Chapter 48 (Part 1)

“Good boy. Looks like you didn’t suffer out there.”

Seeing that he was in good spirits and that his cultivation had improved somewhat, Yu Yu felt happy for this eldest nephew of his. The matter of his birth parents had finally passed.

“It was all right. I just learned to do business and made a few trips with the merchant caravan. It was quite interesting.”

Wuchen stood beside his martial uncles and chatted with them about everyday matters.

His reaction made the stall owner’s heart panic.

He was not saying how he would deal with him. He just kept chatting with his elders like this. Having the knife hanging over his head but never falling was what made it even more frightening!

“Wuchen, you have to uphold justice for me. This person bullied me.”

Lingfeng tugged on the corner of Wuchen’s sleeve and spoke pitifully.

“Master-Aunt, did he return your spirit stones?”

Returning the spirit stones was one kind of punishment. Refusing to return them was another.

“No.”

Lingfeng was so angry her cheeks puffed up. He had taken the raw stone she had already picked, then wanted her to choose another one. Did this man think she was a monkey he could toy with?

When the stall owner heard her say that, his face instantly turned deathly pale. He had not wanted to return them. After all, taking spirit stones back out after they had already gone into his bag felt very painful.

His original intention had been to make the other party choose another piece. As for whether he would go back on his word again, only he himself knew.

“Seize him. Maliciously oppressing customers. Is that charge clear enough?”

With a wave of Wuchen’s hand, several Law Enforcement Hall disciples immediately stepped forward to arrest the man.

Run? Could the stall owner not want to run? But had he not seen that the disciples arresting him were, at worst, late-stage Nascent Soul? He was only early-stage Nascent Soul. How was he supposed to escape from the hands of Soul Transformation and late-stage Nascent Soul disciples?

That was right. The ones maintaining the market’s security were a group of Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators.

They had accepted a sect task and come to the market around the New Year Festival to maintain order.

Although the spirit stones were not considered many, it was close to the sect. Since everyone happened to have returned to the sect and had not taken any tasks yet, this patrol task could count as earning a little pocket money for themselves.

Dozens of Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators were something only a major sect could bring out.

Even if the stall owner accidentally escaped from their hands, he still could not leave the market.

Because the market was under a Daoist Lord’s primordial spirit surveillance. The moment he escaped, he would be caught and brought back by the Daoist Lord.

So it was not that he did not want to run. It was that he really could not run. Running would only add another crime to his record.

Because of greed, he had dug a pit for himself.

When he heard the Ling-generation child call the female cultivator Senior Sister, the stall owner knew he had fallen flat this time.

Nothing else needed to be said. Just the elders of the Ling generation alone were enough for him to suffer. Added to that, the sect master’s heir was respectful toward her, so she was obviously of the direct line and had an even more honored status.

Every sect’s direct line was full of geniuses and valued by the sect. Today, he had kicked an iron plate.

The raw stone was put away by him, and then a Law Enforcement Hall disciple put a spirit-sealing bracelet on him. Wuchen led the man away from the market.

“Little Martial Uncle, keep having fun. I’ll go handle matters first.”

Wuchen came quickly and left quickly. Everyone could only wave goodbye to him.

With no excitement left to watch, the people gathered there soon dispersed.

However, quite a few people’s gazes still fell on Yu Yu and the others, especially the sect disciples. When they saw Yu Yu, they were extremely excited.

Little Martial Uncle had finally been willing to descend the mountain. Usually, they only heard of him but never saw him. Today, their luck was good enough to see the real person. Just as everyone said, Little Martial Uncle was especially adorable.

If not for the difference in status, they all wanted to charge over, pick Little Martial Uncle up, and run.

Of course, they did not have the nerve to do that. Otherwise, the swords of the martial uncles and master-aunts beside him would have fallen on them.

Under everyone’s attention, Yu Yu calmly looked over the market. Aside from the Pill Pavilion that his Senior Sister had introduced earlier, there was also a spiritual weapon shop. That was opened by Refining Peak.

Similarly, they put the average-quality ones out for sale. The good ones were kept for internal use or placed in the sect’s Refining Pavilion for sale.

In short, those who wanted cheap prices could go to the shops opened by each peak to buy things.

Those who wanted fine goods could go to the shops opened by the sect.

The classification was quite good. There was no need for everyone to search all over the place. Whatever they needed, they could go straight to that shop.

Aside from all kinds of cultivation-related shops, there was also a food shop.

The largest restaurant was opened by the sect, while the snack shops were opened by disciples who had no hope of advancement.

The sect followed the fine-goods route, while the other disciples relied on small profits and quick turnover.

Their strength could not compare with the sect’s, so they could only choose to open a small shop and get by.

Likewise, there were also poor cultivators, and they could only choose those shops with cheap and practical prices.

After Yu Yu watched for a while, he found there was not much meaning to it.

In the end, this market was not much different from a shopping street on Blue Star. Only the goods being sold were different.

Besides, the things sold in these shops were not even as good as his own. There really was no need to look more.

Instead, he was more curious about the stalls set up by those loose cultivators, hoping he could find some spiritual plant seeds that were rarely seen.

Actually, spiritual plant seeds had never been scarce, and their prices were much cheaper than spiritual plants.

Because spiritual plants were hard to grow, even if there were many seeds, very few people bought them. Yu Yu searched among several stalls that displayed spiritual plant seeds and spiritual plants.

Lingfeng let go of his hand and ran off again. Lingzhen and Linglong were already utterly speechless.

See? They had said this Junior Sister was unreliable. They had not wronged her at all.

Once she started playing, she could no longer pay attention to her Little Junior Brother. Fortunately, they had come along. Otherwise, based on the two times she had abandoned Little Junior Brother, she would have more than enough trouble waiting for her when they got back.

Yu Yu did not go after her either. Instead, he crouched in front of the spiritual plant seed stall and searched packet by packet for seeds he did not have.

“How many spirit stones for these?”

Yu Yu placed the seeds he had picked into a pile and asked the stall owner.

“Ten upper-grade spirit stones.”

The stall owner was an old man with white hair. Looking at his realm, he was only at Foundation Establishment. No wonder his hair was white, and his beard was entirely white too.

This was a loose cultivator who could not advance to Golden Core and, in the end, had no choice but to give up cultivation.

Now he had to come to the market every month to set up a stall and earn cultivation resources for his family.

His talent was poor, but he had a grandson with decent talent who had already succeeded in guiding spiritual energy into the body and needed a large amount of resources. That was why, despite nearing the end of his lifespan, he came out to set up a stall and earn money.

“Here.”

Yu Yu did not bargain with the old man. He had a scale in his heart. As long as the price was within a reasonable range, he would not bargain with people.

This world was not Blue Star. These spiritual plant seeds were all obtained by others at the risk of their lives. As long as the seller was not deliberately raising the price, he would not quibble over a few spirit stones.

One after another, he picked out several dozen packets of seeds. Each packet was a different variety, and all were spiritual plants he did not have.

“Little Junior Brother, do you still need to buy anything?”

Seeing Yu Yu stand up, Lingzhen took his hand and asked.

“No. We have everything on our peak.”

Yu Yu shook his head. He truly was not bragging. The peak master of Holy Sun Peak was the previous sect master’s little junior brother. Everyone might dare to neglect others, but no one dared to neglect him!

Everything given to him was the best. Anything even slightly inferior was not worthy of entering their Little Grand-Master-Uncle’s sight. So he really had nothing he needed to buy.

“Then are we going back?”

Linglong also felt there was not much meaning in it. Since they did not need to buy anything, the market was not very useful to them.

Aside from watching a little excitement, there was nothing fun at all.

“All right. Send Senior Sister a message and tell her we’re going back.”

Yu Yu was still thinking about Lingfeng and planned to send her a message.

“Little Junior Brother, we won’t send one. We have to teach her a lesson.”

Linglong gritted his teeth. Thinking of how Lingfeng had repeatedly abandoned Little Junior Brother, she was practically courting death in every possible way.

“…Second Senior Brother, do you think so too?”

Yu Yu had not expected Third Senior Brother to be so harsh toward his own younger sister, so he could only look toward Lingzhen.

“Yes. Don’t bother with her. Let’s go back first!”

Lingzhen agreed. It seemed they had discussed this and decided to teach Lingfeng a lesson.

Yu Yu had not expected everyone to have such a big opinion of Lingfeng.

Seeing Lingfeng in the distance playing ring toss with others, he could only agree helplessly. Even her own brother was like this. What else could he do?

And so the three senior and junior brothers happily returned to Holy Sun Peak, leaving Lingfeng alone in the market to play.

It was not until afternoon, when the sky was nearly dark and the market was about to close, that anyone who did not want to leave would have to stay overnight in the market’s inn.

Lingfeng naturally did not want to spend the night in the market. When she finally remembered her senior and junior brothers, her whole person froze.

“Where is my obedient little Junior Brother?”

She directly ignored her own senior brothers and biological elder brother and cared only about Little Junior Brother’s whereabouts.

“Oh no. I left Little Junior Brother behind again.”

Lingfeng was so anxious that she searched everywhere in the market. She had forgotten that she had a message-transmitting jade slip. As long as she opened the jade slip and asked, she would immediately know where Yu Yu was.

But once she became anxious, she forgot everything. She could only search again and again. Not until the market closed did she manage to find anyone.

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