It would be a waste of time to walk by himself, and Chen Mobai doesn’t know the way.
Chen Mobai wanted to experience the teleportation array, but the price of 10 spirit stones was too expensive.
So the only option left was to take the caravan, which only cost 1 spirit stone, but it would take five days on the road.
There are four major cultivation families in Nanxi Fang City: Liu Family, Wu Family, Lou Family, and the last one is the Luo Family, which specializes in breeding spirit camels.
Only Foundation Establishment cultivators can fly for a long time using a flying vessel, but these people are already the pillars of their respective cultivation families, so how could they transport goods? It would be beneath their dignity.
That’s why the spirit camels were bred. These spirit beasts can grow up to the second rank, have strong endurance, can travel a hundred miles a day, carry heavy loads of thousands of kilograms, and run continuously for seven days and nights without rest.
The Luo Family has contracted most of the logistics business in Nanxi Fang City with this skill.
Due to the special environment in Dream Swamp, it is impossible to grow spirit rice there. Therefore, every once in a while, they need to transport goods to the nearby major cities of the Cloud Kingdom.
In addition to their own cultivated spirit rice, the Luo Family also packages and sells Liu Family’s spirit fish, Wu Family’s spirit wood, and Lou Family’s spirit medicine. Of course, they are also responsible for charging and escorting people to Dream Swamp.
After Chen Mobai paid the deposit, he received a ticket.
Looking at the time on it, he found that it was three days later.
Could it be that He Qun is also taking this caravan?
Just to be sure, Chen Mobai asked the ticket collector. The latter did have an impression of He Qun, after all, he had booked tickets for six people at once, which was considered a big customer.
After confirming that He Qun was indeed in the same group as him, Chen Mobai frowned and considered for a moment. For safety reasons, he chose to refund the ticket, which earned him a disdainful look from the Luo Family cultivator.
But it was still 1 spirit stone, and since Chen Mobai didn’t plan to take the ride, he had to refund it.
After getting the deposit back, he didn’t waste any more time and went straight to the teleportation array in the market.
This was a small teleportation array set up by the Five Elements Sect. However, fifty years ago, during the internal turmoil, it was occupied by the Divine Wood Sect. The two factions fought several times before reluctantly reaching a consensus.
This teleportation array officially belonged to the Five Elements Sect, but the income from each teleportation had to be split fifty-fifty with the Divine Wood Sect.
Chen Mobai reluctantly paid 10 spirit stones and waited for nearly an hour before a group of ten people was gathered.
In a flash of silver light, he noticed something strange.
How is this similar to when Turtle Treasure teleported him from the Earth Origin Star to the Tianhe Realm?
Could it be?
Is this Turtle Treasure a movable teleportation array?
Chen Mobai felt that he had figured out the key point. Just at this moment, there was a bright light in front of him, and their group had already arrived in the market of Dream Swamp.
“We’ve arrived.”
The person in charge of guarding counted the number of people and found that there were exactly ten people. He nodded and checked a form.
Chen Mobai followed most of the people out of the teleportation array and found himself on an island.
There were endless lakes all around, with abundant water vapor.
He took a breath and felt that there was at least mid-grade first rank spiritual energy in the air, nodding in approval.
He walked around the island and found that this market was not much different from Nanxi Fang City. But he was already mentally prepared for this.
Lu Shu had told him that in the land of Dream Swamp, due to the numerous islands and vast lakes, there were many markets scattered on various islands. These markets were collectively called the markets of Dream Swamp.
The island they were teleported to was just a foothold for the Cloud Kingdom’s cultivation world in this place.
The deeper they went, the more prosperous the market would be.
And in the center of Dream Swamp, close to the Cloud Kingdom’s Five Elements Sect’s water veins, was the headquarters of Fengyu Dock.
But that was also the most fiercely contested area. If it weren’t for the suppression of the seven major sects, those third rank demonic beasts would have long broken out and ravaged the Eastern Wilderness.
Chen Mobai didn’t stay here and, following Lu Shu’s instructions, found a boat with the Liu Family’s mark on it at the pier, heading to the largest nearby island, Qingguang Island, which was also operated by the Divine Wood Sect.
On this island, rows of neatly planned wooden houses stood on the spiritual fields.
This was one of the footholds for cultivators in Dream Swamp. The Divine Wood Sect would provide protection, and this island was a blessed land with second rank high-grade spiritual veins, allowing for both rest and cultivation.Chen Mobai asked about the price and found that a place abundant with spiritual energy would cost 10 spirit stones per month. With his meager funds, he could only afford to rent a cave dwelling with the least amount of spiritual energy. The manager didn’t mind, and after happily collecting one spirit stone, he led Chen Mobai to the lowest part of the island’s backside.
“Fellow Daoist, this place only accumulates water when it rains, but the spiritual energy is quite good.”
Chen Mobai sensed the spiritual energy around him and found that it was of the first-grade superior level, which made him feel slightly better.
After sending off the manager, he activated the formation of the cave dwelling. Immediately, a green light shone on a stone at the entrance, indicating that someone had moved in and was under the protection of the Shenmu Sect.
Chen Mobai looked around the interior. The wooden house was a single-story structure with a bed, a table, and three stools. It was quite simple.
He went out to observe the surroundings and found that nearly half of the places were occupied. His location was not ideal, and the wooden houses on both sides were empty.
However, he preferred the quiet.
After cleaning up with a cleaning spell, Chen Mobai went out to explore the market on the Green Light Island.
Due to the large number of people, there were even more items here than in the Nanxi market.
But the prices were even higher.
Chen Mobai inquired about the Black Water and was lucky. The Shenmu Sect’s spiritual medicine shop actually had it for sale, but the price was 15 spirit stones, which he couldn’t afford.
It seemed that before honing his combat skills, he needed to earn money first.
He had to go back to his old trade.
Setting up a stall.
Setting up a stall here was different. He didn’t need to pay a fee to the Shenmu Sect, he just needed to find a place that no one else wanted.
Chen Mobai laid out the blanket he had brought from the Nanxi market in a corner and displayed a stack of talismans.
At first, he was worried that, like in the Nanxi market, there would be no discerning customers. However, he soon found that the cultivators of Dream Swamp were completely different.
Because they often fought with monsters, talismans were in high demand. Almost every cultivator could distinguish the quality of talismans.
The quality of Chen Mobai’s talismans was naturally superior. In a short while, he had sold half of the low-grade talismans he had bought from the Wood Spirit Talisman Shop a few days ago, and all the mid-grade talismans were sold out.
Even the only first-grade superior Resurrection Talisman was bought by a Qi Refining ninth-level cultivator for 3 spirit stones.
With 13 spirit stones and 20,000 gold tickets in hand, Chen Mobai immediately went to the Shenmu Sect’s spiritual medicine shop and bought a bottle of refined “Black Water”.