Chapter 69: Bailongshan Conference
After handing over a spiritual stone at the gate of the market, Song Qingming quickly entered the Bailongshan Market. Although there were many guards at the gate of the market, their inspection was unexpectedly lax. Not to mention verifying the identity of the registered monks, they were too lazy to issue even the identity tokens representing the monks.
After walking into the market, Song Qingming still couldn't believe that this was the famous Bailongshan Market. He didn't understand why the managers here were so casual.
The Bailongshan Market was slightly larger than Qinghefang. There were two rows of shops on the same street, but the east-west street was much longer than Qinghefang. There were about two hundred shops in the whole market.
However, it looked much more prosperous than Qinghefang. The large number of monks coming and going on the street made Song Qingming, who was in Bailongshan Market, feel like he was back in Guiyunfang.
It took Song Qingming a long time to get to the Bailong Mountain Market. After traveling for seven or eight days, he was a little tired and wanted to find an inn to stay in.
Seeing the people on the street, Song Qingming walked around the street, asked for information, and then walked directly to an inn in the middle of the street.
The inn was unusually lively and noisy. There were already many monks talking with several waiters in the inn. It seemed that they were all monks who had just arrived here.
Song Qingming looked around the inn and found that a waiter in front had just served a guest. Seeing that the waiter sent the guest to the back hall with a smile and handed him over to another monk in the inn, Song Qingming hurried over without hesitation.
After arriving next to the waiter, Song Qingming immediately asked directly: "Fellow Daoist, please ask, are there any vacant caves on the mountain for short-term rental?"
This waiter is also a cultivator. Although he looks no younger than Song Qingming, his cultivation is still low, only the third level of Qi Refining. At first glance, he is a person with no hope of becoming a Taoist.
Seeing that there are more people coming to rent a cave, the waiter immediately said enthusiastically: "Fellow Daoist, are you also here to participate in the Bailong Mountain Conference? Fortunately, you came early. There are still many vacant caves on the mountain. However, even if the caves here are rented for a short period of time, they must be rented for at least one month. I hope you know this."
"As long as there are caves, then arrange for me to rent them for one month first." Seeing so many cultivators renting caves in this store, Song Qingming also knew that these people must be like him and are also here to participate in this Bailong Mountain Conference.
The Bailongshan Conference will be held in about half a month. There will definitely be many cultivators coming here. There will definitely be more and more people renting caves. Fortunately, he set out early and arrived here earlier, so he didn't have to worry about this matter.
"Our Bailongshan caves are divided into three types: high, medium and low. I don't know what kind of cave you need. I see that although you look young, your cultivation should be about to break through the late stage of Qi training. If you want to live more comfortably, I recommend that you choose the intermediate cave rented by cultivators in the late stage of Qi training.
This type of cave is closer to the top of the mountain, and the spiritual energy is more abundant. It is much richer than the spiritual energy in the market, and it will definitely not affect your daily practice. Although the price of renting this kind of cave will be higher, it will not be too expensive. Only five low-grade spirit stones are needed per month."
Song Qingming smiled and said, "Although your cultivation is not high, your eyesight is quite extraordinary. I was surprised that you can see my cultivation so quickly. . But I am here to buy spiritual objects and will not stay for too long, so you don't need to waste the intermediate cave house on me. I can just rent a low-level cave house. "
Seeing that Song Qingming did not listen to his advice, the guy's face gradually became a little ugly, and then he said indifferently: "There are low-level cave houses now, just to the west of the market, and three spiritual stones are required every month. As long as you pay the spiritual stones, you can get the cave house restrictions and live in it directly.
However, the spiritual energy in the primary cave house will be much thinner, which may not be enough for you, the higher-level Qi training cultivators, to practice. If you want to change the cave house, you are welcome to come to me at any time. "
After paying two spiritual stones, Song Qingming took a white jade talisman given by the guy and left here soon.
The Bailongshan market is not as big as Guiyuanfang. Song Qingming did not spend much time to find the cave house he rented to the west of the market.
After living in the cave, Song Qingming sensed the spiritual energy here and felt it was okay. The spiritual energy was much more abundant than that in the market. Although it was not enough for him to practice, it would not affect him too much. Besides, he would leave here in more than half a month at most.
Bailong Mountain was originally a second-level upper-grade spiritual mountain. The high-level caves on the top of the mountain were extremely rich in spiritual energy, enough for seven or eight foundation-building cultivators to practice together at the same time.
The hundreds of intermediate caves built at the bottom of the mountain were also prepared for those late-stage Qi-refining cultivators who came here. Now that the Bailong Mountain Conference is approaching, there must be many high-level cultivators there.
Song Qingming, whose cultivation is still in the middle stage of Qi-refining, would inevitably attract the attention of some interested late-stage Qi-refining cultivators if he lived there. Now he had nearly a thousand spiritual stones, including the three hundred spiritual stones given to him by Xu Ziyan. Therefore, in order to be more cautious, he chose to live in a safer low-level cave.
After all, Bailong Mountain is not as safe as Guiyunfang. Although there are foundation-building monks on the mountain and monks are prohibited from fighting in the market, the monks who come here are mixed. Many of them look very kind on the surface, but they may be those who kill without blinking an eye.
On the second day, Song Qingming left the cave he rented early in the morning and bought some spiritual rice from a small shop in the market. He also asked about the specific time of the Bailong Mountain Conference.
With the shop owner's introduction, Song Qingming slowly learned some specific circumstances of the Bailong Mountain Conference.
Since the establishment of the Bailong Mountain Market, a Bailong Mountain Conference has been held in the market almost every five years. At each conference, the Bailong Mountain monks will release many rare spiritual objects that are difficult to buy in ordinary markets.
Every Bailong Mountain Conference will attract many nearby monks and casual cultivators from other places in Weiguo.
However, the time of each conference held by Bailong Mountain is not very fixed. Before each conference, people will only release the news of the conference in the market one or two months in advance.
After the monks who come and go slowly spread the news, a large number of independent cultivators will soon come here to participate in the Bailong Mountain Conference.
When the conference begins, Bailong Mountain will also open the mountain protection formation, completely close the mountain, and prohibit all cultivators from entering and leaving until the end of the conference.
With this practice, there will naturally be many cultivators like Song Qingming who are afraid of missing the conference and rush here more than half a month in advance, making Fangshi more prosperous than usual.
The cultivators who come here will go to the market when they have nothing to do. In this way, even if the income from the conference is not counted, the income of each store in Fangshi will be several times higher than usual in just one or two months.
The influx of a large number of cultivators will also make the caves on Bailong Mountain rented out, which will also bring a lot of income to Bailong Mountain.