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  Ye Chen arrived at another stall selling various mid-to-low-grade magic scrolls and spiritual knives and swords, asking the owner about prices.

  Zheng Zicheng followed slowly and steadily behind, waving the Ling Stone like dirt. This feeling of having a handful of Ling Stones in his hand, wanting to smash them however he wanted, gave him an irresistible sense of pleasure. Especially with someone beside him who probably couldn't even take out one piece of Ling Stone, this pleasure was doubled.

  "In the Tianyun Xianyuan City, no matter how high or low one's cultivation is, at least among cultivators of the same rank, those with spiritual stones are the big shots! What use are innate talents and spiritual roots if you don't have spiritual stones?"

  Zheng Zicheng looked at Ye Chen with disdain, secretly pleased in his heart. "You think that just because you became the top student of Beimiao Academy, followed Wu Gongzhu to Xiancheng, and coincidentally broke through the bottleneck of martial arts cultivation, you can suddenly become a high-and-mighty cultivator?! You have no foundation at all, you're the lowest of the low in the cultivators of this city, destined for a lifetime of hard labor! If I didn't want to drive you out of the city to avenge my severed arm, I wouldn't even bother to glance at you on the road."

  Ye Chen picked up a copy of "Water Arrow Technique" from the street stall and was about to ask.

  Bang!

  "Twenty spirit stones, I'll take this manual of secret spells."

  Zheng Zicheng swung his hand and a spiritual stone appeared, directly blocking Ye Chen's words.

  Many goods on the street stall have prices marked, asking for the price is just to see if it can be discounted.

  Ye Chen endured it and picked up another set of Ling armor.

  Bang!

  "This set of spiritual armor is really cheap, I'll take it for 50 spirit stones!"

  Zheng Zicheng casually threw a large handful of spirit stones onto the ground stall.

  In just a short while, Zheng Zicheng didn't even take a deep breath and bought one hundred pieces of spiritual stones' cultivation materials.

  Ye Chen's face turned black upon hearing Zheng Zhi Cheng's arrogant tone, and he almost wanted to turn around and slash him with his knife, just to get rid of the need to keep hovering in front of him.

  Endure!

  Ye Chenmo silently walked over to a stall selling spiritual beasts and asked, "Boss, how much for this spiritual tiger?"

  Zheng Zicheng was about to splurge and buy the Ling Beast with a large amount of Ling Stones, but when he glanced at the high price tag, "250 Ling Stones", his face suddenly changed slightly, and he restrained his urge to throw the Ling Stones. This price was one-fourth of all his Ling Stones.

  "Huh? Why isn't Young Master Zheng buying?"

  Ye Chen didn't see Zheng Zicheng continuing to smash the Ling Stone, but instead found it strange.

  "You really think I'm Kai Zi!"

  Zheng Zicheng raised an eyebrow, silently cursing in his heart. He then sneered coldly, "It's just a second-grade spiritual beast! I don't need it now, why the hurry to buy? But you're really pitiful. In the Immortal City, even buying something small costs tens or hundreds of spirit stones. You're just a shallow, low-ranking cultivator, how many spirit stones can you earn in a month? You can't afford anything. In Tianyun Immortal City, you're just a laborer, not even as good as going to Yunzhou and finding some small country to pretend to be an immortal master. Who knows, you might even deceive quite a few people. Why bother clinging to the Immortal City and refusing to leave?"

  "This guy actually didn't fall for it!!"

  Ye Chen felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, suddenly thought of something, took off the Blood Soul Ring from his hand, and came to a stall that collected broken spiritual instruments. "Boss, how many spirit stones is this Blood Soul Ring worth?"

  "This ring is defective, at most two pieces of spirit stone!"

  The stall owner who collected broken spiritual artifacts glanced at the Blood Spirit Ring.

  "Anyway, it's just a piece of junk and won't be of much use, I'll just sell it cheap!"

  Ye Chen immediately sold the Blood Essence Ring to a small peddler and received two pieces of Spirit Stone.

  Ye Chen tossed the two pieces of spiritual stone in his hand, and smiled complacently. "Ha! Not bad! I picked up two spiritual stones for free! With these two spiritual stones, I can stay in the Immortal City for another two months! Alas, I was originally worried that I wouldn't have enough spiritual stones to rent a house and would have to leave the Immortal City dejectedly. Now it's really true that heaven won't cut off all avenues for a person!"

  "You!!"

  Zheng Zicheng's face suddenly turned ugly, more painful than being cut with a knife.

  This Blood Jade Ring was something he had brought out to reward the top graduate when he was at Beimu Academy, in front of more than 200 students, to show off his unique identity as a personal disciple of the National Master.

  The result is now being sold by Ye Chen as a broken spiritual instrument, and he has gone to rent a house, refusing to leave Xian City.

  It seems that this kid knows he's not his opponent, and is dead set on not leaving the Immortal City. Without the protection of the Immortal City, a first-layer cultivator in the Qi Refining stage with no magic and no spiritual tools is nothing, not much stronger than a martial artist.

  "Just you wait! You'd better never leave Xian City for the rest of your life, or I'll make sure you die a terrible death!"

  Zheng Zicheng's face turned gloomy, leaving behind a ruthless remark, and he turned around and left.

  Ye Chen remained smiling faintly as he watched Zheng Zicheng leave, his face gradually turning cold.

  Zheng Zicheng also became a cultivator, which was somewhat unexpected for him. However, for a martial artist who had reached the ninth layer of the Refining Body stage to break through and enter the Refining Qi stage wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

  What truly shocked him was that Zheng Zicheng actually had a large amount of Spiritual Stones in his hands.

  "How did Zheng Zhi Cheng end up with so many spirit stones?"

  "Could it be that the State Preceptor Zheng Yuan gave it to him? ...... Apart from this master, I've never heard of Zheng Zhi Cheng having any other cultivators as his backing! It's probably given by Zheng Yuan."

  "Look at Zheng Zicheng, he buys whatever he wants on a whim. The number of spirit stones should be around five or six hundred, maybe even more. Of course, it won't be a large amount in the thousands or tens of thousands, otherwise Zheng Zicheng would have bought that second-grade White Tiger Spirit Beast mount without hesitation earlier, and wouldn't have cared about its price of over 200!"

  He just asked about the price of the spiritual beast, and actually he was also probing how many spiritual stones Zheng Zicheng had in his hand.

  "For a first-layer cultivator in the Refining Qi stage, hundreds of spirit stones are an astonishing amount. This means that Zheng Zicheng doesn't need to worry about how to earn spirit stones at all and can focus his heart on cultivation! The speed of cultivation will definitely be very fast!"

  Ye Chen furrowed his brow deeply, a sense of vigilance rising in his heart.

  "We must earn spirit stones as soon as possible to buy spells for cultivation. Otherwise, once Zheng Zicheng seizes the opportunity and his spell cultivation becomes more refined, it will be difficult to catch up!"

  Ye Chen no longer lingered on the streets, carrying the seeds of Black Lingzhi and two pieces of Spiritual Stones, returned to the small inn in the south of the city.

  He is well aware of the strength gap brought by time.

  Just as a martial artist cultivates his skills, the success rate of his "Tiger Leaping Knife Method" third move, Tiger Leaping Triple Slash, was always slightly lower than Yan Han's. It was because Yan Han had started practicing half a year earlier, and both of them practiced diligently every day without any slack, that Yan Han's understanding of this move surpassed his by a hair.

  Ye Chen had such a lesson, even if he had the Xianfu in his hands, he didn't dare to relax at all. If he didn't seize the opportunity to cultivate, Zheng Zicheng could also rely on the large amount of spiritual stones obtained from Zheng Yuan to rush forward step by step.

  If I were to meet him outside Xian City one day and found myself no match for him, I'd be out of luck.

  Ye Chen returned to the small inn and inserted a wooden bolt into the door.

  Ye Chen slightly opened his mouth and spat out a scroll of the ancient painting "Xian Fu".

  The ancient painting scroll shines with radiant light in all directions.

  This treasure, Ye Chen can now freely retrieve and store. In the Flesh Mud Ball Palace's Sea of Consciousness, it can transform into a fairy island, while outside the body, it reverts to an ancient painting scroll. Very convenient.

  Ye Chen brought the black Ganoderma lucidum seeds into the immortal mansion and planted them in a one-acre medicinal garden within the mansion.

  "There's also the Spirit Stone to increase farm power!"

  Then, Ye Chen put more than half of the broken Ling Stone and two complete Ling Stones into the Xian Fu, which would transform the Ling Qi of the Ling Stones into the Ling Qi of the Xian Fu.

  Inside the culture medium, the spores of that black Ganoderma began to grow, from tender white, gradually growing thicker and larger, emitting a light black luster.

  This is not a mortal herb, but a true spiritual grass of the immortal realm, absorbing a great deal of spiritual energy.

  After absorbing almost a whole piece of spiritual stone's spirit, the black lingzhi looks full of spirit, plump and round. Around the mature black lingzhi, even several new spores have begun to grow.

  Ye Chen estimated that the black lingzhi was about twenty years old and could be sold for five pieces of spirit stone.

  He shook his hand and the spiritual grass fell out of the medicine field. A 20-year-old black Lingzhi spiritual grass landed in his hand.

  Ye Chen let the new spores continue to grow in the medicine field, and obtained a 20-year-old black Ganoderma lucidum. The last black Ganoderma lucidum grew for 15 or 16 years before stopping, and the spiritual energy in the Ling stone had been exhausted. "These three should be able to sell for 13 or 14 pieces of Ling stone. Using a medicine field to grow herbs is indeed faster than refining equipment!"

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  O(∩_∩)O Many book friends on the review page guessed that Little Zheng Zi would run to deliver 1,000 spiritual stones to Ye Chen, and soon he would be rewarded with a lunchbox! In fact, he is also an early small anti-protagonist, how could it be so fast?

  In the new week, whoever guesses the exact time when Xiao Zhengzi takes out his lunchbox will be rewarded with 1,000 starting coins. The number of winners is unlimited, and anyone who guesses correctly will receive a reward. After the book goes on sale, you can use these starting coins to buy books. (Note: I can only reward posts in the Starting Point Forum's individual book review section. Posts in other people's book reviews or other forums are not eligible for rewards due to system restrictions.)

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  "The Destiny of the Immortal Realm" has ended its third week. Thank you to this week's donors, including Ordinary Person Without Me, _LbjiAN, BIOBASE and sixty-seven other enthusiastic book friends for their support. Thank you to nearly 20,000 readers for their collections, clicks and recommendation votes.

  Up to this point in writing this book, there may be readers who are puzzled, and I would like to clarify two points here.

  One is the emotional continuity of this book. The promise of the previous life remains unchanged in this life.

  Secondly, the background and setting of this book are innovative, with a relatively large degree of innovation.

  This book needs to emotionally connect with the previous one, but also must innovate strongly to have new perspectives, which requires a very strong balancing ability.

  I hope everyone can be more tolerant and look at the innovative part of this book.

  "The sea has become a mulberry field, and the world is changing. What remains unchanged is the heart that pursues the Tao of immortality, as well as the destined encounter between two people in the vast universe." — This sentence is the best annotation for the connection between "Zi Fu Xian Yuan" and "Xian Fu Zhi Yuan".

  A new week