Carrying the identifier from the interstellar to the world of immortal cultivation

Jinling Sect was not too far from Lingque Sect, and this time there were two second-level flying spirit beasts pulling the carriage. Although the golden-tailed lion looked like a land spirit beast lion, it had wings on its back, making it a real flying spirit beast. It only took them two days to reach Lingque City at the foot of Lingque Mountain.

Although Lingque City is not as big as Wangzhou City, Chunkong City and Yucheng, the three largest cities in Yunchuan, it is also a city for cultivating immortals second only to the three major cities. There are many roads crisscrossing the city, shops standing in rows, and inns and restaurants are everywhere.

The cloud car of Jinling Sect landed outside Lingque City. Master Lan Jin led a group of disciples into Lingque City. Since it was already evening, they planned to find an inn in the city to stay overnight and go up the mountain early the next morning.

However, when I asked around at every inn, they were all fully booked.

Master Lan Jin frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and then sent out a communication talisman. A quarter of an hour later, a message light flew down from the sky. Master Lan Jin took it and said to his disciples, "There's an inn west of the city that might have a few rooms available. Let's go there and take a look."

All the disciples naturally agreed.

"Do the elders know the innkeeper?" Fan Yuan asked.

Elder Lan Jin shook his head. "It's just that a friend of mine and his sect disciples are living there. I just went to ask if he could spare a few rooms."

The second-level golden-tailed lions are the two most powerful spiritual beasts in the Jinling Sect, but they are nothing in Lingque City.

The roads in the city are wide, and various cloud carriages are moving slowly. Whether it is the spirit beasts pulling the carriages or the cloud carriages themselves, the Jin Lingzong group is very inconspicuous among them.

A quarter of an hour later, the cloud carriage stopped in front of an inn called Yueqiao in the west of the city. As soon as they stopped, before they even entered the inn, a waiter came out to greet them and bowed hurriedly, saying, "Senior, I'm so sorry, but our inn is full!"

Master Lan Jin got off the cloud car and said calmly, "I'm looking for Master Ye Wu of the Yuling Sect."

The clerk was stunned. "Senior, are you here to look for someone? I'll go and tell them right away!"

The waiter said this and turned to go into the inn, while the people from the Jinling Sect were waiting in front of the inn.

Soon, a tall, burly, and rugged-looking middle-aged male cultivator walked out of the inn. When Master Lan Jin saw him, he immediately stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Fellow Daoist Ye, I'm sorry to trouble you!"

"Fellow Daoist Lan Jin, you are too polite. It's just that we have quite a few disciples from the Yuling Sect coming this time, and there are also cultivators from the Song family staying in this inn. After receiving your message, I asked my disciples to vacate a courtyard, so these friends from the Jinling Sect can only squeeze in. I hope fellow Daoist will not mind and forgive me!"

Master Ye Wu has a rough and even unkempt appearance, but his words and actions are polite and courteous.

Lan Jin Zhenren quickly said, "Fellow Daoist Ye has already helped a lot. I am already extremely grateful. How could I possibly despise you?"

The Yueqiao Inn is not too big. It uses space magic and has a total of sixteen courtyards. The Yuling Sect occupies nine courtyards, and the other seven courtyards are occupied by cultivators from the Yucheng Song family.

There are nearly two hundred cultivators from the Yuling Sect who came to participate in or watch the competition. They are led by two Nascent Soul cultivators and accompanied by three Golden Core cultivators. The rest of the high-level cultivators may arrive on the day the competition starts.

With so many people, being able to free up a yard for the Jinling Sect monks was already quite good. Master Lan Jin looked embarrassed, feeling like he owed someone a favor.

The courtyard vacated by the Yuling Sect has more than ten rooms. For the monks of the Jinling Sect, six or seven people can live in one room, which is very satisfactory for them.

Except for Zhang Shulin, he frowned and looked worried.

"Brother Zhang, what's wrong? Do you think this yard is too small?"

Tan Chuting asked.

Zhang Shulin glanced at him and said unhappily, "How dare you complain it's too small? If it were a little bigger, I'd rather we rush to the foot of Lingque Mountain overnight and use the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed!"

Although Zhang Shulin's voice was low, Sui Anshu Yeyu and the others who were walking nearby still heard it. Everyone looked at him, and Wang Hao said, "Junior Brother Zhang, my master sacrificed his reputation to get this courtyard from the Yuling Sect. Don't take advantage of me here. If the people from the Yuling Sect hear this, they will think that we, the Jinling Sect, are the kind of sect that doesn't know what's good for us and doesn't know how to behave, which will have a very bad impact on our entire sect..."

As if he had finally found an opportunity to preach with a legitimate reason, he spoke a lot while Lan Jin Zhenren and others returned to their rooms.

"Do you know how many spirit stones the Deacon Hall allocated for this trip?"

Zhang Shulin exhaled and asked in a slower tone.

"How much?" Wang Hao naturally didn't know this, and except for the deacons in the Deacon Hall, no one else knew either.

"Six thousand low-grade spirit stones."

“Quite a lot, huh?”

"Do you know how many spirit stones this courtyard costs per night?" Zhang Shulin asked again. Before Wang Hao could answer, he said, "One thousand six hundred spirit stones. We haven't even reached Lingque Mountain yet. We've already spent nearly thirty percent of that on staying in the inn for one night. According to previous immortal sect competitions, the preliminary and semi-final rounds and the finals will take about twenty days. The sect leader and the elders also wanted to take advantage of the abundant resources during the competition to have the Stewards replenish the cultivation resources. Also, if you get injured during the competition, do you need to buy elixirs and seek medical treatment? Although we have brought elixirs and medical practitioners, but..."

Zhang Shulin frowned and sighed, looking at everyone with a look that said "you all understand", and didn't say anything else.

After hearing his words, the disciples' originally high spirits suddenly became low, and they all sighed.

"Why are we so poor!" Qin Jing sighed.

"We were very poor to begin with!" Fan Tuo said with a positive attitude. "But things have been better in recent years than in previous years. If things continue like this, things should get even better in the future."

Sui An saw Zhang Shulin's brows furrowing deeper and deeper as Fan Tuo spoke, and he couldn't help but feel a little amused. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "It seems that the remaining 4,400 low-grade spirit stones are definitely not enough. I wonder if Senior Brother Zhang has any way to solve the spirit stone shortage dilemma?"

She didn't believe that Zhang Shulin put on such a show just to cry poor. Every disciple knew that the Jinling Sect was poor. If Zhang Shulin acted like this every time there was a shortage of spirit stones, he would look ten years older than he did now.

After all, it's hard not to look old if you wrinkle your brows too much.

Zhang Shulin gave Sui An an approving look. Finally, someone handed him the ladder.

"I've heard that because of the Immortal Gate Competition, both Lingque City and Lingque Sect are very short of manpower. If you ask around now, you'll find that every shop is hiring clerks, and Lingque Sect is even hiring all sorts of odd jobs, like planting and harvesting spiritual plants, feeding spiritual beasts, guarding and maintaining formations, and helping in the kitchen, among other things. I calculated that there are still six days until the preliminary rounds of the official competition. If anyone is willing to go and earn some spirit stones, our Deacon Hall can help connect them and try our best to find a suitable position for everyone."

It was unknown how long Zhang Shulin had been brewing these words in his mind, but he spoke them very fluently.