Since we’re going to sell White Jade Honey and head to the Qinghe Market, it’s the perfect opportunity to also purchase the necessary supplies for raising the Cloud Stepping Beast.
For this reason, Lu Yuanshan specifically went to Yanyang Lake to inform Lu Xuelian of this plan.
"I’ve come this time to send you to Qinghe Market..."
After receiving Lu Yuanshan’s assignment to go to Qinghe Market to sell the White Jade Honey, Lu Xuelian set off down the mountain by herself the next day, heading toward the Qinghe Market.
What supplies are needed for raising the Cloud Stepping Beast, Lu Xuelian also needs to think through and purchase on her own.
At Yanyang Lake, Liu Shiyao remained to keep watch.
Over the years, by following Lu Xuelian, Liu Shiyao also learned some knowledge about beast taming.
Apart from looking after the Cloud Stepping Beast, other tasks like caring for Cyan-tailed Spirit Fish weren’t difficult for her.
The Cloud Stepping Beast had not yet been tamed, so for Lu Xuelian, being at Yanyang Lake or not made no difference.
In the short term, she believed she couldn’t successfully tame it, so it was better to make a trip to Qinghe Market first.
Lu Xuelian was only a Qi Cultivator and couldn’t control a flying sword, so it took her three days to reach Qinghe Market.
In Qinghe Market, the Cyan Mountain Sect had two shops.
One was Cyan Mountain Residence.
One was the Cyan Cloud Pavilion.
Lu Xuelian went straight to Cyan Mountain Residence, and after resting for a night, she teamed up with Xu Yecheng to sell White Jade Honey outside the Cyan Mountain Residence the next day.
White Jade Bees were extremely rare spirit insects in the Chu Kingdom.
Apart from the Heaven-Facing Sect raising some White Jade Bees and producing Jade Bee Pills only once every ten years, it’s hard to see White Jade Honey for sale on the market.
Therefore, once the White Jade Honey was put on sale, it attracted a lot of attention from many loose cultivators.
Many loose cultivators came to inquire about the price. The source of this content ɪs novel•fire.net
Upon learning the price, they hesitated, reluctant to part with their money.
White Jade Honey, being a Tier Two Middle Grade Spirit Medicine, was a bit pricey.
A jar of White Jade Honey was priced at one thousand spirit stones.
For loose cultivators, daily cultivation expenses are calculated to the penny; buying a Tier Two Magical Artifact often requires saving for three to five years.
Now, spending a thousand spirit stones for a jar of White Jade Honey wasn’t feasible. Even if they had that many, many would opt to buy two Tier Two Magical Artifacts instead.
The purpose of White Jade Honey is primarily to refine Jade Bee Pills.
Loose cultivators wouldn’t have the elixir formulas for Jade Bee Pills, nor the capability to refine them even if they did.
The second use is that consuming it can warm and nourish the body, nourish the divine soul, and repair the soul.
For loose cultivators, the price of White Jade Honey is too steep.
It’s more cost-effective to buy equipment.
So, after a whole morning of seeing inquiries from loose cultivators with no buyers, Lu Xuelian was quite troubled.
The first time selling White Jade Honey at the market, it was her first encounter with the economic hardship of loose cultivators.
Reflecting again, even she couldn’t afford a thousand spirit stones for a jar of White Jade Honey and admitted to being quite poor herself.
"Junior Sister Lu, one thousand spirit stones for a jar of White Jade Honey is quite expensive. How about we lower the price a bit?"
Ultimately, it was Xu Yecheng who suggested lowering the price for a sale.
Cyan Mountain Residence currently doesn’t have any items priced over eight hundred.
Now selling White Jade Honey for a thousand spirit stones per jar.
Lu Xuelian shook her head repeatedly.
"The Sect Leader instructed that a jar of White Jade Honey must be sold for at least a thousand spirit stones. If we can’t reach this price, we might as well use it to refine Jade Bee Pills."
"A jar of White Jade Honey can refine a bottle of Jade Bee Pills, and a bottle of Jade Bee Pills sells for over three thousand spirit stones!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Yecheng fell silent.
In comparison, the price shouldn’t be lowered indeed.
Buying it at a thousand spirit stones per jar was quite the deal.
And considering this might be the only White Jade Honey for sale in Qinghe Market, following the principle of rarity, selling it for two thousand spirit stones a jar wouldn’t be unreasonable either.
Even until evening, the six jars of White Jade Honey had not been sold.
This persisted for a few days until the fifth day when a cultivator claiming to be from the Jiangling Tang Family bought three jars for three thousand spirit stones.
The Jiangling Tang Family isn’t a cultivation clan in Lushan County, but is located in Bright Moon County, a prominent family with a Crystallization Cultivator in residence.
Having sold three jars of White Jade Honey, the remaining three jars still had no market. Calculating the days, it was time to gather supplies for the Cloud Stepping Beast and return to Cyan Lotus Mountain.
This process only took a day.
On the second day, Lu Xuelian bid farewell to Xu Yecheng, left Qinghe Market, and returned to Cyan Mountain Sect.
The remaining three jars of White Jade Honey, even if unsold, weren’t forced to be.
Meanwhile, within Qinghe Market, a figure was silently following Lu Xuelian and shadowed her all the way to the range of Shuangjiao Mountain.
This was a Hengyue Sect disciple named Chen Yuerong.
Two days prior, upon learning that Lu Xuelian was a Cyan Mountain Sect disciple selling White Jade Honey, Chen Yuerong entertained thoughts of purchasing it herself.
White Jade Honey could nourish and repair the divine soul, greatly benefiting her, like receiving help in desperate times.
Since participating in the sect mission to clear out evil cultivators in Yunbei County, Chen Yuerong’s soul suffered lasting injuries in that battle, requiring divine elixirs for healing.
However, such herbs for soul repair are often expensive, unaffordable for a Qi Cultivator like her.
But upon seeing the White Jade Honey, hope was rekindled.
Without spirit stones to buy it, lacking funds, the only viable option was robbery!
Having kept an eye on Lu Xuelian, the previous buyer of three jars, the Jiangling Tang Family cultivator, also crossed Chen Yuerong’s mind for a robbery, but their cultivation was at the Ninth-Layer Qi Cultivation, far beyond her Fifth-Layer Qi Cultivation capability.
She could only watch as they left Qinghe Market.
Since that wasn’t feasible, looking at Lu Xuelian—a Fourth-Layer Qi Cultivator—she seemed much easier to handle.
Although there were risks in committing a robbery, and it was explicitly forbidden to fight within Qinghe Market, waiting until Lu Xuelian left its jurisdiction provided an opportunity.
If the robbery succeeded and it was done discreetly, who would know how Lu Xuelian died?
Without spending even a single spirit stone, she could obtain the White Jade Honey.
Between the Cyan Mountain Sect and Hengyue Sect, there were irreconcilable grudges and hatred, and Chen Yuerong felt no guilt in killing a Cyan Mountain Sect disciple.
With such thoughts, after following Lu Xuelian to Shuangjiao Mountain, completely out of Qinghe Market’s jurisdiction, Chen Yuerong couldn’t wait to take action.
She wielded a flying sword, ruthlessly slashing toward Lu Xuelian, who was performing the Light Body Technique, showing no intention to reveal herself and aiming at a sneak attack instead.