A Mix-Up, and the Value of Spirit Eggs
The blood on the wound had long since dried, and it looked as though it had been there for a long time.
Li Yunjing immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Li Yunjing remembered clearly
that Mo Xuan had no such wound on his body.
"This isn't Junior Brother Mo!?"
At the thought, Li Yunjing was both delighted and puzzled.
Li Yunjing forced himself to calm down.
The shock just now had been so great
that he had forgotten to check whether the two were really Mo Xuan and Shui Yao.
Now that Li Yunjing had come to his senses, he thought to check their identities.
"If I remember correctly, Junior Brother Mo has a mole on his butt!"
Li Yunjing recalled this detail.
Sorry for the offense, he thought.
Then he pulled down the trousers of the corpse before him.
He looked at its butt. There was no mole.
This man was not Mo Xuan.
Li Yunjing immediately felt relieved.
Li Yunjing did the same with the female corpse beside him.
Li Yunjing remembered that Shui Yao had a birthmark on her right arm.
It was very conspicuous.
Li Yunjing rolled up the female corpse's sleeve.
There was no birthmark. This person was not Shui Yao either.
Li Yunjing immediately let out a long breath.
"Thank goodness, thank goodness. At least there's still a chance they're alive," Li Yunjing murmured.
Since they were not Mo Xuan and Shui Yao, Li Yunjing had no intention of staying there.
After straightening their clothes,
Li Yunjing left the rear courtyard and returned to the Worry-Relief Shop.
Gao Jin was drinking tea. When he saw Li Yunjing come out, he hurriedly stood up.
"Sect Leader Li, please accept my condolences."
Gao Jin sighed as he spoke.
Li Yunjing, however, burst out laughing.
Seeing this, Gao Jin sensed trouble.
This is bad. Sect Leader Li has gone mad!
Unaware of what Gao Jin was thinking, Li Yunjing said,
"Those two aren't my junior brother and junior sister. Sorry for the trouble, Shopkeeper Gao, but please keep looking into it."
Gao Jin was stunned.
"They aren't? Are you sure, Sect Leader Li?"
Li Yunjing nodded with absolute certainty.
Gao Jin gave a helpless smile.
"After all that, it was a mix-up."
Looking at Li Yunjing, Gao Jin said, "All right, rest assured, Sect Leader Li. I'll keep working on it."
"Sorry for the trouble."
After exchanging a few pleasantries with Gao Jin,
Li Yunjing left the Worry-Relief Shop.
He let out another long breath and walked away.
Since he had come to Xunxian Town, he might as well sell what he needed to sell and buy what he needed to buy.
This time, Li Yunjing planned to sell only two things:
Yellow Sprout Pills and spirit eggs.
He had previously accumulated eighty-eight spirit eggs.
They were all first-grade spirit eggs.
Although they were only the most ordinary first-grade spirit eggs,
selling two for one Low-Grade Spirit Stone would still be no problem.
And after ten days, the number of spirit eggs had grown to one hundred and eighty-four.
After the Poultry Coop was upgraded to lv3,
it produced six spirit eggs a day.
There was also a sixty percent chance of the number doubling.
Over those ten days, the number had doubled on exactly six days, yielding twelve a day.
The remaining four days had produced the usual six each.
That made ninety-six ordinary spirit eggs in ten days.
The coop had also produced four premium spirit eggs in those ten days.
The lv3 Poultry Coop had a forty percent chance of producing premium spirit eggs.
Previously, Li Yunjing had harvested three premium spirit eggs.
He had eaten one, leaving two.
Now he had six premium spirit eggs, which he figured would sell for quite a few Spirit Stones.
Once again, he arrived at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
As before, Duan Yang came to receive Li Yunjing.
"Sect Leader Li, please accept this token of my appreciation."
After they entered a private room, Duan Yang took a small pouch from his robes and handed it to Li Yunjing.
Li Yunjing swept it with his Divine Sense.
Well, well-twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
For someone like Duan Yang, that was no small sum.
As a clerk at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Duan Yang earned only five Low-Grade Spirit Stones a month.
That was his base salary.
On top of that, he received commissions.
Even with commissions, though, fifteen Low-Grade Spirit Stones a month was considered good.
After all, the Treasure Gathering Pavilion had quite a few clerks.
With too many monks and too little gruel, each clerk was assigned only so much work.
"Come into a fortune?" Li Yunjing asked Duan Yang with a smile.
Duan Yang rubbed the back of his head. "It's all thanks to you, Sect Leader Li. Your last visit earned me quite a commission."
The last time Li Yunjing had come here, he had earned Duan Yang a commission of more than fifty stones.
That was equivalent to several months of Duan Yang's wages.
Duan Yang knew this opportunity had come from Li Yunjing.
How could he not thank him properly?
Duan Yang was counting on Li Yunjing to look after him in the future!
Li Yunjing had not wanted to accept Duan Yang's gift.
But Duan Yang insisted, and Li Yunjing could not win out over the young man.
With no other choice, Li Yunjing put away the twenty Spirit Stones.
"Just this once."
After putting them away, Li Yunjing spoke to Duan Yang.
Next, they got down to business.
Li Yunjing first took out one hundred and eighty-four spirit eggs.
"Oh, spirit chicken eggs brimming with spiritual power."
At the sight, Duan Yang's mouth began to water.
Spirit chicken eggs were cheap and tasted good.
With a little cooking, they could be made into a fine dish.
Even a cultivator with a modest income like Duan Yang
could often afford to buy a few for a taste.
"Work out how much they're worth." Li Yunjing picked up his teacup.
Duan Yang had already come up with a reasonable valuation.
"Sect Leader Li, how about ninety-five Low-Grade Spirit Stones?"
At two eggs per Spirit Stone,
the price should have been ninety-two Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
But the extra three were a little bonus.
Li Yunjing nodded, agreeing to the price.
He then took out five premium spirit eggs.
Of the five premium spirit eggs,
three were azure, one was gold, and the last was milky white.
The three azure premium spirit eggs could increase the cultivation speed of cultivators who primarily cultivated wood-attribute cultivation methods by 10% for one hour.
The golden spirit egg did the same, but for cultivators who primarily cultivated metal-attribute cultivation methods.
The milky-white premium spirit egg's effect, however, was not limited by attribute.
It could increase the cultivation speed of any cultivator.
Its duration was also slightly longer, lasting an hour and a quarter.
In fact, besides the five premium spirit eggs,
Li Yunjing had one black premium spirit egg.
Eating the black premium spirit egg would cause one to fall into an illusion, with a 5% chance of comprehending a first-grade cultivation method.
That effect was far too mysterious.
Even if Li Yunjing told them about it, it would be difficult to verify.
The effects of these five premium spirit eggs, on the other hand, were easy to verify.
Whether they could increase cultivation speed
could be determined by having an appraiser from the Treasure Gathering Pavilion examine them.
When Li Yunjing explained the effects of the five premium spirit eggs,
Duan Yang stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"Sect Leader Li, I'm afraid I can't make the decision on this. I'll go ask Appraiser Li to take a look."
Duan Yang then left the private room.
Before long, Li Mingjie came to the private room.
Seeing Li Yunjing, Li Mingjie greeted him warmly.
"Sect Leader Li, I hope you've been well. You haven't come by for a while, and I've missed you."
Li Yunjing found it strange that Li Mingjie had become more enthusiastic.
Putting aside his question, he saw that Li Mingjie had already begun examining the spirit eggs.
He had heard about their effects from Duan Yang.
About a quarter of an hour passed,
and Li Mingjie put down the spirit egg.
"Sect Leader Li, these spirit eggs do indeed increase a cultivator's cultivation speed, just as you said."
Li Mingjie was very surprised.
Determining whether they had this effect
was really a matter of experience.
These spirit eggs were like certain medicinal pills.
They shared common characteristics, so it was not difficult to judge.
The reason Li Mingjie was surprised
was simply that this was beyond the scope of his knowledge.
Li Mingjie had never seen spirit eggs that could help cultivators increase their cultivation speed like medicinal pills.
He had never even heard of such a thing, much less seen it.
"What do you think these spirit eggs are worth, Appraiser Li?" Li Yunjing asked curiously.
Li Mingjie pondered and began to calculate.
"Sect Leader Li, these spirit eggs are equivalent to ordinary first-grade Gathering Essence Pills. How about I buy them at the price of Gathering Essence Pills?"