Capítulo 47: The Mysterious... Uhh...
"Never mind that I'm a girl. Makes no difference to my plan." Lan Xiang shook his head from all his impure thoughts.
"I need to buy a mysterious cloak first. Let's go, Xifa."
Lan Xiang's female voice hypnotized Lu Xifa, making her follow him without actually understanding what he said.
Lan Xiang did not know where he could find a cloak. Luckily for him, he was in a crowded marketplace. There was bound to be a shady cloak somewhere here! What? Online shopping? Too long!
Tick, tock.
After blindly walking around Wuji Street, going through its twisted corners and alleyways, they finally found a shady cloak store... not!
Lan Xiang scratched his head. They've been walking around for half an hour already, and they've yet to find even a trace of a cloak.
"Seems we need to inquire the vendors."
At this point, Lu Xifa had more or less gotten used to Lan Xiang's new appearance. Still, it wasn't as if she had gotten over how smitten she was.
"O, okay!" Lu Xifa felt as if she was talking to a different person. She had no desire to argue with her, ahem, him in this form, and he was much more persuasive.
She approached a vendor and inquired about where to buy a cloak around here.
Lan Xiang also visited another vendor and asked about the same thing.
Both of them pointed to the same direction — it was somewhere in the congested crowd.
Lan Xiang's eyes drooped. He had avoided going there because it was annoying to maneuver that place, and he ran the risk of losing Lu Xifa, his only way back home.
"Hold on tight." Lan Xiang held out his hand like last time.
When Lu Xifa held Lan Xiang's hand, she felt a certain sense of comfort. His hand was way smaller and smoother, but it provided the same sense of security as his normal grip.
While behind Lan Xiang, a genuine smile grew on her face.
The two of them rushed the crowd!
.....
Lan Xiang and Lu Xifa finally made it.
A shady cloak vendor!
Both of their hairs were rustled and messy.
"Ah, this long hair is annoying." Lan Xiang lamented the grown hair behind his back.
"I know, right?" Lu Xifa chuckled.
The two looked at the cloaks hanging on the sides of the small stall of the vendor.
"Ah, customers." The vendor smiled as he saw that there were two girls checking out his junk.
He looked at both their figures and their faces and licked his lips. "Goddamn, these ladies are gorgeous! Especially the one wearing the guy uniform..."
Lan Xiang felt a shiver run down his spine. He glanced towards the vendor, who turned his gaze away and whistled an innocent tune.
"Am I... being leered at?" The unpleasant feeling, the gross taste in his mouth still hadn't gone away.
Lu Xifa placed her hand on his shoulder. "Tsk, there are still many things you need to learn, young one."
Lan Xiang made a blank expression at her joke and continued checking the cloaks out.
"Ah, here it is! A black cloak, wide enough to accommodate my, ahem, assets, tall and thick. It also gives off a mysterious feel." What Lan Xiang loved the most was acting cool, so he preferred this one.
Lu Xifa looked at all the other clothes, and the one Lan Xiang chose. There was little to no difference.
"Is Xiang's shopping sensibilities also turning into a girl's?"
After paying for the cloak, Lan Xiang wore it immediately and ignored everything the vendor was saying and left the scene with Lu Xifa.
"What's next?"
"Uhm, we need to find an empty space!" At that point, having explored almost the entire street, Lan Xiang was less confident. The empty spaces were few and far in between! Not to mention, all the good spots were gone, the ones left were in the outer, deserted regions of the street.
Lan Xiang felt a sense of smallness. "This street sure is enormous..."
Of course, the Wuji Street marketplace wasn't just one gigantic street, no. It collectively referred to a bunch of streets that vendors liked to crowd in.
Lu Xifa smirked. "Lucky for us, I already found one earlier."
When they were wandering around, one spot stood out to her. Despite there being tens, nay, hundreds of people around it, there were seemingly no vendors willing to place their stalls there.
"Let's just teleport there."
"You really have amazing memory, huh?" Despite his own memory being somewhat better to hers, Lan Xiang was genuinely impressed.
"It's become something of a habit." As she said that, Lu Xifa flashed a forlorn expression, which was replaced by a smile.
She opened the rift on the floor.
"Ah, you opened it on the floor again."
"I guess I did." Lu Xifa didn't notice as she was distracted. She jumped in without much emotion.
Seems like I touched a nerve. Lan Xiang hissed.
The two arrived at the spot.
Lan Xiang didn't bother posing like Ir*nman this time. He examined the spot.
"Perfect, it's a perfect spot!"
Beside the empty spot were two vendors selling counterfeit pills or talismans. Well, Lan Xiang just assumed they were fake, why else would pills and talismans be located in a shopping district?
Around the area as well, they sold items related to "cultivation", such as artifacts, amulets, and other stuff. Only the techniques and manuals were absent.
"As expected, it's manuals that the government cracks down on. They don't care enough to dispose of these other items as they have no real effect.
"Maybe that is what happened to the old man in Fanzhu Street, he was caught by the police."
Lan Xiang cleared his mind. He took out a rug he previously grabbed and laid it on the empty spot.
The surrounding vendors suddenly turned their heads towards him. Their gazes felt like icicles poking his skin, sharp and cold.
Despite the bustling crowd, Lan Xiang felt that time had frozen.
Tick, tock.
Lu Xifa elbowed Lan Xiang. "Hey, hello. What're you doing?"
Lan Xiang snapped out of his daze. When he looked at the other vendors once more, they were already minding their own business and attending their customers.
"Nothing." Lan Xiang shook his head.
He cautiously took out his pill furnace, and placed it down on the rug. No one paid attention to him.
I seem to be too sleepy and self-conscious right now. Lan Xiang sighed.
He sat down in a comfortable position and took out a marker and paper from his backpack.
"What exactly are you planning to do?" Lu Xifa was curious. He never mentioned anything about his plan to her.
Lan Xiang finished writing and found some tape, after which he stuck it on the side of his pill furnace.
"Provide pill recipe and ingredients, refine pills free of charge"
If there were any pill refiners around, they would have cringed at this sight. It was sacrilegious to stick any tape on a furnace, anything dirty even.
After some contemplation, he tore another piece of paper from his notebook and wrote some more.
"The Mysterious Xiang Lan".
Lu Xifa looked at the labels on his furnace and at Lan Xiang.
She almost facepalmed.
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