Eternal Life: I Can Sell Everything

Chapter 232: Chapter 228: A Brand New Life, An Unexpected Encounter

In the end, Song Ciwan politely declined the Broker’s offer, but she did tip him with a bottle containing three Strengthening Pills.

Then, under the Broker’s enthusiastic guidance, she found a street that sold all sorts of Cultivation Materials.

The Broker received the tip and beamed, his smile so wide his eyes nearly disappeared. He became even more enthusiastic.

Song Ciwan decided to present her cultivation level as that of Xin Mian, an Early-Stage Qi Refining cultivator. This level was enough to earn the friendship and respect of most people she encountered.

She browsed around Sanpo Street, the one the Broker had pointed out. She sold fifty Fuyuan Pills for fifty Primordial Pearls and bought some common materials for Alchemy, Talisman Making, and Artifact Refining.

Among her purchases was a Low Level Alchemy Furnace.

They were all very basic items, and not in large quantities, costing a total of forty-three Primordial Pearls. The biggest expense by far was the Alchemy Furnace, which was valued at twenty-five Primordial Pearls.

Additionally, Song Ciwan bought some Demon Beast Flesh from a small stall, mainly Pork Demon flesh, but also some from a Raccoon Demon and a Snake Demon.

Through conversation, Song Ciwan learned that the Pork Demons slaughtered in the city were basically all farm-raised. Creatures like the Raccoon Demon and Snake Demon, however, generally had to be hunted in the mountains.

Low Level Demon Beasts didn’t have much intelligence and they reproduced quickly, so they provided most of the meat for the daily needs of the city’s Cultivators.

The meat vendor was named Tan the Fifth, a Martial Artist at the Organ Refining Stage.

He took the initiative to speak to Song Ciwan. "Senior, you have an exceptional bearing. The things on my stall, heh, I’m a bit embarrassed to say, but they’re not worthy of you. Senior, if you want to eat something truly good, you have to go to Pinyuan Residence! At Pinyuan Residence, they have everything—forget Low Level Demon Beast flesh, they even have Dragon Fish and Demon Pythons..."

Song Ciwan didn’t say anything, and just listened as Tan the Fifth chuckled. "If you go, Senior, mention my name, Tan the Fifth. You’ll get a ten percent discount!"

Song Ciwan couldn’t help but laugh. "Thank you, Brother Tan. The next time I have a chance to visit Pinyuan Residence, I’ll be sure to mention your name."

Tan the Fifth immediately threw in an extra Pork Demon bone for her and said joyfully, "Senior, you truly have exceptional taste! Please come again!"

’How interesting. A Martial Artist at the Organ Refining Stage could get a decent post in the Demon Slayer Guard back in Su Yang, but here in Pinglan City, he’s just a common street vendor, and perfectly content with it.’

Song Ciwan stored everything in her Storage Talisman and then, under the envious gazes of the other street vendors, returned to the small home she was renting in Erhu Lane.

’I have to admit, I’m so used to keeping a low profile that acting as a "senior" to a low-level cultivator for a change felt a little strange.’

’It was hard to describe the feeling, but it was as if she had found a new sense of inner harmony, a departure from her usual state of quiet solitude.’

After returning to her small courtyard, Song Ciwan first used a Dust-Clearing Talisman to clean the place inside and out. Then, she cast the Blazing Flame Technique, sending a wave of fire through the entire courtyard.

She truly managed to burn only the air without damaging any of the furniture. The skill was so superb and her control so precise that one could only say it was truly the Blazing Flame Technique at the level of Mastery.

But even after the sweeping and burning were done, Song Ciwan wasn’t finished.

She sold another Primordial Longevity Pearl to the Heaven and Earth Scale and received ten Ancestral Dragon Coins in return.

Taking out three of the coins, Song Ciwan performed Divination six times, focusing on her small courtyard home.

In the end, the Divination revealed that something seemed amiss near the well on the right side of the courtyard.

Song Ciwan immediately mobilized her divine power, instantly prompting the Divine Eye Opening within her Sea of Consciousness!

The divine gaze instantly pierced through layers of physical obstructions, not only sweeping over the entire courtyard but also scanning a messy pile of rubble buried deep beneath the well.

Passing through the rubble, the divine gaze continued to penetrate downward. After another fifty or sixty feet, with a soft *POP*, the gaze suddenly sank as if it had passed through a special membrane—Song Ciwan sensed it was some kind of natural barrier.

’What is it?’

The True Qi in Song Ciwan’s body was being rapidly consumed, and she quickly swallowed a Red Sun Pill.

Then, Song Ciwan saw the object buried deep underground.

It was a mass of icy-blue mist, buried deep within the earth. At first glance, it looked like a ball of fog, or perhaps a swirling mass of ice water, and it emanated an indescribably extreme chill.

Song Ciwan only glanced at it for a moment longer, but the divinity in her Sea of Consciousness felt a stinging pain, as if it were about to be frozen solid.

She subconsciously took a step back. The divinity in her Sea of Consciousness closed its eyes, and a stabbing pain shot down through her, jolting Song Ciwan into immediately casting a Ganlin Spell on herself.

But it seemed to have little effect. As the fine, dense rain of the spell fell upon Song Ciwan, she was so cold she shivered uncontrollably.

One had to understand, she now possessed the Body of Impermanence. Her constitution was so strong that even polar ice would not necessarily be able to give her frostbite.

Who knew what kind of treasure was buried deep in the earth by the well. Just inspecting it from a distance possessed such incredible power.

Song Ciwan retreated two more steps, then immediately sat cross-legged on the steps under the eaves. She circulated the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting to thoroughly dispel the chill from her body.

As the chill receded, the stabbing pain in Song Ciwan’s mind also began to fade.

She stood up, her gaze fixed on the well in the corner of the courtyard, feeling shocked and uncertain.

’I have to say, fate is truly unpredictable. I just casually rented a house and ended up discovering something like this in the courtyard.’

Song Ciwan mulled it over for a moment. ’I feel like a child who’s just found a treasure chest on the side of the road,’ she thought. ’But the treasure is covered in sharp spikes. It’s too dangerous to handle, and puts me in an awkward position.’

’But to find a treasure and not take it... how is that any different from letting a gift from the heavens go to waste?’

’I have to come up with a plan, prepare proper protection, and then make my move.’

Song Ciwan wasn’t in a rush, however. She finished cleaning the courtyard, arranged the house a little, and then started a fire for a housewarming meal.

There was no one to accompany her. The Big White Goose was still in the Spirit Beast Bag, seemingly in a deep sleep for advancement, but Song Ciwan didn’t feel lonely.

She took out her Profound Iron Wok, made a crispy fried Pork Demon chop, and cooked some Spirit Rice. Yes, they sold Spirit Rice on Sanpo Street. The price was a bit steep, at ten taels of gold for a pound of Spirit Rice.

A single Primordial Pearl was worth about a hundred taels of gold, so Song Ciwan spent One Yuan Pearl to buy ten pounds of Spirit Rice.

She also stir-fried a few vegetable dishes and steamed a bowl of egg custard. The vegetable dishes were placed on the table, while the crispy fried chop was traded to the Heaven and Earth Scale.

And then something interesting happened. The crispy fried chop, made from Low Level Pork Demon ingredients, actually sold to the Heaven and Earth Scale for two Qi Circulation Pills!

She recalled how the stir-fried intestines she used to make from Pork Demon offal would usually only sell for a single Strengthening Pill per serving. The price of a Qi Circulation Pill was a full three times that of a Strengthening Pill!

’They’re both from a Low Level Pork Demon. Are chops that much more noble than intestines?’

’Fine, I’ll just assume chops are more valuable. After all, I have to pay for the chops, whereas the pig offal I brought back from the Demon Refining Platform was usually free.’

Looking at the return on investment, however, Song Ciwan felt as if she could see a brand-new path to riches glittering before her eyes.

’With returns like this, why even bother learning Alchemy?’

’Of course, I can’t let the Supreme Alchemy Skill go to waste. It’s always better to master a skill yourself. Since I’ve obtained this Ultimate Skill, there’s no way I’m not going to study it properly.’

She quickly finished her meal. Once the afternoon sun was no longer so bright, she set out again.

This time, Song Ciwan planned to go to the Wangjiang Cave Mansion to find Xie Yunxiang.

First, she needed to divide the Primordial Longevity Pearls with him according to their agreed-upon ratio. Second, Song Ciwan also needed to sell some Primordial Longevity Pearls through Xie Yunxiang’s channels.

Furthermore, Song Ciwan wanted to see if it was still possible to rent a space at the Wangjiang Cave Mansion.

Her Heaven and Earth Scale still held many of Gao Xiaolang’s Mysterious Ghost Spirits. Selling them casually in the outside world didn’t seem very profitable. If she could trade them within the cave mansion, the returns might be better.