2218 A Village
Alex and Pearl walked out of the forest late in the afternoon as they approached a small city that was a mix of mortal and weak cultivators.
The area was quite sparse in Qi, with no Spirit veins for dozens of kilometers around. In fact, this entire expanse was very much lacking in any significant Spirit Veins at all.
That was one of the reasons why beasts didn't occupy these spaces as much and the main reason why weak mortals and cultivators could live here without any worry.
Only weak beasts lived in this place and those were more or less handled by these weak cultivators. This was the village at the edge, and beyond this, there were other smaller villages.
These were the types of villages, towns, or cities that Alex didn't visit anymore. To him and all immortals, these villages might as well never exist. They traveled around the land through teleportation formations, and where they could not teleport, they flew quickly.
Doing so, they would pass along multiple of these villages in just a blink of an eye. They were no different than the weeds that grew along the side path. One had to stop and look to notice what they were like.
They arrived at the pathway that led to the small city so they walked through there.
Momo was once again hungry, so Alex had to find a place to stay for the night and feed her.
If it was himself, he could rush to the edge of the continent and begin finding Immortal treasures and whatnot, but with a disciple, it was a little harder.
With absolutely no resources to rely on, he had to find some first. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Alex entered the city and was stared at by many people who couldn't help but be curious as to who he was. He didn't reveal who he was, so all they could do was just guess.
Neither Alex nor Pearl looked so irregular that they had to be stared at by everyone. But the single cauldron that flew next to them very much had done the job for them.
After walking past just a few wooden houses, a man walked up to him, bowing a little as he did so.
"Can I help seniors with something?" he asked. He was an old man, but old in terms of a weak cultivator. In truth, he was no doubt younger than Alex.
"I am trying to find a place to stay and some food for my disciple. Does your village provide such accommodation?" Alex asked.
"Can everyone do that?" she asked Pearl.
"Not everyone," Pearl said. "In fact, most people cannot. You need to learn Space aura and well... my brother will teach you. He might end up getting angry at me if I start spouting out things randomly."
Momo wanted to learn more, but she refrained from asking anymore.
Alex teleported outside of a large sect where the strongest cultivators were in the True realms. It reminded him of the Tiger sect, one that he had said goodbye to a long time ago.
His arrival caused a bit of a sensation and the guards quickly called over the sect master. An older woman, seemingly in her late 50s arrived outside and bowed.
"How may we be of help, senior?" she asked.
Alex sent the cauldron he carried over to her. "I hear you are the only ones here that can buy these from me. Can you?"
The woman looked inside and she gasped in surprise. "So many rare ingredients," she said. "One cannot find these nearby. You would have to travel deep into the Silent Ghost's forest. Are you sure you wish to sell this to us, senior?" "Yes," Alex said. "And I want exactly what it is worth. Not a single spirit stone higher, and not a single one lower."
"Of course," the woman said.
Alex would've been better off making a pill with these ingredients and would've earned more from them, but the amount he could get from either was too low to matter for him and too high to matter for his new disciple.
Either way, he was just getting a few resources to get his disciple started.
"Instead of some of the spirit stones, I want a few other things," he said, asking for a list of items that a sect would naturally have.
He wanted for a few formation plates, some storage bags, a sword, a spear, and some empty talismans.
The sect master quickly nodded, accepting each of the things. She had someone come out and examine the items to find out their exact value while she went inside to get what he wanted.
After all was done, Alex received a storage bag with everything he had asked for. With the transaction complete, he placed his cauldron into his storage bag and flew back to the village.