Chapter 189: Arrived at Jiuxiao Fairy City and met Meng Xiaochan again

Azure Bamboo Hall.

Council Chamber.

The Old Ancestor of the Lu Family, Lu Yuanzhong, was discussing the Azure Cloud Sect’s campaign against the Xiahou clan with all the high-ranking members and elders of the Lu Family.

Now that the High Sect had issued an order, their Azure Bamboo Lu Family had to send people to follow instructions and participate in this battle.

For these family forces, although this battle was dangerous,

it was also an opportunity.

As long as they achieved military merits, the Azure Cloud Sect would reward them accordingly afterward.

Rare resources that could not be bought normally, such as spirit stones, magic tools, pills, cultivation techniques, and secret arts, could all be obtained through exchanging military merits.

“Since that’s the case, the matter is settled,” Lu Yuanzhong stated decisively.

He then looked at Lu Yuanding and Lu Miaochang and said, “Yuanding, Miaochang, you two look after the family.”

“Although all family forces are prohibited from engaging in conflict during wartime, there might be rogue cultivators taking advantage of the chaos.”

“So during this time, everyone be vigilant, increase the frequency of patrols, and if necessary, use thunderous methods to suppress them directly.”

Lu Yuanzhong said in a deep voice.

“Yes!”

“As ordered!”

“Please rest assured, Old Ancestor!”

Inside the hall, figures stood up one after another and responded respectfully to Lu Yuanzhong.

“Miaoge, do you know where Changsheng went? Can he return to oversee the family?” After the discussion concluded, Lu Yuanzhong looked at Lu Miaoge and asked via spiritual transmission.

Now that he, the family’s Old Ancestor, was taking some elders, deacons, and elites outside,

it would inevitably leave the Lu Family’s internal strength significantly depleted.

If Lu Changsheng, a second-tier talisman master, were to oversee the family, it would provide an extra layer of security.

Furthermore, having achieved Foundation Establishment and becoming the Old Ancestor of a clan, he was naturally not foolish.

Through Lu Changsheng’s various actions, children, and spiritual pets, he had long since seen that Lu Changsheng was not as simple as he appeared on the surface.

Not only did he hide many secrets, but his cultivation level was also likely more than just Qi Refining seventh layer.

Therefore, he thought that having Lu Changsheng oversee things at Azure Bamboo Mountain would make the family much more stable.

“Old Ancestor, Changsheng went out with a friend for some business. He’s expected to return in about a year,” Lu Miaoge said, pursing her lips slightly upon hearing her Old Ancestor’s question.

She hadn’t expected such a situation to arise just three months after Lu Changsheng left.

However, Lu Changsheng hadn’t told her where he was going on this trip.

“Alright.”

Lu Yuanzhong sighed slightly in his heart upon hearing this.

He knew that Lu Changsheng wouldn’t be able to return to oversee the family in a short time.

He then said to Lu Miaoge, “Miaoge, I’ll have to trouble you with the Red Leaf Valley market during the coming period.”

“Yes, Old Ancestor,” Lu Miaoge nodded seriously.

Now that the Second Elder, Lu Yuanling, was also going out with Lu Yuanzhong,

the responsibility of being the head of the Lu Family at the Red Leaf Valley market also fell upon her.

Looking at Lu Yuanzhong, Lu Miaoge thought for a moment, then transmitted, “Old Ancestor, Changsheng has a Foundation Establishment friend from the Azure Cloud Sect. When he left, he said that if we encountered trouble, I could seek help from this Foundation Establishment friend. So please rest assured, Old Ancestor.”

Not long ago, Xiao Xiyue came to the Red Leaf Valley market to see her daughter, Lu Wangshu.

She and this Fairy Xiyue had gotten to know each other.

So, to reassure her Old Ancestor, and also thinking that if the family truly encountered a major crisis or trouble, she would seek help from this Fairy Xiyue.

At the lower levels of the cultivation world, having a friend from an immortal sect at the Foundation Establishment stage was considered a very good backing.

It could serve as a deterrent and resolve many issues.

“A Foundation Establishment friend from the Azure Cloud Sect!?”

“Good, good, good.”

Upon hearing this, a hint of pleasant surprise immediately appeared in Lu Yuanzhong’s eyes.

He hadn’t expected Lu Changsheng to have such connections.

One must know that a Foundation Establishment cultivator from an immortal sect, even if they just came to Azure Bamboo Mountain as a guest, could serve as a certain deterrent to the outside world.

However, thinking of the Foundation Establishment female cultivator who turned against the Chen family during the previous battle, Lu Yuanzhong suddenly felt curious and wondered if Lu Changsheng’s Foundation Establishment friend from the immortal sect was also a female cultivator?

But as the Old Ancestor of a clan, he suppressed his curiosity and didn’t gossip about such matters.

Two months later.

“Finally, we’re here.”

Lu Changsheng stood on the deck of the spirit ship, looking down at the sea of clouds.

He could vaguely see a majestic immortal city below, enveloped in five-colored shimmering light.

As the spirit ship slowed down and descended, the Nine Heavens Immortal City continuously grew larger in Lu Changsheng’s view, grand and magnificent, making the surrounding continuous mountains appear as mere hills in comparison.

“Nine Heavens Immortal City, this is an immortal city!”

“No wonder the vast cultivation world of Jiang Kingdom has so many markets, but only three immortal cities.”

Lu Changsheng murmured in his heart as he looked at the increasingly clear, imposing, and incredibly grand Nine Heavens Immortal City.

This Nine Heavens Immortal City covered an area of several hundred miles, several times larger than Azure Cloud Market.

The surrounding towering and majestic continuous mountains seemed to have broad and flat avenues cut out by a sword.

On the avenues, many pack beasts and cultivators could be seen coming and going, like merchant caravans in the mundane world.

But in the sky above, many cultivators were flying back and forth.

Magic tools, flying boats, spirit tools, and escape lights were dazzling, indicating that this was not the mundane world, but the world of immortals.

Foundation Establishment cultivators, who were rarely seen on ordinary days, were quite common here.

From time to time, one could see the escape lights of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After a little more than half an hour.

The giant spirit ship slowly hovered in front of the city gate of Nine Heavens Immortal City.

“Fellow Daoists, we have arrived at Nine Heavens Immortal City,” True Man Chi Yan’s voice echoed on the spirit ship.

All passengers came to the deck, preparing to disembark.

“Fellow Daoist Han, this is the three-tenths of the fare returned due to the previous delay in the journey.”

At this moment, the Azure Cloud Sect disciple named Xuanfeng took out three mid-grade spirit stones and handed them to Lu Changsheng.

“Three-tenths of the fare.”

Lu Changsheng remembered that True Man Chi Yan had previously said that due to the deviation from the course and the delay in the journey, three-tenths of the fare would be returned as compensation.

This meant that the fare for him to take this spirit ship was one thousand spirit stones.

However, Xiao Xiyue had given him the ticket at that time and hadn’t mentioned anything about spirit stones.

This indicated that Xiao Xiyue herself had paid for the spirit stones.

Thinking about it, that made sense.

Even if Xiao Xiyue was a core disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, it was impossible for her to ride the spirit ship without paying.

“Thank you, Fellow Daoist Xuanfeng.”

Lu Changsheng put away the spirit stones.

He couldn’t help but think that the fare was indeed quite expensive.

A ticket for an ordinary cabin was already one thousand spirit stones.

Wouldn’t a ticket for a luxurious cabin cost three or four thousand spirit stones?

However, he also knew that this price was probably just enough to cover the travel expenses.

The consumption of spirit stones for a spirit ship like this, traveling from Azure Cloud Market to Nine Heavens Immortal City, was not a small amount.

Moreover, through conversations over the past few days, Lu Changsheng also learned that this spirit ship’s travel to and from Nine Heavens Immortal City was mainly for some business or strategic exchanges between the Azure Cloud Sect and the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Carrying other people was just a sideline.

“You’re welcome, Fellow Daoist Han.”

Because of Chu Qingyi’s matter, Xuanfeng was very polite to Lu Changsheng.

After cupping his hands, he went to return the spirit stones to the other passengers one by one.

“Young Friend Han, if you need to return to Azure Cloud Market in the future, you can take the spirit ship again,” True Man Chi Yan also came to the deck at this moment, looked at Lu Changsheng, and said with a smile.

“Thank you, True Man.”

Lu Changsheng cupped his hands and thanked him.

Then he flew down from the spirit ship and arrived in front of Nine Heavens Immortal City.

As soon as he landed, his entire body sank, and he felt a strange sense of pressure on him.

“This is, a flight restriction?”

Lu Changsheng frowned slightly.

He immediately knew this was the effect of the great formation of the immortal city.

It prevented Foundation Establishment cultivators from flying within the city.

Markets like Red Leaf Valley Market and Nine Dragons Market, although they prohibited flying with artifacts and riding spiritual beasts,

Foundation Establishment cultivators were allowed to fly within the market.

But this Nine Heavens Immortal City’s great formation had a direct flight restriction effect, making it difficult even for Foundation Establishment cultivators to fly within the city.

“That makes sense. In an immortal city like this, there are many Foundation Establishment cultivators. If they could fly around randomly, it would greatly affect order.”

“Moreover, with the flight restriction, it’s difficult for people to escape when causing trouble in the city and facing the law enforcement team.”

Lu Changsheng murmured in his heart, feeling increasingly impressed by the power of this third-tier great formation.

Immediately, he began to stroll around Nine Heavens Immortal City.

Nine Heavens Immortal City was divided into three major areas.

The outer city, the inner city, and Nine Heavens Mountain.

The truly large shops and stores were all in the inner city.

However, the outer city of the immortal city was much more prosperous than many markets.

Here, Lu Changsheng even saw a few familiar signs.

Presumably, these family forces had opened their shops and stores in Nine Heavens Immortal City.

After browsing for a while, he walked towards the inner city of Nine Heavens Immortal City.

To purchase things, he still had to go to the inner city.

Meanwhile.

Just as Lu Changsheng arrived at Nine Heavens Immortal City.

Below Nine Heavens Mountain, inside a cave dwelling.

A young girl, dressed in snow-white clothes, with exquisite features and an ethereal aura, opened her eyes.

“Hmm? What’s going on? Why do I have a strange feeling of premonition, a strange stirring in my heart?” The girl frowned her beautiful eyebrows and murmured to herself.

When cultivators experience a feeling of premonition or a strange stirring, it usually means something is about to happen.

“Xiaochán.”

Just then, a beautiful woman walked into the room.

The beautiful woman wore a well-tailored, form-fitting black gauze dress.

The dress wrapped around her curvaceous and enchanting figure, with her bare shoulders exposed, smooth and fair.

Looking at her, men would naturally want to hold her shoulders in their arms.

Her slender waist curved in and out, forming a voluptuous figure with full, ripe fruits.

Two straight and long snow-white legs were slightly visible beneath the hem of her dress, wearing a pair of black high-heeled shoes with thin heels and reddish soles.

Her entire being, in every movement, exuded temptation.

“Master,” Meng Xiaochán said immediately, looking at the beautiful woman in front of her.

“You little girl, I told you to call me Mother now,” Nangong Mílí looked at the young girl in front of her, a charming smile on her lips, and pinched her pure and tender cheek.

As if pinching wasn’t enough, her rosy and soft lips kissed Meng Xiaochán’s fair and delicate cheek.

“Mother,” Meng Xiaochán smiled radiantly and called out sweetly.

On this trip, she and her Master went out on a mission, disguised as a mother and daughter.

“So good. Come, good daughter, open your mouth~ ah~” The beautiful woman sat down by the bed with a smile, her plump buttocks squeezed into a full and overflowing patty of flesh.

She held a red spiritual fruit between two fingers and fed it to Meng Xiaochán.

She smiled charmingly, exuding a seductive and enchanting aura, but this charming allure was not without mature elegance.

It made Meng Xiaochán couldn’t help but sigh that her Master was truly a temptress.

This charm was simply irresistible to both men and women.

Then she obediently opened her mouth and ate the red spiritual fruit.

Seeing her disciple’s adorable appearance, Nangong Mílí gave a soft, charming laugh.

She picked up another red spiritual fruit and directly put it into Meng Xiaochán’s mouth: “Come, good daughter, eat another one.”

As she spoke, her fair fingers touched her disciple’s red lips. After the small mouth and jade teeth bit onto the spiritual fruit in her hand and the small fragrant tongue rolled it into her mouth, she gently withdrew her moist fingers.

“Mother, did you need something?” Seeing Nangong Mílí holding a spiritual fruit and about to feed her again, Meng Xiaochán immediately asked.

“Can’t Mother just chat with her good daughter when she has nothing to do?” The beautiful woman wore a tearful, wronged expression, like a young girl acting spoiled, making her seem pitiful and turning even tempered steel into soft silk.

“Master…” Meng Xiaochán called out helplessly.

When they first met, her Master, being a Core Formation True Person, was quite majestic in front of her.

But as they spent more time together, she found that her Master’s personality was changeable, and she liked to play tricks and tease her along the way.

“Alright, let’s talk about business.”

“Now that the Cult Master and the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master are about to engage in a great battle with Li Duanxuan, we should also take some action.”

A dignified expression appeared on Nangong Mílí’s beautiful face.

“Which family are we contacting this time?” Meng Xiaochán asked.

Her trip with her Master Nangong Mílí to Jiang Kingdom was to contact the hidden agents of the cult buried in Jiang Kingdom.

As soon as the Five Poisons Cult Master and the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master defeated Li Duanxuan, the number one person in the cultivation world of Jiang Kingdom, Jin Kingdom would launch a great war and invade Jiang Kingdom.

At that time, those of them who had infiltrated the cultivation world of Jiang Kingdom in advance would gather the hidden agents and coordinate with the Jin Kingdom’s army from within and without.

“We’ve contacted almost everyone. Since we’re going to act, we naturally have to target Nine Heavens Immortal City to cause chaos in Jiang Kingdom and strike a blow to their morale,” Nangong Mílí pinched her cheek and said softly.

“Attack Nine Heavens Immortal City directly!?” Meng Xiaochán’s beautiful eyes widened and her small mouth slightly opened upon hearing this.

Although the Nangong Mílí in front of her was a Core Formation True Person.

The three major demonic sects of Jin Kingdom had also sent other Core Formation True Persons and Pseudo-Core True Persons to Jiang Kingdom.

But the idea of attacking an immortal city like this was completely delusional.

After all, Nine Heavens Immortal City also had Core Formation True Persons overseeing it.

Moreover, Nine Heavens Immortal City has a Tier 3 formation.

A Core Formation cultivator proficient in formations, if presiding over a Tier 3 formation, could be said to be invincible within the Immortal City.

Unless a Nascent Soul True Monarch personally descends.

“Of course, it’s not what you think. You’ll know when the time comes.”

Nangong Moli saw her disciple’s expression, guessed her thoughts, and playfully pinched her cheek, saying with a laugh.

Then, affectionately linking arms with Meng Xiaochun, she walked out of the cave dwelling.

“Wan’er, you’re here.”

As the two stepped out of the cave dwelling, a tall, imposing middle-aged man with a hint of fierceness in his eyes not far away, immediately lit up and came over to greet them.

He looked at Nangong Moli, all his imposing aura dissipated, the fierceness in his eyes vanished, replaced only by infatuation.

“Did you buy the things I asked you to?”

Nangong Moli looked at the middle-aged man before her, her expression cold and devoid of any charm, and asked in a chilly voice.

“Bought them, I bought them all.”

The middle-aged man took out a storage bag, hurried forward, and showed a fawning expression on his face.

“Mm, not bad.”

Nangong Moli took the storage bag, glanced at it, and nodded indifferently.

Immediately, she linked arms with Meng Xiaochun and continued walking towards the inner city.

“Mother, isn’t True Master Xiang coming with us?”

Meng Xiaochun asked her master.

But as soon as the words left her mouth, she saw the middle-aged man looking at Nangong Moli with a face full of infatuation, keeping his distance from the two of them, and following closely behind.

Remembering earlier, Nangong Moli had asked this True Master Xiang to maintain a certain distance from them.

Seeing this scene, Meng Xiaochun simply didn’t know what to say.

A dignified Core Formation True Master, before her own master, was actually so humble.

The two came from Nine Heavens Mountain to the inner city area.

Walking on the bustling street, Meng Xiaochun felt something in her heart and looked towards a tall, heroic-looking middle-aged man ahead.

For some reason, seeing this middle-aged man, her heart inexplicably stirred, and she felt a sense of familiarity.

“Hmm?”

At this moment, Lu Changsheng also felt something in his heart.

He turned his head and looked towards the front right.

He immediately saw a beautiful woman in a black dress and a young girl in a white dress walking hand in hand.

The beautiful woman had an absolutely stunning face, a black gauze dress, and a graceful figure.

It could be said that her entire being exuded a seductive charm.

Even though Lu Changsheng had extensive experience, he felt that this beautiful woman was very beautiful and very charming.

Naturally beautiful, exceptionally charming.

However, his gaze immediately fell on the young girl in the white dress beside the beautiful woman in black.

The young girl in the white dress had a pure face and an ethereal aura, forming a stark contrast with the beautiful woman.

Her slightly petite figure was also somewhat developed, with a shapely bust and buttocks.

However, walking hand in hand with this beautiful woman in black, she appeared a bit thin and less eye-catching.

Lu Changsheng looked at this young girl, and for some reason, he felt an indescribable sense of wonder and familiarity.

“Good daughter, what’s wrong?”

Nangong Moli saw Meng Xiaochun suddenly stop, look into the distance, followed her gaze, then lowered her head slightly and asked softly.

“Nothing.”

Meng Xiaochun immediately snapped back to reality and shook her head.

But in her heart, she couldn’t help but wonder, who was this person?

She strongly believed in her intuition.

Since she felt familiar, she must have met this person before.

But she couldn’t remember ever meeting such a person.

However, Nangong Moli led her to a courtyard where many people were discussing matters, interrupting her thoughts, and she didn’t dwell on it further.

Lu Changsheng watched the beautiful woman in the black dress and the young girl in the white dress leave, feeling a bit puzzled.

Because after breaking through to Foundation Establishment, at this realm, such inexplicable feelings and sudden impulses shouldn’t occur.

“Is it a romantic encounter?”

Lu Changsheng furrowed his brows slightly and asked the Peach Blossom Gu.

He wanted to know if this inexplicable sense of wonder and familiarity was related to the Peach Blossom Gu.

After all, aside from inexplicable, mysterious romantic encounters, he really couldn’t think of any other reason.

“Love.”

A wave of thought came from the Peach Blossom Gu.

It told Lu Changsheng that this strange feeling did not come from it.

Instead, it came from another Gu worm.

The backlash from the Gu worm back then.

“It was actually her?”

Lu Changsheng received the thought from the Peach Blossom Gu in his glabella, feeling a bit surprised.

He immediately knew that the young girl in the white dress just now was Meng Xiaochun, who had once placed a Love Gu on him and suffered a backlash from him.

“I didn’t expect to meet her here after more than ten years.”

Lu Changsheng raised an eyebrow and chuckled softly.

No wonder he felt that strange sense of familiarity just now.

As for meeting Meng Xiaochun, he didn’t have much of a feeling.

Back when the Lu family and the Chen family were at war, he owed a lot to Meng Xiaochun.

Furthermore, afterwards, Meng Xiaochun gave him two Foundation Establishment Pills and a Foundation Establishment spiritual item, so in his heart, the debt and grievance with Meng Xiaochun were considered settled.

Therefore, he had no animosity towards Meng Xiaochun.

He didn’t think about her much either.

At most, he wanted to ask Meng Xiaochun what effect the Gu worm he had taken from her had.

“She seemed to look over here just now. It should be because of the Love Gu, right?”

“However, I am currently using the Heaven Concealing Bead to hide my aura, so I wonder if she can recognize me.”

Lu Changsheng mused inwardly.

Meng Xiaochun was disguised.

If it weren’t for the strange sense of familiarity just now and the hint from the Peach Blossom Gu, he really wouldn’t have guessed who the other party was.

So he was a bit curious if Meng Xiaochun could recognize him when she saw him just now.

“If she recognizes me, I wonder if this counts as a romantic encounter?”

Lu Changsheng stroked his chin, remembering when Meng Xiaochun left back then.

She said she was entangled in important matters and couldn’t stay by his side for long, and that she would spend the rest of her life with him after completing the matters.

“She shouldn’t have been very old back then. Cultivating to Foundation Establishment at that age suggests her spiritual root talent is excellent.”

“If we have a child, their spiritual root talent should be very good.”

Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

Although the cultivation world doesn’t test bone age, making it difficult to determine someone’s true age.

However, in the lower levels of the cultivation world, not everyone can take appearance-preserving pills or cultivate appearance-preserving techniques.

So, it’s still possible to roughly estimate age based on appearance.

He remembered when he first met Meng Xiaochun, she was at late Qi Condensation, disguised as a young man, and later she appeared as a young girl several times.

So her age shouldn’t be very high.

Being able to establish foundation on her own later indicated that her spiritual root talent was very good.

“This kind of thing is still up in the air.”

“Moreover, that beautiful woman beside her doesn’t seem simple either. Is she her mother?”

Lu Changsheng shook his head and didn’t think about it further.

Meng Xiaochun was very extraordinary in their few encounters back then.

The first time, she was able to survive under his talisman treasure Golden Light Brick.

The second time, if he hadn’t had the Peach Blossom Gu, he might have fallen into her hands.

The third time, she even became a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

And she was able to give him two Foundation Establishment Pills and a Foundation Establishment spiritual item.

Such generosity was something many Foundation Establishment family forces couldn’t even afford.

This made him realize that Meng Xiaochun was very extraordinary.

Although he was now at Foundation Establishment and his methods were comparable to false Core Formation, his purpose for coming here this time was mainly procurement.

There was no need to cause extra trouble by thinking about bringing Meng Xiaochun home to have children.

Moreover, as long as the Love Gu created this connection, it was only a matter of time before she would be with him, so there was no need to rush.

Immediately, Lu Changsheng came to an inn and opened a room.

In the room, he used the Heaven Concealing Bead to change his appearance, put on a blue robe, and went to the largest chamber of commerce in Nine Heavens Immortal City, the Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce.

This trip was for a large-scale purchase.

Even with the Heaven Concealing Bead for disguise, it was better to be safe.

Furthermore, his identity as Han Li was known to the Azure Cloud Sect and other passengers on the spiritual ship.

“Welcome to the Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce. May I know if the guest is here to buy or sell?”

As Lu Changsheng arrived at the Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce, a beautiful female cultivator in a uniform dress came forward to receive him.

“Do you have Tier 3 talisman crafting materials here?”

Lu Changsheng asked.

“Tier 3 talisman crafting materials?”

The reception female cultivator showed a hint of surprise upon hearing Lu Changsheng’s words.

“Guest, you jest. Tier 3 materials are already strategic resources, extremely rare, and rarely sold externally.”

“For example, our chamber of commerce currently does not sell Tier 3 talisman crafting materials externally.”

“If you are a top-tier Tier 2 talisman master and are willing to become a guest elder of our chamber of commerce, then we can provide Tier 3 talisman crafting materials.”

The reception female cultivator said with a smile and a friendly tone.

“Not sold externally.”

Hearing this, Lu Changsheng’s heart sank slightly, feeling a bit disappointed.

Before this, he had roughly guessed that there wouldn’t be too many Tier 3 materials for sale in Nine Heavens Immortal City.

But he never expected that the Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce would directly not sell Tier 3 talisman crafting materials externally.

However, Lu Changsheng understood when he thought about it.

Materials of this level were precious and rare.

Most of them were used to cultivate their own talisman masters.

How could they still be sold externally?

Furthermore.

The major immortal sects also used this method to monopolize resources.

This forced artisans who reached a certain level to choose to join a certain force.

Otherwise, limited by material channels, their skills would also be unable to advance.

If they were ordinary rogue cultivators, they would naturally be happy to join a major force, relying on a big tree for shade.

But given his current situation, it was also inconvenient for him to join the Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce.

“It seems that in this regard, I can only go through the Azure Cloud Sect.”

“But even if I enter the Azure Cloud Sect, obtaining Tier 3 materials won’t be easy.”

Lu Changsheng sighed slightly in his heart.

“Does your esteemed chamber of commerce have these kinds of materials?”

He took out the list of materials for refining the Nine-Nine Profound True Strategy and inquired.

He had already purchased all the Tier 2 auxiliary materials for the Nine-Nine Profound True Strategy talisman artifact through the Nine Dragons Market City and the Azure Cloud Chamber of Commerce.

Currently, he was still short of four main Tier 3 materials.

“Please wait a moment, guest.”

The reception female cultivator said immediately upon hearing this.

She took out a jade slip and began to search for the various materials on the list for Lu Changsheng.

“Guest, our chamber of commerce currently has a piece of Obsidian Fine Iron and Blue Lotos Gold Wood.”

After a while, the female cultivator took out the jade slip and said to Lu Changsheng.

“Obsidian Fine Iron, Blue Lotos Gold Wood.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Changsheng’s face immediately showed joy.

He thought to himself, as expected of a major chamber of commerce in an immortal city.

They actually had two Tier 3 materials at once.

Moreover, this Obsidian Fine Iron was one of the most precious materials for refining the Nine-Nine Profound True Strategy.

He had thought that procuring Obsidian Fine Iron would be the most troublesome.

“May I know the price of these two materials?”

Lu Changsheng inquired.

“Obsidian Fine Iron, twenty-one thousand spirit stones.”

“Blue Lotos Gold Wood, thirteen thousand spirit stones.”

The reception female cultivator quoted the prices.

“Hiss.”

Even though Lu Changsheng was relatively wealthy, hearing this price, he couldn’t help but gasp.

Because this value was truly expensive.

At this rate, just purchasing the materials for the Nine-Nine Profound True Strategy talisman artifact alone would likely cost him sixty to seventy thousand spirit stones.

This price already exceeded the price of a spiritual artifact.

“Alright, bring me these two materials.”

Lu Changsheng said.

Even if it was expensive, there was nothing he could do.

After all, he was already here.

Furthermore, with the Nine-Nine Profound True Strategy talisman artifact, the power and methods of his talisman formation crafting from the Nine-Nine Profound Talisman Scripture would also reach a higher level.

Therefore, in Lu Changsheng’s view, this money was still worth it.

Immediately, the reception female cultivator invited him to a room.

There was a senior receptionist there to conduct the transaction with him.

For rare and expensive Tier 3 materials like these, ordinary receptionists did not have the authority to retrieve them from inventory.

“May I know if your esteemed chamber of commerce accepts talismans?”

After inspecting the two materials and preparing to pay, Lu Changsheng took out a stack of Tier 2 talismans and asked.

He had crafted many Tier 2 talismans during the more than three months he had been here.

This was to prevent the situation where he didn’t have enough spirit stones.

So, when paying now, he directly took out some talismans to use as a discount for spirit stones.

“Tier 2 spiritual talismans?”

The senior receptionist took the talismans and inspected them, then nodded, indicating that they would purchase them at 60% of the market price.

Upon hearing this, Lu Changsheng used thirty low-grade Tier 2 spiritual talismans and ten mid-grade Tier 2 spiritual talismans to get a discount of ten thousand eight hundred spirit stones.

After paying the remaining spirit stones, he left the Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce.

Subsequently, he went to various shops in Nine Heavens Immortal City, inquiring about other materials, Tier 3 talisman crafting materials.

The Nine Heavens Chamber of Commerce not selling Tier 3 talisman crafting materials externally didn’t mean that all shops didn’t sell them externally.

Moreover, Lu Changsheng also started inquiring about Tier 3 spiritual wood, Tier 3 spiritual blood, and other materials.

Since Tier 3 talisman crafting materials weren’t available for sale, he would purchase Tier 3 spiritual wood and Tier 3 spiritual blood himself to make talisman paper and spiritual ink.

After two days of purchasing in the Immortal City, Lu Changsheng had quite a harvest.

He purchased some Tier 3 talisman crafting materials and several rare medicinal herbs for alchemy.

He was also only one material short of completing the Nine-Nine Profound True Strategy materials.

“Auction?”

At this moment, Lu Changsheng learned a piece of news.

In a month and a half, there would be a semi-annual small auction in Nine Heavens Immortal City.

Upon hearing this news, he immediately became interested and felt that he could participate.

One reason was that there might be something he wanted at the auction.

Another reason was that after the auction, there would be a trading fair.

Cultivators could trade and sell among themselves.

In this kind of self-trading, exchanging items, rare items often appeared.

“However, before that, I need to earn some spirit stones.”

Lu Changsheng exhaled lightly.

His spirit stones were almost used up from the purchases over the past two days.

Therefore, to participate in the auction, he naturally had to prepare some spirit stones.

This trip, he had not only purchased a large amount of talisman crafting materials but also many alchemy materials.

These alchemy materials were enough for him to refine Qi Gathering Pills, Three Yang Pills, and a pile of other Tier 2 pills.

So Lu Changsheng planned to try out the Tier 2 alchemy skill he had drawn but never used during this period.

He would use this skill to replenish his storage bag.