Chapter 1096 The So-Called Noble

Finally, they asked for a room in the Xianlin Guild Hall, and Li Chuyi and his friends had a place to stay in the imperial city.

Xianlin Guild Hall is indeed one of the top inns in the imperial capital. The room here is more like a cave than a room. Although the area is not as large as the Mu family's house, it is more than enough to accommodate Li Chuyi and his friends, and even three or five more people.

The cave is fully equipped with various things, not to mention the quiet room for cultivation and the martial arts arena. There is even a large backyard for guests to relax. The alchemy room and the refining room are not only well-equipped, but also filled with various related classics on the bookshelves. The storage shelves and lockers are also prepared with various spiritual materials and herbs for guests to use. There are many rare treasures on the market, and all consumption will be settled together with the room fee at check-out according to the market price.

Li Chuyi is not good at the instrument way, and has no affinity with the alchemy way. Facing these two rooms full of good things, he can only drool and stare.

However, what Li Chuyi likes most is not the two refining rooms, but the spirit gathering array in this cave.

The spirit gathering array arranged by Xianlin Club is of very high quality. The effect of aura condensation is not only more than 50% higher than the common spirit gathering array outside, but also has an excellent effect of purifying spirit stones.

As we all know, although the spirit in the spirit stone is rich, it is not suitable for direct absorption. For the spirit of heaven and earth, the spirit in the spirit stone is extremely pure, but for cultivators, especially human cultivators, too pure spirit will produce incompatibility with the cultivator's mana, which is what people often call impurities.

To absorb the spirit of the spirit stone, you need to refine it with your own practice, so that this incompatibility is reduced to the minimum before you can incorporate it into the dantian and circulate it as your own mana. If the amount is small, it is not a problem to absorb it directly without refining. Once the amount absorbed exceeds the limit that the cultivator can bear, the meridians of the cultivator will be damaged due to the disorder of mana, and then various unpredictable and terrible consequences will occur, and these consequences can be simply summarized in four words - going astray.

Xianlin Guild Hall saves most of the trouble for the cultivators. The spirit gathering array here can refine the spirit energy of the spirit stone in advance according to the characteristics of the cultivator's mana during the process of releasing the spirit energy of the spirit stone, instead of just roughly releasing the spirit energy in the spirit stone like the ordinary spirit gathering array.

This kind of refining is not perfect, it can only be regarded as rough refining. The cultivator still needs to refine it by himself in the end to make the spirit energy completely for his own use, but this process undoubtedly saves a lot of time and greatly speeds up the cultivator's practice speed.

The most important thing is that the rough refining of this spirit gathering array consumes very little spirit energy, so little that it is almost the same as the consumption of the cultivator's own refining.

Many spirit gathering arrays usually do not add the part used to refine the spirit stone not because the array setter does not know how to do it, but because the array setter's array attainment is too low, or they do not have a good spirit refining array. A low-quality spirit refining array will waste a lot of spiritual energy in the process of refining, and the highest one can even consume as much as 70%.

Spirit stones are precious, both as hard currency and for cultivation. Even the most prodigal son may not be willing to waste several percent of his spirit stones just to save effort.

So Li Chuyi fell in love with this place as soon as he entered the door, not for himself, but for his companions.

Not everyone can eat spirit stones raw like him without any harm, at most they will have a stomachache for a few days. If Li Sinian and others learn from him, it will not be as simple as a stomachache. He will just wait to visit their graves every year on this day.

With the spirit gathering array here, plus the large amount of spirit stones in their hands, the cultivation speed of several companions will undoubtedly be greatly accelerated.

Especially Li Sinian, who has already stepped half a foot into the tribulation, and what he lacks is just a little understanding of the Tao. The accumulation of mana was originally a problem, but now it is obviously not a problem.

"Very good!"

Patting the soft couch beside him, Li Chuyi nodded to the waiter with satisfaction.

"Can I survive the tribulation here?"

"Huh?"

The waiter was about to flatter him, but Li Chuyi said this and he was stunned.

"I said can I survive the tribulation?"

Li Chuyi repeated it patiently.

"Survive the tribulation, the heavenly tribulation, the crackling heavenly tribulation, can it withstand it here?"

The waiter almost cried.

There are people who come to their store to practice meditation and break through the realm, but this is the first time he has encountered someone who comes here to survive the tribulation.

The problem is, for such a big event as the tribulation, don't you find a remote and secret place? How can you survive the tribulation in an inn!

With the falling of the sky fire and thunder, where is the Xianlin Hall? Just change it to the funeral venue!

But thinking about the shopkeeper's instructions, the waiter didn't dare to refuse directly, and could only say with a sad face: "Well, sir, I really don't know your question. How about you wait a moment, I'll ask the shopkeeper and then get back to you?"

Without making things difficult for him, Li Chuyi nodded gently: "Okay, go ahead, but don't be so troublesome, just call your shopkeeper, I still have a lot of questions to ask, so you don't have to run back and forth without knowing it!"

"Then sir, please wait a moment, I'll be back soon!"

After saying that, the waiter ran away, and soon brought a kind man with a big belly, and behind the man followed an acquaintance he had just met.

Seeing the man, Li Chuyi was slightly stunned, and then nodded in understanding.

When the shopkeeper came, he didn't dare to speak. He bowed to Li Chuyi and the others, then asked the man behind him to come to him, and stood silently with his hands behind his back, looking like he was following the lead.

"I thought it was arranged by the Mu family, but it was you."

Hearing Li Chuyi's words, Nalan Guangcheng smiled slightly, but did not answer. Instead, he pointed to the chair next to the soft couch: "Sit down first, sit down and talk."

Without being polite, Li Chuyi sat down.

Nalan Guangcheng sat on the other side, and after the shopkeeper personally brewed the fragrant tea and handed it to the two of them, he smiled and spoke.

"I thought you would turn around and leave without hesitation after seeing me."

Li Chuyi curled his lips and said in a speechless manner: "Please, I have a bad temper, but I am not stupid. Almost all industries in the imperial capital are controlled by you people. Even if I sleep on the street, it may be the property of one of you. Unless I live outside the city, how can I not deal with you! I just didn't expect that Xianlin Guild Hall belongs to your Nalan family. I thought it was the property of the Mu family. I wanted to move in to disgust them, but now it seems that there is no hope."

Nalan Guangcheng laughed dumbly at the straightforward words, and shook his head gently: "If the elders of the Mu family heard you, they would definitely be angry again."

"Let them be angry, their lungs grow in their own stomachs, and they have to let me treat them when they are in trouble?"

"You kid, you are really... hehe."

Nalan Guangcheng nodded helplessly at Li Chuyi and said: "But you are wrong about one thing. Xianlin Guild Hall is indeed our Nalan family, but the land here belongs to the Mu family, so this place can also be said to be the Mu family. The Nalan family is just helping them manage their business." The little fat man wondered: "Why don't the Mu family manage the land themselves? It's not like the land is not profitable, and the Mu family doesn't lack manpower. Are you sick?" "It's profitable, but it has a bad reputation." Seeing Li Chuyi puzzled, Nalan Guangcheng explained: "In the eyes of outsiders, the restaurants and inns in the imperial capital are all golden nests, and even the worst stores make a lot of money every day, but what you don't know is that in Dayan's tradition, restaurants and inns are considered cheap. Even if you decorate the store with gold and jade as if it were a royal Like the palace, in the end, you are still doing the business of serving people. No matter how much money you make, your status will not be very high. You can show off in front of ordinary people, but when facing people with status, such as the old and powerful family like the Mu family or officials and generals with public office, you will naturally be half a head shorter. So you can make money, but you can't make it yourself. You need to find a merchant family like our Nalan family first, so as not to lose your status. "

"Fuck him, Taoist priest, isn't this still sick? !"

Li Chuyi rolled his eyes wildly.

"According to this logic, there is no noble business in the world except being an official! Pawnshops, auction houses, gold and jade shops, treasure pavilions, and exchanges for various treasures, aren't these all dealing with people? They are all cheap jobs!"

"No. "

Nalan Guangcheng shook his head. "Some of the things you mentioned are cheap businesses, but pawnshops, auction houses, and treasure houses are not, because the subject of their transactions is goods rather than services. They serve people in order to sell their goods, while restaurants and inns simply serve people and sell our services. Compared with other businesses, we are somewhat similar to the swindlers who get something for nothing. The difference is that we are not empty-handed, but we have spent varying amounts of money to set up such a place to satisfy the guests, so it is considered a legitimate business. However, compared with businesses such as auction houses and treasure houses, it is understandable that restaurants and inns are classified as cheap businesses, whether in terms of the amount of profit or in terms of nature."

"That's not right! Inns are fine, but how can restaurants be considered? I go to restaurants to eat, not to get services. They serve good wine and good food. Come on, what you sell is also goods!"

"It is goods, but how much do you spend on buying vegetables on the street, and how much do you spend on eating in a restaurant? Besides, if you see a treasure at an auction house, as long as you really want to buy it, you will buy it even if the waiter who receives you has a bad attitude, and at most you will curse a few words and sulk after buying it. But if you go to a restaurant to eat, will you still eat there if the waiter has a bad attitude? You will definitely change to another restaurant, because the ingredients used in different restaurants are the same, and the difference in taste is not unbearable, but the treasures are different. Some treasures are unique, and you can't buy them in other restaurants if you are angry and don't buy them. And this is why only the service staff of restaurants and inns are called waiters, and other trades are called waiters. The two titles themselves reflect the difference in status. "

"What kind of nonsense is this!"

Li Chuyi waved his hands irritably.

It's okay that people are divided into different levels, and even trades are the same. He really can't figure out what those so-called nobles are thinking.

Want to make money but think it's dirty, be a whore but want to be a saint, if you have the time to think about these messy crooked ideas, why not do something serious?

The Taoist priest often said that he laughed at the poor but not at the prostitutes. He thought that these so-called nobles were used to a good life and were all bored.

"This is a tradition since ancient times, you don't need to worry about it." Seeing what Li Chuyi was thinking, Nalan Guangcheng smiled.

"Bullshit tradition, it's just sick!"

Rolling his eyes, the fat man cursed viciously.