owlsbooks Chapter 60, Part 2: A Dog's Find, Fragments
Chapter 60, Part 2: A Dog's Find, Fragments
Baiquanhu Market.
On the bustling streets.
As Lin Li walked past each stall, he would release his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense, sweeping over every item on the stall.
However, there are basically no bargains to be found.
They did find quite a few counterfeit spiritual items, with a wide variety of styles. Most of the stall owners followed the same pattern, starting by boasting about how powerful they were and using simple restrictions to create some not-so-weak spiritual energy reactions.
However, this method can only fool novice cultivators who are new to this kind of auction.
However, if Lin Li were to detect it, he would use his Foundation Establishment Divine Sense to completely erase the restrictions within the fake spiritual object.
The cultivators who set up these stalls only paid a small amount of spirit stones to set up their stalls here.
Most of them are counterfeit.
The truly good stuff is best bought at auctions, but many people hope to find bargains at these stalls.
Even if you manage to find a bargain, it's just by relying on your own eye for quality and making a profit from the price difference.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, do you possess an ice-based cultivation technique that allows you to cultivate all the way to the late Foundation Establishment stage?"
Lin Li transmitted his voice to the Blood Spirit Centipede inside the Soul Banner.
"In reply to Master, all I know about demonic arts is the Xuan Sha Demonic Art that I gave you. I still have the parts that can be cultivated to the middle and late stages."
"I obtained this demonic technique from a human demonic cultivator."
"The same applies to the previous second-tier spells."
Blood Spirit Centipede responded respectfully.
"Oh?"
"Imprint the rest of it into the jade slip."
Lin Li became interested and, after speaking, threw a spatial jade slip into the soul banner.
This cultivation method, which can be cultivated to the late Foundation Establishment stage, will inevitably attract the interest of other Foundation Establishment practitioners. This method can be passed down within a family. Although it is a demonic technique, it can be cultivated all the way to the late Foundation Establishment stage.
It's already quite valuable.
If you sell it at an auction, you can definitely make a sum of spirit stones.
"Ergou, Mofeng, where are you?"
At this moment, the images of Er Gou and Mo Feng popped into Lin Li's mind. Er Gou's bloodline talent as a multi-treasure spirit dog was simply too good to be true.
He took out a communication jade slip from his storage bag and used his magic to transmit his voice to it.
In this market, the only ones who can't find bargains themselves are probably Er Gou.
A moment later.
After the Blood Spirit Centipede had been imprinted with the cultivation technique, its soul power had become extremely weak. Lin Li then fed it two low-grade Fiend Soul Pills.
They won't give you a medium-grade Soul-Slaying Pill.
This Blood Spirit Centipede's cultivation level can only be maintained at the early stage of Qi Refining. Such an old monster has countless ways to turn the tables.
The safest approach is to keep it permanently at the initial stage of Qi cultivation.
A few breaths later.
A response came from the jade slip containing the message.
"Master, Er Gou and I just strolled around Baiquan Lake Market. Just now, Er Gou bought several items at a spiritual cultivation stall."
"One of the objects was particularly hard and looked like a treasure."
"Ergou and I are planning to find some more treasures to send to the master."
Mo Feng's respectful voice came from the jade slip.
"Did Er Gou get a bargain?"
Lin Li's eyes lit up.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Li formed a hand seal and connected his divine sense to the entire market array. He immediately detected their figures on a street of stalls near the outer edge of the market.
Then, Lin Li cast an illusion spell around himself to conceal his presence, and used the Wind Spirit Escape Technique to transform into a streak of azure light and head straight for Er Gou and Mo Feng.
A few breaths later.
Lin Li then flew down in front of Er Gou and Mo Feng.
"master!"
"Greetings, sir!"
When Er Gou and Mo Feng turned around and saw Lin Li dressed in a white robe, especially when Lin Li released a wisp of his aura, the two of them hurriedly bowed respectfully.
"Ergou, where are the things you bought?"
Lin Li looked at Er Gou, who had a dog's head and a human body, and asked.
"Sir, this is the piece."
"The stall owner said it was passed down in his family. If something happened to his family and he needed to buy a set of protective formations, he wouldn't sell his family heirloom."
After bowing, Er Gou took out a small, dark red iron piece, about the size of a willow leaf, from his storage bag.
After the Foundation Establishment Divine Sense enveloped the dark red iron piece, it did not detect anything strange.
Lin Li took it to his right hand, and with a little force, he could feel his fox fur being pierced by the iron piece.
"This…"
"It is indeed a treasure."
The iron piece didn't emit any spiritual energy fluctuations; it was just his own effort that caused the iron piece to pierce through the fox fur. The material strength of this item must be at least of the second-tier superior quality.
Lin Li was a little frightened by Er Gou's multi-talented spirit dog.
"good."
"I am very satisfied with this item."
"reward."
Lin Li took out several more first-grade high-quality spirit pills from his storage bag and handed them to Er Gou and Mo Feng.
Er Gou and his companions happily pocketed the pills.
"Is this the stall owner who sold this item?"
Lin Li walked towards the stall behind Er Gou. His Foundation Establishment divine sense instantly covered everything on the stall. Apart from that, the other items on the stall were mostly dried spiritual herbs or low-grade spirit stones from the mountains. They were all common items.
Do you have any of this at home?
"If there are any left, I am willing to buy them all, and I will also give you a residence in this market so that your family can live there permanently."
Lin Li controlled the dark red iron piece to float in front of him, while a white jade slip flew out of his storage bag and hovered in front of the stall owner.
The jade slip contained a trace of his Foundation Establishment aura, which would naturally make him believe what he said.
The spiritual cultivation stall owner in front of him was an old gray-haired monkey with a thin body and only a tuft of dark red monkey hair between his eyebrows. He had a cultivation level of six levels of Qi Refining, but his body was surrounded by death aura. According to Lin Li's perception, he had at most five years to live.
"This is... the consciousness of a Foundation Establishment cultivator!"
"Junior Yuan Tianmu greets Senior!"
When the old monkey Yuan Tianmu at the stall in front of him used his divine sense to enter the jade slip, he sensed the vast and unfathomable aura of divine sense within the jade slip, and his eyes were filled with astonishment.
He hurriedly knelt down and respectfully bowed to Lin Li.
Whether from shock or something else, Yuan Tianmu's slightly emaciated body was still trembling slightly.
Lin Li had already concealed the stall with illusion magic, and the surrounding vendors did not notice anything amiss.
"Don't overthink it."
"This item should be a fragment of a magic artifact of considerable quality, which may be of some use to me."
"We were both just getting what we needed."
Lin Li said calmly.
"In reply to your question, senior, I do indeed have another one of this in my home, and it is even larger than this one."
"only…"
Yuan Tianmu was also afraid at this moment.
There are several children in my family. If this leads to trouble, wouldn't it harm my descendants and clansmen?
"If I may be so bold as to ask, are you perhaps the venerable spiritual cultivator who led your people on a long journey to Baiquan Lake?"
Yuan Tianmu hesitated for a moment, then calmed himself and spoke. This matter concerned the lives and safety of his descendants. If he didn't find out the truth, his family might not even know how they died.
"It is I."
Lin Li finished speaking.
The mist that had been covering his face dissipated, revealing his true fox form. Three enormous fox tails, formed from gathered spiritual energy, appeared behind him. The aura of Foundation Establishment he exuded was like a mountain, giving people an astonishing sense of oppression.