As Lin Xiye walked through the cultivation market, the many cultivators he passed were all full of awe... none dared approach him.
In the cultivation world, strength reigned supreme, and the hierarchy was rigid.
Although there were many cultivators in this market, most were only at the Skin Refining Realm.
Those at the Blood Refining and Bone Refining Realms were few and far between...
When Lin Xiye was at the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect, he had also visited the cultivation market within the sect.
Compared to the one in the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect, this cultivation market was very small.
At the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's cultivation market, as long as one had enough Spirit Stones, one could easily buy Spirit Nurturing Pills and Spirit-Nurturing Grade Law Treasures.
Sometimes, even Foundation Establishment Pills appeared in the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's cultivation market!!
As thoughts churned through Lin Xiye's mind, he walked into the most magnificent building in the market without realizing it.
The building had seven floors in all!! At the entrance stood two breathtakingly beautiful young women in long pink dresses, both with a gentle bearing!
Although the two beautiful young women's cultivation was not high, only at early skin refining, they showed no trace of fear as they faced Lin Xiye, a Bone Refining Realm cultivator with abundant Qi and Blood.
That was because the Azure Shore Pavilion behind them was one of the businesses owned by the person who controlled this cultivation market from behind the scenes!
As long as they did not break the rules, let alone Bone Refining Realm cultivators, even ordinary Early Organ Refining Realm cultivators would not dare cause trouble in the Azure Shore Pavilion!
"Honored senior, welcome to the Azure Shore Pavilion!"
"May I ask, senior, do you need Law Treasures? Materials? Pills? Or Cultivation Methods? Our Azure Shore Pavilion has everything under the sun..."
"You must be visiting our Azure Shore Pavilion for the first time, senior. If you don't mind, I would be happy to show you around and explain what our Azure Shore Pavilion has to offer in detail."
One of the beautiful young women, her dark hair falling over her shoulders and her skin like jade, smiled and spoke first.
The gaze she directed at Lin Xiye was full of burning eagerness...
Bone Refining Realm cultivators were often quite wealthy. In her eyes, Lin Xiye was a walking big customer!
The more items she sold to Lin Xiye, the greater her commission would be that month.
"No need..."
Lin Xiye was utterly unmoved by the beautiful young woman's enthusiasm.
The beautiful young woman was evidently a salesperson for the Azure Shore Pavilion.
At the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's cultivation market, many large trading shops also employed young, beautiful female cultivators or handsome, delicate-featured male cultivators... and had them serve as salespeople.
This approach often brought trading shops more and greater profits.
Unfortunately, whether it was the lure of beauty or honeyed words... such tactics might work on cultivators fresh out of the thatched hut, with little experience of the world.
Lin Xiye had cultivated for a hundred years now, and these marketing tricks were basically useless against him...
Despite Lin Xiye's cool response, the beautiful young woman kept her enthusiastic smile and showed no sign of embarrassment.
That was simply the nature of their work.
Being turned down by Lin Xiye would not leave her feeling disappointed or embarrassed.
After all, if one customer did not work out... she could patiently wait for the next!
Although most cultivators were calculating and deep-minded, the sea of people was vast, and there would always be a chance to find an opportunity.
"This way, senior..."
"If you need anything, senior, you can call me at any time..."
The beautiful young woman's voice was soft, with a seductive, alluring quality.
Lin Xiye did not respond again and walked straight into the Azure Shore Pavilion.
Lin Xiye felt no goodwill toward either of the two beautiful young women.
In fact, because of them, Lin Xiye immediately became wary of the Azure Shore Pavilion and even the person who controlled this cultivation market from behind the scenes!!
The two beautiful young women seemed to have nothing wrong with them... but Lin Xiye sensed faint traces of an evil cultivation method on them!
Lin Xiye could sense those traces because he too had secretly cultivated an evil cultivation method while at the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect!
Otherwise, with Lin Xiye's false spirit root aptitude and no background or backing in the sect, let alone breaking through to mid-stage blood refining, even reaching middle skin refining would probably have been very difficult.
Evil cultivation methods... allowed extremely rapid progress in the early stages, but the further one progressed, the more dangerous they became to cultivate!
Moreover, cultivating evil methods was a major taboo in the Jin Kingdom's cultivation world!!
Evil Cultivators in the Jin Kingdom could easily become targets for extermination by various powers!
The evil cultivation method Lin Xiye had once practiced... was only a fragmentary secret rune technique he had happened to obtain by chance.
After cultivating to the Blood Refining level and vaguely sensing that his cultivation was getting somewhat out of control, Lin Xiye abandoned that evil cultivation method...
After all, cultivating an evil method at a low realm would not attract the attention of those high-level cultivators, but once one made progress and laid the foundations of the Evil Dao, the consequences would be extremely serious!!
After entering the Azure Shore Pavilion, Lin Xiye looked around. The first floor contained only the most basic precious herbs and materials.
The second floor held Cultivation Methods for the Skin Refining and Blood Refining levels...
From the third floor upward, items used by Bone Refining Realm and even Organ Refining Realm cultivators gradually began to appear!
Starting from the third floor, every floor was guarded by a Blood Refining-level cultivator!
On the Azure Shore Pavilion's top floor, an early-stage bone refining expert stood guard! Moreover, all these cultivators of the Azure Shore Pavilion had also cultivated evil methods!
The person behind the Azure Shore Pavilion was the owner of this cultivation market... clearly, that market master was definitely no good sort!!
"Shopkeeper, does the Azure Shore Pavilion buy this?"
Lin Xiye walked onto the Azure Shore Pavilion's top floor and slowly took a sprig of hundred-year-old Spirit Tempering Grass from his robes.
Since the Azure Shore Pavilion sold all kinds of cultivation items, it also bought materials, precious herbs, Cultivation Methods...
Although this was Lin Xiye's first visit to this cultivation market, he had already looked through general information about it while he was at the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect.
It was not just this cultivation market. Over the past century... Lin Xiye had gained a general understanding of the information on all the various powers throughout Huai Mountain Commandery!
Although the person behind this cultivation market was very likely an Evil Cultivator, the trading shops that market master had operated over the past century had maintained a very good reputation...
Even so, Lin Xiye had prepared himself for the worst.
After all, every transaction carried risks.
"Huh!?"
"This is... hundred-year-old Spirit Tempering Grass!"
At the sight of the sprig of hundred-year-old Spirit Tempering Grass, the Bone Refining Realm elder guarding the Azure Shore Pavilion's top floor immediately brightened!
Even a sprig of hundred-year-old Spirit Tempering Grass was quite valuable...
"Yes! Of course we'll buy it!"
"Fellow Daoist, what do you think of thirty Spirit Stone fragments?"
The elder looked at Lin Xiye and spoke in a tentative tone.