Chapter 215 - 187: The Remaining Evil
"Throughout Red Pillar City, where the houses are good and where they are poor, I’m most familiar with that. You’ll soon understand that your Spirit Stones won’t be wasted!" the old cultivator said with a smile.
"I must also ask Fellow Daoist to take good care of this junior," Chen Li added.
Along the way, Chen Li deliberately tried to make friends, keeping a very low profile and giving compliments from time to time.
After several exchanges, the old cultivator’s attitude toward Chen Li grew increasingly friendly, and without realizing it, he divulged quite a bit of information.
The old cultivator’s surname was Wei, his name Changming, at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, over two hundred years old. He was one of the Huoyun Sect’s stewards in Red Pillar City, and there were thirty-eight such stewards in the city, with an elder in the Golden Core Late Stage permanently stationed there.
Red Pillar City was the most important source of wealth for the Huoyun Sect, earning a great deal of Spirit Stones yearly.
To say it was an inexhaustible mine of Spirit Stones would not be an exaggeration.
Furthermore, the city was full of a mix of characters, with Golden Core cultivators as common as crucian carp crossing a river.
It made sense to station an elder in the Golden Core Late Stage here.
As for the whole Huoyun Sect, it had been established for over two thousand years, with one Nascent Soul, twenty-one Golden Core elders, and countless Foundation Establishment cultivators. In the vast western regions, it was undoubtedly a super sect with a transcendent status.
"This originally belonged to a Loose Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment level, but unfortunately, he has been gone for nearly thirty years now. Nine out of ten chances are that he’s dead. The house was just refurbished last year; everything is new. Fellow Daoist Chen, why don’t you go inside and take a look?" Wei Changming pointed to a large house and said.