Chapter 14

A low-grade essence stone sold for eight hundred gold coins, which was a loss for Yi Tian.

Essence stones were rare and hard to come by, and very few people would sell them to make money. Therefore, the price of a low-grade essence stone fluctuated greatly. If it weren't for his need for a large amount of gold coins, and the fact that essence stones were too conspicuous and could attract the attention of many people with ill intentions, or even lead to theft, he wouldn't have put an essence stone up for sale.

After selling the low-grade essence stone, Yi Tian left the shop and kept turning left and right on the street to shake off any followers.

In the next moment, Yi Tian arrived on another street.

He entered a shop and bought a tungsten iron heavy sword of the divine weapon level for 395 gold coins, weighing 300 catties.

Now, with the tungsten iron heavy sword on his back, he looked like a swordsman and walked into a tavern with ease.

Yi Tian ordered a full table of dishes and started eating.

At the same time, his ears were listening to the conversations of the martial artists around him. Most of the customers in the tavern were martial artists, some of whom were travelers from various regions, coming from different merchant groups, or guards of some families, or children of wealthy families who had cultivation techniques.

This made Yi Tian somewhat surprised.

It seemed that cultivation was extremely popular in this world, but most cultivators were at a relatively low level.

Suddenly, at a table to Yi Tian's left, several martial artists were complaining. They were guards from a small family, with meager salaries, only a few gold coins. This was already a considerable amount for an ordinary family, but for these martial artists, it was rather low.

A large part of their salary was spent on food and drink, and only the meat of fierce beasts could satisfy their hunger.

However, due to a momentary lapse, they were caught by the head guard, who deducted one gold coin from their salary. This made the guards start complaining in the tavern.

Among the four guards, one with a somewhat fierce face said angrily, "He's just a head guard, always acting like our master, ordering us around like slaves. If my strength wasn't a level lower than his, I would have taught him a lesson long ago."

"Iron Man, you'd better save your breath. The head guard is a fourth-stage martial artist, capable of sweeping us all away. We've been stuck at the second and third stages for a long time, and it might take another ten or twenty years to break through," one of the guards said helplessly.

For ordinary martial artists without resources, they could only rely on hard cultivation to break through, and they might not even reach the fourth stage by the time they were old.

If they wanted to obtain resources, ordinary martial artists without talent or background could only take risks by entering the mountains to hunt fierce beasts, collect medicinal herbs, and so on. However, this was extremely dangerous, with a high risk of death, and not everyone was willing to do it.

Yi Tian listened to their conversation without showing any emotion.

After they finished eating and drinking and left, Yi Tian paid the bill and followed them.

They soon split up.

When Iron Man, slightly drunk, was walking home and passed through an alley, something wrapped in paper was thrown from a distance.

The alert Iron Man immediately leaped and dodged the attack.

When he saw the object on the ground, he was taken aback. He thought someone was trying to attack him, but it turned out to be a paper ball.

When he was about to leave, he suddenly stopped.

Driven by curiosity, he picked up the paper ball, which was somewhat heavy. When he opened it, he found a stone the size of a pebble inside, and there were words on the paper.

Iron Man unfolded the paper.

After reading the words, he couldn't help but tremble, a mix of excitement and fear.

Then, Iron Man urgently circulated his cultivation technique. The stone in his hand suddenly emitted a glow, and a surge of essence energy began to flow into his body as he circulated his technique. The speed of his true qi circulation was several times faster than usual.

This...

This is really an essence stone!

Iron Man was both excited and afraid.

After a moment of thought, he gritted his teeth, put the essence stone in his chest, and quickly left after looking around.

Not long after Iron Man left, Yi Tian appeared and then quickly left.

Returning to the Yunlong Inn, Yi Tian called Yi Shan, Yi Feng, Yi Li, Xiaolong, Xiaoting, and Yi Kai to the main hall.

Yi Tian ordered more than ten signature dishes from the Yunlong Inn, all of which were highly nutritious and blood-nourishing.

These signature dishes were made from the meat of extremely dangerous fierce beasts, the blood of fierce beasts, and rare thousand-year-old herbs, and were incredibly delicious, each costing several gold coins.

"Yi Tian, this is too extravagant!"

"Yes, this meal probably costs two or three hundred gold coins. How do you have so much money, Yi Tian?"

Seeing the more than ten signature dishes on the table, even Yi Kai and Yi Song, who were third and fourth-stage martial artists, felt it was extremely luxurious.

This meal was worth their entire fortune.

Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and Yi Li were already drooling, eager to start eating.

As for Xiaoting and Xiaolong, they were even worse, sniffing the aroma of the dishes and drooling.

Yi Tian said with a generous tone, "It's just a few hundred gold coins. Today, someone gave us eight hundred gold coins for free, so it would be a shame not to spend it."

Yi Feng and the others showed a hint of surprise but didn't say anything.

Yi Kai was puzzled. Didn't Yi Tian borrow six gold coins from him today? How did he get eight hundred gold coins from someone else?

Yi Song and the other tribal warriors asked in surprise, "How is that possible? Who would give you hundreds of gold coins for free?"

At the same time, the martial artists and tribal warriors in the Yunlong Inn who were eating and drinking perked up their ears.

They had already been attracted by the aroma from Yi Tian's table. With more than ten signature dishes and a price of several hundred gold coins, it was enough to draw their attention.

Yi Tian said, "There really is such a person. He is the shopkeeper of Shi Yun Pavilion, a fat man. I don't know if he's too fat, but his head seems to be a bit fat too. He gave us several essence stones for free, and among those dozen or so essence stones, there was actually one essence stone."

When Yi Tian finished speaking, the people at the nearby tables all breathed heavily.

An essence stone, something that martial artists would fight over and not easily show to others.

"Ah!"

Yi Tian sighed, "Having this essence stone is a great thing. It might help us break through a stage. However, this essence stone is owned by all of us, and it would hurt our brotherhood to divide it. So, I sold the essence stone for eight hundred gold coins and will distribute the remaining gold coins to you all later."

At this, the martial artists in the hall all felt regretful or secretly called Yi Tian a spendthrift.

Selling an essence stone for just eight hundred gold coins was too cheap, and only a spendthrift would sell an essence stone for gold coins.

"Let's not talk anymore, let's start eating!"

With Yi Tian's call, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and the others, who had been waiting impatiently, started devouring the food. Although Yi Kai and the others weren't as bad, their chopsticks moved much faster.

Xiaolong and Xiaoting, with their small arms and legs, couldn't keep up, making them almost cry in frustration.

Yi Tian put some of the dishes on their plates, piling them high, which made Xiaoting and the others smile and eat happily, their mouths full of oil.

While Yi Tian and the others were feasting, the news that Yi Tian and his group had obtained an essence stone for free from Shi Yun Pavilion in Shi Xuan Street quickly spread throughout Heilong City.

This made many ordinary martial artists talk about it with interest.

The shopkeeper of Shi Yun Pavilion was mocked as a fool, becoming a laughingstock for a while.

When the shopkeeper of Shi Yun Pavilion heard this news, his face turned black, and he vented his anger fiercely.

An essence stone was given away like this, even though its value was only a fraction of his wealth, it was a great pain for a merchant, something he might never forget.

This news was just a temporary amusement for the ordinary people and martial artists of Heilong City.

However, the next news swept through the entire city, shocking all the forces.

The city guards of Heilong City and a large number of guards and warriors from the Wu family flooded the streets, starting a city-wide search.

The third son of the Wu family, one of the eight major families, was beaten in broad daylight on the street, his head turned into a pig's head, and the culprit had fled.

Of course, in this incident, the servant who was with the third son of the Wu family was also severely beaten.

However, the severe beating of a servant didn't attract much attention and was quickly ignored. The real big news was that the third son of the Wu family was injured.