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âHow on earth did you owe so much money?â Lonemoon gave the two a stare.
âFather Niu, IâŚâ Shen Ying was about to answer.
âYou shut up!â Lonemoon stopped her directly and turned to look at Chef beside her. âYou tell me!â Never mind about Shen Ying, he had been used to getting burdened by her. But since when did even Chef become so unreliable?
âWhen Master and I arrived, we happened to be in different areas of this city.â explained Yi Qing. âThat was past lunchtime. When I found Master, she was eating at Immortal Dining Place in the city. Master was too hungry that she ate a lotâŚâ
Chefâs look fluttered before he continued, âI realized that the spirit rice from that shop was good so I got some by the way.â
âWere you eating a kingâs meal? Even if you ate and bought spirit rice, you couldnât have used tens of thousands of spirit stones?â Most cultivators gained Grain Liberation so eating wasnât necessary. Therefore, most cultivatorsâ restaurants were not expensive. A bit more than one hundred spirit stones were the maximum.
âIt only cost⌠eighty-three spirit stones.â
âWhat about the rest then?â
âThe restâŚâ Yi Qingâs expression changed slightly, and he continued with a cough, âWe only realized that we didnât bring spirit stones after eating so⌠we rented a platform to look for you and bought a seeking firework by the way. And⌠it became tens of thousands.â
âSoâŚâ Lonemoon breathed deeply. âFor eighty plus spirit stonesâ worth of meal cost, you spent tens of thousands to find me to pay the bills.â
The master and the disciple went stiff, staring at the sky together.
âWith that⌠Donât mind such details, Father Niu!â She really didnât know that a firework was that expensive.
âGet lost!â I donât want to be your Father Niu. âDonât expect to get your living allowance next month. Go and eat your spirit rice!â
âHey, are you going to pay the bills or not?â The restaurant owner who kept waiting at the side became impatient. He glanced at the three. â45105 mid-tier spirit stones in total. They must be paid in full by today. Our restaurant accepts no credit. If youâre not going to pay for them, donât blame me for extracting their cultivation and make it into immortal pills to serve as payment.â With that said, he looked at the two up and down and snorted. âThought you had some backing. So you canât afford to pay indeed. Why buy a city marking if you donât have money?
Who doesnât have money?!
Lonemoonâs look darkened and he directly took out a bag of spirit stones and threw it over. â45105 mid-tier spirit stones right? Here are 500 top-tier spirit stones. Keep the change!â He most hated being called not having money.
âTop⌠top-tier spirit stones!â The owner was surprised and immediately he smiled like a flower. âIt seems that I was over-thinking, then. Should Fellow Immortal want to send another city marking next time, our shop will give you a discount.â
âThatâs not necessary.â
Seeing that the other partyâs expression wasnât pleasant, the owner didnât dare speaking much. âI will take my leave then. Thanks for visiting.â With that said, he went away holding the bag of spirit stones in his arms.
Lonemoon looked at the owner who went away, and something flashed in his eyes. He tried hard to suppress the urge to beat the two up, and gave them a two-hour scolding.
Only after that did he start thinking about the situation of the whole immortal city. Ever since coming to this city, he had felt that every detail about it was absurd. What he saw all the way was too un-immortal like.
Those modern advertisements, and that strange city marking in the skyâŚ
There was a bold guess in his mind which couldnât yet be confirmed. Thinking about it, he turned to the two behind him after a long while, âShen Ying, the two of you stay here and donât walk around. Iâll go andâŚâ
âBuy some oranges?â Shen Ying answered subconsciously.
Lonemoonâs mouth twitched. âGet lost!â
Lonemoon walked around the city asking and finally managed to roughly understand the situation in this world. This was a world of mixed immortal and mortal residences. All the mortals in here could cultivate, from Qi Refinement all the way till Mystic Immortal level. There didnât seem to be the concepts of Stygian Immortal and Exalted Immortal here. Or nobody ever rose to those cultivation levels.
Besides, they didnât experience Lightning Tribulation with every rising in level like cultivators of other planes. Lonemoon guessed that they might be because this plane didnât operate under the Heavenly Dao.
The cultivation system here was extremely complex as well. Besides the five elements of spirit roots, there were actually magic, qi competition, ancient martial arts⌠and a great many other cultivation methods. For example, the advertisement in the sky that Shen Ying sent to look for him previously was actually a magic array, he got to understand later. Though it was also formed by condensation of immortal qi, it had vastly different uses. No wonder he didnât see any immortal pressure from the array previously.
There were also many sects, colleges and training camps, etc. in this plane. All of them were places to improve cultivation, and they were varied in quality. But the people here seemed used to that and didnât find it strange at all. Coupled with those completely different sales tactics that he saw just now, Lonemoon guessed that there might have been more than one intruder in the world.
He had long known that this plane was probably intruded like a sieve being passed through by grains. Yet seeing this sieve personally, he still felt shocked..
âSo thatâs why Godfiend hid this world?â Yi Qing frowned and said.
âVery probably!â Lonemoon nodded. âHe probably concentrated all those intruders into this one world, thatâs why it is so strange here.â Godfiend might have separated it from the Three Realms in fear of the intruders affecting other planes.
âBut the people here donât look like intruders to me.â
âNo indeed,â said Lonemoon. âIâve known from just now that everything they knew about the outside world were taught by their predecessors. Those who knew them have long passed away.â
âWhich means that the intruders who were put into isolation in this world by Godfiend have actually disappeared long ago. And those in this world now are the descendants of intruders?â Is this a world remade by a time-traveling group?
âThis should be the case.
âItâ not possible!â Yi Qing shook his head. âThis world is isolated from Heavenly Dao, which means souls from here do not enter the Samsara. Where do the people come from then?â They canât appear from nowhere.
âI canât explain this as well.â Lonemoon frowned. Indeed, he couldnât sense the aura of the River of Forgetfulness in this world, which meant that this was a world allowing entrance but no exit. Yet apparently, there were no less cultivators here than anywhere else. Where did all these people come from then?
âIt seems that weâll have to ask Godfiend about this.â Lonemoon pushed Shen Ying beside him. âHave you discovered traces of that purple gas?â
âOh.â Shen Ying looked like she just remembered about business. She took out that box of purple gas, and in the next moment a tiny trace went towards the right. âTo the South.â
âThatâs the North!â
Lonemoon was speechless. He gave Chef a look before flying up on his sword and starting in that direction.