Creating a paradise in an ant nest

Chapter 69 Selling Spirit Plants

"The effects of the Eternal Spirit Tree are not limited to prolonging life; it can also increase affinity with the Wood element."

Seeing that Liu He was about to leave, Zhao Qian quickly added.

Upon hearing this, Liu He, who was about to get up and leave, stopped: "Increase your affinity for the wood element?"

He had been searching for a treasure similar to the Earth Elemental Pearl.

As an earth-elemental treasure, the Earth Elemental Pearl can slightly increase affinity with earth-elemental attributes.

It was precisely this effect that allowed Liu He to cultivate the "Earth Elemental Spirit Body".

The Earth Elemental Spirit Body greatly enhanced Liu He's understanding of earth-based magic, making his efforts more efficient and effective. It also increased the power of his earth-based magic and reduced the consumption of spiritual energy.

Therefore, he has been searching for similar treasures, hoping to cultivate spiritual bodies of the other four of the five elements.

However, such treasures are very rare.

In all this time, Liu He has only discovered one treasure that can increase affinity with water. That treasure is worth more than two thousand spirit stones, which he cannot afford right now.

"That's right, the roots of the Eternal Spirit Tree have a slight effect on enhancing affinity with wood-type plants, which is recorded in the Spirit Plant Atlas."

Zhao Qian did indeed see the efficacy of the ancient Chinese toon tree in ancient books.

"Are there any records of obtaining a wood-type spirit body as a result?"

"Oh? No, not at all."

Zhao Qian was stumped by this question.

To become a wood-type spirit by eating the roots of the Eternal Spirit Tree? How much would you have to eat? You'd have to eat the entire root of the Eternal Spirit Tree!

"The roots of the Eternal Spirit Tree can only slightly enhance affinity with wood-type elements, and its effect is extremely minimal. How about this, I'll give you a discount of twenty spirit stones, making it sixty."

Zhao Qian knew that his root was too small, and its effect on prolonging life or enhancing affinity with wood was very weak.

In order to sell it, he voluntarily lowered the price to sixty spirit stones.

"I'll buy it if it's cheaper."

Liu He had already made up his mind to buy this root.

Its effect of enhancing affinity with wood elements is very important to him, and it also comes with the added benefit of prolonging life.

But in order to lower the price, he remained outwardly calm.

"After all, it's the root of a third-tier spiritual plant, so it can't be any cheaper."

"Fifty spirit stones."

"That's too little, no way."

Zhao Qian shook his head. He'd rather not sell at that price.

The roots of the ancient spiritual plant, a third-tier spiritual plant, are of little use to these Qi Refining cultivators, but they might have a miraculous effect in the hands of a Foundation Establishment cultivator or a Golden Core cultivator.

All the items Zhao Qian sold were of this type.

"Fifty-five."

"..."

After some haggling, Liu He finally managed to lower the price to fifty-eight spirit stones.

"Shopkeeper, I don't have that many spirit stones on me. Let me go get some. You can stay here tomorrow."

"Yes. If I'm not here, I'm in the rental area on the other side of Lingxiao Market. I live in Unit 16, Row 2, Unit 2. You can come find me."

Zhao Qian was a rogue cultivator without his own sect, so he spent spirit stones to rent a place in Lingxiao Market, where he could use the spiritual energy to cultivate.

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Liu He left the street vendor area of ​​Lingxiaofang Market.

He only had five spirit stones on him.

His attempt to haggle over the price of the Eternal Spirit Tree's roots at the street stall wasn't just a pastime; he already had a plan to earn spirit stones.

"Let's find an inn first."

Near the mountaintop area close to the city center, there are several inns where cultivators can stay temporarily.

These inns occupy a huge area, with courtyards and cave dwellings serving as their "guest rooms".

Liu He stepped into an inn called "Xiaoyao Xianju".

The person who greeted them was a female cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining.

"Welcome, fellow Daoist, to the Carefree Immortal Abode. Fellow Daoist, what kind of cave dwelling would you like to stay in?"

"May I ask how secluded our inn is? Do you have any cave dwellings that can isolate you from the divine senses of high-level cultivators?"

What Liu He cares about most is secrecy.

The female cultivator replied with a smile, "Fellow Daoist, please rest assured. Firstly, all the cave dwellings in our inn are protected by shielding formations that can prevent divine sense from probing."

Secondly, no high-level cultivator would rashly use their divine sense to investigate Lingxiao Market; this is a tacit understanding. Otherwise, accidentally offending a powerful cultivator would surely bring disaster upon themselves.

Lingxiao Market is large in scale and attracts many cultivators, with occasional Golden Core cultivators hiding their identities among them.

Who dares to use divine thought?

It is extremely impolite to be detected by a cultivator with higher cultivation level when using divine sense to investigate.

No monk wants his secrets to be spied on.

"Then I'll stay in a cheap cave."

Since there's a shielding array, Liu He doesn't need to spend extra spirit stones.

"The cheapest is one spirit stone per day."

"it is good."

Liu He took out a spirit stone.

The female cultivator put away the spirit stones and took out a jade token: "This is the talisman for the cave dwelling. With this, you can enter and exit the cave dwelling. From this moment on, you have a one-day usage period for the cave dwelling, which is twelve hours."

Liu He entered with the jade token and discovered that Xiaoyao Immortal Abode had set up a spirit-gathering array inside the Lingxiao Market Spirit Gathering Array, and its spiritual energy environment was close to that of the second-tier spirit-gathering array of the Spirit Plant Peak.

No wonder it costs one spirit stone per day to stay.

His dwelling was the cheapest, merely a courtyard covering several hundred square meters. The interior was simply furnished and decorated, seemingly luxurious, but all the items were ordinary objects that could be bought with gold and silver, not spiritual objects.

Liu He checked it over and found that, apart from its own shielding array, there were no items containing spiritual energy.

He went into the room and closed the doors and windows.

Even from a distance of over 5,000 miles, he could still clearly sense the ant nest located at the Qian Yuan Holy Sect and Lingzhi Peak.

"shuttle!"

With a thought, he disappeared from the room and appeared in the miniature spiritual plant garden of the ant nest.

"It's inconvenient not having storage bags, but this is the only way."

In order to sell spiritual plants, he could only take advantage of the opportunity in Lingxiao Market.

He has a lot of violet radishes in stock.

"One violet radish weighs two jin and is worth two spirit stones. I need to bring more than twenty. No, that's the market price; I need to bring more."

He filled a cloth bag with forty pieces, weighing about eighty pounds.

The eighty-pound cloth bag wasn't heavy; with his Qi Refining Level 4 cultivation, he could carry it with ease.

Before leaving, there was one more thing he had to do: change his clothes.

He had stored a few clothes in the spiritual cave of the ant nest. He changed out of the mid-grade magic robe with the words "Qian Yuan" tattooed on it and put on a set of casual clothes.

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Among the many shops in Lingxiao Market, there is one inconspicuous little shop.

This shop specializes in selling low-level spiritual plants and fruits.

Liu He walked in carrying a cloth bag full of violets and radishes, and saw that the shop owner was a slightly plump and beautiful woman.

"Boss, do you buy violets and radishes in your shop?"

"Viola yedoensis? I'm sorry, young friend, I do have violet yedoensis here."

The boss, Zhang Yan, is at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

She has stable supply channels and comes from a Foundation Establishment cultivation family, so she has no need to acquire Viola yedoensis radish of unknown origin.

"Take a look at my goods first; they are absolutely in the condition of rare treasures."

As he spoke, Liu He took out a violet radish.

What's the difference in quality between these low-grade, inexpensive spiritual plants? Aren't they all pretty much the same?

"Need not…"

Zhang Yan was about to refuse when she saw that the warm and smooth violet radish was more than twice the size of the usual one.

"this?"

She swayed her hips as she stepped forward to examine it closely.

"To grow violets and green ivy to this appearance, you must have taken very good care of them. What price are you planning to sell them for?"

"One spirit stone per pound."

"It's a bit expensive. Ordinary violet radishes only sell for five spirit stones per pound, but yours, of this quality, can sell for one spirit stone per pound. Any more expensive and it will be hard to sell."

This is the selling price. If I were to buy it, I'd offer a maximum of eight spirit stones. How about it?

"Okay, deal."

Liu He sold eighty catties of violet radish and received sixty-four spirit stones.