That Comes to Ten Thousand Spirit Stones
He casually tossed the World Bamboo in his hand toward Lin Xiao, and the World Bamboo, its tender leaves trembling, flew in circles toward Lin Xiao before finally hovering inside the barrier.
During this process, Lin Xiao vaguely saw two small, round bumps appear on the child's forehead in the bamboo forest, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye, returning to a smooth forehead.
"Guest, this is a gift of ten thousand Spirit Stone."
"By the way, does using this World Bamboo require Spirit Stone?" Lin Xiao asked, still concerned.
The child looked at him like he was an idiot. "Using the World Bamboo only requires infusing Spiritual Power into it, why use Spirit Stone? It won't eat them."
Ignoring the child's gaze, Lin Xiao confidently took out ten thousand Spirit Stone. The Spirit Stone immediately seemed to be attracted by the barrier, flying into the barrier and piling up in front of the thatched hut.
At the same moment that all the Spirit Stone were absorbed into the barrier, the World Bamboo that had been suspended inside the barrier also broke through the barrier and landed in front of Lin Xiao.
He reached out and grasped the World Bamboo, feeling its cool, smooth texture and excellent feel. He carefully sensed the subtle Space Principle flowing within it, and then applied a little more force to his hand, discovering that the World Bamboo seemed to be incredibly strong. Even without its teleportation function, it would probably be an excellent material for crafting magical Law Artifact.
It was a bit painful to spend those 10,000 Spirit Stone stones; his own savings were suddenly much depleted.
However, Lin Xiao didn't waste these spirit stones.
After all, their sect currently only has the Heaven and Earth Shift Disc, an item that can directly teleport them to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, so having one more would definitely be beneficial.
Although this World Bamboo can only be used once a month at most, and can only carry one person at a time, it marks the coordinates of the Chongxiao Domain.
The Heaven and Earth Shift Disc costs a lot of Spirit Stone to teleport people to the Southern Spirit Domain in one go. If the distance is increased to the Chongxiao Domain, who knows how much more it will cost.
Although the price of buying out the World Bamboo is high, it only requires the infusion of Spiritual Power for subsequent use, without the need to consume additional Spirit Stone, which is still very cost-effective.
Logically, the sect should pay for this, not Lin Xiao's own money. However, the child only mentioned the functions of the World Bamboo, so who knows if it's true or not, or how effective the teleportation is...?
Holding the World Bamboo in his hand, he didn't doubt that he had been deceived, because he could indeed faintly feel a trace of spatial Power of Principle flowing within the bamboo.
This was because he had previously been engrossed in studying the spatial array of the Lock Ring, making him quite sensitive to this, and also because his current cultivation level had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, allowing him to grasp some of the thresholds of Space Principle, which enabled him to sense it.
The main things to check are whether its coordinates are accurate and stable, and whether it is truly used once a month and can be used continuously.
His biggest worry now is that the World Bamboo will break down after only one or two uses.
It was so hard to find such a beautiful, straight bamboo.
If this World Bamboo is really useful, he'll go back to that secluded valley next time and buy a few more from that child, using the sect's Spirit Stone.
Unbeknownst to Lin Xiao, less than a quarter of an hour after he left, the hidden Boundary Bamboo Garden in the valley welcomed its owner.
"Mother, you're back!" The child ran towards the woman in blue who had appeared out of nowhere within the barrier and buried his head in her arms.
The woman in green gently stroked his head, her voice as gentle as water. "Shi'er, were you obedient and stayed home when your mother left?"
The child, called Shi'er, looked up proudly and said, "I listened to my mother this time and didn't leave the bamboo grove even once. Plus, I closed a deal!"
As the owner of Boundary Bamboo Garden, the woman in green was naturally aware that a bamboo was missing from the garden. She glanced in the direction of the bamboo that had been sold and thought to herself that these customers were quite anxious. She had only temporarily left the garden in this remote valley to run some errands, and they would be able to find her again soon.
She gently stroked Shi'er's head and praised him a few times before leading him into the thatched hut.
Shortly after they entered the house, a thick white mist suddenly rose from the entire Boundary Bamboo Garden, and then disappeared into the valley, leaving only a vast expanse of rocky land in the valley.
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With bamboo in his hand, Lin Xiao felt like a low-key knight-errant silently walking through the world.
He cherished this World Bamboo very much. Although it looked like he was using it as a walking stick, he had actually wrapped the entire bamboo with his Spiritual Power to ensure that it would not be damaged in the slightest.
That's ten thousand Spirit Stone!
From a distance, he looked like a bearded man wearing a large straw hat and a raincoat, walking leisurely through the mountains and forests with a bamboo stick.
In addition, his ability to shrink the distance between two places makes him perfectly fit the image of a reclusive master in the eyes of ordinary people.
Lin Xiao followed the map Qingle had given him for over half a month, occasionally stopping in cities along the way to try and sell his sect's products. However, perhaps because he was unfamiliar with the area, or perhaps because he looked down on the Lingxian Sect Sect's products, which were mostly geared towards low-level cultivators, or perhaps because they already had substitutes for many of these items—though they might not be as good—who cared? After all, it wasn't them selling or using the products, so there was no need to accept or promote new things. Therefore, Lin Xiao's sales efforts did not go very smoothly.
He couldn't even find a single shop that would allow him to reach the stage of discussing cooperation.
This was a world of difference from his previous treatment in the Southern Spirit Domain. He had originally thought that with so many prosperous cities in the Mysterious Extreme Domain, there should be even more opportunities.
The reality, however, was quite different.
Fortunately, this was just a side quest he added for himself, without any predetermined goals, so he didn't feel frustrated by the repeated setbacks.
Lin Xiao simply shook his head and sighed as he left one city after another, lamenting that these people had missed out on such a good product from their sect, which was truly a pity.
After leaving another city, he arrived at the border area between the Mysterious Extreme Domain and the Chongxiao Domain after only a few days.
Now Lin Xiao understood why the South Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain were considered impoverished areas on the fringes of the Immortal Cultivation Realm; it seemed it wasn't just a matter of Spiritual Qi concentration.
Furthermore, the combined area of Southern Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain Spiritual Domains, which are internally divided into the South Spirit Domain and North Spirit Domain, is still less than half the size of the Mysterious Extreme Domain!
Although there is a difference between his speed of flying on a sword and walking on foot, he actually tries his best to maintain his walking speed, so it is not much different from flying on a sword. Even if he walks from Yuanling City to Mysterious Extreme Domain, it will not take him more than half a month.
However, it took him about two months to travel from the edge of the Mysterious Extreme Domain to the border area with the Chongxiao Domain.