Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 98 Do you like it?
Pear had no idea what kind of pill Pei Xia was refining.

In short, he did indeed refine several batches (of pots), and then he sneaked out alone.

Before lunch, Pei Xia returned to the inn, raised her hand, and slammed two hundred taels of silver notes onto the table.

Lu Li was dumbfounded.

What kind of elixir is it that sells so well?
She pressed Pei Xia, asking him what secret recipe his master had secretly passed on to him.

Pei Xia simply shook her head: "When you reach that age, your master's wife will pass it on to you."

Two hundred taels isn't a lot, but if you were to use it to buy spiritual materials to forge magical artifacts, you wouldn't even make a ripple.

But there's still enough money to buy horses.

Pei Xia didn't achieve much in judging horses. As someone who had been burned in various famous product areas in his previous life, he knew very well that he should never trust his own judgment at times like this.

He went to the largest horse dealership in the entire city of Junma and bought three horses at the most transparent and open prices.

Two of them were ordinary galloping horses, priced at twenty, but they were quite strong. With this physique, the price would at least double if they were taken to the south of Tiequan Pass.

Another horse, which cost Pei Xia a full 130 taels, was a genuine Youzhou "Ta Yun Hei" (Treading Cloud Black), and it is said that the most elite heavy cavalry of the Northern Barbarians now use this kind of warhorse.

It has an extremely strong load-bearing capacity, incredible endurance, and is incredibly brave, unafraid of loud noises or flames. Aside from its high food and waste production, it has virtually no drawbacks. Because only a small number of these animals can actually reach the market after the annual quota is allocated, they are very expensive.

The three horses will be delivered to the inn's stables by a designated person arranged by the horse guild.

Pei Xia counted the money, pondered for a while, and then turned her gaze to the Spirit Item Market.

Unfortunately, there is no branch of the Spirit Selection Pavilion in Mount Junma, although the place has everything.

It's a bit of a shame that Lingxuan Pavilion, a major power in the Nine Provinces, has been unable to extend its reach into the Northern Barbarian Lands of Da Ling for so many years, despite its reputation being no less than that of Zhang Sheng Palace.

Pei Xia wandered around the Spirit Item Market for a while, trying to find a suitable wine vessel, but she couldn't find one that caught her eye.

Ordinary wine sacs can be used, but they evaporate quickly, making them a cheap and unavoidable choice.

As for the wine gourds that some江湖人 (jianghu people) often carry, they are too brittle and cannot withstand bumps and knocks.

Pei Xia's heart belongs to the kind of small stainless steel wine flask from her past life, the kind you can carry in your pocket and take a sip anytime.

But clearly, no similar demand has yet emerged in Kyushu.

After hesitating for a while, I finally chose a gourd.

This is a cultivator's stall, which is actually selling gourds filled with medicinal pills. They look ugly on the outside, but they are coated with spiritual materials inside.

Pei Xia had examined it. The materials used were not bad, but they were probably leftover scraps from refining, making it into a small, casually made item.

After much haggling and persuasion, he finally got the price down to thirty taels of silver.

With only twenty taels left, Pei Xia decided to buy some cigarettes for herself.

In some parts of Kyushu, tobacco sells quite well, otherwise the cigarette-making process wouldn't have been developed.

However, compared to dry tobacco like that of Xu Zhuofeng, handmade cigarettes are much more expensive.

Just as he was mentally calculating whether he could buy five or six packs, he turned his head and saw a crystal-clear jade hairpin on the stall next to him.

Pei Xia was immediately drawn to it.

This jade hairpin is exquisite and beautiful, especially its slightly translucent, icy jade surface, which is dazzling and mesmerizing.

This is cold jade stone, a specialty of the Cold Mountain Snow Mountain. It's not valuable; it's everywhere on the mountain path outside the Frosty Wind Valley.

After all, "cold jade stone" is still just a stone. If you call it "cold stone jade," then it might be a completely different story.

Because the snowy mountains of Hanzhou are teeming with monsters and rarely visited by humans, some cultivators are keen to use these intimidating stones to make jewelry and other items, thereby inflating prices and making a profit—a kind of shady business.

Pei Xia is a master of materials and has extensive knowledge of spiritual materials, so she naturally wouldn't be fooled.

What caught his eye was a wisp of faint white silk, resembling a vein, amidst the crystal-clear hairpin. He reached out and touched it; it felt familiar, somewhat similar to the ice lotus in the Snow Swallow Sect's secret realm.

It was probably also the work of Xiaotianshan. Perhaps some of it was left behind and seeped into a piece of cold jade, which was then carved out and made into jewelry.

This rootless cold energy was extremely faint; apart from Pei Xia, no one else could perceive it, and it offered no help to cultivators.

However, this thing was somewhat useful to Xu Shangxin.

After all, the cold energy in her body was transferred to her by Pei Xia, and now it has been completely integrated into her body, turning into ice-like skin and jade-like bones. Fundamentally, she has never directly come into contact with the magical ice veins of Little Tianshan.

This hairpin can help her understand the origin of her coldness.

"Oh dear, my cigarettes..."

Pei Xia sighed and picked up the snow hairpin on the stall: "Dude, how much are you trying to charge me for this stone hairpin?"

After all the shopping was done, when they returned to the inn, Xu Shangxin and Li Tan had already returned as well.

Pei Xia was listening to the giggling coming from the next room when he was thinking of giving the hairpin to Xu Shangxin when they were alone together. Then the door to his room was pushed open.

The one who pushed open the door was Senior Sister Li. She had changed into clean clothes, peeked out and smiled at Pei Xia, then stepped aside, revealing the girl behind her.

Pei Xia blinked, unable to look away for a moment.

Xu Shangxin wore a long blue dress, the upper body of which was well-tailored, showing off her graceful figure like a newly blossoming peach, with a slender waist, and the skirt below was neat and tidy.

Li Tan chuckled, then mischievously reached out to lift her hem.

Xu Shangxin gasped and quickly pressed her hand down. A blush spread across her fair and delicate face. She bit her red lips, looking at Pei Xia with a hint of grievance and shyness.

Big brother is so cute!
No… Pei Xia patted her face: “Uh, your clothes look familiar.”

Xu Shangxin gave a barely audible "Mmm": "You ordered me a similar outfit when you were in Beijing Normal University City..."

That outfit was made of better material, and the style was similar, but at the time I was studying and usually wore simple long gowns, so I rarely wore the custom-made clothes.

Pei Xia hadn't expected that she would choose to make the same set this time.

"Joy..." He started to say, but his face turned as red as if it were about to bleed. He lowered his voice and changed it to, "Is it...good-looking?"

Pei Xia honestly replied, "It looks good."

Li Tan, who was standing to the side, linked arms with Xu Shangxin and said to Pei Xia with a hint of elder's satisfaction, "So you know that Miss Xu is beautiful. I thought you were really blind."

This was probably the most girlish thing Xu Shangxin had ever done in front of him since she had acknowledged him as her elder brother.

She was a little too delicate and beautiful, which made Pei Xia's eyes twitch.

He originally planned to give the hairpin to Xu Shangxin when he returned, and also tell her about the secret behind the hairpin.

But in this situation, Pei Xia pursed her lips and sighed inwardly.

He knew he couldn't give away the hairpin today.

Only after Xu Shangxin's ears burned and she fled back to her room did Pei Xia dare to take out the hairpin, place it on the table, and poke it with her finger.

Having witnessed the whole thing, Lu Li walked up to his feet at just the right moment, deliberately made a "ha" sound for a long time, and then spat on him.

Pei Xia then grabbed her by the collar and used her buttocks to wipe her clean.

While being pinched and twisted from side to side, Lu Li asked him, "Am I destined to never get a master's wife in this lifetime?"

Before Pei Xia's eyes appeared the tumor in the deep darkness of the brain and the graceful flame in her heart.

He replied casually, "You wouldn't want to come home one day, open the door, and see your master eating your master's wife's brains, would you?"

Lu Li began to struggle violently: "Without Master's wife, wouldn't you eat me?!"

(End of this chapter)