No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 84: Money in one hand, goods in the other
In the ordinary village, spring has just arrived and the toon trees have just sprouted.

A man walked out from the faded mural in the village.

He was about 20 or 30 years old, dressed in purple-gray Taoist robes, with a clear face, a jade hairpin on his head, a long sword on his back, and a yellow gourd hanging from his waist.

It was Xu Shun.

Twenty years ago, he followed Lan Dao Ren into the Qinghua Sect from here, and now, he is walking out from here again.

He already knew that the village was called Qingcun.

The Qinghua Sect is a peculiar space that is refracted into the murals by the Qinghua Mirror. Unless other people in the immortal cultivation world have informed the Qinghua Sect in advance, they can only reach the Qinghua Sect through the Feiyun Cliff.

In the Qinghua Sect, there are many people who cannot achieve immortality, so they leave descendants in the hope that their descendants can ascend to heaven and become immortals.

Most of their descendants have no roots and are not recognized by the Qinghua Sect, so they can only stay around the murals and form villages.

Some people lived and multiplied here, waiting for the birth of a person with a strong foundation in the family and then re-joined the Qinghua Sect. Some people left this place and sought other ways.

There are also some monks in the village who live in seclusion here for some other reasons.

There are many houses in Qing Village, and many people among them look at Xu Shun with curiosity and envy.

They knew Xu Shun, but they also didn't know that they would never be able to become someone like Xu Shun.

A few children gathered around curiously, and Xu Shun called them over and gave each of them a candy.

The sugar cubes are what Xu Shun uses for cooking, similar to the rock sugar he used before traveling through time.

The children took a walnut-sized piece of rock sugar, licked it and found it very sweet. Then they all ran away to share it with their family members.

After leaving Qing Village, looking at the vast wheat fields, Xu Shun didn't know where to go.

After thinking for a while, he picked up a branch and threw it into the sky.

The branch fell and pointed to the southeast, so Xu Shun headed towards the southeast.

Another meaning of having no direction is that the direction is everywhere.

He walked towards the southeast, watching the people coming and going on the road, adults with children, ox carts loaded with hay, and horse caravans of traveling merchants.

The smell of fireworks and the taste of the world are overwhelming.

In a trance, it seemed as if he had never set foot in the Qinghua Sect twenty years ago, and was walking around the world with Taoist Lan, walking in the red dust.

That's right~the smell of the world is a bit pungent, it's the feces left by the cows and horses that pass by pulling carts and transporting goods.

Xu Shun smiled. This place was completely different from the clean and tidy Qinghua Sect.

This is the human world.

The road of life, walk slowly. He kept walking like this for about ten days, and one day, Xu Shun arrived at the foot of a small town in the distance.

This was the first small town he saw after wandering around for more than ten days.

The small town was similar to the one Xu Shun had seen more than 20 years ago, except that there was a flag hanging on the top of the wall with the word "Yu" on it.

Just after entering the city, he suddenly heard someone at the corner of the city wall saying to him, "Why are you here just now?"

“???” Xu Shun felt puzzled. He followed the sound and saw a fat man with shifty eyes standing in a small tea stall at the corner of the city wall, fanning himself with a folding fan.

He seemed very hot, with sweat on his forehead.

Xu Shun felt a hint of demonic energy from him.

"Who are you?" Xu Shun said vigilantly.

what's the situation?
Monster jump?
"It's me! It's me! I'm from the east! Purple Taoist robe, yellow gourd, why are you pretending?" the man asked anxiously when he saw Xu Shun.

He turned his head and looked around, feeling that he was a bit ostentatious, and said, "Come in and talk!"

Xu Shun hesitated. Once he went in, there wouldn't be eight hundred swordsmen and axemen, right?
This fat guy seems to be only at the Qi Refining level?
Could it be a bait for fraud?
As soon as I entered, he fell to the ground and started to blackmail me?
"Come in! Why are the people sent by your Dan Association so slow?" The man waved at Xu Shun, and when he saw Xu Shun hesitated, he said, "We are businessmen, we are honest, what are we afraid of!" Hearing what the man said, Xu Shun took the sword in his hand and smiled, "You know our business, it's normal to be alert."

He is testing.

"...Your Dan Association is just so stingy, unlike our Dongxiang Association which is so straightforward!" The fat man didn't feel strange when he saw Xu Shun holding the sword. Instead, he showed an expression as if it was a matter of course.

"Follow me!" He exposed his back to Xu Shun who was holding the sword to show his magnanimity.

Xu Shun followed him into the tea stall thoughtfully and passed through a small wooden door. He didn't expect that there was a different world behind the door, which turned out to be a small courtyard.

In addition to the fat man, there were two other people in black in the courtyard.

Fortunately, their cultivation was only at the first or second level of spiritual enlightenment, otherwise Xu Shun would have turned around and left.

The fat man's cultivation was not very profound. He sat down at the pearwood square table in the courtyard and said, "What are you standing there for? Bring me the goods!"

"What kind of goods?" Xu Shun said in a deep voice: "I have so many goods, how do I know which one you want!"

He thought it was very interesting and wanted to see what tricks the fat man would play.

"Oh, you are still testing me now. Lin Bei really admires you! We are so sincere and came here from Dongxiang, but you are just like this! The Huangdan Society is just so arrogant!" said the fat man, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Are you hot?" Xu Shun put the sword in front of him and said in a low voice without responding to the fat man's words.

It's only spring now and it's not hot, but he feels that the fat man doesn't seem nervous or guilty.

The fat man fanned himself and said, "It's hot! Of course it's hot! Your place is much hotter than mine."

He saw Xu Shun with his hand on the sword, expressionless, and said, "Lin Bei is really afraid of you!"

He took out a ceramic bottle from his arms and poured out a pill that looked like a pearl and was the size of a soybean.

Xu Shun recognized this pill, it was the Calming Pill.

"That's it! The magic pill from your Huangdan Society!" The fat man clapped his hands when he saw Xu Shun's expression change. The man in black standing behind him took out a wooden box from the mustard seed magic tool and put it on the table.

"The money is here, where is the goods?" The fat man said loudly: "One hand for money, the other for goods."

Xu Shun's heart moved, and he realized that the fat man had mistaken him for a wrong person, and thought he was a member of the Huangdan Society who sold the Jingxin Pill.

Whatever, he also has a lot of meditation pills to deal with.

"The goods are here, do you have enough money?" Xu Shun said based on the principle that whoever buys does not buy.

He took out a jade bottle from the magic tool in his ring and poured it into his hand, which contained the tranquility pills that looked like pearls.

The fat man's eyes jumped. Judging from the color alone, it was almost the same as the goods he wanted, and even a purer color.

"How much do you want?" Xu Shun said.

"How many have you got?" the fat man asked.

“I have a lot of goods!”

“I have a lot of money!”

After the fat man finished speaking, he opened the wooden box and emitted colorful light. It was a box of five-colored magic sand, a high-grade material used in refining equipment.

Xu Shun estimated that it was worth about one or two thousand silver coins.

"Bring the cloth bag!" Xu Shun said.

Another man in black took out a cloth bag that was more than a foot long. To the fat man's surprise, he saw that elixirs were pouring out of Xu Shun's jade bottle continuously.

"Is it enough?" Xu Shun said when he saw that the cloth bag was full.

(End of this chapter)