>>5913349>>5913366>>5913390>>5913403>>5913405>>5913413>>5913504>>5913536>>5913645>>5914053>>5914165You want to check the cultivator's market. All of you head south, toward the Stable Lotus compound - a town in the town, like your own sect's compound. Except bigger, with towers and building shaped like closed lotus flower, countless canals filled to the brim with Lotus flower.
You also think you might have seen a Spiritual beast or two, catching a glimpse at a snake delving among them. You wonder if Lienwen Yaner is training right now.
You unglue your eyes from the city lord's compound. On the same city square, the headquarter of the town's Military, a couple shops - the most expensive doctor, inn, potter, caligraph and tailor of town - as well as a covered market. The <span class="mu-s">cultivator's market</span>.
Your group step inside, under the treasure-chest-on-a-boat sign. Adult are zooming around dragging carts of valuable materials, in the counter-alleys letting cultivators wearing the familiar outfits of Stable Lotus Harbor various sects.
You go from stall to stall.
Metals imbued with elemental energy. Blood vial charged with energy of their potent lines. Spirit grass. Lightning in bottles. Even an impossible stands selling flames embued with other element, such as the water-flame hybrid burning in a jar of seawater.
But the first thing really drawing your eye is a stall selling various Cultivation Resources : Qi and Blood pills and Body Tempering Liquid, that you already know of. Some other pills are said to help break other apertures open, improving eyesight, smell, and audition.
Some other pills, out of your budget, are said to increase temporally affinity toward some elements : useful for exploiting to the best some special opportunity if you have such a pill on hand at a critical time.
You're the only one even remotely interested in those. Kyo Ko deem them "<span class="mu-b">too weak for me, or too situational for the price</span>" . Ai "doesn't like the taste" of Body Tempering Liquid and Qi and Blood pills.
Dhundan think buying some is a "<span class="mu-s">crutch mediocre cultivators use to delude themselves into believing in their potential.</span>"
You point out he's a faggot (no clue why firewood-allegation is an insult) as pills were useful for you and your training. He say you're not the same as "<span class="mu-s">you're strong, thus its rightful when you do it</span>".
There's a nagging feeling something is off with this reasoning, but in the end you kinda agree : might is right.
Another stall seems filled with product your sect provides.
A repellent of spiritual beasts, making long travel safer - "<span class="mu-b">Those are useless - we have techniques for that</span>".
Spiritual beads are damn expensive - way out of your current budget. You are glad to still have a spare one in pristine condition - the one holding the wolf spirit broke, maybe because of the repeated usage from Horse to Snake to Wolf?
