Chapter 172 Who Is Plotting Against Me?

Cao Rui drove Hei Yu all the way, and he began to look forward to returning to the market.

Along the way, he traveled tens of thousands of miles.

Finally, on the day before the end of the year, the outline of Qingling Market appeared in his consciousness. The familiar market was also Cao Rui's "home" now.

A faint smile appeared on Cao Rui's face.

He patted Hei Yu's head and said, "Hei Yu, we are almost home!" Hei Yu also cried happily, as if responding to Cao Rui's words.

It accelerated and rushed to Qingling Xiuxian Market.

"Wait." Cao Rui patted the anxious Hei Yu lightly, signaling it to calm down.

As the owner of the market, he naturally knew the mechanism of the third-level defense formation of Qingling Market. If a foundation-building cultivator forcibly broke in, it would inevitably trigger an alarm.

This would bring unnecessary trouble to the market.

The most important thing was that the small formation plate was not in his hand at this time, so he could not act rashly.

So they waited patiently outside the formation.

Not long after, a figure of a foundation-building cultivator flew through the air and quickly came to them.

This person was Ye Yunyin.

"Are you back? From your appearance, your cultivation seems to have improved a lot!" Ye Yunyin looked at Cao Rui and said with a smile.

"Yes, I killed a lot of monsters over there and swallowed a lot of demon spirit pills. You also know my talent for alchemy, so I naturally benefited a lot." Cao Rui replied with a smile, and nodded slightly to Ye Yunyin. .

Under the leadership of Ye Yunyin, Cao Rui followed him through the magic circle.

At this time, the Qingling Market was obviously much more lively than half a year ago.

As Cao Rui's consciousness unfolded, he actually felt a strong New Year atmosphere in the Xiuxian Market.

This feeling is very strange. After all, the Xiuxian world should be different from the mortal world, but now it makes people feel a different warm atmosphere.

After careful observation, Cao Rui found that this change may be due to the increase in the number of mortals in the market.

Most of these mortals are relatives, friends or direct descendants of the cultivators.

Since the market does not have strict identity requirements like the sect, anyone can enter as long as they can afford the spirit stones.

The Qingling Market has adopted a free mechanism to attract more people.

Therefore, those far-sighted cultivators have sent their relatives and friends to the market in advance.

Not long ago, due to the excessive number of mortals in the market, Ye Yunyin and Zhang Mo had to jointly issue a ban on mortals entering the market.

Only the direct bloodline of the cultivators, or the spiritual stones, are allowed to enter the market.

And no matter the direct bloodline or the spiritual stones, each cultivator has a limit on the number of mortals they can bring into the market.

In this way, the number of mortals entering the Qingling Market has been greatly reduced.

After all, not every cultivator is willing to spend spirit stones for mortals.

Not long after, Cao Rui and Ye Yunyin flew into the seventh floor of the cultivation tower.

After talking with Ye Yunyin for a while.

Cao Rui learned from him some changes in the Qingling Market and information about the Spirit Beast Sect in the past six months.

Not long after, Zhang Mo also came flying in the air, holding a storage bag and a jade slip in his hand.

"Master, you are finally back. This is the income of the Lingyin Jade Pendant during this period of time. The income and expenditure are recorded in this jade slip."

Cao Rui waved his hand, and the jade slip and storage bag fell into Cao Rui's hands.

The jade slip contained detailed information such as the sales record of the Lingyin Jade Pendant.

Cao Rui was surprised to find that all the Lingyin Jade Pendants he had made before were sold out.

"The permanent population of Fangshi has exceeded 20,000, doubling. This is all thanks to your Lingyin Jade Pendant, Master."

"Now the cultivators in Fangshi hope that you can further expand the signal range of the Lingyin Jade Pendant."

"In this way, their range of activities can also be expanded with confidence." Zhang Mo said.

Cao Rui nodded slightly, and his consciousness had already read the contents of the jade slip.

"The Lingyin jade pendant sold brought in 78,000 Lingshi."

"35,000 Lingyin points, because the year is coming to an end and they are about to expire, so everyone has started to recharge."

Adding the gains from selling monster meat in the East China Sea, Cao Rui's Lingshi reached almost 140,000.

Cao Rui suddenly felt that his pockets were bulging.

After thinking about it, Cao Rui took out two portions of 5,000 Lingshi, put them into storage bags respectively, and handed them to Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin.

"This is what you deserve, please be sure to accept it."

Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin looked at each other and had to accept the Lingshi.

The contribution points given by the Lingshou Sect to the elders in the foundation-building period range from thousands every year. As the first seat, Cao Rui's 5,000 contribution points are already considered a lot.

According to the one-to-one exchange of contribution points and Lingshi, Cao Rui's giving them 5,000 Lingshi is already a good amount.

"I have enough materials for the spiritual pattern crystal."

"But I still need to discuss the arrangement of the signal tower with Chief Wu Qingxuan."

"Let's spend the New Year in the market first, and then go to the sect to discuss it with Chief Wu."

After making up his mind, Cao Rui stayed in the market for the time being.

This time, Cao Rui had a hint of evil spirit on him after hunting monsters for a long time in the East Sea Market.

I'm afraid that Cao Rui has killed more monsters in the past few months than most foundation-building cultivators have killed in a few years.

After talking with Ye Yunyin and Zhang Mo for most of the day, Cao Rui had an understanding of the current situation of the market, the sect, and the southwest.

The biggest change is of course the Qingling Xiuxian Market, which became popular due to the Lingyin Jade Pendant.

The number of permanent cultivators has doubled to 20,000.

There is not much change in the Lingshou Sect, which has been developing steadily for more than half a year.

The entire southwest of Yunzhou has not changed much as a whole. A year is just a fleeting moment for the Xiuxian world.

However, the Yinshui Xiuxian Market, which was jointly built by Yunshui Sect and Miaoyin Temple, is said to have imitated the Lingyin Jade Pendant to create a Yinshui Earring.

However, the price of this Yinshui Earring is as high as 30 Lingshi, and it is said that the communication range is much shorter than that of the Lingyin Jade Pendant, and the loss rate is still very high.

The reason for the high loss rate is said to be that it uses 0-level refining materials and engraves a 1-level array on it.

Ordinary low-level casual cultivators cannot afford this price and loss rate.

However, many cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining do not flow to the Qingling Xiuxian Market because of this. After all, it is hard to leave their hometown.

Zhang Mo also took out a Yinshui earring he got and showed it to Cao Rui.

"It's really a first-level magic array engraved with 0-level materials. This thing will be damaged in one or two years at most. It's not that cost-saving, right? Is the weapon refiner behind Yinshui Market stuck in his head?" Cao Rui commented.

This made Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin smile at each other.

Thousands of miles away in Yinshui Xiuxian Market, Yunshui Sect weapon refiner, the owner of Yinshui Market, Gongsun Zhi, sneezed suddenly.

"Huh? Is someone plotting against me?"

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