Chapter 20 (2/2)

Yang Lingqing could not stand it when Long Chen was not serious. She rolled her eyes to Long Chen and said: “Your trumpet blowing abilities have not changed, but you and the Bai family have great enmity. Speaking of the demonic beast hunting compet.i.tion, the one in the most danger there is you. I think you had better cultivate diligently and also at that time you had better hide yourself far away in order not to embarra.s.s yourself……”

[TL Note: (Idiom) “Trumpet blowing” means self-praise]

Long Chen hurriedly said: “Okay, Great Grand-Aunt, your servant knows what to do already.”

However deep in his heart he was smirking, he thought: “Hide far away? This isn’t my style.”

Looking at Long Chen who still had a nonchalant look on him, Yang Lingqing didn’t have anything more to say to him.

In an instant, Long Chen followed Yang Lingqing and walked into a huge pavilion. After a few winding hallways, and entering yet another door, he did not expect to come to a wide and clear open s.p.a.ce.

Looking at each and every street, and at the great numbers of shops and stores, Long Chen was momentarily stunned.

“This is the cultivator’s market. However this spirit healing medicine I am not too sure about what it is, so you have to ask around yourself. You have been shrewd from a young age, so I don’t think someone can scam you. Right now I am almost entering the sixth level of the Dragon Pulse Realm, where I’m only lacking an insight in order to break through. And this time it has finally come. I will go find myself a place and save myself from being angered by you to death.

After saying this, she did not wait for Long Chen’s opinion, and turned into a winding alley.

The number of cultivators in Poplar Town were not few. Long Chen’s eyes swept across, and had already seen hundreds of people walking about, these were all cultivators. Among them there were even some experts.

“This cultivator’s market is a place filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons.”

[TL Note: (Idiom) “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” means a place where there are talented individuals concealed.]

“Xiao Xi, can you sense the existence of any medicine with spirit healing properties?”

Lingxi’s feeble voice rang beside his ears: “You have to go a little closer, it’s too far away now so I am unable to sense it. In this small town, such medicinal herbs should be very rare, I have to look carefully……”

Lingxi’s voice had weakened yet again, and Long Chen had been anxious in his heart, so he kept praying that he must definitely find that kind of medicine.

After making up his mind, Long Chen entered the first medicinal store. The cultivator’s market had many stores, there were blacksmith shops, pharmacies, and even p.a.w.n shops.

These p.a.w.n shops mainly collected materials obtained from demonic beasts, as well as a few other treasures. Of course, if it was p.a.w.ned, it would be bought, after all these shops had roughly all the items that cultivators would need.

Entering the first medicinal store, Long Chen had sensed that a strong herbal scent had drifted to his nose. There should even be spirit medicine of the same grade as the Enchanted Hill Ginseng, and there should be quite a few in here. Long Chen had already noticed that the transactions here were all made with pieces of spirit jade. Gold and silver taels were not used. He only had 500 pieces of spirit jade, so he knew he had to use them sparingly.

These 500 pieces of spirit jade had been given to him by the Yang family founder for cultivation. However for the sake of Lingxi’s life, Long Chen wouldn’t care about using these pieces of spirit jade.

Long Chen pretended to look around, and made his way around once. But the person that was actually looking was Lingxi. Unfortunately, after going in a circle, she realised there weren’t any.

Long Chen had started to panic, and started looking for the owner of the shop. Finding a grave and stern looking middle aged man he asked: “Excuse me, does this shop have any medicine that has spirit healing properties?”

That shop owner was startled, but then said: “I’m sorry, we don’t have any.”

Long Chen was disappointed.

“Young man, in this small Poplar Town, spirit healing medicine, basically has no demand. So shops like us, normally do not sell it. But if you need it urgently, then you can take a look at the other stores and try your luck.”

Long Chen nodded his head, and thanked the shop owner. After that he walked out of the shop and feeling fl.u.s.tered, he asked Lingxi: “According to him, all of Poplar Town does not have medicine like this, Xiao Xi……”

“Then what can we do……”

Xiao Xi had sounded fl.u.s.tered too. The extent of Poplar Town’s remoteness had far exceeded her expectations.

Long Chen clenched his fist and said: “No way, we haven’t even looked at the other shops. Right now we cannot conclude anything, so I will continue looking. I do not believe that such a large cultivator’s market does not even have one spirit healing medicine!”

After saying this, he then promptly walked into each and every store in the cultivator’s market. There were a bit less than 50 of these medicinal stores. Long Chen had went into each and every one and asked, this consumed a lot of time. However this was fine, but what made him worry the most was the fact that the answer was always negative.

“I’m sorry; we don’t have this type of medicines here.”

“Normally we don’t keep this type of medicine.”

“We’re not able to sell it out because we don’t have it in stock.”

Long Chen’s expression was growing darker by the second, and in his heart he was becoming more and more fl.u.s.tered.

“If you really can’t find it, then forget about it. Ever since my physical body has been broken into pieces, I have already known that the time left for me wouldn’t be much longer. However Long Chen, knowing you, was nice……”

Long Chen’s eyes gradually turned bloodshot, he then growled and said: “Don’t say such silly things, aren’t there stores which we still haven’t searched? I don’t believe I can’t even accomplish a small task like this. If Poplar Town doesn’t have it, I will go to another place. This stupid demonic beast hunting compet.i.tion, I will not partic.i.p.ate in it anymore!

“This can’t do, and I still have to open the barrier for you……”

Just as the both of them were at their wits’ end, suddenly a few noises rang loudly from afar. The people around all hurriedly looked towards the origin of the noise. Long Chen originally did not care, but very soon someone had actually said: “It looks like a young lady from the Yang family and some guys from the Bai family have a dispute!”

“Yang Lingqing?”