Be the Hardest Working Demon Cultivator!

Chapter 70: Failure

The Peach Blossom Enchantment, in fact, wasn’t very large, because if one were to look at it from outside the peach forest, this place could be seen in its entirety at a glance, roughly the size of an ordinary village.

But to say it was small... that truly wasn’t the case, for at least once you entered the Peach Blossom Enchantment, you couldn’t expect to be able to walk from one end to the other in a straight line.

The mystery within was not something that cultivators could comprehend; it could only be the work of those who had proven themselves in the Immortal Realm.

And within this Peach Blossom Enchantment, there were three places for cultivators to reside.

One was the Bamboo Grove Residence that Tan Shuchang had encountered, which was where the descendants of those righteous cultivators assembled and lived. There were two others, one was the Water Reed Marsh, and the other, the Peach Ghost Cave.

The Water Reed Marsh was similar to the Bamboo Grove Residence, also a gathering place for righteous cultivators, with the difference being that those who lived here were the native righteous cultivators from Vast Cold State.

That is, the locals.

Compared with the Bamboo Grove Residence, the Water Reed Marsh, which had been operating in this Peach Blossom Enchantment for three hundred years, was undoubtedly more prosperous and lively.

The most representative feature was that this place had actually developed a sizable real estate industry.

To be able to buy a small piece of land in the Water Reed Marsh and build a house was a dream longed for by the local cultivators.

As for the Peach Ghost Cave, given such a demonic-sounding name, naturally, it was where those Demonic cultivators gathered. However, despite the not-so-pleasant name, it was also quite lively.

Even the people that Tan Shuchang had seen earlier, setting up stalls and attracting cultivators to congregate, were mostly from this Peach Ghost Cave.

After visiting the three places, one would feel as though the Peach Blossom Enchantment was like the twenty-sixth state of the Jiawu Realm. With three places showing three different faces, although all together there were fewer than ten thousand people, the place was filled with cultivators, so the perception it presented was naturally distinctly different.

The Qinghe City outside of Black Heart Mountain, as a city under the control of the Jianxia Sect, was a standard city of cultivators, but it was a mix of immortals and mortals, with mortals being the majority.

If one were to only count the cultivators, their numbers might not even reach half of those here.

While the Jiawu Realm had only one realm of cultivation, truly entering the path and becoming a cultivator was not simply about obtaining a Cultivation Technique. Although in the city of Langshou Ghosts, Tan Shuchang merely spoke once and all seven players present learned it, those seven had all been through a series of bizarre and rigorous selections from the game.

Furthermore, the power to cultivate could not be limitless. Along the path of cultivation, due to oneself, or the Cultivation Technique, or a certain experience, a variety of bottlenecks could emerge.

Because of the three hundred Upper Xuan Great Seals, when this cultivator saw Tan Shuchang again, his attitude was somewhat enthusiastic.

"Fellow Daoist, I’ve come specifically to find you. I wish to meet Lady Ji, the fairy. I wonder if you, fellow Daoist, could introduce us?" Tan Shuchang immediately got to the point.

At the same time, he respectfully presented the gift he had prepared.

A substantial gift of fifty Upper Xuan Great Seals.

Even in Vast Cold State, such a number of Upper Xuan Great Seals would be a decent gift for an initial meeting.

However, the cultivator did not accept them.

"It seems I am not fortunate enough to enjoy your generous gift," the cultivator said, shaking his head with a look of regret, "You must have realized the origin of Lady Ji, the fairy. She hails from the Serpent Transformation Cave.

However, Lady Ji has always been mysterious, and coupled with her vast divine skills, unless you happen to encounter her as we did last time, you’ll have to present a token and then wait for her response. It may take as short as three to five days, or as long as several months."

"Then, is there a way to contact Lady Ji through the people of Serpent Transformation Cave?" While saying this, Tan Shuchang pushed the fifty Upper Xuan Great Seals directly in front of the cultivator.

To Tan Shuchang, money was something that should never be kept for long; it was only worth it if he could turn it into benefits for himself.

After all, the value and recognition of Upper Xuan Great Seals were maintained by the currency exchange system of the Taiyi Fine Gold of Zi Xuan Dynasty.

Although the Zi Xuan Dynasty devised many ways to spend Upper Xuan Great Seals, such as the astonishingly expensive "Water Spirit" for those who did not join the court, because the court annually crafted a batch of Upper Xuan Great Seals specifically for the various Immortal Sects to maintain their endorsement, the overall amount of Upper Xuan Great Seals actually increases year over year.

It is only because the top-tier Immortal Sects that held the lion’s share were very economically minded and strictly controlled the outflow of Upper Xuan Great Seals within their sects, that the value of Upper Xuan Great Seals from Zi Xuan Dynasty has not fluctuated too much.

But these things were actually similar to the former Tan family; a bubble was bound to burst eventually.

So after understanding this insider information, Tan Shuchang no longer paid much attention to Upper Xuan Great Seals; he saw them only as money to be moved around when necessary.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist!"

The cultivator understood what Tan Shuchang’s gesture meant and joyfully accepted the seals, then immediately explained to Tan Shuchang, "What you might not know, fellow Daoist, is that there is an unwritten rule within Serpent Transformation Cave that is not declared to the world: once a disciple undergoes serpent transformation, that disciple will have no further ties with the Serpent Transformation Cave."