" Hmm, interesting "
On a cliff, outside the Snowy Leaf City, Lu Zhou channeled his spirit energy through his body to the eyes.
As his vertical distance improved dramatically, he saw what others cannot be allowed to look at.
In Snowy Leaf City, apart from the three major families that controlled more than a half poof were within, the Ji Lengchen Manor that was built in the middle of the city was the main strength in warfare and human resources. As they had the privilege of the lineage of the city lord for generations.
Finishing his subjective task, Lu Zhou carries two more bags full of material from wild beasts to the city gate.
Pah!
" Kid, you're here again?" A few hours ago, Lu Zhou had given him a few silver for a non-profit business for buying his games. As he knows about his background as the sect disciple of the Lu Family, he also loans him a few hundred silver for believing his words.
Lu Zhou put his hand on the bags: " Well, I'll go to another store next time then ".
Facing the hesitant eyes of the shopkeeper, Lu Zhou smiles and asks." Shopkeeper, how about we make a joint in hand? I will offer a material worth a thousand silver every week, in return, gather information about the city for half of the price "
Saying this, Lu Zhou pushed the bags in front of the bewildered shopkeeper.
Huh?
Looking at the smiling Lu Zhou, the shopkeeper glanced at the bags and looked back at the youth's expression. In his head, he was doing multiple tasks.
Should I?
" Two thousand silver-"
" Deal!" Without hesitation, the shopkeeper took Lu Zhou's hands and shook it profusely, afraid of the pie from heaven falling to another hand.
Two thousand? The shopkeeper was surprised as he never thought that the sect disciples would count on him just for news in the city.
Although he was the shopkeeper, he did not own the shop. If Lu Zhou knew that he would not ask this kind of thing in front of him. But, gathering information?
Easy!
He just hired peasants from various parts of the cities, and let them do the job.
" Then I'll return next week " saying goodbye to the person who had his mood risen to the sky, Lu Zhou bid for his well-being.
The profit of the wild beast's materials from the two bags, Lu Zhou saved it to the shopkeeper's hand.
' That's why greed was awesome '
Thinking about the outcome, Lu Zhou was quite pleased with himself.
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After exiting the weapons shops, Lu Zhou went to the City's biggest medicine shop.
" The Medicine Pavilion is the City's largest medicine shop. The owner is very mysterious and it has chain stores in the nine countries around here. Even the three big families of Snowy Leaf City are afraid of its strength."
Hmm?
As soon as he came to the store, Lu Zhou heard a familiar guy's voice.
Oh, shoot...
Lu Zhou found a male and female not far away. The one speaking was a youth clad in purple who gave off a frightening aura.
Sighed.
Lu Zhou continues his pace without greeting his senior from the same sect.
Albeit, his actions were deemed unnecessary as the female in white robe saw him.
" Brother Zhou? "
The male and female duos were Lu Yijian and Lu Xue. Lu Xue said surprisingly as she saw Lu Zhou.
Acting like he didn't care, Lu Zhou glanced at them and nodded, then walked into the Medicine Pavilion.
" Hmph, just him? Has the right to enter the Medicine Pavillion? Any item from the medicine pavilion is worth a few of his house. Pausing for a bit, Lu Yijian continued; " Oh, his income for outer sect disciples then." Lu Yijian said disdainfully as he looked at Lu Zhou.
Although Lu Xue did not speak, she knew that with Lu Zhou's background as the young master at the Cloud Step City, it would be very hard to take out a few thousand silver.
The side branch family's wealth is all about the same as the upper families in the Snowy Leaf City. As the Cloud Step City was a bit degraded in its resources of mines and agricultural, Lu Family side branch became the master of the city. That's why Lu Zhou was called a genius as he had reached the rank of one of the Martial Paths in the poor region area.
Compared to Lu Yijian, whose father and grandfather were both cultivators higher than a fourth rank held middle-high positions in the sect, their wealth was not comparable.
Ignoring the two, Lu Zhou walked into the counter of the Medicine Hall and started to search for resources that would help his cultivation increase.
Flipping through the list of the items, Lu Zhou was thinking.
' Third rank of the Martial Path, is when the body becomes stronger. In this direction, blood plant use is incredibly good. It can consolidate one's foundation and even help some cultivators understand Inner Strength....'
Out of all plants, the blood plant was the biggest used for martial apprentices. Blood plants were split into many categories. The older ones had better use, but they're also more expensive.
Hmm?
" Damn, this thing was useful?"
His eyes glued to the plants that had their nucleus colored in black.
Smirking about the price, Lu Zhou put down the book and ask for the plants at the smiling shopkeeper in front of him.
Obviously, the older it was the better the progress. Furthermore, the limit of martial apprentices was blood plants that were five hundred years old.
' But well, above that was possible for me...'
Thinking about his discovery at the Sacred Heart Forest, Lu Zhou smiled deep in his heart.
" Brother Yijian, if I had a two-hundred-year-old blood plant, I might be able to reach the peak of the second rank in half a year." Lu Xue's voice came wandering around.
" No. I can only buy you a one-hundred-year-old one. I have been trying to learn Inner Strength and need expensive materials to help me." Lu Yijian said. Although he was rich, he could not spend his money recklessly.
" A one-hundred-year-old one is ok as well." Lu Xue smiled faintly.
Just at this moment, a sweet voice with polite and seductive sounded, " Here you go sir, one thousand-year-old blood plant and three nine-hundred-year-old one."
This voice gained the attention of many people.
It's him!
Lu Xue saw Lu Zhou smiling at the shopkeeper lady who was not far away and her heart leaped.
" One thousand-year-old blood plant? Is he selling his house for that? Ha, what a waste." Lu Yijian gave a cold laugh. He would not believe that a normal branch disciple could afford a thousand-year-old blood plant. If he did, a body of the martial apprentice can't afford to receive the spiritual energy of the plant of that level.
As Lu Yijian smiled at the outcome of his thoughts. The beautiful shopkeeper put another plant at the table.
" And...Blood-Clearing Grass, " The lady said hesitantly and look at Lu Zhou's face, as she was saying ' Are you, idiot '.
Another shocking event occurred in the hall.
" Haha! His brain was eaten by maggots" Lu Yijian laughed after hearing the name of the plant Lu Zhou buy.
" Brother Zhou?" Lu Xue pitied her face.
" Who is youth? Is he need some helping?"
" Shush! Look at the symbols on his clothes, it's one of the Lu's. Ignore them"
As always, ignoring the people words, Lu Zhou take out fifty gold coins and put it on the table.
" Here."
This scene made Lu Yijian's smile freeze.
" How...how is this possible?" Lu Xue had a disbelieving, dazed look.
" Beautiful aunty, could I get the five bottles of high-level healing pills as well as five bottles of high-level blood recovery pills?"
Lu Zhou bought some other medicine which was all high level and spent another forty gold coins.
After the exchange, Lu Zhou nodded at Lu Yijian and Lu Xue in emotionless perspective of another as they can't reply. Lu Yijian squinting his eyes and Lu Xue had a forced smile and did not look Lu Zhou in the eye....
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In the inn.
Lu Zhou calculated the money he had left. It was a total of fifty gold coins as he already changes the silver coins to single monetary values.
After leaving the Medicine Pavilion, Lu Zhou didn't return to the Lu sect. Instead, he went to an inn.
" Good... "
That night, he closed his eyes and slowly used the Origin of the Internal Energy to assimilated the spirit energy that came through the system to his body slowly.
In his hand, the thousand-year-old blood plant slowly decreasing with the wilt, and ashes fall from the gap of his finger.
Although he had yet to reach the perfection in Spirit into Body, in his body, the raging flow of the energy was enough to destroy a whole village were slowly and steadily follow the technique.
Lu Zhou confirmed that he needed to reach a higher state of the physical body to wield such energy.
" I wonder, how strong if this energy follows a certain path..?"
Lu Zhou was full of expectations as he use the SE to the blood plants...