Lingxiao City is a city where immortals gather relying on the Bixiao Gate of the Immortal Cultivation Sect.
In the setting sun, a ragged, to be exact, unkempt young man with rags on his body was walking alone on the street in the west of Lingxiao City.
The Fangshi of this generation in the west of the city is mostly the property of the Han family of the Xiuxian family. The Herbal Hall is the largest medicine store in the west of the city, and also belongs to the Han family.
The young man walked into the Herbal Hall. The shopkeeper behind the counter raised his eyes a little, frowned, ignored it, and continued to lower his head to sort out his accounts.
The young man did not care. He calmly went to the counter and put some herbs on the counter.
"Shopkeeper, look at these herbs," said the boy calmly.
The shopkeeper then raised his head and casually turned over these herbs.
"Green leaf lotus, golden vine...... Are all inferior medicinal materials, and the year is barely able to be used as medicine. Eh! This purple poria is a little old." The shopkeeper squinted at the young man, as if he was curious about the young man's ability to pick such a purple poria, but it also passed away quickly, and then he quickly calculated the account.
"A total of 30 pieces of inferior spirit stones!"
There was no change in the young man's expression. The shopkeeper stopped talking and took out thirty inferior spirit stones and pushed them over. The young man ordered the stone carefully, then put it on his body and walked out.
The shopkeeper looked at the boy's thin figure, sighed slightly, shook his head, and then went on to tidy up his own account.
Out of the Herbal Hall, the boy changed his reticence, smiled brightly and innocently, and jumped up happily.
"You can buy a bottle of Qi Gathering Pill for thirty pieces of inferior spirit stones!" The young man thought in his mind, and then looked around again. He found that no one noticed his action, and then he continued to walk forward with a giggle.
The boy's name is Li Hui, and he is a casual practitioner in Lingxiao City.
Less than 100 meters to the east of the Herbal Hall, there is an alley similar to the secular market called "Mortal Street". In this alley, restaurants, silk shops, rice shops, inns, banks and even brothels can meet the needs of the secular world.
There are four alleys like this in the east, west, north and south of Lingxiao City, which are controlled by four families in the city. The alley in the west of the city belongs to the Han family's industry just like the Herbal Hall.
In fact, if it is put in the secular world, it is also a very wide street. At the entrance of the alley is a bank, and the plaque reads: "Huitong Building".
In this alley, there are two kinds of currency in common use. One is the spirit stone that Li Hui got from selling medicinal materials just now. The other is secular gold and silver.
No mortal is allowed to live in Lingxiao City. Babies born in Lingxiao City will be registered and tested in the "Spirit Measuring Pavilion", a special organization set up in the city's Bixiao Gate. If there is a couple in Lingxiao City who gave birth to a child and the child has no spirit root, then the child must be sent outside Bixiao Mountain before he is five years old.
All the friars in Lingxiao City will spontaneously abide by this rule, because the existence of the immortal world is cruel, and a mortal who can't practice without spiritual roots can't survive in Lingxiao City.
Even casual practitioners who live outside Lingxiao City usually send their descendants without spiritual roots to a good family for adoption. These immortals are immortals in the eyes of ordinary people, so most of them can find a rich family to adopt for their offspring.
However, the low-level immortals who could not yet open up the valley needed to eat, drink, and wear the same clothes as the mortals, so there were such streets similar to the secular world.
Lingshi is a universal currency in the world of truth building, which is equivalent to gold and silver in the secular world.
The spirit stone can directly absorb the spirit, arrange the array, and use some magic that consumes huge spirit power during cultivation. According to the amount of spiritual power contained in the spiritual stone, it can be divided into four grades: inferior, middle, superior and top.
Generally, 100 pieces of inferior spirit stones can be exchanged for one piece of intermediate spirit stone, while 1000 pieces of intermediate spirit stones can hardly be exchanged for one piece of superior spirit stone. As for the best spirit stone, it is immeasurable, and the whole world of cultivating immortals is also extremely rare.
The Immortal World usually uses the spirit stone as the currency, but the value of these articles needed by the secular world is too low to be measured by the spirit stone, so there are shops like Huitong Tower dedicated to the exchange of spirit stone and gold and silver.
Li Hui came to Huitong Building and went to the counter. The shopkeeper inside the counter was a fat man with a big smile and a big ear in Chinese clothes. He looked like a secular businessman and a philistine.
"Exchange two inferior spirit stones." Li Hui put the two inferior spirit stones on the counter. He turned a blind eye to the fat man's smiling face. He knew that the fat man was killing people without blinking.
"OK! Two pieces of inferior Lingshi can be exchanged for one hundred taels of tattoo silver!" The fat man shouted loudly, and a waiter came over and put one hundred taels of silver on the counter.
Li Hui received a hundred taels of silver. His face was a bit sore, so he turned and walked out. The fat shopkeeper still smiled and said, "Go slowly."
"Too dark!" This is Li Hui's idea every time he exchanges silver here. Exchange the spirit stone for silver, and a piece of inferior spirit stone for fifty liang silver. But if you exchange silver for a spirit stone, only one hundred taels of silver can be exchanged for a inferior spirit stone.
Most of the Xiuxian families in the city also support certain forces in the mortal world, some are Jianghu guilds, and some support businesses.
In this way, the forces of the mortal world provide materials to the Xiuxian family in the city, and the Xiuxian family uses these shops in the city to turn these materials into spiritual stones and silver. The spirit stone is used for the cultivation of the immortal family, and the silver is used to develop the influence of the secular world.
The alley in the city, which is like a secular market, sells many times more things than the secular world, and there will be a huge difference between the price of silver and that of silver. These profits were seized by Xiuxian Family.
Walking out of Huitong Building, I met a young man in white with a folding fan, who looked like a rich childe in the secular world. Although his face was like coke and looked like a monkey, he was dressed like a dissolute childe. Behind him were several teenagers dressed in black like bodyguards.
The boy in white is called Han Hao, and his father is responsible for Huitong Building behind the scenes. Han Hao, who has gold and wood spiritual roots, is also of high qualification among the younger generation of the Han family. He is 15 years old and has already become a seventh level cultivation in the gas refining period. There is no doubt that he will become an internal disciple under the Bixiao Sect.
Therefore, his father also rose in the family and was responsible for the operation of the Huitong Building. And this guy often pretends to be a minor owner and often wanders around here.
Li Hui glances at Han Hao, ignoring him and preparing to leave. At this time, Han Hao waved his folding fan and blocked Li Hui's way: "Oh, what kind of dress is this? Tut tut! Look at these clothes. They are so personalized!"
A few of the boys behind him laughed.
Li Hui stood quietly, without any change on his face. Han Hao, like watching a rare animal, turned around Li Hui, looked up and down, and his mouth was full of surprise. Those boys in black laughed so much that they almost touched the ground.
"Let the young master laugh." Li Hui said quietly.
"Eh?" Han Hao was a little surprised, and said in a ponderous tone: "Not bad, you are very interesting! Unlike the last guy, Wang Dong, how did we meet that guy last time?" This last sentence was said to a young man in black in the attendant.
"Cough, cough!" The boy in black stood up with a grin and pretended to cough twice: "Young master, watch!"
Han Hao and several other teenagers laughed when they saw Wang Dong's funny appearance.
"Cough, cough!" Wang Dong cleared his throat, put his hand behind his back, straightened his waist, and said "Righteously", "Thirty years in Hexi, thirty years in Hedong, I'd rather bully a white headed man than a poor boy!"
After saying that, he immediately returned to his servile face and said to Han Hao with a smile: "Young master, is that right?" After saying that, he couldn't help laughing.
"Hahaha... hahaha... yeah... hahaha... that's it... hahaha! I'm so happy!" Han Hao bent down with a smile and said haltingly.
Several other boys in black also laughed unsteadily.
After a while, Han Hao straightened up, shrugged his cramped shoulders and smiled, "Ha ha, that guy was beaten by Wang Dong and his friends for at least half a month, ha ha... ha ha!"
Li Hui still stood quietly, with no expression on his face and said nothing.
"Hey! Boy, don't you think it's funny? Who can show you a donkey's face?" The boy in black named Wang Dong pointed at Li Hui and shouted.
"It's really funny!" Li Huiqiang said quietly, holding back his anger.
"Well, my young master is happy too. Let's get down to business!" Han Hao unfolded his folding fan again and walked to Huitong Building in a childlike manner. Several other boys in black hurried to follow.
Li Hui stood there, his fists slowly clenched, his eyes full of anger.
The cultivation world is so cruel. If there is no strength, even a hard word will become a laughingstock. Only the strong have the right to pretend to put down their posture to sympathize with the weak with a high attitude.
Li Hui's clenched fists slowly relaxed. He had never been so eager to become stronger
After a long time, Li Hui's face slowly returned to normal. He looked back at the hanging plaque in Huitong Building, and a trace of bitterness flowed through his eyes:
If you insult me today, you will pay with blood someday!
Li Hui did not say this, but it is hypocritical to say it now! The anger without strength is meaningless! A strong person does not become strong with a few childish words!
Looking back, Li Hui did not hesitate any more and strode toward the depths of the mortal street.
