Chapter 30: The One Called Yang the Eleventh Throughout the Mountain

As they walked, Yang Xuesheng thought to herself, “Any attribute will do! So he’s looking for something to suppress the eye of a formation. Only when setting up a formation would the attribute not matter.”

She never imagined that this youth with such low cultivation was trying to cultivate a forbidden demonic art.

Chen Qianliu indeed had no requirements. After all, any demon’s inner core could be used to cultivate the Heavenly Demon Spirit Meridian Transformation Art. As for the spirit meridians refined from it, regardless of their attribute, as long as they were complete, they would be better than his current broken spring willow meridian.

As for Yang Xuesheng asking if his “master had any requirements,” Chen Qianliu had no intention of explaining. He had no master at all. This misunderstanding was actually beneficial.

The young girl was extremely familiar with this immortal market. After circling halfway around, she brought Chen Qianliu to a thatched pavilion.

A woman dressed in white, beautiful and enchanting, with a graceful upper body and a serpent’s tail below, glided out. Seeing Yang Xuesheng, she smiled and said, “So it’s the young mistress. How do you have time to visit me?”

Yang Xuesheng smiled and said, “White Sister, don’t you have a wood demon pearl? I’ve found you a buyer.”

Chen Qianliu stood to the side, not quite trembling, but his skin felt somewhat tight.

This woman’s upper body had already transformed into human form. She was at least a seventh-level Qi Refining great demon with over a thousand years of cultivation. She could eat a child or two without it being enough to fill her teeth.

When he heard the white-surnamed woman address Yang Xuesheng as “young mistress,” a sudden flash of recognition struck him. He remembered that the great demon on Jinyun Mountain called himself Yang and was known throughout the mountain as Yang the Eleventh!

He couldn’t help but hesitantly ask, “Sister Sheng! Could your father be Mountain Master Yang, the Eleventh Lord?”

The white-surnamed snake demon giggled and said, “Xuesheng is indeed our mountain master’s only beloved daughter, the young mistress of Jinyun Mountain.”

Chen Qianliu never expected that having just escaped from the hands of two demon women, he would now fall into the hands of a female demon again. In his second-to-last life, his wife had been somewhat ordinary. In his previous life, he had only his senior sister. In this life, he was somehow attracting female demon heads and female demons.

All things considered, his peach blossom luck was truly terrible. A hero in his twilight years losing his virtue.

He wanted to say, “I’m willing to offer all my possessions if you’ll just let me leave.” But the atmosphere didn’t seem right for it, and it would only invite ridicule.

White Yuniang was slightly curious in her heart, thinking, “This youth’s cultivation isn’t much. How is it that the young mistress seems to favor him so? I wonder if he has the financial means to purchase that wood demon pearl?”

She spoke leisurely, “Although I must honor the young mistress’s face, my wood demon pearl is of excellent quality. I absolutely cannot part with it for less than five lower-grade spirit stones.”

Spirit stones’ raw ore price ranged between two hundred to five hundred talisman coins. Lower-grade spirit stones started at two to three thousand talisman coins.

When Chen Qianliu heard the white-surnamed snake demon woman’s price of over ten thousand talisman coins, he cursed the profiteers in his heart. His mouth dared not hesitate, but his hand was quick. He pulled out five spirit stones and handed them over, saying, “This price is excellent.”

He just wanted to leave quickly. Facing a seventh-level or higher Qi Refining snake demon who had already cultivated her upper body into human form, staying even one more second felt disrespectful to her thousand years of cultivation.

White Yuniang was quite surprised and said, “What a straightforward young man!”

She then slightly opened her cherry lips and spat out a jade-green pearl. With her slender, delicate hand, she caught it and handed it to Chen Qianliu.

Although Chen Qianliu could smell a faint fragrant aroma from the jade-green pearl, and it being expelled from the cherry lips of such a beautiful woman made it seem somewhat alluring, he had no improper thoughts whatsoever—only fear and trepidation.

After taking it, he hastily tore off a piece of cloth and wrapped it carefully. He didn’t dare wipe his hand in front of White Yuniang, but he constantly felt his palm itching, thinking, “I wonder what kind of snake this woman’s true form is? Is it venomous? If it is, how potent is the poison?”

Yang Xuesheng, seeing how smoothly both parties had completed the transaction, felt her matchmaking had been quite successful. She smiled and said, “I didn’t expect to actually pull off this deal.”

“White Sister’s wood demon pearl hasn’t sold in years. With my help, it finally sold. You should treat us to a meal!”

White Yuniang smiled and said, “If the young mistress is willing to stay and dine with me, White Yuniang welcomes it endlessly. Young man, would you care to join? Yuniang has some skills in cooking. I’m confident my culinary abilities are not inferior to the famous chefs of great cities!”

Chen Qianliu hurriedly said, “My master is waiting for me. I’m afraid I don’t have the fortune to enjoy such hospitality this time.”

White Yuniang smiled slightly and said, “If you ever come to the Jinyun Immortal Market again, feel free to visit Yuniang anytime. A cup of tea and a meal—I will certainly serve you with utmost care.”

Cold sweat poured down Chen Qianliu’s back. He barely maintained composure, bid farewell to both women, and walked away unsteadily. About a hundred paces away, he frantically activated a lightness talisman and ran at full speed, directly fleeing the Jinyun Immortal Market.

Unless one has truly encountered it, who could know the pressure of facing a great demon?

Even if that great demon spoke with a gentle smile and was extremely friendly, after all, it was an existence that could destroy a city if it revealed its true form. One couldn’t help but be afraid.

Perhaps some mortals wouldn’t be afraid, but as a cultivator, Chen Qianliu was genuinely terrified, because he truly understood how terrifying a thousand-year-old great demon could be.

Having left the Jinyun Immortal Market, Chen Qianliu didn’t dare linger in the area. After all, Jinyun Mountain was the domain of the great demon Yang the Eleventh, with countless lesser demons under his command. Even if Chen Qianliu encountered the weakest one, he would certainly be no match.

After leaving the Jinyun Immortal Market, Chen Qianliu released the Talisman Black Donkey and rode it directly toward the south. He chose this direction because he had heard years ago that over a hundred li south of Jinyun Mountain, there was another immortal market called the Talisman Compendium Market.

The Talisman Compendium Market was the place in the Great Qian Dynasty where talisman scribes gathered most densely. There was only one sect nearby—the Qingyeh Sect, which claimed to be the second great immortal sect of the Great Qian.

The founding ancestor of the Qingyeh Sect had the cultivation of the true yang realm. The sect had several great cultivators at the Spirit Embryo realm. It was renowned for its talisman arts, especially the Qingyeh Spirit Talisman technique, which was most skilled at healing, treating illness, driving out evil, and breaking demons. It was very famous among the cultivators of the Great Qian. Even the Yu Xian Sect would send people to purchase and distribute them to sect disciples. All other sects in the Great Qian eagerly sought Qingyeh talismans. In terms of sect strength and number of disciples, it was only one tier below the Yu Xian Sect. It would certainly not fear a great demon like Yang the Eleventh and could suppress the demons of Jinyun Mountain.

Cultivation requires four elements: method, companion, wealth, and location. Among these, the location for cultivation, while not as important as the cultivation method, companion, or resources, was certainly not negligible.

With the same aptitude, same diligence, and same cultivation method, one person in a blessed land with abundant spiritual energy and another in barren mountains with scarce spiritual energy could have cultivation progress differing by hundreds of times. The former might achieve success in decades, while the latter might never pass the threshold of entering the Dao in their entire life.

Therefore, even with some danger, Chen Qianliu would seek out a spiritually abundant location. Without such a location, an immortal market could serve as a temporary substitute, but ordinary wilderness and simple villages were not worth considering.

Unless his cultivation rose high enough in the future to set up formations that gathered and concentrated spiritual energy, allowing him to cultivate anywhere without restriction—this was also why cultivation resources were valued higher than blessed lands.

I barely managed to finish this chapter in the last minute.

This chapter turned out really well. Seeking monthly tickets for encouragement!

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