Chapter 390: The Master of the Restaurant

Once he became a free cultivator again, without the support behind him, even Li Qing felt a little uncomfortable for a while.

He might be bound by some rules in the sect, but it was much better than the life of a lonely person now.

However, things have already happened. Since there is no way to change it, Li Qing can only try his best to adapt.

Next, he rested in the territory of Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce for several days. After his injuries recovered a lot, Li Qing decided to go out and start collecting some information about the Great Wilderness.

"Although I have become a lonely person, I still have to live."

"What are you cultivating when you cultivate the Tao? It's nothing more than fighting for your way through this road."

Li Qing sighed, with mixed feelings in his heart.

The peaceful life of cultivation was broken by Shangqing Sect and Chi Mo Clan, and the next journey was destined to become bumpy.

As a free cultivator, Li Qing naturally understood how difficult this road was.

The only good news now is that he is already a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, and his combat power is not bad. With all the means on his body, he can fight even if he encounters an opponent in the late stage of foundation building.

At least he has a certain ability to protect himself, not as weak as in the previous Qi Refining Stage.

After leaving the territory of Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce, Li Qing wandered around and walked around Xiangyang City.

"First of all, we have to find a suitable spiritual vein. No matter what, cultivation must not be delayed."

"Only the improvement of one's own strength is the real meaning. No matter what you want to do in the future, you can't do without your own cultivation."

In this way, Li Qing wandered around the city alone for a long time, and finally found a restaurant where many immortal cultivators gathered.

Li Qing deeply understood that as a casual cultivator, he must make more friends with other cultivators and broaden his network of information.

Especially when he knows nothing about the surrounding area now, he must get more information, and at the very least, he must ask where there are spiritual vein caves available for rent nearby.

This building is open to the wind. As soon as Li Qing walked in, a mortal servant came up to him with a flattering smile on his face.

"Master, please come in!" The servant was very perceptive. Although he was just a mortal without spiritual roots, he immediately saw Li Qing's identity as a cultivator from the storage bag and beast bag hanging on Li Qing's waist.

Li Qing nodded slightly, and then followed the servant to the second floor of the restaurant. The view here was wide, and he could see the scenes of several streets in the city.

At this time, many cultivators had already sat down in the restaurant, talking loudly in groups of three or five.

"Master, what kind of wine do you want to drink? We have it in Huafeng Building."

As the servant reported a series of wine and dish names, Li Qing smiled lightly and said, "Let's have a pot of Eight Immortals Brew, and a dish of cold braised treasure chicken."

"Okay, Master, wait a moment!" The servant said neatly.

While waiting quietly, Li Qing closed his eyes slightly, and with the help of his keen hearing, he took in all the loud discussions of the monks around him.

"If you ask me, the Moon-Chu Palace has been in seclusion for so long, and this time it actually went to war against the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty for a female disciple. This matter is definitely not that simple."

"Could it be that the Moon-Chu Palace also wants to attack the declining Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty? That's really a case of everyone pushing down when the wall falls."

"How could it be? The Moon-Chu Palace has never participated in any disputes between forces. This time there must be something else going on."

"Hehe, maybe the identity of that female disciple is not simple? You know, the Moon-Chu Palace has not selected a new saint for nearly a hundred years. It's about time for the new saint to be born, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the monks in the entire restaurant turned their attention to the monk who made the conclusion about the saint, and even Li Qing was no exception.

"Brother, do you know something? Please tell me quickly!"

"Yes, yes, you can tell me more. Could it be that the female disciple is the newly selected saint of Zhuyue Palace?"

It can only be said that everyone has a gossipy heart. Faced with such secrets, even immortal cultivators are not immune.

"Well, what can I, a mere mountain man, know? I'm just guessing."

The person who said this was a middle-aged Taoist who looked like an old charlatan, with a goatee and a green Taoist robe.

"Waiter, quickly give this Taoist a pot of Eight Immortals Brew, so that this Taoist can tell us about it."

"Okay! A pot of Eight Immortals Brew!"

Soon, the servant came up with two pots of Eight Immortals Brew and a plate of cold braised treasure chicken, and his movements were very neat and tidy.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's the matter? I haven't lived long enough, how dare I discuss the secrets of the Moon-Chasing Palace and the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty." The middle-aged Taoist priest pretended to be terrified.

However, the others laughed loudly and said, "Drunk talk is careless, and the wind blows it away! Taoist priest, just say whatever you want, we are all casual cultivators."

"Yes, what kind of forces are the Moon-Chasing Palace and the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty? How could they care about us?"

"Besides, our Julu Prefecture is the territory of the Ghost Sword Sect, far away from the Moon-Chasing Palace. Taoist priest, what are you afraid of? Are you trying to avoid drinking?"

As the casual cultivators talked to each other, the middle-aged Taoist priest picked up the wine pot and drank a sip.

"Ha, then we have to start with the tradition of the Moon-Chu Palace. It is said that there are two criteria for the selection of the Saint of the Moon-Chu Palace. The first is to win over other candidate Saints, and the second is to resonate with a strange moonstone in the palace."

"Only when these two conditions are met at the same time can one become the Saint of the Moon-Chu Palace. Neither is indispensable!"

"This is also the reason why no new Saint has been born in the past hundred years. However, there was a rumor a year ago that the inherited moonstone of the Moon-Chu Palace had an abnormal movement!"

"You know, every generation of the Saint of the Moon-Chu Palace can eventually become the Palace Master, so why did the declining Guhua Immortal Dynasty dare to provoke the Moon-Chu Palace at this time?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone began to imagine.

Li Qing, who was standing aside, just drank the Eight Immortals Wine served to him alone, and tasted a mouthful of delicious dishes from time to time.

Of course, he did not miss a word of the conversations of these cultivators, and heard them all in his mind.

After a long time, Li Qing finally had a certain understanding of the basic pattern of the Great Wilderness.

Guhua Immortal Dynasty!

Once an extremely prosperous immortal cultivation dynasty, in its most glorious period, its territory even spanned nearly half of the Great Wilderness.

Almost every generation of emperors were cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage!

Unfortunately, there is no power that never sets. In the following years, Guhua Immortal Dynasty gradually declined, while many heroes emerged in the Great Wilderness, and powerful immortal cultivation forces such as Ghost Sword Sect emerged one after another.

In this situation of a pack of wolves devouring tigers, the complete defeat of Guhua Immortal Dynasty was almost inevitable.

Now the hero of the immortal dynasty has entered his old age, but among the offspring born in these years, either there is no spiritual root, or the spiritual root qualification is extremely poor!

If it was in the heyday in the past, this was not a big problem. As long as he had the spiritual root qualification, Guhua Immortal Dynasty could rely on a large number of immortal cultivation resources to turn a prince into a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage!

If one is not enough, then two or three, for the prosperous immortal dynasty, it is just a small problem.

But the current Guhua Immortal Dynasty can no longer afford such an exaggerated consumption of resources.

Among the descendants of the emperor of the Guhua Immortal Dynasty, the one with the highest cultivation level is only in the early stage of Jindan, and this is the result of consuming a lot of resources. The prince has used so many spiritual objects needed for Jindan alone!

If it were to be spread out, it would definitely make some cultivators in the foundation-building period feel dizzy.

"It's sad and lamentable that the Guhua Immortal Dynasty, which once suppressed the righteous and evil ways to the point that they could not match them even if they joined forces, actually had to rely on this method to survive."

"Insert the princess into the Zhuyue Palace to compete for the position of the saint, and want to use this to win over a powerful ally. If they can use this method, it seems that the Guhua Immortal Dynasty is really at the end of the road."

"Master, who are you? You even have such a secret..."

Just when someone wanted to pay attention to the identity of the middle-aged Taoist priest, they found that he had disappeared since some time.

Even Li Qing was slightly stunned, and then he realized that he must have met a master of the game world in the tavern today!

"No wonder he can tell so many secrets so clearly." Li Qing muttered to himself.

At this moment, he truly realized how extraordinary the foundation of the Great Wilderness Domain was.

In the past, it was rare to see a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage in the Qingling Domain, and almost every top force here has a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage.

Even if you find a tavern to drink anywhere, you can bump into this kind of game world, and the master who tells the secrets in detail, which is almost impossible to happen in the Qingling Domain.

"This domain is really wonderful, but such wonderfulness is also accompanied by a lot of dangers that can kill people at any time. I have to be more cautious in the future."

Thinking so in his heart, Li Qing had already eaten up all the spiritual wine and dishes.

He knocked on the table and called the waiter to settle the bill.

"This immortal master, I will charge you a total of 26 spiritual stones!"

So expensive!

This was almost Li Qing's first reaction, but he didn't show any expression on his face, but calmly took out thirty spiritual stones.

"I have something to ask you. If your answer can satisfy me, these four spiritual stones will be rewarded to you." Li Qing said softly.

As soon as these words came out, the servant's eyes lit up instantly.

"Master, I don't know if you have any questions, just ask!"

"I will tell you everything I know."

Li Qing nodded and asked:

"I have just arrived in this city not long ago, and now I want to find a spiritual vein cave to settle down. Is there a suitable place nearby?"

The servant quickly answered: "Yes, our Xiangyang City has attracted the spiritual energy of several spiritual veins with formations, and the caves on those spiritual veins are also rented out!"

"Master, if you want to rent a cave, I suggest going to the several spiritual peaks south of the city. Not only can you live in seclusion and practice, but there is also a market for daily transactions for immortal masters, and even many immortal masters in the foundation-building period will appear!"

South of the city.

Li Qing silently kept this in mind. It seems that he has to find time to go there later.

"Yes, that's right. I heard that there is a Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce in the west of the city. I plan to go to Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce next. I don't know how reputable this chamber of commerce is. Tell me what you know about this chamber of commerce."

This is to inquire about the background of Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce. After all, living in someone else's place, Li Qing must find out the ins and outs of this chamber of commerce.

"This is a long story. In fact, Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce is quite famous in our Xiangyang City and has been established for a long time."

"There is no need to worry about the reputation. After all, if the reputation is not good enough, the reputation will not be as loud as it is today."

"As for Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce, it must be said that it started seven years ago. At that time, the person in charge of the Chamber of Commerce was Senior Mo Weifeng, a cultivator in the foundation-building stage."

"Later."

Li Qing listened quietly to some of the past of Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce, and soon he knew the general situation in his heart.

It was not complicated. Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce was established by Mo Weifeng, who was the son of Old Man Mo and the father of Little Girl Mo.

Later, the situation of the Chamber of Commerce became increasingly prosperous. In order to gain a foothold in Xiangyang City, Mo Weifeng invited an alchemist he had made friends with to join the Chamber of Commerce, that is, Master Yan Dan.

With a second-level alchemist in charge, Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce lived a better life in the city, attracting many cultivators in the Qi Refining stage.

But the good times didn't last long. One time, when Mo Weifeng was on his way to do business, he encountered an accident. The entire business team was completely destroyed and could never come back.

"Logically speaking, someone of President Mo's status would not do business in person. No one knows what he was going to escort that time!"

"That year, it caused quite a stir in the city. Everyone was guessing what President Mo had gotten. Anyway, it was definitely worth a lot of money, which attracted the covetousness of others."

"Later, Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce suffered heavy losses and never recovered. The pressure suddenly fell on Master Yan."

"But fortunately, Master Yan's alchemy skills are really good. With this skill, he paid off a lot of bad debts owed by Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce."

The following is what Li Qing knew.

It was nothing more than Master Yan Dan intending to take Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce for himself. This was all very reasonable. After all, if it weren't for him, Shuiyue Chamber of Commerce would have collapsed completely.

"I see. That's right. You can keep these spirit stones. I'll give them to you!" Li Qing handed the spirit stones to the servant.

"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master! I wish you a long and prosperous life!" The servant thanked him repeatedly.

In this way, with the servant's tearful voice, Li Qing left the restaurant and walked back to the west of the city.

"You can't know a person's heart by his face. I was almost used as a gun by old man Mo. He is really a shrewd person!"

"Don't get involved in this muddy water. It's the way for casual cultivators to survive to protect themselves. I have to leave as soon as possible!"