Chapter 17 Debt Repair
“oh?”
Song Jie was about to ask Li Caiwei about the secret book of body skills, but the other party spoke first.
He immediately asked: “That mysterious businessman in the black market sells the secret book of Shen Dharma?”
Li Caiwei nodded lightly.
“Exactly, the price given there is one hundred and fifty spiritual stones.”
“Do you know, Fellow Daoist Li, about the price of the Shenfa secret book?”
Song Jie didn’t know much about the prices of various secret books, so he had to ask Li Caiwei for advice.
Li Caiwei frowned and thought for a moment before speaking:
“Secret books on body movements during the Qi refining period are generally sold on the black market for more than one hundred spiritual stones.
“Some more reliable channels will sell at a higher price.
“The price of one hundred and fifty spiritual stones is not cheap, but it is normal.”
Song Jie nodded, understanding this.
From formal channels on the market, you can only buy exercise secrets at best.
Moreover, it is also a secret book of exercises that is popular among the public.
As for the magic secret book and the body skill secret book, for some reason, they are not in circulation on the market.
At least in Song Jie’s memory, no force sells spell and movement secret books on the market.
There seems to be an invisible tacit understanding between the various forces.
Therefore, if casual cultivators want to obtain magic secrets and body skills secrets.
Or there was an unexpected encounter, just like the original owner of Song Jie’s body.
Or you can only try your luck on the black market.
There is no guarantee of the reliability of cheats purchased on the black market.
Maybe you spent one or two hundred spiritual stones to buy a secret book. After you went back to practice, you found that the secret book was fake.
When you go back to trouble the black-hearted businessman, you will find that the other party has run away.
Therefore, there is a certain element of gambling involved in buying cheats on the black market.
It depends on how much conscience the person selling the secrets still has.
If the secret books can be purchased through relatively reliable channels, even if the price is more expensive, most monks would be willing to do so.
The channel that Li Caiwei knew was obviously a relatively reliable one.
After all, she and her husband once purchased a magic secret book from the black market businessman and successfully practiced it.
Otherwise, this channel would not be introduced to Song Jie.
“I need some time to raise spiritual stones.”
I just paid one month’s rent a few days ago, and I just gave Li Caiwei a spiritual stone for the stall fee.
In addition, another spiritual stone was spent on daily life during this period.
Song Jie currently has one hundred and twelve spiritual stones in his savings.
It’s not much different from one hundred and fifty spiritual stones.
Thanks to God Huangfu who gave him a hundred spiritual stones, otherwise he would have to give up buying the secret book of body skills for the time being.
Song Jie sighed secretly in his heart.
I just felt a little rich, but the spiritual stones in my body were not enough to buy a magic book.
This is too difficult…
“I wonder how many spiritual stones are needed, fellow Daoist Song?”
Li Caiwei pondered for a moment and continued: “If the difference is not much, I can lend you some here.”
Song Jie thought for a while, “There are still thirty-eight spiritual stones left.”
If he sells all the elixirs in his hand, he can still receive twenty spiritual stones.
So in fact, he was only short of eighteen spiritual stones.
But he certainly couldn’t spend all the spiritual stones, he had to keep some for emergencies.
Moreover, spiritual stones are needed to purchase raw materials for alchemy and daily life.
Since Li Caiwei was willing to lend him spiritual stones, she naturally had to borrow more.
“Thirty-eight spiritual stones are not too much, I can lend them to you.”
Li Caiwei readily took out thirty-eight spiritual stones and handed them to Song Jie.
She was not worried at all that Song Jie would not be able to repay the thirty-eight spiritual stones.
After all, the two of them shared a stall, so she knew exactly how Song Jie’s business was going.
Song Jie was not polite to Li Caiwei and accepted the thirty-eight spiritual stones with peace of mind.
From then on, he officially joined the debtor family and became a debtor.
After putting the spirit stone away, Song Jie rolled his eyes and thought about it in his heart.
Li Caiwei was helping her find out the secrets of movement skills and lending her spiritual stones.
Later, he would need the other party to take him to the black market. If he didn’t say anything, he wouldn’t be able to explain it.
So, he turned around and picked up a bottle of Bupowan Pills and a bottle of Yuanyang Pill from the stall, and looked at Li Caiwei.
“Fellow Daoist Li, the secret book of Shenfa has taken up a lot of your time.
“This elixir isn’t worth much spiritual stone. It’s just a little bit of my appreciation. I hope you can accept it.”
Looking at the elixir in Song Jie’s hand, Li Caiwei nodded gently, without rejecting the other party’s intention, and took the elixir with a blushing face.
“Thank you Daoist Song~”
“It’s me who should thank you, hahaha…”
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Then they agreed to meet outside Xinyuefang City at 12:00 tomorrow night and head to the black market together.
After the matter of the Shenfa secret book was finalized, the two of them chatted about the recent anecdotes while waiting for customers to come to the door.
Not long after, a familiar figure walked straight to Song Jie’s stall.
“Fellow Daoist Song, I haven’t seen you for a few days. I’m here to buy Bigu Pills again.”
Song Jie looked up and saw that the person coming was none other than his first customer and first repeat customer, Miao Tong.
Compared with the first time they met, Miao Tong now exuded a confident look.
With his head held high and his chest high, he was full of energy. It was obvious that he was living a very fulfilling life.
“Hahaha, Fellow Daoist Miao’s spirit is getting better and better.”
Miao Tong also laughed and threw three spiritual stones to Song Jie.
“It’s still the same old rule, here are seven bottles of Bigu Pills.”
Song Jie took the spirit stone, blinked and smiled knowingly.
He took five bottles of Bigu Pill, one bottle of Bupo Pill, and one bottle of Yuanyang Pill from the stall, and handed them to Miao Tong.
“Fellow Taoist Miao’s seven bottles of Bigu Pills have been put away.”
Miao Tong put the elixir away and then said with a smile: “I still have something important to do. Next time I will catch up with my Taoist friends and take the first step.”
“Fellow Taoist, go ahead. Business is important.”
Song Jie winked at the other party understandingly.
Miao Tong laughed loudly and couldn’t wait to walk towards Tianxiang Tower.
After sending Miao Tong away, Song Jie smiled and shook his head.
While he was happy that he had received three more spiritual stones.
At the same time, he sighed that Wenwen Township was really the Tomb of Heroes.
Miao Tong is his most loyal customer. Almost every time Song Jie stalls, he comes to patronize the business.
From the perspective of a businessman, Song Jie naturally hopes to have more customers like Miao Tong, the better.
It’s just that this secular atmosphere will inevitably make Song Jie feel emotional.
Before traveling through time, his ideal idea of cultivating immortality was to have no distracting thoughts and focus on the Tao.
But this is not the case. Even people who cultivate immortality are still human beings after all.
As long as we are human, we will inevitably be dominated by the desires in our hearts.
At least among low-level monks, this phenomenon is extremely common.
After sighing with emotion, Song Jie quickly dismissed the distracting thoughts in his heart.
Don’t care what others do, as long as you stick to your heart.
While waiting for the next customer to come to the door, I should practice as long as I can.
Song Jie wasted no time and quietly started to use Changchun Gong.
But in this environment, it is obviously impossible to fully enter the cultivation state.
Song Jie would devote half of his mind to paying attention to the surrounding situation.
The result of this is that the effectiveness of practice will be compromised, but it is better than nothing.
(End of chapter)