The daily life of a max-level immortal cultivator

Chapter 64 Tru's Treasure

This was the first time Shao Ming had encountered a monster that could speak human language.

While he was imprisoned, the person also kept a demonic beast by his side to keep him under control, but although the beast looked fierce, it could not speak human language.

And this thing... which looked like a tiny snake, could actually talk, which Shao Ming found quite strange.

He was captured by villains and made a blood slave when he was young and inexperienced, so he didn't have much common sense about this world. He only had some basic knowledge, and most of it came from hearsay during his constant escapes.

Nobody taught him the things that everyone else already knew.

"Its name is... Little Snake? It can even talk, how amazing."

Shaoming looked at the black snake with some curiosity, and inadvertently reached out to touch it, but the little snake dodged away in disgust, twisting its body to move further away.

"Are you out of your mind? You dare to touch me! Haven't you ever seen a talking monster before? Stop pretending! Even those two weaklings wouldn't dare to offend me like this!"

Then he looked at Liu Xingxing with an expression that said, "Look at him."

Shao Ming withdrew his hand somewhat embarrassedly and looked awkwardly at Liu Xingxing.

Liu Xingxing sighed helplessly and patted Shaoming on the shoulder to comfort him: "You rest here for a while, I'm going out for a bit."

"By the way, Little Snake, you stay and keep an eye on him. If anything happens to him, you'll be held responsible."

"Why should I?! Where are you going to party again?"

"Haven't I taken care of you for too long? For no reason other than you are my contracted beast, you should listen to your master, or you'll be sorry. I'm leaving."

Seeing her about to leave, Shaoming hesitated, wanting to say something but holding back. Liu Xingxing glanced at him and said, "You should listen to me. This place is a mixed bag. You stay here first, and I'll go scout it out."

"it is good."

Shao Ming stopped interfering and obediently watched her leave, leaving him to stare at the little snake inside the house.

"Master Snake, thank you for your hard work."

Looking into his clear eyes, the little snake shuddered: "Don't call me that, I can't take it. Since you're my master's friend, and she ordered me to keep an eye on you, you'd better stay put and don't cause me any trouble, hmph!"

The little snake hopped onto a stool and coiled up, then lazily yawned, completely indifferent.

Shaoming walked to the doorway and looked at the weather outside, as if talking to himself, "My benefactor... Sister Liu, she should be alright, right..."

"...Don't worry, even if everyone else dies, that fierce woman won't. They're the ones who should be worried."

A muffled sound came from inside the room, and then there was no other sound.

……

"Tsk, no."

"No, not here either."

"No, there isn't."

After two hours of hard work, Master Liu still hadn't found anything. He had only visited a dozen or so small shops, which was just the tip of the iceberg in Shengshafang Market. Liu Xingxing wanted to shout to the sky.

Without any proof of commanding the Sand Gu, are you suggesting she just send the person to the capital and say that this is the real royal descendant and the one who only knows how to eat, drink, gamble, and whore is a fake, and then kill all the people who oppose her?

"No, no, just thinking about it is terrifying."

Liu Xingxing shook her head vigorously. In this day and age, there are indeed few people with a single metal spiritual root, but it's not like she, an outsider, can just bring someone back and stuff them into the Sand Gu Clan's ranks and expect them to accept them.

Moreover... she didn't believe that none of them had examined the fake's spiritual root talent, yet they still allowed that fake to be so arrogant to this day. Who would believe there wasn't something shady going on?

The shopkeeper, holding a bunch of strange stones, looked completely bewildered at the girl in front of him who was shaking her head and nodding in a daze.

"Young lady, are you going to buy it or not?"

Liu Xingxing snapped out of her daze and replied somewhat embarrassedly, "Shopkeeper, is this all you have? Do you have any other stones with strange patterns?"

"That's all. Are you looking to collect the talisman stones to make an array?"

It's no wonder the shopkeeper said that. Stones with strange patterns can be refined into various runes, and most runes are used to make formations.

"Uh... that's right."

This gave her a convenient excuse.

"To be honest, we small business owners can't afford to produce particularly good talisman-making stones. We find these ourselves outside, and if we happen to find a good one, it's just good luck."

"But the good ones have long been dug up and sold off by Tru Daizang. It's really hard to find good ones here, sigh."

Seeing the shopkeeper's slightly worried look, Liu Xingxing was completely confused: "Tru Dazang, what is that?"

"Young lady, you must be from out of town? You've never heard of Tru Dazang?"

"Yes, this is my first time in Shengshafang City. Can you tell me about it?"

Seeing that the shopkeeper looked quite friendly, and since Liu Xingxing was tired of searching, she sat down to rest and inquire about the place.

The shopkeeper then took on the role of a dutiful NPC: "Hey, this Truda Zang, to put it bluntly, is pretty much the same as your immortal sects and aristocratic families. Here, they are the second most powerful family after the royal family, controlling the mining of mineral resources in and around Saint Sand City."

"We ordinary folks have to get their permission to open a shop here if we want to do business. They've taken all the good stuff, so we can only sell the inferior goods they don't want. If we want something better, we have to go to places further away to find it..."

Isn't this just a form of capital monopoly? They take the lion's share of the profits, while those below are given only a meager allowance to avoid starvation, all to create a false appearance of prosperity.

The Sand Gu royal family actually allows such an organization to exist, and it seems to have existed for quite some time now. This Sand Gu royal family is really something else; they have so many filthy deeds. I don't even know which ones to criticize.

And Xin Shaoming, this uncle, is now the Lord of the Sand Gu Clan, tsk tsk...

She came in a hurry that day, only secretly checked "Xin Shaoming" before rushing back. She didn't meet her uncle, or even any members of the royal family.

However, she did meet a royal queen (the wife of a lord).

Don't ask her how she knew that was the female ruler. In the novel, the female ruler also has a role, and she is described as sickly all day long, but with an extremely beautiful appearance, as white, beautiful and fragile as frost flowers on a snow mountain, as if she could be blown away by the wind at any time, with endless gentleness in her eyes.

People like this are always easy to remember at a glance, and you can naturally recognize her.

The novel describes her as having a very good relationship with Xin Shaoming's mother, so she has always been very good to Xin Shaoming. However, it doesn't describe the real and fake Xin Shaoming, so we don't know if she knew that she had been loving the wrong person all along.

The novel doesn't focus much on that character either, since he's just a minor character in Lu Xihan's life, and his life is described even less.

The story only tells how, while Xin Shaoming was accompanying Lu Xihan on her map exploration, news suddenly broke that the clan's leader had died. He then reluctantly left Lu Xihan to return and inherit the position of leader, thus beginning a new chapter in the story.

His uncle didn't even receive a single word about his life or death; all he got was the phrase "succession by the younger brother after the elder brother's death." He didn't even appear in public as often as his wife.

"It shouldn't be..."

Such a prominent figure, who was involved in the fake Xin Shaoming incident, shouldn't be left to remain a faceless background figure in obscurity.

"The girl probably thinks it shouldn't be like that either, but what can we do? We small business owners are just ordinary people after all. Sigh."

yeah?

The shop owner is chatting with her across servers; she's even able to keep up with this.

"Where are those Trudazang and his group selling things? I'll go check it out."

The shopkeeper wasn't surprised she asked that question, since he really didn't have anything good to sell, so he pointed her in the right direction.

"Go east for half an incense stick's time after you leave the gate, then turn north and walk a little further and you'll arrive. They have a venue there specifically for selling things."

Because there is a restriction within the city of Saint Sand City that prohibits flying, unlike the large-scale restrictions outside, if someone were to forcibly fly, even a powerful being above the Nascent Soul stage would be shaken down.

Because this restriction in the market was set up by an immortal who had ascended to heaven, no one can break it.

Even someone like Liu Xingxing, who can fly, wouldn't have an easy time. There's really no need to go against the restrictions; walking would be fine.

"Okay, thank you, shopkeeper. Oh, by the way, sell me all those stones. They'll be useful to me anyway."