Yu Lan helped Mei Lin with the hair and with her evident skill, Mei Lin quickly felt at ease in her capable hands. Mei Lin's hair was slowly transformed into an elegant masterpiece with each comb stroke. Yu Lan deftly arranged her long, white locks into a magnificent crown, each strand meticulously woven to create a regal and intricate design. Mei Lin's hair now framed her face in a way that highlighted her delicate features, making her look like a true princess from a fairy tale. Mei Lin looked even more beautiful with her hair styled by Yu Lan. Two strands of hair were left hanging down her face, giving her a cute, more dollish appearance.
"You look like a doll, Miss. You should comb your hair more often. It suits you much better than letting your hair hang out like you do normally. You will look more sexy like this."
Mei Lin turned her head around, so she could see Yu Lan's face, and Yu Lan started staring at Mei Lin. Mei Lin sensed that Yu Lan was fixated on her red eyes. They locked gazes briefly before Yu Lan quickly looked away. Yu Lan was once again horny as she still could imagine Mei Lin naked just moments ago.
Yu Lan was not ready to let Mei Lin and her beauty leave the bathroom, so she hoped to stop her there, she started asking her questions.
"Do you have any other things you want, miss? Yes, I'd like to find a place, where I can buy some items for cultivation and buy some more clothes." Yu Lan was surprised, but judging by the long way that both of them had, it was understandable.
"With your green identification token, you can only acquire goods in the green zone. This restriction is in place to prevent certain cultivators from monopolizing everything in the yellow zone. These rules help the City Lord and the rest of the leading families to maintain control and stability in the city. For example, no one will sell you a house in the yellow zone if you have a green identification token. The same rules also apply in the same way of the blue zone, where is the sect located."
"That's great to hear. I will surely go there tomorrow to take a look there."
"But you must be careful miss, The streets are not too pleasant for the people in the yellow zone. These days there are a lot of gangs and even more despaired people thanks to the plague which is in the yellow zone now more than ever before. No one knows why, but some of the people think that the Gu family is experimenting with some kind of poison to turn people into monsters by the poison."
Mei Lin noticed and was quite happy with what she found out. Without waiting anymore, she quickly went back to their new room. Xia was already asleep even though it was still afternoon and the sun was shining in the room through the open window. Except for the window and small bed, there was nothing inside the room and the room looked still dirty despite Yu Lan cleaning inside. The heavy smell of the things that had been here for god knows how long made this place something more like a cellar than a room for the customers.
Mei Lin went forward to the window and pulled out a teapot with a blood tea. After drinking all the content that was left inside from before, she entered into a cultivation state. Mei Lin was slowly progressing in gathering her second wisp of natural energy to create a second one and enter into the second stage of BT. She already discovered that her progress is much slower than before. Her second wisp was nearly at five percent completed and she started depleting all blood collected in the tea house from the bandits and her only blood left.
Mei Lin was not happy with the progress, but she had no chance to cultivate along the way as she was trying to heal herself. Mei Lin drank all the blood of other cultivators and now only has blood from the third-stage bandits and no chance to replenish it. The main reason why Mei Lin wanted to know about the market here was to buy a house, replenish her blood stocks somehow, and then solely focus on cultivation, without any problems and with no rush to it.
Mei Lin started to think about the next steps and what to do. She had still nearly a hundred mid-grade spirit stones, two high-grade, and a hundred thousand low-grade stones. Mei Lin didn't understand their real wealth herself as the tea and other thing in the caravan cost only a few low-grade stones, but that doesn't mean that those were normal prices.
*****
Next morning.
Xia woke up and saw that Mei Lin was cultivating. Outside the window was already bright winter light which made the atmosphere inside the city even more beautiful. Xia felt great after their first long sleep in a real bed. Went to the first floor to eat dinner and Mei Lin continued in her cultivation. The cultivation state lasted only for a few more hours before Xia arrived back into the room, where Mei Lin was waiting for her.
"How do you like my new clothes?" Xia turned around in front of Mei Lin as she also showed Mei Lin her new hairstyle and green robe. Mei Lin watched her for a second and saw, that the robe was too big and not in the best shape to be called a new robe, but Xia looked like she didn't mind at all.
"I like what sister Lan prepared for me. She helped me and made my hair like you have. I have never had hair like this."
She was wearing shabby green clothes from Yu Lan, but her hair looked beautiful like Mei Lin's. If someone saw them for the first time, they looked quite similar to each other. Both of them looked at each other for a second until Mei Lin stood from the cultivation mat and put on a bamboo hat and both of them soon left the tea house.
*****
Six hours later. Between Yellow Zone and Green Zone East part of the city.
"So we are here," said Xia with the last bits of her strength. Both of them were marching through the Yellow Zone until they arrived at the bridge which was made of wood to create a difference between the green and yellow. What was most impressive were the lanterns on both sides. The closer half of the bridge was decorated with Yellow lanterns and the farther part was decorated with Green lanterns.