My ancestors were spiritual plant growers, so it's not surprising that I hunt demons every day,

As the main base of the Lei family, a family of cultivators, Leiyun City has an extremely vast inner city.

The city is filled with countless shops, offering a wide variety of businesses, but all of them are extremely expensive.

The amount of spirit stones in Cui Ying's hand may sound like a lot, but in reality, it's really not enough.

However, in this vast city, there is still a place suitable for these independent cultivators to spend their money.

That's in the north of the city—Qingsha Lane.

In Qingsha Lane, you can buy most of the items in the shops outside if you want, and the prices will be 10% to 30% cheaper.

As an underground trading market where independent cultivators gather, Qingsha Alley is actually not fixed in location, and even entering and exiting it is not so casual. Without an acquaintance's introduction, it is not easy to enter Qingsha Alley.

Fortunately, her father, Cui Zhengming, was also responsible for purchasing household necessities, which freed up some time for Cui Ying.

In her past life, she was a regular visitor to this gauze alley, and now she stood in front of a dark and narrow alley with ease.

Just as Cui Ying was about to go in, two burly men with blue faces and fangs suddenly jumped out of the alley. One of them blocked Cui Ying's way with a spiked club and asked in a low voice, "Who goes there?"

Cui Ying didn't say anything, but simply tossed a small cloth bag into the man's arms.

The man weighed the cloth bag in his hand, glanced at Cui Ying a couple of times, and then coldly said, "You all know the rules, right?"

"know."

Although black markets are organized by people, these people are only responsible for the operation within the market. If you are not careful and make a mistake, the independent cultivators who organize the black market behind the scenes will not take any responsibility.

The man accepted the five spirit stones from Cui Ying, then took out a palm-sized token and swiped it towards the deep alley entrance. As the token flashed with spiritual light, a commotion faintly came from the empty alley entrance: "Go in."

Cui Ying remained calm and began to wander around after entering the alley.

The black market in Qingsha Lane is divided into inner and outer sections. The outer section is where you enter from the entrance of the lane. It is mostly stalls set up by low-level cultivators. Although there are many items on the stalls, they are all mundane items that have been tainted by spiritual energy. Cui Ying glanced at them casually and then followed the crowd of people who were walking and stopping to enter the inner section.

The inner market is also known as the Treasure Trove, where you can find all kinds of spiritual seeds and plants, rare treasures, elixirs and magical artifacts.

Since the last time in the Phoenix Cry Mountains, when she used the spiritual liquid in the jade gourd to cultivate the jade lingzhi, Cui Ying had never used it again. Now, the gourd contained at least thirty or forty drops of spiritual liquid, which was just enough to grow some spiritual plants and herbs.

She can go into the mountains to collect ordinary medicinal herbs and transplant them, thus saving herself the expense of spirit stones.

Cui Ying walked straight to a stall selling spiritual plants and seeds, lowered her eyes to examine them carefully, and finally chose 'Heavenly Star Grass Seeds' and 'Blood Spirit Grass Seeds'. Observing that they were full of spiritual energy and vitality, she had an idea in mind.

She breathed a soft sigh of relief and asked the shop owner beside her, "How much is it?"

The shop owner, noticing Cui Ying's discerning eye despite her young age, licked his lips and, without further ado, asked, "How many do you want?"

"Fifty each."

"I'll give you ninety spirit stones."

Cui Ying nodded, then picked out two more spirit tree saplings about the thickness of a thumb and asked, "What about this green spirit fruit sapling and the spirit peach tree?"

Her choice of these two spiritual herbs was well thought out, because the Heavenly Star Grass can be used to refine Qi Gathering Pills and Spirit Nourishing Pills, which are extremely popular among cultivators in the early and middle stages of Qi Refining; while the Blood Spirit Grass can be used to refine first-grade Blood Spirit Pills, which are most suitable for cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining.

Both of these spiritual plants are not difficult to cultivate. They only need to be watered with spiritual rain every two days and weeded and pests removed on a regular basis. They can be used as medicine after three years, and each plant is priced at around ten spirit stones.

After deducting the losses from the grass seeds and the planting process, as well as the rent from the half-acre spirit field, this batch of Heavenly Star Grass and Blood Spirit Grass will yield at least four hundred spirit stones after harvest.

If we also take into account the miraculous growth-promoting effect of the spiritual liquid, it should be able to be harvested and sold within a year at most—moreover, the older the spiritual plant, the higher its value.

Both the Green Spirit Fruit and the Spirit Peach Tree are low-grade first-rank spirit trees. A single spirit fruit tree takes a hundred years to grow, blossoms once every ten years, and bears fruit once every ten years. Each spirit tree takes twenty years to bear fruit. Consuming them increases spiritual energy and is extremely helpful in improving cultivation.

If sold, each spirit fruit is worth more than fifty spirit stones.

Unfortunately, the seeds of these spiritual trees have long been monopolized by major cultivation families. If you want to buy them, you can only buy spiritual fruit seedlings. If she remembered correctly, the two spiritual fruit seedlings, which were not even as tall as her calves, were priced at around eighty spirit stones each.

Although planting spirit fruit trees yields extremely high profits, the risks are also much higher. With the magic gourd elixir in hand, Cui Ying, while not entirely confident, is at least 70% certain of success.

Moreover, Fourth Sister Cui Yue loves to eat sweet and sour spiritual fruits. If we spend some effort to grow some spiritual fruits, it will make the little one happy.

After leaving the spirit plant stall, Cui Ying thought of her second sister's previous life, where she had only studied talisman making for three years. Although she dropped out of school due to family matters, she still became a low-level, inferior talisman maker.

Cui Ying didn't know much about talisman making in her previous life, so she simply bought a large amount of talisman paper and spirit ink, and also picked out a spirit brush that was about 70% new to give to her second sister.

Since his elder brother and sister-in-law could not cultivate, they went to buy some pills suitable for mortals to improve their martial arts cultivation.

The price was as cheap as ever; Cui Ying only spent five spirit stones to buy four bottles of "Qi-Boosting and Blood-Nourishing Pills".

"Fellow Daoists, I'm selling my finest fireproof and anti-hidden weapon robes for a bargain price of only ten spirit stones."

"A magical throwing knife, an absolutely excellent item, for thirty spirit stones."

"Fellow Daoist, would you like some secondhand magical artifacts? Although they're old, their effects are top-notch; these are truly excellent items!"

The hawking from across the street wasn't loud, but Cui Ying still paused slightly.

The vendor was a middle-aged monk, thin with a gaunt face, a mustache, and narrow eyes.

"Fellow Daoist, are you interested in magic arrays?"

Seeing Cui Ying stop in her tracks, his eyes lit up, and he quickly called out, "Come and see! These are definitely good stuff, great value for money, and they have all kinds!"

Cui Ying thought to herself that this person had a sharp eye and could tell at a glance that she had a need.

On the three-foot-wide stall, array flags, array plates, and various array-related items were displayed, many of which were stained with dark red blood.

Cui Ying responded with a smile, and also answered directly:

"I do have the idea of ​​buying a magic array to replace the one at home."

"Then take a look at my Hurricane Banners, fellow Daoist. You only need to refine these five banners and stick them around the house. When the enemy approaches, they will not only serve as a warning, but also release wind blades to tear apart a Qi Refining Level 4 cultivator."

At this point, the stall owner subconsciously touched the mustache at the corner of his mouth, a hint of smugness in his eyes.

"The first-grade low-level Hurricane Flag is indeed a good treasure that combines offense and defense, but unfortunately..."

Cui Ying's gaze fell on the crack, she shook her head, and continued casually:

"Unfortunately, this item is already damaged and can no longer exert its full power. Moreover, the number of times it can be used should also be limited."

Seeing that Cui Ying was not interested, the stall owner gritted his teeth, gestured twice in front of his chest, and said with a pained expression:

"Fellow Daoist has discerning eyes. This treasure has been with me for many years. It was slightly damaged when it was used against an enemy a few days ago, but it can still be used three to five more times without any problems. If you don't mind, I'll sell it to you for this price!"

"One hundred and eighty."

"make a deal."

Cui Ying put away the hurricane flag and was about to wander around the other side of the inner city when she was bumped into by a passing figure.

At the same time, another slender hand silently reached for the storage bag at the waist.

Sensing this brute force, Cui Ying's eyes narrowed slightly, and a fierce rage rose in her heart.