Chapter 360: (1): Reaching Old Dragon City
Prior to reaching Old Dragon City, Green Goat Palace's louchuan had to make three stops in between, the first of which was the Everspring Ferry Station outside Parasol Leaf Sect, which had spring-like conditions all year round.
The louchuan stopped at the three ferry stations for a total of close to ten days, but all Chen Ping'an wanted was to get to Old Dragon City safely, so he forbade Pei Qian from leaving the ship to go visit the shops in the ferry station.
Hence, she could only carry a stool onto the observation deck, then sat down on it as she watched the vibrant scenes of the three ferry stations with a look of yearning in her eyes. Occasionally, Wei Xian would join her for a brief chat.
Even though Chen Ping'an didn't leave the louchuan, he requested the old Green Goat Palace administrator on the ship to help him buy many things, and Wei Xian and the others also each gave the administrator a shopping list.
Wei Xian requested some books detailing the customs and traditions of the different areas, Lu Baixiang purchased an imperial guqin that had come from a mortal empire, Sui Youbian made no requests, continuing to maintain the stance that all she needed was her sword, while Zhu Lian requested a long list of books.
However, his booklist was denied by Chen Ping'an before it could make it to the Green Goat Palace administrator, and told him that the books that he wanted weren't sold in the ferry stations, so he would just have to look for them on his own once they reached Old Dragon City, much to Zhu Lian's disappointment.
As it turned out, Zhu Lian had requested a bunch of novels, and just the names of these novels alone were enough to make Chen Ping'an's skin crawl. There was no way that he would allow the booklist to make it into the hands of the administrator.
Aside from practicing his walking, standing, and sleeping meditation, Chen Ping'an had also been diligently practicing the sword techniques in the Proper Sword Scripture. On top of that, he was also studying that immortal mantra.
Even though the immortal mantra was extremely advanced, the main problem that people encountered in tool refinement was a lack of good materials, thereby rendering all of their skills useless.