Ordinary general goods store.
Bai Yunxi looked at Feng Mo’er and frowned.
After Feng Mo’er came the first time, she often came to visit. Bai Yunxi had some resistance to Feng Mo’er’s arrival. After Feng Mo’er came, she liked to talk to Ye Fan. Bai Yunxi was always worried that Ye Fan would say something carelessly and they would be exposed.
Compared with Bai Yunxi, Feng Mo’er liked to chat with Ye Fan. Bai Yunxi was an ice-type cultivator, and Feng Mo’er was a fire-type cultivator. The two couldn’t communicate easily.
Ye Fan knew a lot, and Feng Mo’er always felt that chatting with Ye Fan could benefit her a lot.
In the same way, because of Ye Fan’s talent, Feng Mo’er firmly believed that Ye Fan came from a large sect and had an incredible backstage behind him.
Ma Rui would also follow Feng Mo’er occasionally.
“Fellow Daoist Ye, your brother is a Golden Core cultivator. Why doesn’t he buy you a better outfit?” Ma Rui said suspiciously.
He had already investigated. When this guy, Ye Fan, first came ashore, he was poor and white. It was just such a dilapidated shop and it was only rented at the beginning. Bai Yunxi even went to set up a stall before. This didn’t look like someone with a backstage.
“Everyone in our family will have everything confiscated after they are promoted to Foundation Establishment. They will be thrown into one place and start from scratch, so as to temper their mentality and train for a few years. Although it is still a little early for me.” Ye Fan said.
“So that’s how it is.” Feng Mo’er nodded.
Bai Yunxi secretly sweated on the side, thinking to himself: Ye Fan’s reaction was really quick. He really underestimated Ye Fan before.
Bai Yunxi didn’t know that Ye Fan’s family really did this. After Ye Fan’s elder brother Ye Qixian built his foundation, he was thrown into the Bloody Jungle. Ye Qixian relied on his sword and killed out a name for himself in the Bloody Jungle.
Ma Rui looked at Ye Fan, snorted and said, “Your family can rest assured and are not afraid that you will live in poverty?”
“Neither an alchemist nor a talisman master will be poor. I know both alchemy and talisman making, so how can I be poor?” Ye Fan said proudly.
Feng Mo’er smiled and said, “Young Master Ye is really amazing! You can both concoct alchemy and make talismans.”
Ye Fan smiled and said, “It’s easy to say, easy to say.”
“Young Master Ye, have you ever heard of the seven-striped golden thread fish?” Feng Mo’er asked.
“I heard that the strength of the seven-striped golden thread fish is not strong, but it is very fast and difficult to catch.” Ye Fan said.
Feng Mo’er nodded and said, “Yes!” It had been a long time since the bounty was offered, and many people went out to look for it, but none of them had caught one. “Fellow Daoist Ye, are you not interested in my master’s bounty?”
Ye Fan shrugged and said, “I’m not short of that.”
“That?” Feng Mo’er asked in confusion.
“Foundation Establishment Pill!” Ye Fan said.
Feng Mo’er smiled and said, “Oh, yes, Fellow Daoist Ye and Fellow Daoist Bai have already built your foundations, so naturally there is no need for the Foundation Establishment Pill.”
“Fellow Daoist Ye, how many Foundation Establishment Pills did you take to advance to Foundation Establishment?” Ma Rui asked.
Feng Mo’er frowned, always feeling that Ma Rui’s question was a bit inappropriate, but Feng Mo’er secretly also wanted to know.
“How many? Eight.” Ye Fan said lightly.
Feng Mo’er widened her eyes and said, “Fellow Daoist Ye, are you kidding me?”
Ye Fan said disapprovingly, “You’re kidding. I’m not!”
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Feng Mo’er’s eyes widened, and she secretly thought, eight Foundation Establishment Pills were a big deal!
Ma Rui listened to Ye Fan’s answer, and his hostility toward Ye Fan dissipated a little, and he liked Ye Fan a little more.
“Eight Foundation Establishment Pills. How come you needed so many?” Feng Mo’er said in disbelief.
Ye Fan thought about it and said, “I have more spiritual roots, so I ate more.”
Ma Rui was a little excited. Tiangang Sect said to the outside world that he ate three Foundation Establishment Pills to advance. In fact, Ma Rui ate not only three Foundation Establishment Pills, but five, and the other two were secretly stuffed to him by Ma Yuanping. This matter was a secret, but the senior sect management were all aware of it, and some second-generation disciples also knew about it. Ma Rui knew that some people secretly called him a pig that could only waste resources behind his back.
Suddenly discovering a person who was more like a pig than himself, Ma Rui couldn’t help feeling like he had met a bosom friend.
“You actually ate eight Foundation Establishment Pills! That’s too many. Do the people from your sect have any opinions?” Ma Rui asked excitedly.
Ye Fan said puzzledly, “Why would they have opinions? Those pills were mine.”
Feng Mo’er: “…” After taking eight Foundation Establishment Pills to advance, how bad were Ye Fan’s spiritual roots!
Ma Rui asked curiously, “Fellow Daoist Ye, do you have a lot of spiritual roots?”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yeah! I have all kinds.”
Ma Rui: “…”
Feng Mo’er looked at Ye Fan and said, “Young Master Ye has poor spiritual roots, so your comprehension must be very high.”
“Yes.”
Bai Yunxi looked at Feng Mo’er and couldn’t help frowning. Looking at the sky, Bai Yunxi felt that if it were normal times, this guy Ye Fan would be clamoring to close the store, but today…
Bai Yunxi gave Ye Fan a wink, and Ye Fan couldn’t help but feel a little puzzled.
Bai Yunxi thought angrily that it was really difficult to have a heart-to-heart relationship with Ye Fan.
…
Feng Mo’er looked at Bai Yunxi and secretly thought: Ye Fan had to smash eight Foundation Establishment Pills to build his foundation. It could be seen that his qualifications were very poor. Ye Fan’s qualifications were so poor, but Bai Yunxi was willing to follow such a person. Could it be that Ye Fan’s background was very special? To the point where Bai Yunxi, a cultivator with superior aptitude, had no choice but to cuddle with him.
…
When Ye Fan sent Feng Mo’er away, he saw Bai Yunxi’s face was stern and unhappy.
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi inexplicably, and said, “Yunxi, what’s wrong with you? It looks like you’re in a bad mood.”
The Taotie ghost smiled and said, “Fool, your wife is jealous.”
Bai Yunxi’s face was cold, and a little redness flashed on his face.
Bai Yunxi secretly thought: he always felt that Ye Fan was jealous, but he didn’t expect feng shui to take turns, and today it was his turn.
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi in amazement, and said cheerfully, “Yunxi, you’re jealous. Sure enough, Yunxi likes me.”
Bai Yunxi: “…” The Taotie ghost was really annoying.
Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan and said solemnly, “You shouldn’t tell others everything.”
Ye Fan blinked and said, “I don’t tell others everything.”
Bai Yunxi pondered for a while, and said, “That girl doesn’t fully believe our story, but for the time being, she shouldn’t act rashly…”
Bai Yunxi frowned, feeling like he was dancing on the tip of a knife. If Tiangang Sect became suspicious and a Golden Core cultivator came over, it would be troublesome.
Ye Fan blinked and said, “How about we go shopping elsewhere?”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Alright.”
In the evening, Bai Yunxi took stock of their recent income and deducted various expenses. In the past six months, Ye Fan had probably earned 60,000 low-grade spirit stones.
Recently, there were a lot of people in the store, but not many people actually bought things. After all, Luosha Town was only a small place, and most of the people who came and went were all Qi Refining cultivators, so their purchasing power was very limited.
Even so, 60,000 low-grade spirit stones were already equivalent to the income of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators for several years.
Many Foundation Establishment cultivators would hunt spiritual beasts after reaching Foundation Establishment, and the money they earned was all from risking their lives, which was very dangerous.
Ye Fan lay on the bed and rolled around, “Yunxi, have you finished counting the money? After counting, let’s go to dual cultivate.”
Bai Yunxi glanced at Ye Fan and said, “You can cultivate yourself first. You don’t have to wait for me.”
Ye Fan said sullenly, “I can’t cultivate alone! My wife only loves spirit stones, not me anymore.”
Bai Yunxi: “…”
…
Ye Fan took Bai Yunxi to Qingyu Commercial Building.
“Senior Ye wants to buy a boat?” Yuan Qingyue asked.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes.”
“Young Master Ye is planning to go to sea?” Yuan Qingyue asked.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes.” Bai Yunxi had already built his foundation, and they should go out to sea to hone themselves.
“It’s just right for the two of you to come to our firm to buy a ship. The quality of our firm’s ships is the best in the entire Dongyue Kingdom.”
Ye Fan spent 20,000 low-grade spirit stones to buy a ship, and a third of the income for a few months disappeared at once.
After buying a ship, Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan went to sea.
When Feng Mo’er came to see Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi again, the Ordinary general goods store had already closed.
“Senior sister, it’s closed.” Ma Rui said.
Feng Mo’er nodded and said, “I see.”
“Could it be that the master who chased the six horned dragon fish came and took them away?” Ma Rui asked.
Feng Mo’er shook her head and said, “I don’t know! Forget it.” Although heavenly spiritual root cultivators were rare, it was not an easy thing to grow up. Since they were gone, let them go.
…
Ye Fan stood atop the majestic ship and couldn’t help feeling a little heroic.
“This is how a boat should be!” When they came, the boat was too small to even stretch out their legs.
Bai Yunxi came out and asked, “Where are we going now?”
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi and said, “You have built your foundation. We should spend some time to refine a spiritual weapon for you. A cultivator’s spiritual weapon works best when it is refined by the cultivator himself. Let’s go to Ice Sword Island. There should be materials you need there. When the time comes, I will guide you on refining the weapon.”
Bai Yunxi nodded, smiled, and said, “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”
Ye Fan counted the spirit stones in his hands and said, “There are still 40,000 left, so we should buy a storage ring.”
Bai Yunxi glared at Ye Fan and said, “We still have 40,000 low-grade spirit stones left. The storage ring you’re looking for costs 80,000 low-grade spirit stones.”
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi and said, “We can bargain! Maybe we can cut the price down.”
Bai Yunxi: “…”
…
Above the ship, there was a jade screen with a map of the sea area.
The Taotie ghost jumped around on the sea boat. After Ye Fan came to the cultivation world, he would occasionally refine some medicinal pills useful for stabilizing ghost spirits for the Taotie ghost to eat. After eating the pills, the spiritual body of the Taotie ghost stabilized a lot.
“There seems to be movement.”
Bai Yunxi saw a large number of sea beasts swarming over. Cultivators liked to hunt sea beasts to obtain cultivation resources. Similarly, for sea beasts, the flesh and blood of cultivators was also a great supplement.
The sea beasts in the Foundation Establishment period already possessed wisdom, and these sea beasts would often order sea beasts of lower cultivation to attack sea ships in order to devour the cultivators on board.
In the sea, the advantages of sea beasts were much greater than that of cultivators.
Bai Yunxi quickly cast dozens of spells, freezing the sea surface. The spiritual energy on the sea surface was very abundant and once Bai Yunxi’s spiritual energy was consumed, it was quickly replenished.
Bai Yunxi froze the sea beasts, and Ye Fan took out the Profound Dragon Seal and smashed the frozen sea beasts to death. The two cooperated tacitly, and the efficiency was amazing.
So after a while, a large number of sea beasts died.
The Taotie ghost jumped into the sea and flexibly dug out the inner pills* of the dead sea beasts.
The leading sea beast soon discovered that Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi were difficult to deal with, and withdrew in despair.
The Taotie ghost arrived on the boat and said, “A bunch of cowards. They withdrew when they saw that the situation was not good. They are sea beasts, but they have no spine.”
Bai Yunxi: “…”
The Taotie ghost glanced at Ye Fan and said, “How many days to go before we reach Ice Sword Island?”
Ye Fan looked at the map and said, “There’s still about a month to go.”
The Taotie ghost blinked and said, “It’s still so long! It looks like you will encounter many more situations like this.”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “It’s possible.”
Bai Yunxi blinked with interest and looked at the spiritual islands on the map. It was said that there were seventy-two islands in the sea, each with its own specialties.
For example, this Ice Sword Island. According to rumors, thousands of years ago, an ice spiritual root Nascent Soul cultivator and an ice attribute Nascent Soul beast fought on the edge of the island, and Ice Sword Island was formed after their deaths.
The corpse of the ice-attribute Nascent Soul beast nourished a lot of ice-type spiritual grass.
There were also many relics left from the fierce battle on Ice Sword Island. Many relics had sword intent, and many sword cultivators had stepped foot on Ice Sword Island in an attempt to comprehend sword intent.
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T/N: Feng Mo’er is imagining Bai Yunxi as a genius cultivator with no background being forced to be with a slag with poor qualifications (Ye Fan) because of his superior background. It’s meant to be funny here, but the sad reality is that this often happens in other cultivation novels – a genius cultivator with no background joins a sect with hopes and dreams only to be forced to be the cultivation furnace of some loser whose father/grandfather/ancestor is an elder of the sect.
*Inner pill – spiritual/demon beasts in cultivation novels have a yuandan (what I’m translating as inner pill), which basically contains their life essence. It’s different from the golden core of cultivation.
