Lin Yun and Xiao Yi rests for some time and wash again. They get dressed and go out of the inner courtyard to go to the market. Xiao Yi walks toward a Lin Family guard and informs that Lin Yun is going out. The guard quickly arranges two horses.
Riding horse is a new experience for Lin Yun. It's good that old Lin Yun was good at it.
[You can guess almost everyone here in Blue Martial World know how to ride horse or any tamed beast]
He tries galloping. His nuts almost get cracked.
Market is not far. They reach it within 4-5 minutes. Market is not that big. It has 4 streets. First and liveliest street is food market. Shops on both side of the street specialized in selling food items like vegetables, fruits, fishes, meats of both domestic and wild beasts, etc. There are many restaurants and hotels too.
The second liveliest street is Trade Union. This is mostly filled with treasures - weapons, pills, herbs, martial arts, rare items, etc. Lin family's Hundred Treasures Pavilion is also located in this street.
The third liveliest street is clothes and jewelry market.
The fourth street becomes alive during the night. That's red street of Sun Kingdom Capital City. Government does not forbids it. Most of the hunters come back to the city to sell their spoils of the trip spend the night in a hotel in red street.
Main agricultural items in Sun Kingdom are - rice, vegetables, fruits and herbs. Herbs and fruits mainly comes from other provinces while rice and vegetables grow in central province. Despite being a small kingdom, population is about hundred millions. it because their life expectancy is very long and healthy. So birth rate is high and death rate is low.
There is not much scope for agricultural labor. Surplus population depends on hunting and fishing for livelihood. It's good that there is never ending wild beast. Forests around Sun Kingdom are abundant with wild beasts.
Food selling in the market are either roasted meat or soup with vegetables. Fried vegetables are also sold but it is costly and is fried with fat oil of meat. Many herbs are added in the dishes but there are no spices except for pepper.
Salt and spices are precious items. They are not sold in the food street but in the Trade Union Street. Salt mine is considered more important than gold mines . Spices are mainly brings in by the merchants from the Great River Empire. So, it's a luxury item. Salted foods are available in high class hotels and restaurants. For spices, they are only for royals and nobles.
Rice and vegetables cultivated in the kingdom is not enough. So the main food for common people is meat.
Grade 1 or 2 beast meat is very abundant because they can be killed by martial apprentice realm hunters.
Common people lack talent, rare medicine and martial arts to train higher than martial artist. Many towns villages are headed by martial artist realm.
Martial artist realm can kill rank 3 and 4 wild beast. Rank 5 and 6 wild beasts have the strength of martial master. Rank 7 and 8 wild beasts have the strength of great martial master. For rank 9 beasts, they start gaining wisdom. If they can eat some rare heaven and earth medicine, they will evolve to spirit beast. Spirit beasts are of grandmaster realm strength beasts. More tricky is that they have wisdom and knows how to practice elemental energy.
It's rare to see spirit beasts within Sun Kingdom forests. These forests are mainly ruled by rank 9 wild beasts.
In chaotic wildlands, there are many spirit beasts. That's why even martial artists from other kingdom go there.
Lin Yun and Xiao Yi go one of the most popular restaurant in food street to try the food there.
"Xiao Yi, let's try the food here." He jumps down from the horse and help Xiao Yi to climb down too. A hotel boy runs up and asks " Young master, can I help you? "
"Um. Help me tie the horses" Lin Yun replies.
Xiao Yi takes out 10 silver union coins and pays him. These hotel boys earn livelihood through such tips. They do not get wage but they have register to the shop owner. All big shops have such helpers.
When Lin Yun see Xiao Yi paying the helper, he remembers that he have not check the storage bag of Lin Yun. His sense guides some elemental energy into the bag and can see the items within the bag.
Elemental energy is used to trigger the storage and for protection too. When the ownerless storage bag is used for the first time, aura of the user will be locked in the rune formation of the bag. Except for the this aura, no one can't take the items inside. If someone tries to use brute force, the storage bag will be damaged and items inside will be lost too. There is an exception of course, that is rune masters. They can hack them.
Lin Yun's storage bag is grade 5 and has the space of 5 cubic meters. Even if storage bag and other weapons are of the same grade, prices are heaven and earth difference. It is because rune formation is very complex for storage bag and materials require to refine them are also precious.
Weapons are divided into 9 grades. Above them are false spirit and spirit weapons. Grade 1-3 weapons are used by martial apprentice realm. They can increase the user battle power by 10%-30%.
Grade 4 & 5 weapons are mainly used by martial artist realm. It increases battle power by 40% and 50% respectively.
Grade 6-9 are used by martial master and great master realm. They also use false spirit weapon if they can afford.
Grade 1-9 weapons does not have strength requirement to use them. But lower realm martial artist can not afford the higher grade weapons. Even if they can afford, they may get robbed or murdered by higher realm martial artists.
False spirit weapons are those weapons which are infused with martial intent of grand master or great grand masters. They have their own will.
For spirit weapon, they are national treasure of Sun Kingdom. There is no one who can refine them in the kingdom.