Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 127 Discovery
In the market of the ancient cultivation world, Li Zhen walked out of the wooden house and glanced around habitually.

The market town has been relatively peaceful these days, especially as June is approaching. Even the robber cultivators who often roamed around the market town have all disappeared.

Because June is the period when Shifang Valley recruits disciples, Shifang Valley is the overlord of this area and no one dares to touch its tiger's whiskers.

Tianchang Qingmu High School began its summer vacation, and Li Zhen did not choose to return to Yunxi County, but stayed in Tianchang City.

He left the city under the pretext of traveling, and in a remote and secluded place, he used his spatial magical powers to arrive at the world of ancient cultivators.

This time he planned to stay in the ancient cultivation world for a relatively long time to avoid missing the opportunity for Shifang Valley to recruit disciples because he was in the fairyland world.

He looked at the constant stream of people in the market town. It had been a while since he had seen the market town so busy.

The previous chaos in the market town caused many independent cultivators to leave the market town.

The current busy scene is because of Shifang Valley. Many cultivators bring their descendants from far away to the nearest market to wait for Shifang Valley to recruit disciples.

For independent cultivators, this is an opportunity to change their own destiny.

Only independent cultivators know how hard it is to be an independent cultivator. Without resources for cultivation, they can only rely on selling their labor for a meager income. Every promotion is on the brink of life and death.

Look at the disciples of the Shifang Valley sect. Even if their cultivation is low, no cultivator would dare to offend them. They have more resources and opportunities than independent cultivators. Their future is incomparable to that of independent cultivators.

"Friend Li Daoyou!" When several neighbors saw Li Zhen, they all greeted him with a smile.

Although many independent cultivators have left the market, there are still people who remember Li Zhen's origins.

Li Zhen was brought to the market by the disciples of Shifang Valley, and they agreed to recruit him into the valley next year.

There was nothing special at normal times, but the closer it got to the day when Shifang Valley was recruiting disciples, the more enthusiastic these insiders became towards Li Zhen.

Li Zhen smiled and nodded in response. He was now considered a famous talisman maker in this area. Not to mention his background, his identity as a talisman maker alone was enough to gain respect from the casual cultivators.

He walked slowly to the spiritual field. Among the two acres of medium-grade spiritual fields, one acre was planted with first-grade superior spiritual tea trees. He could collect spiritual tea once a month, and the other acre was planted with first-grade medium-grade spiritual medicine.

He had calculated all the first-grade, mid-quality spiritual herbs he had planted, and now they were at maturity, so he needed to harvest them all.

A small half of this batch of spiritual medicines is enough to pay for the rental fee of two acres of spiritual fields. The higher the level of spiritual plants, the more income the husband earns. Only the lowest level of spiritual plants can barely make a living by growing low-quality spiritual rice.

Of course, if you want to be promoted from a low-level spiritual plant husband to a mid-level spiritual plant husband, the most basic condition is to become a mid-level Qi training cultivator.

This condition alone is something that many casual cultivators cannot achieve in their entire lives, so in the market town, being a low-level spiritual plant husband is the current living status of most casual cultivators.

Li Zhen collected the spiritual medicine and went to another acre of spiritual field to collect this month's first-grade premium spiritual tea leaves. After collecting them, he carefully dug out the first-grade premium spiritual tea tree and put it into the spiritual plant bag.

After dealing with the two acres of spiritual fields, he did not plan to leave any way out for himself. He directly found the manager of the spiritual fields, settled the rental fees, and completed the rental of the two acres of spiritual fields.

If he couldn't enter Shifang Valley, then he didn't plan to stay in this market any longer.

He was not idle during this period. While selling talismans, he met many independent cultivators and bought maps of the nearby area, which included a map of another market town.

The Hanmei Market is more advanced than the one where he is. Although the conditions for joining the Hanmei Market have also been improved, the advantage is that the security of the Hanmei Market is much better than here. There is a real foundation-building cultivator guarding there.

With Li Zhen's current strength, he can safely go to Hanmeifang City from here, and the risk is extremely low.

When a cultivator is out in the wild, the higher his cultivation level is, the better. Generally speaking, the danger is lowest if he stays near a market town, so it is enough if he is only in the initial stage of Qi training.

But to leave the market to look for elixirs and hunt monsters, one needs to have at least the middle stage of Qi training.

If one wants to travel a long distance, it is best to be accompanied by a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training.

Although Li Zhen is only at the fifth level of Qi training, his combat power has long surpassed that of an ordinary ninth level Qi training cultivator. He is definitely an extremely strong existence among the casual cultivators.

The manager of the spiritual field did not make things difficult for Li Zhen. He understood that the independent cultivators who returned the spiritual fields at this time were all thinking of joining the Shifang Valley, and he did not want to offend anyone for such a small matter.

Li Zhen strolled along the streets of Fangshi. The increase in foreign monks made the streets prosperous. Many monks took advantage of the large crowds to sell items on the streets.

There is nothing good in the hands of independent cultivators, and most of the stalls are set up to earn spirit stones from inexperienced young cultivators.

Li Zhen saw a stall owner introducing a piece of ore eloquently. In his perception, it was clearly a first-grade, low-quality ore, but he didn't know the stall owner had done something to it, and the surface of the ore was flashing with a faint blue light.

He smiled helplessly and didn't meddle in other people's business. How could a young monk grow up without going through some hardships?

He walked along, seemingly not observing carefully, but in fact he was always sensitive to spiritual objects. If there was any good thing, it would not be able to escape his perception.

"Huh!" Li Zhen didn't find any good things on the stall. When he passed by several casual cultivators, he sensed the aura of first-grade top-quality spiritual objects on them.

It’s not that the cultivators in the market don’t have first-grade top-grade spiritual objects, but even if they do, they will not carry them with them, but put them in storage bags.

There is only one situation in which one would carry a top-grade first-class spiritual object, and that is when one is ready to fight at any time.

Considering that the biggest event in the market right now is that Shifang Valley is coming to recruit disciples, these independent cultivators wouldn’t be targeting people from Shifang Valley, right?

Li Zhen couldn't believe that such a thing would happen. Shifang Valley was not something that could be challenged casually.

He did not observe the wandering cultivators with his eyes, but continued walking as if nothing had happened.

As he walked further he became more and more frightened, as he could sense the aura of first-grade superior spiritual creatures from time to time. These were all casual cultivators whose true cultivation level could not be sensed.

With his strength, he would not be able to discover a Foundation Establishment cultivator who was hiding his cultivation level. He suspected that there was such a Foundation Establishment cultivator hidden in the market town.

Otherwise, how would they dare to target the people coming from Shifang Valley? Without the support of a true foundation-building cultivator, the half-step foundation-building cultivators in the market town alone would be enough to suppress everything.

Li Zhen walked out of the street. At this time, he no longer had the intention to stay outside. He maintained the original pace and walked towards his wooden house.

Only after he entered the wooden house and closed the door did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He knew that this time it wasn't just the market town that would be in trouble. It was most likely a conflict between two sects, who would turn the market town into a battlefield.

He came to the corner of the wall and gently opened a mechanism to reveal a passage leading to the underground.

Entering the underground passage, the mechanism above was closed again.

A 'Small Inverted Five Elements Formation' was arranged in the underground passage to ensure that the underground space here would not be discovered, unless he was extremely unlucky and the ground above was broken.

Li Zhen lightly tapped his identity bracelet, and eight images appeared on his retina. These eight images were images looking forward from eight directions on the roof.

He installed eight surveillance cameras on the roof, which were connected to identity bracelets.

In the past, every time he went out of the basement, he had to carefully observe the outside. This was actually risky as he might be discovered by the enemy.

But it’s different with surveillance. Through the surveillance images, he can know what is happening outside without leaving his home.

He hoped that his judgment was wrong, so that he would have no trouble joining Shifang Valley.

Just as he was thinking about it, a flying boat appeared on the screen in his retina.

He quickly enlarged the picture and saw the flying boat clearly. The flying boat was flying the flag of Shifang Valley. With this flag alone, it could run rampant in this area.

The flying boat landed in the center of the town, where the leader of the Iron Sword Gang and the head of the Zhao family, who were both half a step away from building their foundation, were already waiting.

The flying boat was of medium size. An old man and ten disciples got off the boat.

Li Zhen's eyes tightened, he saw Gu Zhun. It was Gu Zhun who led him to the market town and allowed him to settle down in the market town. He could not forget this kindness.

(End of this chapter)