Inside the trading room.

    "What is this jade slip!" Although odds were it was the jade slip for the Spirit Pill recipe, Lin Shiming couldn''t help but ask.

    Since an alchemist had been mentioned before, it wasn''t odd for Lin Shiming to ask such a question.

    "This is a great item, the Spirit Pill recipe can speed up the growth of spirit beasts; paired with your Golden Luan Eagle, it''s a perfect match!" the middle-aged cultivator heard Lin Shiming ask about the pill recipe and immediately started to show off excitedly.

    Yet Lin Shiming just shook his head and said,

    "The main ingredients for the Spirit Pill are not easy to find, and your jade slip isn''t ancestral, is it?"

    With these words, the middle-aged man''s chest heaved and his breathing hastened, his emotions fluctuated, but Lin Shiming couldn''t see his facial expression, which confirmed a suspicion for him.

    Seeing the middle-aged cultivator didn''t respond, Lin Shiming continued, "I''m not a fool to be cheated; if you intend to swindle a large amount from me for a pill recipe that can be copied at will, then please put away these items."

    Lin Shiming''s words were half warning, half leading.

    The middle-aged cultivator felt extremely frustrated, his earlier smooth talking gone, as he coldly stated,

    "Three hundred spirit stones to take it, two hundred for the beast skin materials! And, you must swear by the Heavenly Dao that you have never seen me..."

    "Agreed!" Lin Shiming was only after the pill recipe and naturally did not care about anything else.

    By this point, if he couldn''t guess that this person had acquired these treasures by killing someone, he would have lived in vain.

    It was probably a young cultivator of some status from the Spirit Beast Sect, or else he wouldn''t have fled directly from the territory of the Spirit Beast Sect to the Qingxuan Sect.

    Lin Shiming took out another fifty catties of Spirit Water, and after the exchange, they both went their separate ways.

    After leaving the trading house, Lin Shiming smiled wryly, thinking that although he might have thought his wealth sufficient, after a round of trading, there wasn''t much Spirit Water left, and he had two big eaters.

    No, possibly three big eaters since he had just bought a Golden Luan Eagle!

    Lin Shiming felt an even bigger headache coming on.

    After contacting Seventh Great-Uncle with a Sound Transmission Talisman, he learned that the latter had already rented an inn.

    As soon as Lin Shiming entered the room, Lin Xianzhi gave him a look and then opened with a light remark,

    "What did you buy that''s attracted so many tails?"

    "A Golden Luan Eagle egg!" Lin Shiming didn''t hide anything and revealed the entire process.

    "Be careful with that eagle of yours; you might be held accountable later on!" Lin Xianzhi frowned and cautioned.

    The Huang Family had indeed provided shops, but the ones before them were at the very corner of Qingyun Marketplace, originally the warehouses in front of other shops and a place where cultivators and shop assistants could rest and cultivate.

    It would take an entire large circle to get to the bustling streets of the marketplace.

    To say these shops made a yearly income of a thousand Spirit Stones would be a miracle in management, let alone breaking even.

    The Lin Family couldn''t even complain, as the Huang Family had indeed given ten shops.

    As for the provided Spirit Plants, they were a hundred dry Spirit Trees, either old or half-dead.

    Even under the careful cultivation of a Spirit Plant Master, the future yield would be minuscule.

    "This Huang Family is bullying us too much!" The elders were still composed, but the younger generation of cultivators, bearing the ''Hou'' and ''Shi'' generations, were all infuriated.

    "Inform the Seventh Great-Uncle!" Lin Houyuan also felt somewhat helpless. This was the situation when a family lacked a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage.

    Lacking the right to speak, they would face targeting at every turn.

    Just then, a Spirit Boat appeared in the sky, and three figures descended from it.

    "What''s happened?"

    Lin Xianzhi descended first, his white hair extremely noticeable.

    "Seventh Great-Uncle, these are the shops given by the Huang Family." As the Family Head, Lin Houyuan reported the Huang Family''s attitude and the condition of the shops and Spirit Trees, one by one.

    He didn''t exaggerate; as the Family Head, he not only had to consider the emotions of his people and the interests of the family but also the real combat power of both families.

    The situation now involved not merely Huang Kaiyu and Huang Kaiyu of the early Foundation Establishment stage from the Huang Family, but Huangyun Qi with a more senior generation.

    He was the only late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Huang Family.

    "Let''s go!" Lin Xianzhi nodded slightly, his face still as calm as ever.

    The Lin Family members trusted their old patriarch greatly and felt assured, following him forward.

    After making a big detour, they finally arrived at the bustling street.

    Individual cultivators walked among the stalls, and unlike the Qingxuan Marketplace, this place was close to the Qingyun Mountain Range, where many loose cultivators formed groups to hunt demons in the mountains.

    There was a greater need for high-quality Spirit Talismans, Spirit Pills, and Spiritual Artifacts, naturally leading them to shops that guaranteed quality.

    If a Spirit Talisman bought at a loose cultivator''s stall failed to work, or a Magic Artifact fell apart, there wouldn''t even be a place to cry about it.

    "Let''s go, this shop does good business!" Lin Xianzhi walked to the busiest section and picked a shop run by the Huang Family''s Artifact Refining operations to approach.