Chapter 57: Chapter 57: The Nation of Ten Thousand Demons

“Exotic customs?” Li Jizhou’s heart stirred slightly.

“Yes, in the entire cultivation realm of the Qi Kingdom, only the Golden Crow Immortal City has it!” Lu Zhenhua’s face flashed with anticipation.

“Could it be the Demon Race?” Li Jizhou was slightly moved.

If it were really as he guessed, then the Golden Sun Sect was indeed not simple.

The Celestial Profound Continent is vast and populated with diverse creatures, not solely the lineage of the Human Race.

In his previous life in the Liang Kingdom, he listened to a fellow cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage boast about some things, saying that the entire southern part of the Celestial Profound Continent was a vast stretch of endless peaks and green ridges, so vast that its length was unknown, called Nanling.

Among them lived countless Demon Race members, known as the Ten Thousand Demon Country!

The Demon Race and demon beasts have a fundamental difference.

The Demon Race are ancient spirit beasts evolved and mutated, granted spiritual endowment by the Celestial Dao, eventually awakening spiritual wisdom, and are like the Spirit Race and Human Race, possessing spiritual intelligence.

Thereafter, their bloodline inheritance continued endlessly, and the descendants born are all Demon Race, having completely detached from the beast category, able to transform at birth, not only inheriting the talents and bloodlines of ancient times but also capable of cultivating all manners of arts.

Demon beasts, on the other hand, have not evolved into possessing spiritual intelligence, merely inheriting the ancestral bloodline, though they have inherited talents and bloodline divine abilities, and some, having lived long enough, may possess imitative human wisdom, but wisdom differs from spiritual intelligence, and without spiritual endowment from the Celestial Dao, they lack spiritual intelligence, incapable of transformation.

“Indeed, they are the Demon Race! But… they certainly won’t be pureblood demons, rather those half-demons not fully transformed, viewed as a disgrace by the Ten Thousand Demon Country!” Lu Zhenhua confirmed.

“Half-demons?”

“That’s right… they’re mostly human in form but have some parts not fully transformed. However, you needn’t worry, the female half-demons sold to the Qi Kingdom are definitely capable of normal union!

For example… only the beast ears, beast tail, and such parts are not fully transformed,” Lu Zhenhua explained hurriedly.

Hearing this, Li Jizhou took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, and remained silent for a long time.

Only after a while did he exhale a long breath, collecting all his emotions, his face like that of a saintly Buddha.

“By the way, my worthy brother, since you don’t wish to go to the Immortal City, what are your plans?” Lu Zhenhua continued to inquire.

After some thought, he added, “However, I suggest you stay within the Golden Sun Sect’s territory. If something happens, I can look after you. To be honest, our Ten Thousand Talisman Pavilion has considerable influence within the Golden Sun Sect’s jurisdiction.”

Li Jizhou nodded slightly. When at Inverted Mountain, he had carefully considered this.

With his current cultivation, he is incapable of long-distance flight.

And the cultivation realm being vast and boundless, with his current third-level perfection Qi Cultivation magical power reserves, wanting to leave the Qi Kingdom would take considerable time even riding a flying ship, and the journey would be long through uninhabited areas, risking encounters with Demon Dao and evil cultivators, which isn’t minor risk.

Now, with his shallow cultivation, the safest course is to dwell under the protection of the strong and steadily enhance himself.

Additionally, considering the situation of the cultivation realm in the Qi Kingdom, the Golden Sun Sect is the most influential, making it the safest choice within its jurisdiction.

However, living in the Golden Crow Immortal City is costly. If he doesn’t join the Ten Thousand Talisman Pavilion for work, relying on his current path of talisman crafting to make a living in the Golden Crow Immortal City is truly difficult, with the yearly rent of even an outer courtyard exceeding three hundred Spirit Stones, not to mention other living expenses.

He could only lament how hard it is to find a place to live!

Besides the Golden Crow Immortal City, the largest location in the eastern Qi Kingdom is the Fenglin Immortal Pavilion of the Fenglin Wang family, one of the Five Great Families.

A size between that of an Immortal City and a market.

However, Li Jizhou had long excluded it; even if offered to settle there for free, he wouldn’t go.

Remember back when subscribing to the report for the first year, the most lively news was that the Fenglin Immortal Pavilion was harassed by the Demon Dao, forcing out the Wang family’s Core Formation old ancestor.

Years later, the report once again reported incidents of harassment at the Fenglin Wang family’s Immortal Pavilion, although there was no large-scale spell battle that time, it was enough to prove Li Jizhou’s earlier conjecture.

The Fenglin Wang family, having exterminated the Thunder Flame Sect-affiliated Yu family five hundred years ago, had completely offended the Yu family.

It must be an irreconcilable conflict.

Moreover, since the Fenglin Wang family’s Immortal Pavilion is the nearest market to Inverted Mountain in this region, it’s more likely to be affected by events from Inverted Mountain.

Excluding the Golden Crow Immortal City and Fenglin Immortal Pavilion, there weren’t many options left.

As for those small markets established by small families like the Zhao family, he wouldn’t consider them either.

Ultimately, after comprehensive consideration, he set his sights on the Spirit Pearl Mountain market, located between Fenglin Immortal Pavilion and Golden Crow Immortal City, jointly built by five second-tier cultivation families along with thirteen surrounding small families.

With thriving commerce and multiple jurisdictions, there are Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivators stationed for security.

Most importantly, with his current skills, he could manage to afford it!

However, he did not reveal his plan to Lu Zhenhua.

He only said he would go around first and finally decide.

Lu Zhenhua didn’t press further but encouraged him and finally, at Li Jizhou’s request, they exchanged well wishes and parted ways.

Before leaving, Lu Zhenhua specifically left a detailed address for Li Jizhou, hoping once stabilized, he would make contact, or reach out via the Ten Thousand Talisman Pavilion within the market.

“Hoo~ Now I can cultivate in peace, with plenty of time to both improve cultivation and practice the ’Flame Phosphorus Skill,’ to fully harness the alchemy advantage from my past life!”

Watching Lu Zhenhua disappear into the horizon, Li Jizhou turned to look in the direction of Spirit Pearl Mountain market, his heart calm and tranquil.

An hour later, Li Jizhou stood before the Spirit Pearl Mountain market, gazing at the well-arranged houses, clean streets, and a constant flow of visitors,

feeling the aura of the Tier One upper-grade Spirit Vein, his mood improved.

Compared to the chaotic disorder of Inverted Mountain, this was a place fit for living.

Even if fees were charged here, regulations were many, and control was strong, the advantage lay in safety.

Perhaps some might feel it’s not free, lacking rights, especially the young and arrogant, who think the heavens are old and earth older, but they themselves are the third oldest, rebellious ones.

Including Li Jizhou in his younger days in the past life, who once shouted within his heart: Better to die than live unfreely!

But after enduring hardship and countless trials, he came to understand the value of safety.

At Inverted Mountain, no matter if you did nothing, walking the road could result in someone attacking you with spells, stripping away your life, and your soul perishing.

That wasn’t true freedom!

True freedom requires you to strive and ascend to the peak, breaking out of rules,

by then, all regulations would flexibly adjust to you.

Within the Spirit Pearl Mountain market, flying is prohibited, street sleeping is banned, fighting is forbidden, as is seclusion for major breakthrough promotions, in essence, banning everything detrimental to the managers, affecting market prosperity.

Upon entering the market for the first time, registration is mandatory, and remembering market rules is required.

After entering the market, Li Jizhou didn’t rush to rent a house and settle but personally toured the market once, memorizing every detail along the way.

Especially the situation at the east, west, north, and south city gates, in preparation for an unexpected situation requiring escape.

Additionally, he inquired about market trends across various trades, comparing them with the data he had previously collected.

The selling price of talismans was twice as high as at Inverted Mountain.

The buying price was fifty percent higher.

Material prices doubled.

This meant the profit for Li Jizhou’s current talisman sales remained unchanged.

The prices of Spirit Rice, Spiritual Flesh, and auxiliary pills, among other daily consumption goods, doubled compared to Inverted Mountain.

Dining, entertainment, jewelry, and non-essentials were even more extravagant.

The price for female cultivator companionship at the Ascension Tower was five times that at Inverted Mountain, with quality not necessarily better.

If not for Li Jizhou understanding the reasons, he might have had to use his divine sense to check if they were adorned with gold or diamonds.

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