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Cao Rui rode Black Feather as fast as he could, and he couldn't help but start looking forward to returning to the market town.

Along the way, he traveled tens of thousands of miles.

Finally, on the day before the end of the year, the outline of Qingling Market appeared in his consciousness. The familiar market was also Cao Rui's "home" now.

A faint smile appeared on Cao Rui's face.

He patted Heiyu's head and said, "Heiyu, we're almost home!" Heiyu also chirped happily, as if responding to Cao Rui's words.

It increased its speed and rushed towards the Qingling Xiuxian Market.

"Wait." Cao Rui patted the anxious Hei Yu lightly, signaling it to calm down.

As the owner of the market, he naturally knew the mechanism of the third-level defense formation of Qingling Market. If a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage forced his way in, it would definitely trigger the alarm.

This will bring unnecessary trouble to the market.

The most important thing is that the small formation plate is not in his hands at this moment, so he cannot act rashly.

So they waited patiently outside the formation.

Not long after, a figure of a foundation-building cultivator flew through the air and quickly came in front of them.

This person is Ye Yunyin.

"Are you back? Judging from your appearance, your cultivation seems to have improved a lot!" Ye Yunyin looked at Cao Rui and said with a smile.

"Yes, I killed a lot of monsters there and swallowed a lot of monster spirit pills. You also know my talent for alchemy, so I naturally benefited a lot." Cao Rui replied with a smile, and nodded slightly to Ye Yunyin.

Under the guidance of Ye Yunyin, Cao Rui followed him through the magic circle.

The Qingling Market at this time was obviously much more lively than it was half a year ago.

As Cao Rui's spiritual awareness expanded, he actually felt the strong New Year atmosphere in the Xiuxian Market.

This feeling is very strange. After all, the world of immortal cultivation should be different from the mundane world, but now people feel a different kind of warm atmosphere.

After careful observation, Cao Rui discovered that this change might be due to the increase in the number of mortals in the market.

Most of these mortals are relatives, friends or direct descendants of the immortal cultivators.

Since the market town does not have strict identity requirements like the sects, anyone can enter as long as they can afford the spirit stones.

The Qingling Market even adopted a free mechanism, attracting more people.

Therefore, those far-sighted monks sent their relatives and friends to the market town in advance.

Not long ago, due to the large number of mortals in the market town, Ye Yunyin and Zhang Mo had to jointly issue a ban restricting mortals from entering the market town.

Only mortals who are direct descendants of immortal cultivators, or who pay spirit stones, are allowed to enter the market.

Moreover, regardless of direct bloodline or spiritual stones, each cultivator has a limit on the number of mortals they can bring into the market.

As a result, the number of mortals entering Qingling Market was greatly reduced.

After all, not every immortal cultivator is willing to spend spirit stones on mortals.

Not long after, Cao Rui and Ye Yunyin flew into the seventh floor of the training tower.

After talking with Ye Yunyin for a while.

Cao Rui learned from him some information about the changes in Qingling Market and the Lingshou Sect over the past six months.

Not long after, Zhang Mo also came flying in, holding a storage bag and a jade slip in his hands.

"Master, you are finally back. This is the spiritual stone income of the Lingyin Jade Pendant during this period of time. The income and expenditure are recorded in this jade slip."

Cao Rui waved his hand, and the jade slip and storage bag fell into Cao Rui's hands.

The jade slip contains detailed information such as the sales records of the Lingyin Jade Pendant.

Cao Rui was surprised to find that all the Lingyin jade pendants he had made before had been sold out.

"The permanent population of Fangshi has exceeded 20,000, doubling. This is all thanks to your Lingyin Jade Pendant, the First Master."

"Now the monks in the market all hope that you can further expand the signal range of the Lingyin Jade Pendant."

"In this way, they can expand their scope of activities with confidence." Zhang Mo said.

Cao Rui nodded slightly, his spiritual consciousness having already read the contents of the jade slip.

"The total amount of money earned from selling the Lingyin Jade Pendant was 78,000 Lingshi."

"35,000 Lingyin points have been deposited into my account. This is because the year is coming to an end and they are about to expire. Have you all started to recharge?"

Adding the proceeds from selling monster meat in the East China Sea, Cao Rui now had nearly 140,000 spirit stones.

Cao Rui suddenly felt his wallet was bulging.

After thinking about it, Cao Rui took out two portions of 5,000 spirit stones, put them into storage bags respectively, and gave them to Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin.

"This is what you deserve, please be sure to accept it."

Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin looked at each other and had no choice but to accept the spirit stones.

The Spirit Beast Sect gives thousands of contribution points to the Foundation Establishment Elders every year. As the chief, Cao Rui’s 5,000 contribution points are already considered a lot.

According to the one-to-one exchange rate between contribution points and spirit stones, the five thousand spirit stones Cao Rui gave them was already a considerable sum of money.

"I have enough materials for the Spiritual Pattern Mysterious Crystal."

"However, regarding the deployment of the signal tower, we still need to discuss it carefully with Chief Wu Qingxuan."

"Let's spend the New Year here in the market first, and then go to the sect to have a good discussion with Master Wu."

Having made up his mind, Cao Rui decided to stay in the market for a while.

After a long period of hunting monsters in the East China Sea Market, Cao Rui obviously had a hint of murderous aura.

The number of monsters killed by Cao Rui in the past few months is probably more than what most foundation-building cultivators have killed in a few years.

After talking with Ye Yunyin and Zhang Mo for most of the day, Cao Rui gained an understanding of the current situation in the market town, the sect, and the southwest.

The biggest change, of course, is the Qingling Xiuxian Market, which has become popular thanks to the Lingyin Jade Pendant.

The number of resident monks doubled to 20,000.

Over at the Spirit Beast Sect, there haven't been too many changes, and it has been developing steadily over the past six months.

The entire southwest of Yunzhou has not changed much as a whole. For the world of immortal cultivation, a year is just a fleeting moment.

However, the Yinshui Xiuxian Market, jointly created by the Yunshui Sect and the Miaoyin Temple, is said to have created a Yinshui earring that imitated the Lingyin jade pendant.

However, the price of this pair of Yinshui earrings is as high as thirty spirit stones, and it is said that the communication range is much shorter than that of the Lingyin jade pendant, and the loss rate is also very high.

The reason for the high loss rate is said to be that 0-level refining materials are used, and a 1-level magic array is engraved on it.

Ordinary low-level cultivators cannot afford this price and loss rate.

As a result, many cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining no longer flock to the Qingling Immortal Cultivation Market, after all, it is hard to leave their hometown.

Zhang Mo also took out a pair of Yinshui earrings he had obtained and showed them to Cao Rui.

"It's really a first-level magic array engraved with 0-level materials. This thing will be damaged in one or two years at most. This is not the way to save costs. Is the weapon refiner behind Yinshuifang City crazy?" Cao Rui commented.

This caused Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin to smile at each other.

Tens of thousands of miles away in the Yinshui Immortal Cultivation Market, Gongsun Zhi, the weapon refiner of the Yunshui Sect and the owner of the Yinshui Market, suddenly sneezed.

"Hmm? Is someone plotting against me?"

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