Red Dragon seeks his position in both realms.

In front of the turtle demon's stall, the pangolin demon shook its head repeatedly and said:

"You bastard, everyone knows your book has been sitting on this stall for years and you can't sell a thing."

I had a nightmare yesterday and wanted to find a way to interpret it before I agreed to buy this fifty catties of wild boar meat.

If it weren't for that ignorant wild boar that barged into my burrow yesterday, leaving me with some fat, I wouldn't have bought it.

"you!"

The turtle demon widened its beady green eyes, stretched its neck out to its fullest extent, and raised its voice considerably:

"I don't eat meat, why are you exchanging it for ordinary pork!"

Besides, this is a fifth-grade divination technique, an orthodox divination technique of [Witchcraft Qi].

【Wuqi】is one of the few Taoist traditions in the world that can divine the secrets of heaven!

Taking fifty catties of ordinary pork is an utter waste, an outrageous act.

  

The turtle demon spoke with spittle flying everywhere, growing angrier as he went on, his limbs swaying constantly, even causing the wooden plank in front of him to shake.

"If it were truly a fifth-grade technique that was easy to cultivate, would it still be around today? Do you think everyone is unaware of it?"

Your technique has extremely high requirements for scales; only those scales with Daoist charm can be used to perform it. We lowly scale demons simply don't have that qualification.

"Unless it's the East Sea Dragon Clan, they can use your treasure, but why would they come to this run-down market to buy such junk?"

After saying that, he turned and left quickly without waiting for the turtle demon to refute him.

Only the tortoise remained, lying on the cutting board, fuming.

The turtle demon watched the departing figure, feeling both annoyed and helpless.

He couldn't sell the book, and he couldn't master the techniques he practiced. A perfectly good manual had been sitting in his hands for years, and the longer he left it, the more he lost.

Winters, who was standing nearby, overheard the entire conversation.

He lifted a chicken claw, swaying it from side to side as he approached the stall, and said:

"Is your divination skill truly a fifth-grade technique?"

The turtle demon, who was holding back his anger, immediately suppressed it upon hearing a demon asking about books, and forced an awkward smile:

"Of course, Brother Eagle, this is a fifth-grade divination method from the [Witchcraft] lineage, the real deal!"

"Young Master Yu, don't believe him."

Rat Three, standing nearby, stepped forward and whispered an attempt to dissuade him. Having received a guide's fee, he naturally felt obligated to fulfill his duty.

"This old turtle's stuff is almost all old stuff that he dredged up from the river mud."

Nine out of ten items are useless junk, inferior goods are passed off as superior ones, they cheat outsiders, it's really unethical.

Please don't fall for it.

The turtle demon was so angry at Rat Three's sabotage that his neck swelled up even more, but since the other party was a guest's companion, he couldn't lash out. So he could only stubbornly defend himself again:

"The book is a good book! It's just... it's just that no one knows its value."

I think this giant eagle is quite extraordinary. He's a discerning demon, unlike other vulgar demons.

Winters ignored the argument between Rat Three and Tortoise, raised his large wings, and used his magic to open the book "Six Lines of Divination by Yarrow Stalks".

This book of divination techniques is not made of ordinary paper or bamboo strips, but rather strung together from pieces of dark, ancient tortoise shells.

The inscription on the nail has a slightly gilded appearance, giving it an antique feel.

Dragon Clan Heritage Judgment: Six Stars!

This spellbook is definitely of a high grade; it's certainly not one of those inferior imitations.

The price assessment of a genuine dragon is generally accurate.

Winters then flipped to the opening section on cultivation conditions and roughly understood them.

The scales must possess three qualities: nobility, Taoist charm, and spirituality.

Noble? A true dragon is certainly noble.

In the Western fantasy world, what scales could be more suitable than the scales of a true dragon?

The red dragon perfectly embodies the concepts of Taoist charm and spirituality.

Winters' dragon scales are excellent magical mediums.

It possesses both physical and magical resistance, and its magical and physical resistance will increase with age.

He wanted this magic manual.

Winters looked at the turtle demon and said with certainty:

"Half a spirit stone."

"Half a piece? How can that be?" The turtle demon shook his head repeatedly, beginning to demonstrate his merchant's skills, haggling over the price:

"This is a fifth-grade spell, it should cost at least two spirit stones..."

"Fine, then we won't sell it."

Winters made a move to leave before he could finish speaking.

"Wait, Brother Eagle!"

The turtle demon called out to stop him, looking at the spell he had suppressed for several years, and felt a pang of pain in his heart:

"Okay, half a dollar it is, let's just consider it making friends."

Winters then stopped eating the chicken claws and turned his head to signal Crow to pay the bill.

Although Ya Jun was reluctant and puzzled, Shilongzi was, after all, his boss.

It obediently stretched out its neck and pulled out two more stones from its wings.

It was still that faintly aura-filled [Earth Virtue] spirit creature.

Once the turtle demon determined that the spiritual energy was still sufficient, it placed the turtle inside its shell.

The deal was struck, and Winters then transmitted the entire contents of "The Six Lines of Divination by Yarrow Stalks" back to the Red Dragon's true form in the Western Fantasy World through his divine sense.

Having completed the deal, Winters wasn't in a hurry to leave and strolled along the trading area.

Rat Three was indeed an expert in the field.

Along the way, he would introduce which weapon-refining shop had the most skilled craftsmen, which pill-making shop liked to mix in some common spiritual herbs, and how independent cultivators could bargain without losing money when setting up their stalls. He talked about quite a lot of things in bits and pieces.

Winters felt the lecture was worth the fee just for its content and emotional value.

Winters listened silently, gaining a general understanding of the market prices and cultivation resource availability in this cultivation world.

In general, spiritual items are relatively scarce in the cultivation world, and the value of spiritual items varies between different lineages.

The most precious spiritual items are those related to the Yin (太阴).

Winters had just seen a three-legged toad demon holding a jade ball-shaped Taiyin spiritual object and hawking it.

As soon as he spoke, he was immediately surrounded by a group of demon cultivators who started bidding against him.

In the end, it was sold to a half-demon with green scales for an exorbitant price.

For example, the "cold qi" spiritual objects are the least valuable.

It often takes two or three of them to exchange for one spiritual item from another lineage.

The demon cultivator who was replaced was very unhappy, looking disgusted.

This shows how low the status of [Cold Qi] is.

Winters wandered around like a free-range chicken, when he was suddenly drawn to a cave in the mountain wall ahead.

It was because the sound of lecturing came from the cave entrance.

A wooden sign hung at the entrance of the cave, the handwriting was messy and the shape was illegible.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that the cave was actually a school.

The school is different from ordinary academies; all the students are demons.

Sitting in the main hall was an elderly human man dressed in a tattered Confucian robe, with white hair and beard, and his cultivation level was only at the third level of the embryonic breathing stage.

He was slowly and methodically lecturing to the demons below the hall;

Below the hall were all sorts of demon cultivators. There was a fierce-looking white tiger with piercing eyes, a burly black bear demon, a palm-sized mantis demon, and a red-eyed rabbit demon huddled in a corner.

Each one was covered in fur, armor, wings, and feet, and was strangely shaped, yet they all sat upright, listening intently to the old man's lecture in the hall.

"That's something new."

Winters then thought: Where there is demand, there is a market!

These low-level demon races often do not speak human language, do not know written characters, and do not understand Taoist traditions or the path of cultivation.

Human cultivators, on the other hand, are different. Even rogue cultivators have at least practiced one or two cultivation techniques and understand some basic common sense about cultivation.

This old man has found a good way.

Winters, wanting to eavesdrop, had just reached the cave entrance when a little monkey darted over from the side and reached out to stop him.

It's obvious they want to charge a fee for the course.

Winters, in a domineering manner, made Crow King pay for all three meals, including Rat Three's share. The three demons found a corner to sit down.

The old man in the scholar's robe in the hall spoke:

"Having discussed the principles of Taoism, I will now discuss the Taoist traditions of the world."

"The Daoist traditions of the world can be divided into: Yin and Yang, the Five Virtues, the Nine Qi, and the Three Emptinesses. All those who cultivate in this world cannot be separated from these Daoist traditions."

"Among them, Yin and Yang are the most ancient, the origin of heaven and earth, and also the most precious."

Following this are the Five Virtues arising from the Five Elements; then the Nine Qi dispersing among all things in heaven and earth; finally, the Three Emptinesses, which are attained through the enlightenment of later cultivators.

A fox demon timidly raised its paw below and asked:

"Sir, I have seen many demons from the [Taiyin] lineage, but why have I never seen any demons from the [Taiyang] lineage?"

The old man was silent.