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"Old Liu, why has this Spiritual Rice gotten more expensive again? Two Spirit Stones a jin? Why don't you just rob people!" In the quiet market, a voice shattered the silence.

Li Shiming looked toward the voice. It came from a stall two spaces away.

Hearing Spiritual Rice mentioned, he moved closer, though not too close, and stopped five meters away.

The other cultivators watching the commotion were about the same as him, standing at a distance to watch. No cultivator went closer.

Some cultivators heard the argument and instead turned around, moving farther away in the opposite direction.

Li Shiming saw clearly that the sign standing on the wooden table of that stall had the character "Liu" written on it.

"Spirit Plant seeds!" When he saw the goods being sold on the table, his eyes could not help lighting up.

He only had one kind of Spirit Plant seed in his hands, and that was Spiritual Rice. Simply planting Spiritual Rice was enough to provide him with sufficient Spiritual Rice.

The Server Room Space was extremely limited. At present, all the empty space was being used to plant Spiritual Rice. If there were higher-value Spirit Plants, he could completely increase his earnings to an even greater extent.

However, a cultivator was currently negotiating with the stall owner, so it was not appropriate for him to step forward.

"Then you go rob someone. This is the price for Spiritual Rice. Take it or leave it!" the cultivator called Old Liu said, his brows lifting slightly.

"Wasn't it still one and a half Spirit Stones per jin a few days ago?" The cultivator standing before the stall was just grumbling a little. Spiritual Rice was a necessity, so he had to buy it.

He also understood that this market was the only one nearby, and the only ones capable of producing Spiritual Rice were the Liu Family that Old Liu belonged to.

"The price of two Spirit Stones is only because we exterminated the Spirit Plant Insect Tide in time. Otherwise, forget two Spirit Stones—whether there would even be any extra Spiritual Rice to sell would be a problem!" Old Liu said helplessly when the price was mentioned.

Spirit Planters did seem to make a lot of money. As long as one bought Spirit Seeds and had a Spirit Field, one could sow them.

But in fact, Spirit Plants also had many troubles. Li Shiming had seen this point in Spirit Planter Basics and Shi Ximing's cultivation notes as well.

Spirit Fields were extremely attractive to Spirit Insects interested in Spiritual Rice. Among Spirit Insects, some could even burrow through the soil, pass through the Defense Formation, enter the Spirit Field, and cause destruction.

Most Rogue Cultivator clans did not have powerful Defense Formations, so the harm caused by Spirit Insects was even greater.

This was especially true when encountering a Spirit Plant Insect Tide. A so-called Spirit Plant Insect Tide was when a certain kind of Spirit Insect reproduced in great numbers and launched a large-scale attack on Spirit Fields.

Normally, Spirit Insects sneaked in and caused damage, so the destructiveness was relatively not too great.

A Spirit Plant Insect Tide was different. Countless Spirit Insects recklessly charged the Spirit Fields. If the defense was proper, only part of the Spirit Plants would be lost. If there was a problem with the defense, then even the Spirit Plants and the Spirit Field would be destroyed.

Of course, Li Shiming planted Spiritual Rice in the Server Room Space, so he did not have this kind of trouble.

"Give me ten jin!" The cultivator hesitated for a moment, took out a cloth bag from his waist, and poured out twenty Spirit Stones.

From the pained look on the cultivator's face, it seemed the Spirit Stones in his hands were not plentiful.

Li Shiming noticed that this cultivator had not taken the Spirit Stones out of a Storage Bag, but from an ordinary cloth bag.

Sure enough, after the cultivator took the ten jin of Spiritual Rice from Old Liu, he carried it in his hand and left.

"Fellow Daoist, is this your first time here? I, Old Liu, am known in Central Capital Market for cheating neither the old nor the young. I'm famously fair, and the Spiritual Rice I sell is the best within a thousand li!" Old Liu looked toward Li Shiming and introduced himself with a smile.

"Old Liu, within a thousand li, aren't you the only one selling Spiritual Rice?" a stall owner not far away chimed in.

For a moment, the cultivators who knew Old Liu all burst into laughter.

Amid the cultivators' laughter, Li Shiming felt that when it came to trading, these cultivators were not much different from ordinary people.

"Fellow Daoist Liu, what Spirit Seeds do you have here?" Li Shiming asked in a lowered voice.

Old Liu looked Li Shiming up and down. He was very surprised that Li Shiming wanted to buy Spirit Seeds.

One had to know that Spirit Seeds required a Spirit Planter to plant them. Just as the previous stall owner had said, within a very large area nearby, only the Liu Clan had Spirit Planters and Spirit Fields available for planting.

The Spirit Seeds displayed on his stall were just for show.

Otherwise, if there were only one kind of Spiritual Rice on the stall, it would look far too shabby.

"I have Emerald Spirit Grass seeds here. Emerald Spirit Grass is a herbivorous Spirit Beast's favorite food. These are Earth Ginseng seeds, and these are Three Leaf Orchid seeds!" Though Old Liu was surprised, he still pointed at the seeds on the table as he spoke.

Li Shiming could not help but shake his head. Emerald Spirit Grass was not even as good as Spiritual Rice. As for Earth Ginseng and Three Leaf Orchid, only Earth Ginseng was a Spiritual Herb whose Spirit Planting method he had mastered.

The problem was, if he really cultivated Earth Ginseng, who would he sell it to?

The market before him was very small. Although he had not fully walked through it, he more or less knew the situation with the goods sold here.

The six stalls with tables were fixed stalls, while the remaining stalls were all cultivators taking out unused items on their own to sell.

Perhaps selling these items to fixed stalls was not cost-effective, or perhaps the fixed stalls did not accept these items.

In any case, there were very few kinds of goods that could be sold and bought in this market. Li Shiming no longer wanted to buy Earth Ginseng seeds. If he put in the effort to research the planting method, and then they proved hard to sell, it would also affect his Spiritual Rice planting.

He had originally thought that there would be relatively high-grade Spiritual Herb seeds here, but only after coming here did he realize he had been overthinking it.

"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Liu accepts Spiritual Rice here?" Li Shiming thought for a moment and asked.

Since he was not buying seeds, he would sell some Spiritual Rice. Then he would have more Spirit Stones to buy other things.

"Of course I accept Spiritual Rice here. One Spirit Stone per jin. I'll take as much as you have!" Old Liu lowered his voice and replied.

Li Shiming did not speak, simply looking at Old Liu like that.

Old Liu's old face reddened slightly as he recalled the buyer's loud shout just now. It seemed the person before him had heard it.

"Fellow Daoist, there's something you don't know. The cost of buying this Spiritual Rice from afar is one Spirit Stone per jin. I'm not pushing the price down at all!" Old Liu spread his hands and explained.

"One hundred jin of Spiritual Rice, one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones. We trade now!" Li Shiming said softly.

"Since you've put it that way, fellow Daoist, I'll give you face. If you have any Spiritual Rice in the future, remember me, Old Liu!" Old Liu did not insist. At this price, he still Profited from buying it, and he was also worried that Li Shiming might set up a stall somewhere, which could drive down the price of Spiritual Rice.

Li Shiming brushed a hand over his waist, and a cloth bag appeared in it. He placed the bag on the wooden table.

Old Liu opened the cloth bag and sent a thread of Spiritual Power into it. Every trade had its specialist; he quickly examined the quality of the Spiritual Rice, and the smile on his face grew even wider.

"These are one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones. Please take them!" He took out a small pouch of Spirit Stones and placed it on the table.

Although Li Shiming did not have Old Liu's methods, Spirit Stones were the sort of thing one could identify with a touch. His hand swept through the small pouch, then he nodded and put the pouch away.

The transaction between the two of them was completed very quickly, but even so, quite a few cultivators still saw it.