of laughter in the shop.
Only after this voice did Ning Cheng hear the sound of ‘snap, snap ……’ footsteps walking into the shop.
It was a large man with somewhat messy hair and dressed in sackcloth. He had a gourd hanging around his waist and an incredibly thick iron rod on his back. The end of the iron rod was somewhat dark and gave off a strong aura of murder and blood, showing how many dead souls had died under it. What is even more strange is that this man is not wearing shoes under his feet.
While others walked barefoot without a sound, this man’s bare feet sounded not only loud but also heavy.
When Ning Cheng looked at this big, sturdy man, who was over two metres tall, the first thing that came to mind was Pan Qian. Of course, compared to Pan Qian, this big man was simply small. Moreover, Ning Cheng could not tell his cultivation level, he seemed to have another kind of power on him, and there were no astral yuan or divine sense fluctuations at all.
“Alright, one hundred lower grade divine crystals. This is the latest map of Tai Su Ruins from my shop, it’s guaranteed to be more complete than the maps sold elsewhere, and it’s also the cheapest price.” The fellow seemed to be scornful of this big man and hurriedly took out a jade slip and handed it to him. Even though it was a business of three divine crystals, the mate still had a smile on his face.
The big man nodded, dropped a crystal and picked up the jade slip, once again ‘snapping, snapping’▲ and walked out.
Ning Cheng saw that this one crystal stone was similar to the one he had used, it should be a top grade crystal stone, which let him know that one top grade divine crystal could be exchanged for one hundred lower grade divine crystals.
It was only after this big man walked out that someone inside the shop whispered and muttered, “He’s Desi? The one who slapped and killed an early Eternal stage martial cultivator last time?”
“Of course it’s him. Desi is actually very nice to talk to. Doesn’t like to cause trouble. And is also very righteous. Last time that person bullied people with his cultivation, and that’s why Desi killed him.” Someone on the side explained.
“He just purchased a jade slip of the Tai Su Market, is he going to the Tai Su Market? He’s a martial cultivator, ah.”
“What’s wrong with a martial cultivator? It’s not like he’s the only martial cultivator who goes to the Tai Su Market. Going to that kind of place, it doesn’t matter at all if you’re a martial cultivator or not, what matters is luck. If you’re unlucky, even if you’re a second-step Hedao powerhouse, so what? It’s still a word of death.”
“Hehe, don’t joke, a Dao Harmony strongman would go to Tai Su Ruins?”
“I’m not joking. This thing is still true.”
……
Ning Cheng didn’t stay in the shop to listen to the others’ chatter and walked out of the shop, sweeping up to the martial cultivator called Desu who followed him.
When Ning Cheng saw Desi walking to a corner of the square, he hurriedly walked over as well. He then saw Desu take out a pile of divine crystals and place them on a table. After the cultivator sitting at the table collected the pile of divine crystals, he gave Desu a jade token. After the cultivator sitting at the table had collected the pile of divine crystals, he gave it to Desi. Desi grabbed the jade token and went to one side to sit down, while many cultivators were already sitting in front of and behind him.
When Desi had taken out the divine crystals just now, Ning Cheng had counted them on the side. The pile of nerves that Desi took out had at least ten thousand pieces.
After Desi sat down, a few more people came over to pay for the divine crystals. Then they sat beside Desi.
Ning Cheng’s gaze fell on a huge formation screen next to this table, and after he had swept through the contents of the formation screen, he had understood it in his heart.
The payment of divine crystals here was to follow everyone to a teleportation formation, and then to travel to the Tai Su Ruins through that teleportation formation, or to leave the Bian Su Sea from there. What the Tai Su Market was, Ning Cheng simply did not know. Even if he knew, Ning Cheng did not have the divine crystals to go there.
Not to mention 10,000 divine crystals, even if it was one divine crystal, Ning Cheng could not take it out.
After wandering around the square for half a day and asking a few cultivators, Ning Cheng gradually understood the place. This place was the edge of the edge of the Tai Su Realm. The cultivators who were here usually went to the Tai Su Sea to search for treasures or to hunt demonic beasts.
Because the competition here was relatively not very fierce and the safety of the cultivators was a little more secure than other places, many cultivators with low cultivation levels liked to come to this place.
The place where treasures really come out is the Tai Su Ruins, the most famous ancient ruins in the Tai Su Realm. This place is boundless and no one can know if there is an end to the Tai Su Ruins and where the end is. This is because after entering the Tai Su Ruins, divine sense is restricted.
But what kind of treasures were there in the Tai Su Ruins, Ning Cheng asked a few cultivators, but they could only say something like Advanced Divine Artifacts, something like Ancient Rings.
As for how to leave the Bian Su Divine Sea City, Ning Cheng also asked a few cultivators implicitly. The answers they received were all that there was no jade slip for directions to leave the Bian Su Divine Sea City. Even if one were to venture to the Tai Su Sea, one could not leave the Bian Su Divine Sea City too far, otherwise, there was a high chance that one would not be able to find one’s way back. Once lost in the Tai Su Sea, then one could only wait for death.
If a cultivator wanted to leave Bian Su Divine Sea City, he could also do so, and that was to save up enough divine crystals and leave in one of the specific airships here.
Ning Cheng sighed, it looked like he would have to take his time to save up divine crystals if he wanted to leave this place. The route out of this place was definitely controlled by some forces, and he would not be able to leave without paying the divine crystals. It was just like when he had first arrived at Rootless Black City, people were doing exclusive line trading. It looked like he had been really lucky to meet a cultivator and find Bian Su Divine Sea City before.
However, there was no need for him to venture to the Tai Su Sea if he wanted to earn divine crystals, he could help people refine magic treasures here. As long as he set up a stall in the plaza of Bian Su Divine Sea City, the divine crystals would definitely be rolling in.
Ning Cheng was obviously thinking too much, and he had just set up a refining stall in a corner of the square when he was stopped by two cultivators.
“Friend you must have just arrived here, right? Setting up a stall is not allowed here, first time I remind you, if you are found a second time, I am afraid you will be taken away.” An early Life and Death realm cultivator pointed at Ning Cheng’s stall and said.
“Why?” Ning Cheng asked in confusion, there were restrictions on setting up a stall here?
The cultivator looked at Ning Cheng and said somewhat helplessly, “You should go and buy a Bian Su Divine Sea City Residence Profile first. Forget it, I see that you also don’t have any divine crystals on you, I’ll just give you one.”
After this cultivator finished speaking, he took out a jade slip and handed it to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense casually swept through it and understood. In order to set up a stall in Bian Su Divine Sea City to refine weapons or refine pills, etc., one needed qualifications. Such qualifications were issued by the Bian Su Divine Sea City’s Weapon Refining or Alchemy Guild, and the qualifications had a clear classification indicating how many levels of weapon refining qualifications you had.
But going to such a guild to test for a qualification in weapon refining or alchemy requires the same large amount of divine crystals.
“I see.” Ning Cheng put away his alchemy stall, he really wanted to go and sell a spatial crystal in exchange for a divine crystal. Reason told him that he could not do so yet with his strength.
“Ning Cheng?” Just then, an incredibly surprised voice rang out from the side.
Ning Cheng looked up and saw a pretty and peerless face, and slightly surprised, he responded, “Nalan Ruxue, why are you here?”
He saw that there were two other men and a woman beside Nalan Ruxue, so he thought that the four of them should be in a group.
“It’s really you.” After Nalan Ruxue was convinced that it was Ning Cheng, she was even more surprised. She did not seem to hear that Ning Cheng’s tone was very flat and did not have the same sense of elation that she felt when she met her old friend in another country.
“Senior sister Ru Xue, who is this person?” A brown-clothed man standing beside Nalan Ruxue asked with a frown.
“It’s an acquaintance, Senior Brother Tao, Senior Brother You, Senior Sister Si Yan, you guys go to the merchant building first, I’ll have a few words with Senior Brother Ning first.” Nalan Ruxue hurriedly said, completely unable to suppress the delight between her eyebrows.
The brown-clothed man frowned slightly and quickly said with a smile, “Senior sister Ru Xue, that’s an outrageous thing to say, your friend is our friend. Why don’t we all go and sit in the restaurant together, and invite your friends over as well, I’ll be the host this time.”
Nalan Ru Xue saw the stall that Ning Cheng had put away and knew that Ning Cheng did not have many divine crystals on him, after hearing these words, she hurriedly looked at Ning Cheng and asked, “Senior Brother Ning Cheng, why don’t we all go and have a seat together. Senior Brother Tao Xing, Senior Brother You Cheng and Senior Sister Li Si Yan are all my friends, why don’t you also join us in the future, so that we all have a care.”
“No need, you guys go ahead, I’m leaving.” Ning Cheng put his things into his ring, turned around and left. Although when he was at the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, Nalan Ru Xue had made a special trip to apologise to him. He had long since disregarded the past, but he had never thought of becoming friends with someone like Nalan Ru Xue.
Nalan Ruxue was only at the late Heavenly Fate cultivation level, that Tao Xing and You Cheng were at the middle and late Heavenly Fate realms, and even Li Siyan was at the early Heavenly Fate realm cultivation level. To be honest, if Ning Cheng was at Heavenly Fate Realm cultivation, he would never follow three cultivators who were all at a much higher cultivation level than him in a group together.
Seeing Ning Cheng turn around to leave, a trace of gloom flashed in Nalan Ru Xue’s eyes, but she still called out, “Senior Brother Ning, do you know that Senior Sister Yan Ji is looking for you?”
“Yan Ji?” Ning Cheng suddenly stopped and asked with a joyful expression on his face, “You’ve seen Yan Ji? Where is she?”
When Nalan Ru Xue saw how quickly Ning Cheng had changed, her heart was even more gloomy, she hesitated for a moment and said, “I’ll tell you about these later, or ……”
Ning Cheng immediately knew that Nalan Ruxue wanted to tell him alone, he was about to ask Nalan Ruxue to leave with him when the brown clothed cultivator named Tao Xing next to him said once again, “Senior sister Ruxue, why don’t we all go to the Su Hai Restaurant together.”
Nalan Ruxue had some difficulty in turning her gaze towards Ning Cheng, the meaning in her eyes was clearly an invitation to Ning Cheng to go over together.
Ning Cheng was a little strange in his heart, he knew something about Nalan Ru Xue’s nature. She did not like to have anything to do with male cultivators together, but she did not expect to care about that male cultivator called Tao Xing talking now.
Ning Cheng was eager to know where Yan Ji was going and did not hesitate much, “Good, then let’s go and sit together.”
Hearing Ning Cheng’s agreement, Nalan Ru Xue was overjoyed, and Tao Xing also said to Ning Cheng, “Senior Brother Ning doesn’t need to be formal, you will get used to it after being here for a long time. We are all teaming up together for adventures, so we all have a care too.”
Ning Cheng did not reply to this brown clothed cultivator’s words, he did not have much good feeling towards this Tao Xing, it was just an intuition.