With the Eight Immortals' magical treasures in hand, even a mortal like myself! Ha!

Gu Qing stretched his body, then walked out of the main meditation room, looked up at the sky, and found many communication talismans floating outside.

Gu Qing waved his hand, collecting all the communication talismans and examining them. He then frowned, "I actually have to accept a challenge?"

As mentioned before, during the once-a-decade cave competition on Kuixing Island, those who consider themselves quite capable will challenge the cultivators on the thirty-six peaks.

This can be considered a continuation of the Star Palace's once-every-hundred-year Rising Dragon Assembly, where the superiors have certain preferences, and the inferiors will follow suit.

"Forget it, we'll deal with it later. Let's go check out the Eight Immortals Pavilion first." Gu Qing then put the competition out of his mind.

Although Gu Qing cultivates techniques that can rapidly improve his cultivation level, his offensive spells are not particularly powerful. However, he possesses several powerful top-tier magic artifacts and talismans, so he has never been afraid of anyone in combat.

Having just mastered the Ironwood Clone Technique, it's a perfect opportunity to test its power.

Although the Ironwood clone cannot directly participate in combat, it can provide attribute bonuses.

With the blessing of the thousand-year-old ironwood upon him, it is believed that even top-tier magical artifacts would be unable to harm Gu Qing's physical body.

Therefore, Gu Qing was very confident in the test and was not afraid.

At this moment, Gu Qing was more concerned about what had become of the Eight Immortals Pavilion during the months he had been in seclusion. He wondered if Tieguai Li had been slacking off or had properly drawn the talismans.

Therefore, as soon as Gu Qing emerged from seclusion, he didn't care about anything else and immediately rode his magical artifact to Kui Xing City.

Upon arriving in Kuixing City again, Gu Qing couldn't help but marvel at the city's immense size. He then made his way to Tiandu Street with practiced ease. Once there, it was just a mile or two from Tiandu Street to Shiyu Square.

Sure enough, he saw the sign for Baxian Pavilion among the shops in the first row, and there were quite a few people queuing at the door, constantly peering inside.

Gu Qing was curious, wondering why there was any need to queue up when only three talismans were sold each day.

He tried to go into the shop to check on things, but someone stopped him: "What's wrong with you? Go to the back and join the queue!"

"Yeah, you trying to cut in line? I've been waiting for seven days!"

"You've only been waiting for seven days, I've been waiting for half a month!"

Before long, the people outside the shop started arguing. Gu Qing raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, but it had no effect. It seemed that the cultivators in line were very resentful.

Hearing the commotion outside, Xin Ruyin came out of the shop and immediately saw Gu Qing. She was somewhat surprised and quickly went to greet him: "Senior brother, you've finally arrived! If you hadn't come, Elder Gu would have come to find you in person."

Elder Gu of the Six-Hall Hall had promised to raise spirit stones to purchase the medicinal herbs from Gu Qing, but he hadn't been able to see him for a long time, and was very anxious. There was nothing he could do; Gu Qing had suddenly gone into seclusion to refine his Ironwood Avatar.

Seeing so many people outside the shop, Gu Qing couldn't help but ask, "What's going on? Why are there so many people at the door?"

"What else could it be? Word has spread that Master was drawing talismans at the Eight Immortals Pavilion, and now everyone's coming to buy them," Xin Ruyin said, somewhat amused and exasperated. Wasn't this all arranged by Gu Qing? Why was he asking why?

Upon hearing this, Gu Qing was surprised to find that intermediate-level talismans were in such high demand in the Chaotic Star Sea, so she asked, "Does your master only draw three talismans a day now?"

"Yes, they only draw three pictures a day, and now the queue is already a month in advance," Xin Ruyin said, looking at the more than twenty people outside the door.

The people outside the door are all here to purchase intermediate-level talismans. Most of them are Foundation Establishment cultivators, and they don't mind spending a few hundred spirit stones.

If one were not a Foundation Establishment cultivator, one would not dare to stop Gu Qing, a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, from entering.

"Hehe, I didn't expect business to be so good. I'll lend a hand too." Gu Qing stretched out his hand, ready to make a big splash.

"Are you sure you can do it?"

"Yes, don't try to pass off inferior items. We only want talismans drawn by senior cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

The Foundation Establishment cultivators immediately objected. They had come because of the reputation of the Core Formation Master, and they wouldn't have wanted the talisman if it weren't drawn by a Core Formation Master.

They can draw ordinary talismans themselves, although the success rate is very low, it's not that they can't draw them at all.

"Hey, who do you think you are?" Gu Qing said, somewhat unconvinced. After all, he and Tieguai Li were apprentices in the same class at Yan Family Fort, and the talismans he drew were not bad either.

However, the surrounding cultivators did not give Gu Qing any face and told him to leave immediately, which made Gu Qing look rather embarrassed.

Fortunately, Manager Cao from next door saw what was happening and came to the rescue. Manager Cao pulled Gu Qing aside and said, "Fellow Daoist, you've finally emerged from seclusion! If you hadn't come, Elder Gu would have dismantled your formation."

"Hehe, sorry, sorry, I almost forgot about the important matter," Gu Qing said with a slight apology.

Afterwards, he followed Manager Cao up to the Yunmeng Pavilion—a place for receiving Core Formation cultivators. Now, using it to receive Gu Qing, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, was considered a great honor for him.

Upon entering Yunmeng Pavilion, Gu Qingcai witnessed firsthand what true luxury was—the entire pavilion was constructed entirely of emerald green jade.

It should be noted that in the mortal world, emerald green jade is already extremely rare, yet the Six-Linked Palace actually used jade to build a structure.

Moreover, this building is suspended in the air, which is probably one way the Six-Hall Palace displays its wealth.

Soon, led by Manager Cao, Gu Qing met the burly Elder Gu. Standing beside Elder Gu was a cultivator with a cunning expression; it was easy to tell from the aura emanating from him that this man was also a Core Formation cultivator.

Besides these two, Han Xiangzi was also there, and the three of them seemed to be drinking tea together.

Han Xiangzi is really carefree. The area outside the Eight Immortals Pavilion is packed with people, but he doesn't even come to help.

"Young friend, you've finally arrived! If you hadn't come, this True Person would have had to break through the formation!" Elder Gu said gruffly.

Facing the three Core Formation elders, Gu Qing showed no hesitation, but instead smiled and said, "Well, here we are."

"Alright, let's stop wasting time and see how many spirit stones this batch of medicinal herbs can sell for." Gu Qing said, taking out a storage bag containing the previous batch of medicinal herbs, a total of fifty plants, all of which were five or six hundred years old.

Among them, more than a dozen plants emitted a precious light. Although they were all medicinal herbs that were five or six hundred years old, even Core Formation cultivators could use them.

When Elder Gu saw the wooden box on the table, a glint of light flashed in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed his excitement and said in a deep voice, "Young friend, you must have more than just these items, right? You must have some treasures in your collection. Would you be willing to show them to us?"

"Who told you that?" Gu Qing asked, looking puzzled.

At this moment, Elder Gu introduced the Core Formation elder beside him to Gu Qing: "This is Elder Miao. We detected the ingredients of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in that batch of pills. Those pills were made from pure spiritual herbs, without a trace of demon core ingredients. Am I right?"