bookbashuk Chapter 3 Jin Su Shan Market
Chapter 3 Jin Su Shan Market
"My lady, do you think—if something were to happen to the Chen family and they all died, would their Immortal Seeds in the Moon Shadow Sect expend a great deal of effort to investigate this matter?"
"After all, this little one was only 6 years old when she went to the Moon Shadow Sect. By the time she has completed her cultivation and is able to go down the mountain and return home, at least seven or eight years will have passed. Will she still remember her family then?"
"Even if you remember, will you still have feelings for her?" Su Qingyan sat on the edge of the bed and suddenly asked his wife.
Zhang Hui was originally the daughter of a small vendor in the town. When she was 6 years old, she was found to have five spiritual roots at the Moon Shadow Sect's disciple recruitment event. She was immediately bought by an old cultivator from the Zhou family of Jin Su Mountain to be his child bride.
The old monk was 80 years old at that time. He had no children and had always wanted to have one to continue his bloodline, but he had not succeeded.
Although Zhang Hui possessed spiritual roots, the old cultivator had never allowed her to cultivate, considering that the chances of ordinary people becoming pregnant would drop significantly after they became cultivators.
As a result, Zhang Hui was a child bride in a cultivation family for 10 years, but she was still a mortal.
It wasn't until Zhang Hui was 16 years old that the old cultivator encountered a calamity cultivator outside and died there.
Although Zhang Hui was still a virgin at this time, she was, after all, the child bride of the Zhou family elders.
Furthermore, with the old cultivator dying a violent death outside, the Zhou family generally believed that Zhang Hui had a jinx to her husbands and were unwilling to take on the relationship.
So, through a series of unexpected events, Su Qingyan's father managed to bring Zhang Hui back to become their daughter-in-law.
They made a killing!
Su Qingyan didn't believe in the idea that a woman was a jinx to her husband.
Even though Su Qingyan is a transmigrator, his understanding of the cultivation world is nowhere near as good as Zhang Hui's, who has lived in a cultivation family for 10 years.
Therefore, Su Qingyan would always consult his wife's opinion on anything.
Upon hearing these words, Zhang Hui, his bedmate, instantly understood his thoughts.
After thinking for a moment, she replied, "My husband, your guesses are mostly correct."
"Some members of the Zhou family of Jin Su Mountain with excellent spiritual roots are also cultivating in the Moon Shadow Sect. I heard that there is even a Foundation Establishment stage ancestor among them."
"From the moment the Zhou family's immortal seedling entered the Moon Shadow Sect, everything around him subtly diluted his connection with his family."
"Let them completely integrate into the Moonshadow Sect."
"In the later stages, it became a one-way street for the family to cultivate relationships with the members of the Moon Shadow Sect, while the members of the Moon Shadow Sect became somewhat resistant to the family's cultivators."
"It is said that the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Zhou family of the Moon Shadow Sect will only take action when the Zhou family is in dire need of protection, and they basically have no contact with each other otherwise."
"The immortal seedling from the Chen family who went to the Moon Shadow Sect will only have a weaker relationship with the Zhou family compared to the Chen family, and they may eventually become strangers."
"After all, no cultivator would like to have a bunch of bloodsucking worms hanging on their body."
"But... even if the feelings are weak, if a cultivator wants to wipe out a mortal family with no background, they can do it with just a flick of their wrist. They don't need evidence, and they don't even need a reason."
"If you, my husband, are determined to take action against the Chen family, you should be prepared to deal with the retaliation from the Chen family's immortal seedlings."
"That's a celestial seedling with three spiritual roots. Once it grows up, it has a certain chance of breaking through to become a Foundation Establishment stage ancestor. If all else fails, after we deal with the Chen family, we'll immediately sell our assets and run far away. After all, it will be at least five or six years before the Chen family's celestial seedling wants to go home to visit."
"By then, it will be like finding a needle in a haystack for her to find us."
What his wife Zhang Hui said was exactly what Su Qingyan had thought before he received the cheat code.
Now that he has the Spirit Plant Master's Handbook, he really can't bear to part with those old red ginseng plants in his 100 acres of forest land. Those are all treasures that have the potential to be cultivated into the spiritual medicine Red Blood Yang Ginseng.
Feeling conflicted, Su Qingyan omitted the part about the "golden finger" (a special ability to enhance one's abilities) and told Zhou Hui about how he had "accidentally" found the Spirit Plant Master's Notes on the beam of his family's ancestral hall and how Red Ginseng could be cultivated into the spiritual herb Red Blood Yang Ginseng.
Incidentally, he also mentioned his experiment with mutated red ginseng that poisoned black pigs.
"We fed so much food, and only managed to raise five pigs. You ruined one of them. You're not allowed to eat meat for a month as punishment," Zhang Hui said, glaring at Su Qingyan and feigning anger.
Of course, the real reason for punishing him by forbidding him from eating meat was just a pretext.
It's true that they're trying to lighten the mood.
It's just a little romance between husband and wife.
"If we can successfully cultivate that Crimson Blood Yang Ginseng, our family will indeed have nothing to fear from those scoundrels in the Chen family, and we can even easily wipe them out."
"By the way, let me take a look at that mutated spirit ginseng," Zhang Hui continued.
Su Qingyan took out two mutated red ginsengs that were packed in a wooden box. He had already washed his hands more than a dozen times. As he opened the box, he warned, "Wife, be careful. This stuff is highly poisonous. Don't get too close."
Zhang Hui didn't touch the mutated red ginseng, but observed it carefully for a long time.
"I can't tell."
"However, this thing is so toxic, yet it dissolves in water and is colorless and odorless. It must be something extraordinary, and the cultivation world will definitely have a use for it."
"Well... I am from the Zhou family of Jin Su Mountain after all, so they can be considered my half-family."
"At the foot of Jin Su Mountain, there is a small market for cultivating immortality. It was established by the Zhou family and is called Jin Su Mountain Market. Mortals cannot enter it, but there are people arranged by the Zhou family to collect goods at the entrance. Mortals can go there and sell their treasures to them."
"After all, the cultivation world is so vast, and there are quite a few mortals with opportunities. Occasionally, someone might find a spiritual herb or a magical artifact, and there's always a reason for that."
"Go to them in my name. If you run into someone you know, you might be able to sell these mutated red ginseng for a good price."
"If I could exchange it for a cultivation technique, that would be even better."
"If our family can cultivate the Crimson Blood Yang Ginseng and produce five or six plants every year, after a few decades, my husband and I might have a chance to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining."
It is indeed difficult for someone with five spiritual roots to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, but with enough resources, it is possible to achieve it.
However, this is only the result under ideal circumstances.
We'll only know the actual situation after we go to the Jin Su Shan market. If the mutated red ginseng doesn't fetch a good price, we won't be able to buy cultivation techniques.
All of this is just empty talk.
But besides the mutated red ginseng, Su Qingyan also thought that the spirit plant master's notes were also a very good bargaining chip.
With that in mind, he went to his study and meticulously copied the Spirit Plant Master's Notes.
For the next two days, Su Qingyan would frequently put on a simple gas mask and run into the woods in search of traces of the mutated red ginseng.
After touring the 100-acre woodland, Su Qingyan harvested a total of 21 mutated red ginseng plants.
On average, only one plant grows from five acres of land.
Production is very low.
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