With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 71: Cyan Wind Market

Ephemeral Spring, is a special heavenly material and treasure in the Cultivation Realm.

This heavenly material and treasure appears randomly in location and time, making it extremely difficult to predict, and its existence is very short. If not utilized by a cultivator, it will soon disperse into spiritual energy and vanish into the world.

Thus, cultivators name it Ephemeral Spring, taking inspiration from the fleeting nature of the ephemeral flower.

The weather was excellent, the sunlight wasn’t harsh, and a gentle breeze swept through the fields, playfully brushing the hair of a young child.

Zhu Chen appeared to be about eight years old, but with fair skin and eyes filled with spiritual light, he didn’t look like the child of a tenant farmer.

Nevertheless, in the manor, apart from the Qian Family, there were only honest farmers who spent their lives working the land, and they saw nothing unusual about Zhu Chen’s appearance.

Zhu Chen was dressed in an ill-fitting robe of coarse flax, which was a hand-me-down from his elder brother.

However, as the flax robe fluttered in the breeze, it exuded a faint sense of otherworldly grace.

Departing the fields, Zhu Chen’s body suddenly became light as he flitted through the mountains, following his memory to a mountain stream.

"The spiritual Qi here is quite dense, no doubt about it..."

Zhu Chen murmured as he sat down cross-legged, absorbing the surrounding spiritual Qi.

Ephemeral Spring is classified from one spirit to nine spirits.

Even though one spirit is the lowest grade, it is still beneficial for Foundation Establishment Great Cultivators, and it was most suitable for Zhu Chen at that time.

The spiritual Qi was drawn into his body, not gathering in the dantian but nourishing his muscles, bones, and flesh.

The so-called mountain-dwelling immortals, blessed with ageless beauty, skin like frost and snow, supple as a maiden, consuming wind and dew, commanding clouds and Qi.

Cultivators are not immortals but are in the process of transforming from mortals to immortals.

The spiritual Qi nourished the body, so even though one couldn’t live without food, it prevented bodily depletion in the current environment.

An hour later, Zhu Chen’s eyes snapped open.

His hands formed a seal, and at the moment the seal was completed, a jet of exquisite, translucent liquid emerged from the rock face, accompanied by a surge of spiritual Qi.

"Good!"

"Condense Qi!"

The entire essence of the Ephemeral Spring entered Zhu Chen’s mouth without losing a drop.

A white mist emanated from Zhu Chen’s small body, causing his loose flax robe to billow high.

"Refine!"

In cultivation families and sects, the children born to cultivator parents often have a high probability of having a spirit root, and the parents can consume special heavenly materials and treasures during pregnancy to nourish the fetus, thereby enhancing the child’s potential and giving them a head start.

Now Zhu Chen was supplementing this process, allowing the child of mortals to start on equal footing with a child of a cultivation family with one spirit Ephemeral Spring.

The reason Zhu Chen hadn’t chosen to condense Qi and step into the First-Layer Qi Refining was that the resulting True Essence interference would have prevented such operations.

In Zhu Chen’s dantian, True Essence began to form, as the spiritual Qi stored in his muscles, bones, and flesh over eight years surged into his dantian.

The mist dissipated, revealing Zhu Chen’s figure.

"It’s time to leave..." Zhu Chen sighed slightly.

[In the Daqi Calendar, year sixteen hundred and eighty-eight, you almost perfectly absorbed one spirit Ephemeral Spring, stepped into the First-Layer Qi Refining, and your cultivation grew to a certain extent.] 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

At the Qian Mansion, Landlord Qian and many nursing home servants were kneeling on the ground, before them stood an elderly man with an immortal aura.

The elderly man had just stomped the ground, causing trees to grow rapidly, turning stones into gold, and transforming broken iron into soil; these wondrous acts left mortals awed and worshipful.

The elderly man then drifted away with a child by his side.

[After mastering some spells over half a month, you used magic to fabricate a tale of an immortal accepting a disciple, the Qian Family members pledged to treat the Zhu Family well, invoking the name of the immortal.]

These spells were nothing more than basic blinding techniques, easily seen through by any cultivator with True Essence or even some particularly perceptive martial artists, but were effective for deceiving mortals. Zhu Chen, still new to cultivation, couldn’t truly perform these Immortal Skills.

[Over two months in the Spiritual Spring Mountain Stream, you continued your cultivation, hunting mountain beasts and feeding on spiritual fruits and Qi, you reacquired the mortal martial art of Wind Chasing Leg and the first magic Wind Control Skill.]

The mountain stream that once gave birth to one spirit Ephemeral Spring was the place with the densest spiritual Qi around, and Zhu Chen naturally wouldn’t let it slip by. Once his cultivation continued for two months and the Qi thinned, only then did he formally leave Qian Manor.

Cultivation depends on wealth, companionship, skill, and land.

He had the skills, but was lacking in wealth, companionship, and land. Wealth refers to spirit stones and heavenly materials and treasures; companionship refers to people who can aid you on the path of cultivation, be it as a mentor, a Dao companion, or a friend; land refers to a blessed land with abundant spiritual Qi.

These three things Zhu Chen had none.

[In the Daqi Calendar, year seventeen hundred and thirty, after slaying a powerful enemy, you learned of an adequate independent cultivator market in the Weiyi Dynasty under the Western Dynasty and set your sights westward.]

This market was called Cyan Wind Market, not unique within the three dynasties of the Cyan Cloud Sect, but it tied into Zhu Chen’s plans.

[In the Daqi Calendar, year sixteen hundred and eighty-nine, you casually killed several Jianghu members with ill intent toward you, which earned you a pursuit by the Jianghu. You did not care, casually eliminating powerful foes along your way, and people came to call you the Ageless Fiendish Child, although you found it laughable, how could mortals understand the level of cultivators.]

[Within the same year, after nine months, you successfully reached the Weiyi Dynasty.]

[You skillfully killed a band of Tribulation Cultivators, making it known that one should never provoke a child during travels.]

[You successfully took up residence in the Cyan Wind Market.]

In the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, a small child held a Talisman Brush, his strength steady like a machine, injecting True Essence meticulously and rigorously onto the talisman paper.

A simple talisman was thus completed.

Fireball Talisman, the most basic and common talisman, with a large market demand, very popular.

The receptionist of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion was stunned, leading to the arrival of someone responsible for such matters.

A Talisman Master came out, holding the Fireball Talisman, gazing at Zhu Chen with great astonishment.

The Fireball Talisman had no particular features other than stability, lacking creativity but also without flaws.

It seemed...like it was crafted by a disciple taught for a long time by a renowned master, but with ordinary talent in talisman creation.

"So strange..."

The Talisman Master looked at Zhu Chen with utter surprise.

He was good at judging people; the child before him wasn’t one of those old cultivators with special techniques.

Instead, it seemed like a second generation who had secretly run away from home.

If this person possessed outstanding talent, yet their talisman-making technique resembled that of an old salted fish Talisman Master experienced only in crafting two or three kinds of talismans with rigid uniformity and little innovation.

[The Talisman Master of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion wanted to determine your bone age, offering to introduce you to the most famous Talisman Master in Cyan Wind Market if your age matched your appearance, but you refused.]

[You demonstrated two other types of talismans, successfully becoming a contracted Talisman Master of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, agreeing to a seventy-thirty split after costs based on industry standards for success rate in production, with no objections on your part.]