I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 36 First Arrival at the Treasure Land
Listening to Liu Yunxi's explanation, Feng Xue wanted to complain, "What's with the water, fire, and grass synergizing and counteracting each other?" But compared to this kind of thing, he had more important questions to ask:
"According to what you said, if a spirit ghost absorbs the vital energy, wouldn't it also become a fierce ghost?"

"That's not the case!" Liu Yunxi directly gave a negative answer, and then explained:

"Ghosts that absorb the essence of living people become possessed because they forcefully take it. When a living person loses their essence, their lifespan is shortened. This essence naturally becomes tainted with resentment and evil karma, and ghosts, when they absorb it, are inevitably affected. It's like a good person's soul being worshipped with blood sacrifice by certain cults, and gradually degenerating into an evil spirit. This goes without saying for those evil ghosts who actively harm people just to stay in the world.

"As for the spirit ghosts, that fox fairy grandma never mentioned that. But you extracted that vital energy voluntarily, without any resentment or bad karma. If the spirit ghosts absorb it, at most they will be affected by karma, but they won't become possessed by demons. Speaking of which, don't Xuan cultivators also use their spirit souls to absorb vital energy, and they haven't been possessed by demons, right? However, on the other hand, I've heard that some Xuan cultivators will seize the vital energy of others to speed up their cultivation. Even if it's a living person, they will become possessed after practicing for a long time."

"That's good." Feng Xue nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the ghost spirit is not raised in the wrong way, it will be fine. As for the demon cultivators, he doesn't care. His small soul can't even absorb the vitality produced by himself, so there is no need to think about taking other people's vitality.

As the sky grew darker, Feng Xue began to feel sleepy again. He chatted with Liu Yunxi about random things and fell asleep again.

……

"Ha~~" With a loud yawn, Feng Xue slowly woke up under the morning light shining through the tent. He got out of his sleeping bag, tidied his clothes quickly, and then opened the tent.

It seemed that because it was the slack season, the villagers did not get up so early. Feng Xue did not care. He packed up the tent and put it back into the Hu Tian bag, then prepared to continue his journey.

Since he could lock the [Spirit Attachment Spell] as a practice cheat, Feng Xue did not practice on the road. He focused on riding his bike, and he had fewer accidents. By noon, a county town that was much larger than Ping'an County had appeared in his sight.

"Finally we're here!"

Before Feng Xue could speak, Little White Snake spoke first. Feng Xue knocked on the car bell speechlessly. Liu Yunxi immediately said:

"I need to practice, too! You want to ride a bike you don't have to pedal, right? Let's go into the city and rent a house so we can practice properly! By the way, what are we having for lunch? My cooking skills are getting rusty, so hurry up and buy some food so I can practice!"

"..." Feng Xue felt very complicated about Liu Yunxi's unusual attitude, but he really planned to find a safe place to practice well. He immediately stepped hard on the pedals and accelerated towards the city gate tower with the three big words "Lucheng County" hanging on it.

Compared with the prosperity of the port city, Lucheng County seems much calmer. Although it is not as peaceful and tranquil as Ping'an County, at least you can't see ragged beggars squatting on the streets.

The main road into the city was very wide, with street vendors on both sides. Feng Xue randomly found a restaurant called "Dingfengzhai", booked a small private room, and ordered a set of four dishes and a soup worth 40 wen.

It was not until the waiter, who was dressed in traditional attire, announced that the dishes were ready that Feng Xue suddenly called him over:

"Waiter, I want to ask you something!"

"Sir...you can ask as much as you want!" The waiter turned around with an embarrassed look on his face, but when he saw the copper coins Feng Xue put on the table, his eyes immediately lit up and his words became more respectful.

"It's not a big deal. I just want to know where the pawnshops in Lucheng County are located. Which god of wealth do they worship? And where are the rice shops and money houses?"

Feng Xue's words were half-answered. In ancient times, many places had strange part-time jobs. For example, cloth shops were often related to gambling dens. If you wanted to borrow money, you had to go to a temple. If you wanted to find a fortune teller or Taoist priest, you had to go to a rice shop to ask.

As for the "worship of the God of Wealth," it naturally meant "who should the locals pay tribute to if they want to do business?" It was essentially asking who had the final say in the local underworld. He hadn't used it in Ping'an County initially because he didn't think it would be useful in the other world. But when he learned that even fortune-tellers in the other world had to find a rice shop, he realized it wouldn't be outdated here either.

However, this question does not always yield results. After all, the person you ask may not understand these questions. Only the waiter in a large store must understand them. If even he does not understand, then it actually means that the place is "clear and sunny".

But it was obvious that the waiter understood what he meant. He rolled his eyes and said immediately:
"We in Lucheng worship the God of Wealth. Go straight down East Yahang Street and you'll find five rice shops, selling both glutinous rice and sorghum rice. There's a century-old shop just north of our restaurant, so just a hundred steps ahead is it. As for the money houses...it depends on what you believe. If you think foreigners are reliable, there's a foreign temple in the south of the city. But if you're looking for a time-honored brand, you'll have to go to Tianfu Temple at Mingjutan Pond outside the city."

"It's a mixed crowd...but it's good that there are no gangs." Feng Xue nodded and pushed the copper coins forward. After the waiter thanked him repeatedly, he left the box with the reward.

The one being worshipped is the God of Wealth, which indicates that the local official power is stable and there is little room for underworld activities. If you want to do business, just follow the right path.

Although it is not very clear what the sorghum rice, glutinous rice and japonica rice here represent respectively, the five rice shops at least show that there are many mysterious practitioners here.

As for the Yang Temple and Tianfu Temple, they should be the two major religious centers in the local area. As for the charity cemetery and the like, they are things that you cannot ask in the restaurant. If you want to find them later, you can go to the rice shop or the yahang.

With a plan in mind, Feng Xue immediately picked up the chopsticks, but felt his fingers trembling slightly.

Seeing that Liu Yunxi wanted to eat but was too embarrassed to say it out loud, Feng Xue smiled slightly. Even if it would trigger Stockholm syndrome, she had to treat him occasionally. Feng Xue would not be stingy in such a place, so he immediately said:
"You look like a human to me!"

"boom!"

"..." The smoke dissipated, and Liu Yunxi stood opposite Feng Xue, looking a little embarrassed. Feng Xue just waved his hand and pointed at the still steaming food.

"Alright, eat it quickly, or it'll get cold!"

"Yes!" After getting Feng Xue's permission, Liu Yunxi immediately nodded vigorously. Regardless of the fact that there was only a pair of bowls and chopsticks on the table, she stretched out her hand, and the small lace on her sleeve stretched out two sections, solidified into hard sticks, and began to fly up and down on the dining table. However, she was also sensible. Although she ate very fast, she only moved the half that was facing herself, and never affected Feng Xue's movements.

Feng Xue looked at the magical treasure that could change so freely and could not help but feel envious. Finally, he could not help but say:
"How did you refine this life-saving magic weapon? Can anyone learn it?"

Hearing Feng Xue's question, Liu Yunxi paused slightly, then said with a bit of surprise:
"Haven't you already started practicing?"

　The idea of ​​part-time jobs is quite interesting. For example, a rice shop would look for a fortune teller. This is one of the origins of the term "asking for rice" (the idea of ​​glutinous rice curing zombies is original to Hong Kong films. In addition to looking for a rice shop, asking for rice actually means putting a bowl of rice in front of the shop when asking for food. Sometimes an egg is also put in it. Due to various mixed reasons, it is difficult to determine today whether the rice was put in front of the shop to advertise, or whether the shop needed rice so it simply solicited business).

　　If you are looking for a half-door (that is, self-employed technicians), you have to go to a broker. Why? It is not because of human traffickers, but because half-doors often rent houses to do business, and brokers will ask you clearly what you do when they rent a house, so brokers know where there are half-doors.

　　In addition, the financial industry has money houses and temples. Everyone should have heard of this, but few people know that the saying "the monk can run away but the temple cannot" means that even if the monk runs away, he can still go to the temple to withdraw money. What's more interesting is that if you want to inquire about money houses and borrow money, you have to ask "What precious temples are there here?", but if you want to ask if there are any effective temples or Taoist temples in the local area, you have to ask "Where is the money house here?" (Of course, there are usually reasons for asking this that cannot be stated clearly, such as committing a crime and wanting to become a monk to get rid of the crime).

　　
　
(End of this chapter)