Heavenly Treasure Pavilion—Please Keep Reading

More than three years had passed, yet Red Cliff Market was almost entirely unchanged.

As Zhou Chun looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar shops within the market, he could not help recalling how he had met Zhou Zhengyong and the others here three years ago.

Three years earlier, when the Zhou Family had only just put down roots in Nine Peaks Ridge, they had already sent Zhou Zhengyong and several others to investigate the market in preparation for opening a shop there.

Yet more than three years had passed, and the Zhou Family's shop had still not opened in the market.

Zhou Chun did not know exactly what had caused this, but he could not help feeling some regret over it.

At that moment, he followed the roads within the market deeper inside. He had originally intended to go to the Stall Market to set up a stand and sell magic tools, while also seeing whether he could buy any wild spirit herbs.

But halfway there, Zhou Chun's gaze was drawn to a shop.

Li's Medicine Shop!

As he looked at the four gilded characters on the shop sign, then at the young clerk smiling as he saw a customer out the door, Zhou Chun's expression immediately flickered between light and dark.

He recognized that young clerk. If his memory was not mistaken, the man was a disciple of the Li Family from the former Three Absolute Sect.

Then the family behind this "Li's Medicine Shop" needed no further explanation.

"The Li Family's medicine shop has already opened. Have the You Family's shop and Spirit Beast Manor's shop also opened in the market?"

Zhou Chun murmured inwardly, immediately changing his plans and beginning to wander around the entirety of Red Cliff Market.

After making a full round of the market, however, he did not find any shops opened by the other two forces.

Perhaps, like the Zhou Family, those two had also chosen to proceed cautiously rather than act rashly.

And the appearance of Li Family cultivators made Zhou Chun realize another problem.

As he walked through the market, there was a good chance that someone from the former Three Absolute Sect who had seen him before would recognize him.

Thus, he immediately changed course and headed for an inn within the market, renting a cultivation room for himself.

Then, inside the cultivation room, Zhou Chun took out several items used for disguise and makeup from his Storage Bag and began altering his appearance.

He had come to the market this time with a great objective in mind, so he had done ample preparation beforehand and readied quite a few useful items.

After some work, Zhou Chun changed from a handsome young man over six feet tall into an ordinary dark-skinned youth, with many pimples added to his face as well.

Those pimples were not fake. They had been raised by using medicine to irritate his skin.

Zhou Chun had learned both this makeup technique and the items used for it by reading books in the Zhou Family's Book Repository. In terms of effectiveness, they were no worse than the makeup techniques from his previous life.

Therefore, after finishing his disguise, even Zhou Chun himself had trouble connecting the person in the mirror with the handsome youth Zhou Chun.

Satisfied, he nodded at his reflection. Only after remaining there for a full two hours did Zhou Chun check out and leave the inn.

Half an hour later, a gray-robed young man selling magic tools had appeared in Red Cliff Market's Stall Market.

This time, Zhou Chun had even put his pale golden flying blade magic tool, the "Golden Willow Blade," up for sale, pricing it at sixty-five Spirit Coins. There was also the black longsword magic tool he had acquired from the Mu Family, as well as a Storage Bag.

He had originally intended to sell the black iron awl magic tool obtained from Li Han as well. But after discovering that Li Family cultivators had appeared in the market, he abandoned that thought for the sake of safety.

As a First-grade Mid-tier magic tool, the Golden Willow Blade naturally drew quite a few eyes after appearing in the Stall Market.

However, the price of sixty-five Spirit Coins was not something an ordinary Rogue Cultivator could afford.

There were cultivators who asked about the price and tried to haggle, but none who actually bought it.

Zhou Chun kept his stall open until the fifth day before finally lowering the price and selling it for fifty-nine Spirit Coins.

Over those few days, Zhou Chun also purchased several wild spirit herbs.

But those wild spirit herbs were all very ordinary, nowhere near comparable to the hundred-year Wild Spirit Ginseng he had bought before. Even after purification, they would not fetch many Spirit Coins.

Thus, Zhou Chun could only continue waiting in the Stall Market every day, hoping to encounter spirit herbs on the level of that hundred-year Wild Spirit Ginseng again.

Heaven did not disappoint those who persevered. On the ninth day after Zhou Chun arrived at Red Cliff Market, he finally obtained what he wanted.

It was a Red Lingzhi Mushroom over two hundred years old, priced as high as sixty Spirit Coins. The seller was a middle-aged female cultivator at Level 11 Qi Refining Stage.

To be fair, that price was considerably higher than what she would get by selling it to a medicine shop. An ordinary medicine shop would only offer around fifty Spirit Coins for a spirit herb of that age.

But Zhou Chun did not care about that. Once he resold it, the price would double anyway. No matter how one looked at it, he would profit.

Thus, he swiftly spent the Spirit Coins to purchase it.

Yet one Red Lingzhi Mushroom alone was not enough. Even if he sold it, it would only bring in a little over one hundred Spirit Coins, still far short of what Zhou Chun needed.

Fortunately, as the only legitimate Cultivator Market in all of Misty Prefecture, Red Cliff Market saw a huge number of cultivators coming and going each day. As long as one had patience, it was not difficult to wait for spirit herbs of the age Zhou Chun wanted.

After remaining in the market for fourteen days, he finally bought enough spirit herbs and began the next stage of his plan.

Inside the inn's cultivation room, Zhou Chun removed all of his makeup and returned to his original appearance.

Then, carrying the spirit herbs whose Turbid Fiendish Energy had been removed with Purifying Spirit Water, he headed straight for the most famous shop in the market, Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

The backing of Heavenly Treasure Pavilion was the Blazing Sun Sect, a great sect of the Jing Kingdom renowned for its artifact-refining arts. Therefore, the magic tools sold by Heavenly Treasure Pavilion had always received widespread praise.

Not long after Zhou Chun entered the shop, a pretty female clerk came forward to greet him.

She did not appear to be even twenty years old, and her cultivation was only at Qi Refining Stage Layer 3. She was likely a Rogue Cultivator employed by Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

After approaching Zhou Chun with a smile, she immediately gave him a respectful curtsy. "Welcome to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, honored guest. This little woman is Lan Zhi. It is my honor to serve you."

This seemingly ordinary scene filled Zhou Chun with emotion.

He had entered and left many shops in the market, and now he had finally encountered one willing to make service its main feature.

No wonder it was a famous shop known throughout the kingdom!

With that thought in mind, Zhou Chun smiled and nodded slightly at the young woman. "Greetings, Fellow Daoist. I wish to purchase a First-grade High-tier offensive magic tool. Do you have any physical items available for inspection?"

Upon hearing this, the young woman's eyes widened in surprise before delight flashed across them. She nodded repeatedly. "Of course we do. But this is too large an order for this little woman to handle. Please come this way, honored guest. I will introduce you to our steward."

As she spoke, she raised a hand to lead Zhou Chun toward a Quiet Room behind the main hall.

Once they reached the door of the Quiet Room, the young woman did not avoid Zhou Chun. She directly raised her hand and knocked, repeating Zhou Chun's request. Then the door opened.

When Zhou Chun entered the room alone, he saw a fair-faced middle-aged man with a long beard standing before him in the Quiet Room, which had been arranged like a tea room. His cultivation was actually at Level 11 Qi Refining Stage.

Upon seeing Zhou Chun enter, the fair-faced man immediately cupped his hands in greeting. "I am Liu Feng, merely the steward of this shop. Are you the Fellow Daoist who wishes to inspect First-grade High-tier offensive magic tools? Do you have any special requirements for their form, or will any type do?"

Zhou Chun immediately replied, "I have no special requirements. Any type will do, so long as it satisfies me."

"Then please wait a moment, Fellow Daoist. I will fetch the goods for you at once."

With that, the fair-faced man pushed open another small door behind him and went off somewhere.

After waiting for roughly a quarter of an hour, he finally pushed open that small door again and returned to the room.

Before Zhou Chun could ask anything, he took several wooden boxes of varying sizes from his Storage Bag and placed them on a nearby table. Then he opened them one by one, displaying and introducing the magic tools within.

First, he opened a long wooden box and took out a pale golden longsword magic tool around three feet long.

He introduced it, saying, "This magic tool is called the Golden Goose Blade. It is made from Essence Gold and refined with pure Earthfire for five days and five nights. It possesses sharpness and armor-piercing properties. Few magic tools of the same tier can withstand its edge. Its price is three hundred and twenty Spirit Coins."

After saying this, he paused slightly. Seeing that Zhou Chun made no response, he returned the longsword magic tool to its box, opened the second wooden box, and took out a small crimson flag.

"This magic tool is called the Flame Sparrow Banner. Its main material is silk from the Scarlet Flame Spider, a second-tier demon beast, while Fire Essence Copper serves as an auxiliary material. A renowned artifact refiner spent half a month crafting it. With a single activation, it can release three Flame Sparrows to attack an enemy, each as powerful as the Firebird Art. It can also concentrate its power to release one Flame Sparrow as powerful as a First-grade High-tier spell."

"Furthermore, if its wielder has cultivated the Fire Control Art, they can turn the flame power released by this treasure to their own use, producing even more exquisite effects. Its price is three hundred and eighty Spirit Coins."

Zhou Chun's eyes lit up, and he openly showed his admiration. "It truly is a fine treasure, and this price is fair as well."

But after speaking, he shook his head and said with some regret, "Unfortunately, I do not understand the Fire Control Art and cannot bring out this item's true use. Let us look at some other magic tools."

Upon hearing this, the words that had reached the fair-faced middle-aged man's lips were swallowed back down. He could only return the crimson flag to its box, then open the third wooden box and take out a small earthy-yellow seal.

The earthy-yellow seal seemed extraordinarily heavy. When the fair-faced middle-aged man took it out, veins bulged across his wrist, and he appeared to be straining greatly.

Moreover, unlike the previous magic tools, he did not hold it in his hand. Instead, he directly placed it atop the nearby table made from ironwood.

"This magic tool is called the Minor Thousand Mountain Seal. It is made from a large amount of Profound Earth Stone, refined with pure Earthfire for ten days and ten nights. It possesses gravity, sturdiness, and enlargement properties. Among First-tier magic tools, it is difficult to find a rival to its power. Its price is four hundred and twenty Spirit Coins!"

After saying this, the fair-faced middle-aged man did not take out any more magic tools. He merely looked at Zhou Chun and asked, "Among these three magic tools, is there one that catches Fellow Daoist's eye?"

Zhou Chun immediately said in surprise, "There are only these three magic tools? Are there no others?"

He seemed unwilling to believe that such a vast Heavenly Treasure Pavilion possessed only these few First-grade High-tier magic tools.

Yet upon hearing that, the fair-faced middle-aged man gave him a deep look. "There are naturally other magic tools, but their functions are largely similar to those of these three. If Fellow Daoist wishes to inspect every one of them, then Liu must first verify your means, lest everyone's time be wasted!"

Zhou Chun could not help frowning, then asked softly, "Is that your shop's rule?"

"Yes. That is this shop's rule."

The fair-faced middle-aged man nodded without hesitation.

"I understand. Then I shall let Steward Liu see my capital."

Zhou Chun's brows relaxed. He nodded gently, then reached out and patted the Storage Bag at his waist, displaying his funds.

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