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Chapter 52 Red Sun Market
This saved them a lot of money.

Over time, many ordinary people began to live in "Chiri Market".

Over the centuries, "Chiri Market" has undergone several expansions and is now a small town where cultivators and mortals live together.

After Li Yunjing entered the "Crimson Sun Market," he saw many spirit rice shops, magic weapon pavilions, spirit medicine halls, immortal wine shops, divine weapon pavilions, inns, pawnshops, and more lining the streets...

Almost every industry closely related to cultivators can be found in this market town, which is like a small town.

"A place for romance and pleasure?"

Even before Li Yunjing had gone far, he saw a red building decorated in an ambiguous manner.

This surprised Li Yunjing.

In addition to the large shops, there were also many cultivators setting up stalls along the street. Li Yunjing looked at the stalls and shook his head slightly. These rogue cultivators were selling ordinary goods.

Most of the items are animal hides, meat, bones, low-level magic tools, Qi-refining pills, and basic materials.

Li Yunjing looked down on these things.

"You don't know how miserable it is to be a rogue cultivator until you go out!"

Li Yunjing sighed and continued strolling along the long cross street.

"Red Sun Market" is completely different from the sect market "Sunset Valley" that Li Yunjing visited. It seems to have little of an ethereal atmosphere and instead has a more worldly feel.

The long cross street was bustling with people, and the sounds of various vendors hawking their wares and chatting mingled together, creating a lively atmosphere.

The phenomenon of mortals and cultivators living together, in particular, amazed Li Yunjing.

This made him feel both familiar and unfamiliar.

After walking around, Li Yunjing found that there were more than a hundred stalls and more than fifty shops.

This shows how prosperous this town of immortal cultivation is.

Li Yunjing inquired and learned that these people who set up stalls outside needed to pay a stall fee of one spirit stone per day, and these fees were all handed over to the market's administrators.

Li Yunjing clicked his tongue in amazement. This was more than a hundred spirit stones a day, which would amount to nearly forty thousand spirit stones a year!
That's quite a high income.

Those shops must be paying even more in rent.

This market town is truly a treasure trove!
Thinking of this, Li Yunjing was filled with envy.

Having figured out the "Red Sun Market" thoroughly, Li Yunjing decided to first dispose of some of his "stolen goods" in exchange for some spirit stones.

These days, nothing is better than spirit stones!

I saw a building materials shop on the street, a two-story building, quite impressive, and it seemed to be quite well-established.

After thinking it over, Li Yunjing chose this restaurant and strode inside.

This shop is over 120 square meters on one floor, with counters all connected, making full use of almost every inch of space.

Behind the glass-covered counter, Li Yunjing glanced around and saw all sorts of items: low-level magical artifacts, materials, pills, plants, talismans...

"This is a general store!"

Li Yunjing immediately understood how people made a living here.

Buying low and selling high seems to be a good way to make a living.

"Fellow Daoist, hello! What materials do you wish to purchase?"

Seeing a customer approaching, an old man in a blue robe stepped forward with a smile and asked.

"Hmm! I have some monster meat, blood, bones, and scales to sell. Do you buy them here?"

Li Yunjing said in a deep voice.

"Oh? This way, fellow Daoist!"

The old man's eyes lit up, and he introduced himself: "I am Gong Renju, the owner of this general store. I will buy anything good!"

"it is good!"

They followed Gong Renju toward the back door.

Passing through the back door, I was surprised to find myself in a courtyard.

The courtyard was filled with flowerbeds, and a gentle breeze carried out waves of fragrance.

In the middle of the courtyard was a pavilion with a stone table and four stone benches, which was the direction Gong Renju was heading.

"This old man is in high spirits!"

Li Yunjing followed Gong Renju into the pavilion, and the two sat down.

"Fellow Daoist, what good things do you have? Show them to me! I will definitely give you the highest price in the 'Crimson Sun Market'." As soon as he sat down, Gong Renju asked.

As for small talk?

He has no interest; time is money, time is life!

"Hehe! Just you wait and see!"

Seeing that the other party was not being polite, Li Yunjing was not angry. He calmly took out a storage bag and started rummaging through it in front of Gong Renju.

Then, on the stone table appeared a piece of white bone, a piece of flesh, and a palm-sized scale that gleamed with a cold light.

"what?"

With a gentle wave of his hand, Gong Renju placed the most prominent scale into his palm.

"This... seems to be..."

Gong Renju's expression turned somewhat frightened, as if he had thought of something terrible.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Seeing Gong Renju like this, Li Yunjing was somewhat surprised, and at the same time, he felt a little uneasy.

Could this python be something special?

"Did you kill this snake?"

Gong Renju was filled with doubt and unease, and his voice trembled slightly.

"Uh! I ran into him the other day. He tried to eat me, but I killed him."

Li Yunjing spoke honestly, but he was inwardly horrified. It seemed that this python was no ordinary creature. Could he really be in trouble?

In the world of cultivation, it's common to say that if you beat up the younger one, the older one will come to take your place.

This giant python is extremely powerful; if I didn't have many tricks up my sleeve, it would have been very difficult to kill it.

Could it be some kind of special monster?
What ancestors are behind this? Or is it someone else's spirit beast?
The thought of spirit beasts made Li Yunjing feel uneasy.

"You really did kill him?"

Gong Renju chuckled and said in a deep voice, "Do you know the name of this snake?"

"Hmm! I really didn't know. Fellow Daoist Gong, do you know its origins?"

Li Yunjing asked.

"Hehe! It's no harm in telling you! Lots of people already know anyway!"

Gong Renju shook his head, put the scale down again, and seemed to be deep in thought, remaining silent for a long time.

"What the hell!"

Li Yunjing cursed inwardly, but since he needed someone's help, he couldn't show it and maintained a respectful demeanor.

"Is the Taoist robe you're wearing from the 'Shenxiao Taoist Sect'? Judging from its style, you seem to be a menial disciple?"

Gong Renju said with a low laugh.

He's still keeping us in suspense.

"Correct!"

However, Li Yunjing was already getting impatient and coldly uttered a single word.

"Alright! It seems you're in a hurry, fellow Daoist!"

Gong Renju shook his head slightly, as if recalling something, before slowly saying, "Five hundred years ago, Crimson Sun Valley was not the territory of the 'Divine Firmament Dao Sect.' Back then, it was occupied by a creature called the 'Crimson Sun Giant Serpent.'"

"This is a forbidden zone for humans!"

"No one dares to set foot here!"

"It was just a chance event that happened. Someone explored 'Crimson Sun Valley' and returned alive, bringing with them information that there was a mineral vein there!"

"Finally, the matter of the mine alarmed the higher-ups of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect. Several Golden Core Realm elders led thousands of disciples of the sect to sweep through the entire 'Crimson Sun Valley' and kill tens of thousands of 'Crimson Sun Giant Serpents'."

"Among them is even the 'Crimson Sun Serpent' ancestor, who is at the Golden Core Realm!"

"Your Shenxiao Dao Sect is truly formidable! You swept everything aside; no demon could withstand the attack of the 'Purple Heaven Divine Thunder'! It was only after this great battle that your sect acquired the 'Crimson Sun Mine'!"

Gong Renju told everything.

(End of this chapter)