Chapter 69: 059: Luo Bing’s Mishap!
The Respectable Fish Selling Guy!
(Big chapter for monthly ticket updates)_1 Chapter 69: 059: Luo Bing’s Mishap!
The Respectable Fish Selling Guy!
(Big chapter for monthly ticket updates)_1 Upon receiving instructions from Chen Dengming.
Jiang Qiang began peddling the Reed Beetle Gu and Stone Gu all over the city to draw Boss Hu’s attention.
Chen Dengming had moved to another inn and stayed behind the scenes.
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During this period, he changed his accommodations frequently among over ten inns in the city.
It was the best way to maximize the impact of the Soul Snatching Array.
However, his daily expenses were not small.
In just ten days, accommodation fees, inn charges, three meals a day made of Spirit Rice, and the Spirit Stones consumed for activating the formation and others, had already depleted twenty-five of his Spirit Stones.
If he continued to spend at this rate, even without buying a medium-grade Magic Artifact, he could only hold on for more than two months.
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A few days later.
Yet another group of haggard and disheveled cultivators entered the Brocade Mill in a pitiful state, resulting in a shortage of sleeping spaces in the streets and alleys of the Brocade Mill at night.
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Some starving cultivators even started quarrels over the territories to stay overnight.
It proved that when a person’s existence is threatened, all rules and morals may be completely forgotten.
The consequence of their impulsivity was to be directly expelled from the Brocade Mill, adding insult to injury.
However, the cultivators in the Jingxiu Workshop brought another tension-filled news again.
The Zhu and Luo Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators formally clashed two days ago, and it temporarily ended in a draw.
The conflict between the two cultivation families stopped in the Snow Silver Mine Area, falling into a stalemate.
Obviously, after losing the secret copper mine area, Luo Family could not tolerate the loss of Snow Silver Mine any longer.
Luo Family patriarch had no choice but to take action himself.
However, many people could see that the Luo Family was already at the end of their tether at this point.
After all, the Luo Family patriarch was too old, while the Zhu Family patriarch was in his prime.
Both being in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, the Luo Family patriarch was not able to gain the upper hand in his first attempt, and so the Zhu Family patriarch had figured his strength out.
This first confrontation could just be a probe; the next time they faced off, it could perhaps be the moment to decide the final outcome.
“Hard times are here, it’s a struggle for cultivation families, and the loose cultivators have it even harder…”
Upon receiving the news he wanted, Chen Dengming walked out of the tavern with a furrowed brow.
Now that the Luo Family was at a disadvantage in their conflict with the Zhu Family, he was somewhat worried about Xu Wei’s safety.
However, even if he is worried, it’s useless.
Besides, Xu Wei living with the Luo Family is safer than him wandering about.
After all, Luo Family still had Luo Bing as their future hope.
Failure to break through to Foundation Establishment with a top-grade spiritual root once means nothing, there is still a great chance to make it on a second attempt.
Even if Zhu Family drove them back by competing for resources, they would only expel them, but they wouldn’t dare to kill them off unless Zhu Family patriarch could eliminate Luo Bing along with them, leaving no room for recovery.
Back when Luo Family and Luo Family joined forces to drive back Zhu Family, they only took control of the resource points and didn’t drive them to desperation.
Desperate adversaries are unpredictable, and the Zhu Family has children in other immortal’s gateways as well.
Although their talents are not as outstanding as Luo Bing’s, who could foresee the future achievements of those children as long as they don’t get eliminated?
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After leaving the tavern, Chen Dengming inconspicuously went to the corner of the market and observed Jiang Qiang selling the Gu.
Over these days, Jiang Qiang had already earned more than a dozen lower-grade Spirit Stones through selling Gu.
Especially since the refugee loose cultivators from the gathering place came, all of them were knowledgeable practitioners.
These people felt insecure in unfamiliar places, so naturally, they were willing to purchase Gu objects once they saw Jiang Qiang selling them.
The cultivators in the Jingxiu Workshop might not be interested in fake Gu, so the sales had always been low.
But almost all the cultivators from the gathering place had used genuine Reed Beetle Gu and Stone Gu before.
In the combat of the cultivators at the lower levels of Qi Cultivation 1 and 2, such Gu objects don’t show an immediate effect, yet they play a helpful role and are difficult to defend against.
After all, ordinary poisons have no effect on cultivators with Spirit Energy, but the poison of these mortal Gu does pose a threat to them and forces them to use up their Spirit Energy to resist it.
As soon as Chen Dengming arrived at the market, he saw Jiang Qiang in the opposite street corner driving away his customers.
“They’re all sold out, they’re all gone.
The remainder was all bought by this valued buyer.
Please understand, come back tomorrow!” After thanking everyone with a smile and a fist, Jiang Qiang packed up his stall, glanced at the location where Chen Dengming was, and turned around and left.
“Sold out so fast?
All bought by one person?”
Chen Dengming glanced at the dispersing crowd, amongst whom a man with a goatee was carrying a bag of pouches.
He couldn’t help but get interested.
The one who bought a large quantity of Gu all at once was most likely Boss Hu.
He noticed that just before the cultivator left, he exchanged a look with somebody, and immediately two cultivators appeared in the corner, following Jiang Qiang from a distance.
After seeing this, Chen Dengming was even more sure that they were Boss Hu’s men.
There have been people shadowing Jiang Qiang for the past few days, attempting to find the person supplying him with these Gu objects.
But ever since he decided to let Jiang Qiang sell Gu objects, he hadn’t met Jiang Qiang again and had only secretly placed the Gu objects in Jiang Qiang’s room before leaving each time.
Naturally, these followers have not been able to achieve their goals to this day.
However, seeing the other party buying all Gu objects in one go, Chen Dengming understood that Boss Hu likely couldn’t sit still any longer.
It was about time for him to meet this old acquaintance.
Because this batch of mortal Gu was the last remaining stock in his hands.
With his current Gu Refining skill, it would take at least three days to refine the next batch of Gu objects.
He glanced in Jiang Qiang’s direction, knowing the latter would lead the two men on a wild goose chase.
He immediately disappeared into the alley, closely following the cultivator with the goatee and a bag of pouches from a distance.