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Chapter 18 Taolin Fair (I)
After walking for about twenty or thirty feet, the dense fog actually cleared away. When Xi Fangping’s eyes lit up, he saw a piece of flat land of about 20 or 30 mu. Next to the flat land, there were dozens of houses. Look at that house, which is quite luxurious. At first glance, it is not affordable for ordinary people. People come and go on the flat, and after counting, there are as many as five or six hundred people, not including those who stay in the house to rest. These monks are dressed in different styles, and they can tell at a glance that they are scattered. Xi Fangping was shocked. He used to want to see a monk, but he couldn’t see him. Unexpectedly, he suddenly saw nearly a thousand people here. It seems that there are not fewer monks in Wu, but he can’t get in by himself.
Yang Baiye bowed his hand to Xi Fangping and said, "Please help yourself, Mr. Xi Daoyou. These people have come here with all kinds of things, such as instruments, elixirs, herbs, and so on. Let’s discuss the price by ourselves. Xi Daoyou can walk around and see what is useful, or take out your things and set up a stall. "
"Set up a stall?" Xi Fangping asked strangely, "The market square in the fix-true world is exactly the same as that in the secular world. Do you need to set up a stall?"
Yang Baiye and other three people laughed: "Of course, if you don’t set up a stall, who knows what good things you have?" Xi Daoyou, let’s say goodbye here. The three of us have to set up a stall to see if we can find anything good. "
Yang Baiye and other three people, familiar with the crowd, disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving a XiFangPing. When Xi Fangping first entered your territory, he didn’t want to set up a stall directly, but wandered around. Xi Fangping’s behavior attracted the attention of other monks. Also, a monk doesn’t hang a storage bag on his body, not only carrying a baggage, but also carrying a heavy mace on his shoulder. How can he look like a Jianghu person who is quite low in their eyes? In particular, Xi Fangping looks handsome, and wherever he goes, some female monks keep peeking at him.
However, Xi Fangping didn’t care about it at all. It took him two hours to find out the situation of the whole market. This is indeed a professional market. Not only do hundreds of people stand outside, but inside the house, there is also a professional storefront that sells some real-life products. Xi Fangping looked at it carefully. A storage bag with a space of three feet square was priced at ten pieces of inferior lingshi, while the one with a square foot was priced at fifty pieces of lingshi. As for the means of transportation, there are plenty of flying swords, flywheels and flying leaves in the shop. There are twenty or thirty kinds in different forms. However, although they are all low-order instruments, the price is very different. There are 80 pieces of lingshi and 100 pieces of lingshi, and the most expensive one has reached as many as 150 pieces.
Xi Fangping wanted to think, his mace was two or three feet long, and the storage bag was obviously not enough. Even the storage bag with a price of 30 pieces of lingshi was not enough. It seems that he can only buy the guy with a square foot, although it is a little expensive, but he has no choice. As for the means of transportation, Xi Fangping didn’t ask too much. Wait and see how his herbs are sold, and then decide what kind of means of transportation to buy. Anyway, as long as there are enough lingshi, Xi Fangping is still willing to buy the best. After all, if the instrument is good, the possibility of saving lives will be greater.
After knowing the price of all kinds of herbs, Xi Fangping walked out of the house, found a clearing outside, and took out a dress from the bag, tore it in half and put it on the ground, and a booth was formed. Xi Fangping took out ten red flowers, two red fruits, a 200-year-old Polygonatum sibiricum, two 100-year-old Poria cocos, and a yam that was only five inches long but produced for about one hundred years, and put it on the clothes. After everything was ready, Xi Fangping sat down and waited for the customer to come to the door.
Xi Fangping has noticed that the quality of the herbs sold in this market is not good. There are a few red flowers, but they are all artificially planted, small in size and not good in color, but the asking price is a lingshi. As for Polygonatum sibiricum, Poria cocos and yam, it is not uncommon. It’s just something like red fruit. He looked everywhere in the market and couldn’t find it. Therefore, he can be sure that once the red fruit is put out, it will definitely attract others’ attention.
Sure enough, not long after it was put out, a monk, who looked about forty or fifty years old, went to the front of the booth and saw the red semen. As soon as his face changed, he immediately bent down, picked up the red semen and looked at it for a long time before exclaiming, "This is actually a wild red semen. Good thing, Daoyou. How much is this red semen?"
Without thinking about it, Xi Fangping directly bid: "150 pieces of lingshi."
"One hundred and fifty pieces of stone?" The man exclaimed, "Daoyou, it’s a little too expensive."
Xi Fangping has been in the secular world for five years. Although everything is handled by Wang Lei, he has never eaten pork and watched pigs walk. His bargaining level is far from comparable to those who have been practicing in the mountains all their lives. Hearing this, Xi Fangping laughed: "This Taoist friend should be a man who knows the goods. Look at this red fruit, this color, this head, which is serious and wild. How can it be compared with it? Look at the red fruit in that room. It’s small in size and bad in color. It’s far from mine. One is still selling 100 pieces of lingshi. I want 150 pieces each, which is already short. Since Taoist friends know this red fruit, they naturally know its function. If you can’t keep one, you can make Taoist friends succeed in the advanced stage. It’s worth 150 yuan. "
The friar is also a frank man. After listening to Xi Fangping’s words, he thought about it and said, "Taoist friends are right. The wild red fruit is really worth the price. I’ll take this red fruit."
Say that finish, took out one hundred and fifty pieces of LingShi, handed it to Xi Fangping, happily took a red fruit. The first deal was made, which made Xi Fangping quite excited, and the hawking voice became louder and louder. Xi Fangping’s things are genuine and affordable, and they are well received by the monks. Only in a short time, the things on the booth are sold out, leaving only the 200-year-old Polygonatum, which has not been bought yet, and there are also 350 pieces of Lingshi in Xi Fangping’s baggage.
It wasn’t until the crowd was astigmatic that a monk timidly walked to the stall of Xi Fangping, squatted down, picked up the Polygonatum, looked left and right, and looked fondly. After a while, he timidly asked for the price, which sounded like Oriole, quite nice: "Daoyou, how much is this Polygonatum?"
Xi Fangping stretched out a finger: "No price, ten lingshi."
The monk blushed and said in a mosquito-like voice, "Daoyou, it’s a little expensive."
Xi Fangping shook his head and said, "Daoyou, it’s not expensive at all. You didn’t look at other stalls. Those hundred-year-old Polygonatum sibiricum are all asking for eight lingshi, and the Polygonatum sibiricum pills in the house are worth one lingshi each. This is a 200-year-old Polygonatum sibiricum. If properly refined, I can refine about 100 Polygonatum sibiricum pills and 10 lingshi, which is already quite cheap. I only have this piece of Polygonatum, and I want to sell it early and collect it early. "
The monk’s face turned red again, and he hesitated for a long time before timidly saying, "Taoist friends are right. This Polygonatum is really worth more than ten lingshi. However, I only have six Lingshi in hand, and in five years, it will be the reception meeting of major sects. I really need this Huang Jing to improve my cultivation. "
"The gathering of disciples of major sects?" XiFangPing one leng, what is this meeting, never listen to Yang Baiye said? Xi Fangping couldn’t help giving full knowledge of God, glancing at the person in front of him. This person’s cultivation is higher than his own, and he has reached five layers of air-entraining. It is estimated that now it is the bottleneck, and this is an urgent need for a panacea.
XiFangPing couldn’t help raising his head, looking at the monk in front of him, and his heart was filled with praise. This monk is wearing a man’s cassock, his lips are red and his teeth are white, and his eyes are sparkly. Everyone can see that this is a female monk. No wonder she is on the fifth floor, but she still speaks timidly. It is estimated that, like herself, this is the first time to come to this kind of fair. I was just thinking about what kind of means of transportation to buy, but I didn’t recognize her crisp voice.
Xi Fangping thought for a moment and said, "Since Taoist friends are not convenient, I’ll give this piece of Polygonatum to Taoist friends, hoping that Taoist friends can tell me about the reception meetings of major sects."
The female monk was stupefied, then looked incredulous, shrank her head and asked cautiously, "Is this true, Taoist friend?"
Xi Fangping laughed, picked up the piece of Polygonatum and threw it at the female monk, saying, "Daoyou; Polygonatum is already in your hand, what else is true? "
The female monk looked incredible, holding Polygonatum from left to right, and looked reluctant to put it down. After a while, she carefully put Polygonatum into the storage bag and blushed and said, "Well, Taoist friends are so generous, I can only tell everything.
Taoist friends should know that there are seven countries in this world, Qin Qi, Zhao Wei, Chu and wuyue. Each country covers an area of more than Wan Li, with millions or even tens of millions of soldiers, each with a population of hundreds of millions or even billions. In every country, there are a large number of monks, and there are different schools of repairing truth. It can be said that behind every royal family, there is more or less the shadow of the school of repairing truth. The Sect of Xiuzhen needs the secular imperial power to find qualified disciples for them, while the secular imperial power needs the support of Xiuzhen Sect to maintain its dominant position. Both sides have their own needs and help each other. "
XiFangPing nodded, he knows this truth, HunYuanZong has done it. 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, Hunyuanzong once secretly supported a country. However, this country is not in this fix-up world, but in another fix-up world, or another planet. Master said that every fix-the-true world is a round planet where many mortals and monks live. Like this planet where you are now, it takes about 100,000 miles to walk around, which is unimaginable, and three quarters of it is covered by water. However, the remaining quarter is divided equally by seven countries, and that area is also scary.
More than 17,000 years ago, there was only one country on this planet, and that was the spiritual country secretly supported by the Celestial Sect. The Tianling Sect not only secretly supports the spiritual kingdom on this planet, but also secretly controls about five or six planets. Its potential power is unimaginable. However, now the planet has been divided into seven countries, among which there is no spiritual country, which shows that the celestial school has long since vanished or moved to other planets. Over 17,000 years, things have changed dramatically.
Seeing Xi Fangping’s concentration, the female monk stared at herself with bright eyes, and couldn’t help blushing, biting her teeth gently, and then said, "Of the seven countries, Wu is the smallest and the weakest. By the same token, the strength of the realm of repairing the truth in Wu is also the weakest among the seven countries. However, even so, we finally got up in the State of Wu, and there are nearly one million monks, of whom about 80% are scattered monks, and the other 20% are composed of about three or four hundred sects, large and small. Among them, there are ten sects with the strongest strength, namely Sanqingguan, Qingxu Palace, Baiyun Gate, Cihang Temple, Yingyue Palace, Shuangshengyuan, Chicheng Mountain, Baihushan Mountain and Feiyue. There are only 28 infant monks in the Xiuzhen realm of the State of Wu, and 25 of them have been recruited by the top ten sects, which shows how strong these ten sects are.
The strength of the top ten sects also varies greatly. Among them, Sanqingguan, Qingxu Palace, Baiyunmen, Cihang Temple and Yingyue Palace all have more than two Yuan-infant monks. Therefore, these five sects are called Shangwu Sect, with more than 10,000 disciples. Sanqingguan, the most powerful sect, has six Yuan-infant monks, with as many as 30,000 disciples, and has dominated the realm of Wu’s cultivation for thousands of years. Shuangshengyuan, Chicheng Mountain, Baihu Mountain, Feijianmen and Yunmenjian each have a monk in his infancy, which is called the Xiawu Sect. Generally, the number of disciples is between 3,000 and 7,000. "
Xi Fangping nodded. The strength of the fix-true realm of Wu is the weakest, but there are still so many monks. Then, the strength of the fix-true realm of several other big countries is terrible to think of. With so many sects, it is really not easy to find out the sect embroidered with golden snake on the storage bag without being known. However, from the name, it should not be among the top ten sects. Thought of here, XiFangPing couldn’t help a slight sigh of relief, it seems that you don’t have to go against a big sect.
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