Clan Immortal Cultivation: I Can See Hints

As soon as they entered the room, they each set up their own formations using array plates and nearly at the same time, appeared at the doorway.

Lin Houxuan and Lin Houwei were close in age and were nearly in a friendly competition within the "Hou" generation, with both of them now almost qualified as Foundation Establishment seeds for the Lin Family.

Naturally, both were eager to visit the marketplace in Qingxuan City; having seen the street stalls outside the city, they were even more interested in the stalls and shops inside.

The shops here were much better than those in Qingyun City; Third Rank magical treasures, which were rarely seen on a regular basis, seemed to be rather common here.

Lin Shiyi came to Qingxuan City specifically to buy elixirs for Body Refinement, so he left his formation and came out in a hurry.

As for the Fifth Elder, Lin Yuzheng, he was still deep in thought inside his room.

"Let's go together, I've been here before!" Lin Shiming took the initiative and spoke.

After speaking, he led the group to the stall area first. The stall area in Qingyun City was a huge square.

The square was densely packed with stalls, but compared to the last time, besides the basic condition that all the stall owners were Qi Cultivators in the latter stages, there were also many Foundation Establishment Cultivators setting up stalls.

Seeing this, Lin Shiming also became quite interested, and after discussing with the other three, they decided to split up and look around. Lin Shiming, being a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, was naturally looking for Third Rank treasures, while the other three were only in need of Second Rank treasures.

After determining the final meeting point, the four split up to act separately.

Lin Shiming went straight towards the stalls of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators, as the quality of goods at Cultivators' stalls—unless they were items with growth potential or sealed—could generally be ascertained with a simple use of Divine Sense, so if he wanted to acquire anything valuable, it had to be from the stalls of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

However, to his slight disappointment, the majority of items sold by these Foundation Establishment Cultivators were still Second Rank Supreme Grade magic artifacts and Second Rank Superior Grade spiritual objects, with only the occasional Third Rank treasure.

Not to mention the enticing herbs, even ordinary Third Rank Spirit Grasses and Spiritual Medicines were few and far between. In contrast, Third Rank Demonic Beast materials seemed much more abundant.

But the Third Rank Demonic Beast materials in his Storage Bag were already sufficient for him to become a Third Rank Artifact Refiner, so he had no need for more Demonic Beast materials.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly received a system prompt:

"Please search the stalls carefully; you will find the root of a strand of Golden Thunder Bamboo!"

Lin Shiming, who initially felt disappointed, suddenly became excited once again. Golden Thunder Bamboo was one of the top ten spiritual bamboos in the realm of Cultivation. Spirits forged from Golden Thunder Bamboo were the bane of Demon Cultivators and Ghost Cultivators.

Moreover, as a cultivator with Wood Attribute, he could also perfectly harness the power of the thunder within the bamboo.

Of course, Golden Thunder Bamboos were only famous if they were over five hundred years old.

There were no specific grades for Golden Thunder Bamboo, everything depended on its age. Below a hundred years, the bamboo was still considered a Second Rank material. Only Golden Thunder Bamboo older than a hundred years was classified as Third Rank material, suitable for refining Third Rank magical artifacts.

And those that were over five hundred years were Fourth Rank materials, capable of being used to create Fourth Rank magical treasures and feared by all Ghost and Demon Cultivators.

Not only was the bamboo's power formidable, but it could also unleash the evil-warding Golden Thunder!

Golden Thunder Bamboo over a thousand years old was even Fifth Rank material and, according to legends, Golden Thunder Bamboo that reached ten thousand years old was considered Sixth Rank material able to be transformed into Sixth Rank magical treasures.

Although he was currently only looking at the spiritual root of the Golden Thunder Bamboo, to Lin Shiming, it was valuable precisely because it was the root of the bamboo, providing him an opportunity.

Otherwise, if the bamboo was already processed into a magical artifact—since even Second Rank magical artifacts were useful for Cultivators as a means to deal with evil cultivation or Ghost Cultivators—he would have no chance of getting it.

Especially those cultivators who enjoyed exploring the caves of ancient cultivators.

They often encountered various corpse refining techniques, and Magic Artifacts refined from Golden Thunder Bamboo, which could provide them with some assistance.

Of course, on the other hand, transplanting the Spirit Root of the Golden Thunder Bamboo was quite difficult.

However, for him, he had the Purple Wood Heart Sutra.

At the same time, at this moment, he also started to believe the words of his seventh great-uncle, that he must possess some kind of Spiritual Body, otherwise his enhancement of Spirit Plants could not have been so substantial, not to mention reviving the Awakening Spirit Flower seed last time.

He had also consulted his seventh great-uncle multiple times, even among those at the Qingxuan Sect who cultivated the Purple Wood Heart Sutra with a Wood Attribute Dual Spirit Root, none had shown effects as good as his. That was why, when Zi Xuan Hermit asked about the speed, he reduced his own catalyzation speed by more than tenfold.

For him, nurturing a Divine Fruit Tree or nurturing Golden Thunder Bamboo was all the same—the Spirit Root of Golden Thunder Bamboo wouldn't only grow one stalk of bamboo. If there were prospects in Immortal Cultivation, it would be possible to cultivate even Fifth Rank materials, perhaps even Sixth Rank!

Lin Shiming recalled this in his mind and searched even more carefully for Foundation Establishment cultivators' booths.

During this time, he also discovered some treasures, but none were the Seductive Beast Grass or Golden Thunder Bamboo roots that he was looking for, so they weren't of much significance to him.

However, just like the previous time with the Beast Nurturing Pill recipe, the cultivators running the booths didn't put the Golden Thunder Bamboo roots on display.

This made him somewhat irritable—the last time with the Beast Nurturing Pill recipe, there had been some trace to follow. This time, while every cultivator he saw seemed like they could have Golden Thunder Bamboo Spirit Roots, regrettably, he had no way of persuading the owners to part with their bamboo.

"That's not right!" If I can't get it, I can set up a booth to attract the owners of Golden Thunder Bamboo to voluntarily exchange with me.

During this time, Lin Shiming saw quite a few booth owners fail to sell their treasures, or else see someone else's treasures, pack up their booths, and switch from seller to buyer.

All cultivators had Storage Bags, so changing a booth location was incredibly easy.

Lin Shiming decided to act and paid a hundred Spirit Stones at the booth setup point, securing a Foundation Establishment zone booth location.

This made Lin Shiming realize just how profitable this rent collection was—a single day's rent could fetch a hundred Spirit Stones, and subleasing wasn't even allowed.

That said, Qi Cultivators' booth locations must cost thirty to forty Spirit Stones, which is likely why there were so many outside the city gates, while most booth owners here were at the late stage of Qi Cultivation.

Once he obtained the voucher, Lin Shiming found a spot where the crowd was quite dense.

He immediately took out a booth, displayed a third-rank intermediate-grade Flying Sword, and two third-rank inferior-grade Flying Swords.

These few swords were obtained when he had slain Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Li Family. However, compared to the Child-Mother Sword and the Tiangang Sword Formation, these three swords were not outstanding, making it a suitable time to put them up for sale.

Of course, there were also third-rank Spirit Armors and even more extraordinary third-rank intermediate-grade Flying Swords in his Storage Bag, but these were from disciples of the Spirit Beast Sect and could not be openly sold—they had to be sold on the black market.

The moment Lin Shiming displayed the Flying Swords, he instantly attracted everyone's attention; just considering the third-rank intermediate-grade Flying Sword, even though it had no special abilities, it was still an intermediate-grade item. If exchanged for inferior-grade Spirit Stones, it could fetch tens of thousands of stones.

In a booth area where mostly third-rank early-stage treasures were sold, this was undoubtedly a treasure that could anchor a booth.

Many wandering Foundation Establishment Cultivators gathered around, their eyes burning with desire, and some even harbored ill intentions as they continuously sized Lin Shiming up.

Most cultivators in the booth area were at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, but Lin Shiming's Divine Sense was almost the highest. Instantly, he discerned those with bad intentions.