Yi Qing Lan faintly said, "Chief Yue doesn't have to be so frugal, since I've asked you to be a tour guide, naturally I can't let you break the bank with all kinds of expenses, we'd better have one room each."
Yue Jianli smiled and said, "That's fine, Senior Sister Li and I often sleep together, so there's no need to spend that extra money."
"Often sleep together?"
Yi Qing Lan clenched her pink fists and glared hatefully at Li Yan.
Li Yan's vision fluttered, not daring to meet her eyes.
"This guy ... will settle the score with you later!"
Yi Qinglan gritted her teeth and asked, "Shopkeeper, how many upper rooms are still available?"
The shopkeeper glanced at it and said, "There are still ten upper rooms, there are plenty of rooms."
Yi Qing Lan nodded and said, "Good, these ten rooms poor Taoist want all of them!"
"Okay!"
The shopkeeper was all smiles.
This was a big customer!
Yue Jianli was puzzled, "We only have four people, do we need to open so many rooms?"
Yi Qing Lan coldly said, "Poor Taoist doesn't like the room next to it to be occupied, and also, one person must sleep in one room tonight!"
"..."
Yue Jianli scratched her head.
I don't know what I did to offend this Daoist again.
Li Yan wordlessly wiped his cold sweat.
Several people were just about to head upstairs when the shopkeeper called out to Yi Qinglan.
He rubbed his hands together and said with a smile, "Please pay for the rooms first, ten rooms for one night, a total of twenty taels of grain silver."
This price was not cheap at all in mundane terms.
"Oh."
Yi Qing Lan didn't care, with a wave of his sleeve robe, a bunch of spirit stones "tinkled" on the table.
"No need to look for it."
"..."
The shopkeeper looked at the small amber-colored stones in front of him, and his eyebrows couldn't help but jump, "Guest, taking stones and passing them off as silver, do you take me for a fool?"
Yi Qinglan's eyebrow slightly raised as she straightened up, "This isn't a stone, it's a high grade spirit stone. Just now, Poor Taoist bought sugar gourds to eat at the street corner, why don't you accept them here?"
"..."
The shopkeeper didn't know how to answer, his eyes seemed to be looking at a fool.
"Could it be that you are too little?"
Yi Qinglan started flinging spirit stones again, piling them up on the table like small mountains.
For a while there was a multitude of colors, and the aura was stirring.
Li Yan hurriedly stopped her and put away the spirit stones, then took out a silver ticket and placed it on the table.
"Use this, no need to look for it."
Only then did the shopkeeper reveal a smile, nodding his head and saying, "Four guests upstairs please, if you have any needs feel free to greet the villain."
Several people raised their legs and walked upstairs.
Yi Qinglan muttered, "Why didn't he charge spirit stones? Could it be that he doesn't think the quality is enough?"
Li Yan shoved the spirit stones to her and said in amusement, "Does Daoist Yi not know that this is mundane? Spirit stones are hard currency in the eyes of cultivators, but in the hands of these mortals, they aren't worth one or two pieces of silver."
Yi Qing Lan was puzzled, "Spirit stones can be exchanged for silver just the same ah, this thing is valuable in itself."
Spirit stone, in fact, is a natural ore.
It contains rich spiritual energy and is generally more pure than the aura in the air, and can be used to aid in cultivation or to replenish oneself.
Depending on the amount of spiritual energy stored in it and its purity, it was categorized into three grades: low, medium, and high.
It was a currency among cultivators and could also be exchanged with real gold and silver.
A single high-grade spirit stone was enough to exchange for a house in a large city-state.
Li Yan shook his head and said, ''Not to mention whether they recognize this spirit stone or not, even if they know it's worth thousands of taels, how would they dare to use it? There is no way for a mortal to talk to a cultivator on an equal footing."
"If Daoist Yi gives them this, it could instead be harming them."
"Oh ..."
Yi Qinglan shuffled her head down and whispered, "Poor Taoist knows."
In fact, this reasoning was very shallow, it was impossible for her not to understand, it was just that being detached from the mundane for hundreds of years made it difficult for her to think with the mind of a mortal.
Li Yan stifled a smile at the corner of his mouth and transmitted his voice, "Master Qing Lan don't run to the mundane world if you're not doing anything, I'm afraid that you'll be sold and still help count the money."
Trading high-level spirit stones for sugar gourds to eat, he really couldn't figure out Yi Qing Lan's brain circuit.
"Hmph, do you really think the poor Taoist is stupid?"
Yi Qing Lan's cheeks were slightly red, and she pinched him with a puff of anger, "In this life, Poor Tao has only fallen for the tricks of a little thief like you!"
"..."
Li Yan's face turned green with pain.
However, worrying about being seen by the other two, he could only hold back and didn't dare to make a sound.
The four of them made their way to the third floor.
There were a total of ten upper rooms here, all of which had been rounded up by them.
Li Yan casually chose a south-facing one, "I'll sleep in this one, you guys feel free to take the rest."
After saying that, he pushed the door and walked in.
Yi Qinglan decisively chose the room next to his.
Lin Lang Yue was puzzled, "Senior, didn't you say that you don't like having someone in the next room?"
"Ahem... ....."
Yi Qing Lan looked embarrassed and cleared his throat, "Did Poor Taoist say that?"
"Yes."
Lin Lang Yue and Yue Jianli nodded seriously.
"..."
In the end, under the gaze of the two, Yi Qing Lan had no choice but to stay opposite Li Yan.
Yue Jianli stood in the corridor, pinching his chin with a puzzled expression.
Lin Lang Yue curiously said, "What is Chief Yue thinking about?"
She transmitted her voice, "Chief Lin, do you have a feeling that ... Daoist Yi is strange?"
"Hmm."
Lin Lang Yue nodded, "Master Yi has indeed been a bit strange lately, especially today is extraordinarily abnormal."
Yue Jianli worriedly said, "Is it possible that I've angered her in some way?"
Lin Langyue comforted, "No, although Master Teacher's temperament is a bit cooler, she's still very reasonable and won't easily take her anger out on others."
"That's good."
Yue Jianli sighed in relief.
After all, it was a figure on the same level as her Master Teacher, no matter the strength or status, there was no way for her not to be careful.
"Don't worry, Chief Yue ... Right, that Pear Garden you mentioned, is there a program tonight?"
"There is, but the time is a bit later ..."
The two chatted while walking into the room.
...
In the room.
Li Yan sat cross-legged on the bed, his mind sinking into the dantian.
He only saw the silver stars roaming the sky in the dantian, which had fused into a cloud of silver light at this time, as if a full moon was hanging in the sky, emitting a sharp and castless sword intent.
"He absorbed the Emperor-level sword qi in the Sword-Washing Pool, and it merged with the previous Cloud Feather Spear Intent, ultimately forming silver-white Qi."
The most peculiar thing was that this sword qi became just like spiritual energy, it was no longer expendable.
Instead, it would be constantly generated by this mass of sword astral.
"Previously, within the secret realm, he forcibly compressed the Divine fire to strengthen his heart, and his sword qi had already been greatly depleted."
But now it had been completely replenished.
Moreover, the quality of the newly generated sword qi was the same as before, and blazing silver light shone within the dantian.
Li Yan secretly nodded his head, "It should be due to the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion's Martial Cultivation Technique, coupled with the Cloud Feather spear intent ..."
Just as he was musing, a familiar voice came from his ears.
"Little thief, what are you doing?"
Li Yan opened his eyes, only to see Yi Qing Lan standing in front of him with her hands behind her back, sizing him up curiously.
"Master?" .
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