The backyard of Houtu Temple is not big, only about half an acre in size. Through the dim moonlight, Li Lijun can see that several sheds built against the wall have collapsed, and broken bricks and tiles of various sizes are all over the ground, including the well platform.

A few bricks have collapsed, but the old trees in the corner of the yard are still tall and lush, and they are still very energetic even in this dry weather.

Taoist Xuanying led Li Lijun to the old tree, pointed to a large stone with an exceptionally smooth surface next to the tree and said: "This is the entrance. You just need to touch this stone and say in your heart, 'The true immortal is above'"

, you can enter the market. At the exit at the other end of the market, there is also an old tree like this, and there is a stone of similar size next to the old tree. You can leave the market in the same way."

Li Lijun raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "This password... was thought of by you people from the True Immortal Temple, right?"

Taoist Xuanying laughed a few times, twirling his beard and showing a complacent look: "When Jin Dan, the master of our True Immortal Temple, was still young, he traveled abroad and met several Taoist friends. They often met outside the mountain gate and joined forces.

We built such a place. Later, the ancestors of other sects died one after another, and only Jindan Zhenren, the old man, has made it all the way to today. Zhenzhen felt that it was a pity that such a good place was abandoned, so he changed it into an open cultivation market to facilitate people in the Guanzhong area.

Fellow practitioners, any practitioner who comes here for the first time and is led by a disciple of Zhenxian Temple will know the correct entrance and exit instructions."

Li Lijun also guessed that this was the case. If he were not a die-hard loyalist of Zhenxian Guan, how could he give a public cultivation fair the password "Zhenxian is on top"? But the Jindan master of Zhenxian Guan

Is there any problem with the method? It was obviously a space that he and several friends worked together to create. After all his friends were dead, he transformed this place into his own territory and even got such a password. Don’t his friends have masters?

Did he share it with his descendants? Did he directly take over all the property jointly owned by everyone as his own?

Thinking of this, Li Lijun felt a little unhappy. She didn't really intend to switch to Zhenxian Guan, but she still had to recite such a password to enter and exit the market. It was really frustrating! This kind of small mechanism must be some kind of magic.

The application of the array, right? She will study it another day to see if she can bypass the password and enter directly, which will save trouble.

Taoist Xuanying didn't know what Li Lijun was thinking. He proudly introduced to her the experience of his ancestors when they founded this market, completely ignoring the other entrepreneurs. Li Lijun had to find an opportunity to interrupt him.

He said: "Brother Xuanying, should we go in? The market has started by now, right?"

Only then did Taoist Xuanying stop with his thoughts still lingering: "It's time to go in. Only one person can enter here at a time. I'll go in first, and you will follow." After saying that, he touched the big smooth stone and said: "

The real immortal is here", and then the whole person disappeared.

Li Lijun looked around. The breeze brought the scent of strangers nearby. She wondered if other practitioners were walking towards the old temple. She didn't want to meet new friends for the time being, so she quickly put on a hooded cloak and wore it.

Put on the mask, touch the stone, recite a password silently, and disappear.

Li Lijun felt that her eyesight went dark, and then the light returned. It seemed that she had arrived at a completely different place in just one second.

The light here is bright, like daylight. It is a street corner. There is an old tree with a crooked neck planted next to it. Under the tree, there is a large stone half a man tall with a smooth surface. Taoist Xuanying is standing next to the stone.

He looked up and down at Li Lijun's outfit with some surprise: "That's it? What's this on your face?"

Li Lijun gave him a brief introduction to the functions of the mask and asked him: "Senior brother, do you want to buy one? I still have one here. I was planning to take it to the market to try my luck."

Taoist Xuanying laughed and waved his hands: "No need, I don't need this." He was stationed at Qiyouguan in Xianyang City all year round, busy refining elixirs all day long, and occasionally took his apprentice out to visit a friend, a few times a year.

When he sells elixirs in the cultivation market, he rarely travels or explores. He has no need to hide his face. The practitioners in the Guanzhong area and those who have reached a certain level of cultivation know him and respect him.

He is very polite and respectful. Because he is one of the most famous alchemists in the surrounding area, regular customers often come to buy elixirs. Even if he does encounter some extremely vicious person, he will usually not be disadvantaged. Because after his death, the entire Guanzhong

It may not be possible to find another alchemist as skilled and easy to talk to as him, which would be a great loss to the group of practitioners!

Taoist Xuanying took Li Lijun shopping all the way. Along the way, people kept saying hello to him. Several of them seemed to be his acquaintances. They held his hand and talked for a long time, all of which were ordering pills from him.

He didn't say when he would deliver the goods, he only said that he would make the goods when he had time, and asked the other party to pick up the goods a few months or even half a year later. Although it took a long time to wait, the other party was still as enthusiastic as before and quickly paid the deposit.

, and stuffed him with a few more "baubles" as souvenirs.

Li Lijun watched with cold eyes, already very convinced in her heart that Taoist Xuanying was indeed doing well in the Guanzhong practice circle. If it weren't for his limited cultivation, there would probably be more people greeting him warmly, right?

She has been following Taoist Xuanying in a low-key manner, neither interrupting nor showing her presence. Most people who came to talk to Taoist Xuanying just glanced at her and ignored her. Taoist Xuanying also did not say anything to her.

When outsiders introduced her plan, everyone probably regarded her as an unimportant follower.

Li Lijun took the opportunity to look at the shops on both sides of the street. The whole street was not long, about a hundred meters, and there were about 20 shops of various sizes, including a spacious and luxurious three-story pavilion, and there seemed to be a small garden building behind it.

Yes, there are also old shops with facades that are only three feet wide. They sell a wide variety of goods, including daily necessities for food, clothing, housing and transportation, herbs, minerals, weapons and tools, and anything that practitioners can use, you can buy here, but the quality is not high.

Li Lijun took a cursory look and found that none of the goods were beyond the level of Qi Refining, and most of them were suitable for low-level Qi Refining monks. However, there was also a shop similar to an auction house on the street, which might have higher-end items.

sell.

Li Lijun looked at those shops, compared them with the information that Taoist Xuanying and Guan Ming had told her before, and quickly found a shop that she could visit. She saw that Taoist Xuanying was busy recruiting people, and some people invited him to the auction house.

I looked at some fairy medicines that had been passed down from other regions, so I took advantage of my time and said to him: "Senior Brother Xuanying, you have something to do, so let me do it by myself."

Taoist Xuanying didn't say much when he heard this. He just said: "Then go ahead. If anyone troubles you, just tell me my name."

Li Lijun responded and watched him being surrounded by a group of people into the auction house. Another young disciple from an unknown family turned around and walked towards her, as if he wanted to talk to her, so she quickly got into the street.

In a grocery store, I looked at the products on the shelves. The man lingered in front of the store for a while and then left.

Li Lijun turned her attention back to the grocery store. There was a middle-aged woman sitting behind the counter of the store, dressed just like a rich woman in the world, except that she had a delicate gold hairpin in her hair, which gave off a faint aura.

Come. She raised her eyelids and glanced at Li Lijun, a new customer with an unfamiliar face, and found that she could not tell the other person's cultivation, so she said casually: "Please take a look, the shop has all the goods and the prices are fair."

Li Lijun didn't know whether the goods were all available, but this store did have some interesting goods.

She stared at a piece of gray-black ore that gave off a slight heat, and tried hard to suppress the excitement in her heart: "What is this?"

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Chapter completed!