Chapter 2202: Setting up a Stall
Zhao Hai is currently drinking in a restaurant located inside a city within the Whispering Ghost Sect’s territory. While drinking, Zhao Hai’s ear was working hard listening to the conversations of the people inside the restaurant.
The restaurant was the most popular establishment in the city. Cultivators frequent the restaurant, of which majority of them were rogue cultivators.
There were times where Zhao Hai envied the rogue cultivators. In the underground world, Ghost Cultivators weren’t short of money to spend. When they head out the cities, they could find a place owned by nobody and call it their own. As long as they paid taxes to the city that managed the land, then all of the income from the land would be theirs. They could also catch red goblins to cultivate the land. They didn’t need to do any heavy lifting at all. They can just lie at home and count their money.
Such a life was quite enviable. In the True Spirit Realm, cultivators almost had no income if they didn’t go out to do missions. Those who have no income could only starve to death. The same was true for the people in the underground world’s sects.
The sect disciples of the sects in the underground world were also envious of the rogue cultivators. Rogue cultivators don’t need to work hard to survive. They don’t worry about clothes or food. On the other hand, sect disciples had to rush in all directions to survive.
What sect disciples didn’t know was that the same was also true for the rogue cultivators. Rogue cultivators envied sect disciples because those in the sects have access to high-level cultivation methods as well as endless resources. Compared to rogue cultivators who could only eat ordinary food and own ordinary items, sect disciples could reach farther in the road to cultivation. As a cultivator, this was what they should be doing.
The reason why rogue cultivators were concentrated on this particular city was because it was going to be the city’s annual trading conference. All items in the city would be sold at a lower price than they should be selling. Moreover, most of the items to be sold in the conference were cultivation resources. Because of this, rogue cultivators would gather in the city every year, hoping to buy cheap cultivation resources to get them through the entire year.
The conference would last for ten days. It wasn’t only rogue cultivators who would trade in the conference, sect disciples would be here as well. Like the rogue cultivators, they also want to buy cheap cultivation resources.
Although the trading conference had begun, the rogue cultivators weren’t anxious to grab resources. They knew very well that the truly good things wouldn’t appear on the first day. People who purchased items on the first days were the weaker cultivators. These people didn’t need overly powerful resources. Therefore, they could purchase all they could in the first two days of the conference.