The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 570: Chapter 570: Renting a Stall

After putting on the mask, Jing Yan indeed went unrecognized.

Although the mask couldn’t alter Jing Yan’s aura, there were, to begin with, only a few Martial Artists here who knew Jing Yan, and even fewer who could recognize his aura. Probably only those judges and others who had been in close contact with Jing Yan during the Alchemy Conference might be able to recognize him by his aura.

All around, various stalls were dazzlingly arrayed, offering a messy jumble of items—everything from Spirit Grass to ores, from Elixirs to weapons, from clothing to food, even Micro Arrays could occasionally be seen.

However, after wandering for more than an hour, Jing Yan hadn’t bought anything.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t encountered valuable items, but there was nothing he urgently needed.

”This way, I don’t know when I’ll encounter the items I need,” Jing Yan furrowed his brow slightly.

There were too many stalls and too many people. Moreover, although the locations of these stalls were fixed, the vendors themselves were not. Some vendors, upon selling their wares or deciding not to sell anymore, would transfer their stalls to someone else.

”Perhaps, I should also set up a stall. It would be good to sell off some Elixirs. I could also buy the items I need at the stall,” Jing Yan nodded slightly.

He had too many types of Elixirs.

There weren’t many low-level Elixirs, but Jing Yan had refined a huge quantity of intermediate Elixirs over the past few years. He himself did not need so many Elixirs, so if he didn’t exchange them for Spirit Stones or other needed resources, it was meaningless to keep them.

Thinking about it, he decided to act.

However, one couldn’t just arbitrarily occupy a stall, as the trade fair had a management office. To obtain a stall, one option was to rent from the management office, and the other was to take over from another vendor.

But taking over a stall from another vendor wasn’t very secure.

Because there were time limits on leasing a stall. For example, if a vendor rented a stall for one day and transferred it to someone else when the time was almost up, then the stall would be reclaimed shortly thereafter.

Thus, Jing Yan naturally went directly to the management office.

Inside the management office, it was also bustling.

”So many people?” Jing Yan scanned the surroundings.

The lobby of the management office was large, but it seemed somewhat crowded at the moment, with at least a hundred Martial Artists inside.

Jing Yan paused for a moment, thinking of walking further inside to inquire about the stall leasing.

”Stop!”

”Kid, what are you squeezing through for?”

”Go to the back of the line!”

Just as Jing Yan was about to step forward, he was stopped by a chorus of shouts.

”A queue?” Jing Yan was taken aback.

”Are you here to lease a stall?” A middle-aged Martial Artist in the crowd looked at Jing Yan and asked.

”Yes!” Jing Yan nodded.

”Then you need to queue up. See, we’re all queuing here. There are too many people wanting to lease stalls and not enough stalls available, so we can only slowly wait for one to become available,” the man spoke quite amiably.

And around him, several people were eyeing Jing Yan unkindly, making it clear that if Jing Yan tried to force his way in, they might take action.

Starting a fight here was obviously out of the question. But they could call the Guards to chase Jing Yan out.

”Alright!” Everyone else was queueing, and Jing Yan naturally couldn’t expect to be treated differently. Moreover, Jing Yan wasn’t someone who liked to bully others using his status. Queuing up and waiting wasn’t too big a deal.

”Thank you,” Jing Yan respectfully thanked the Martial Artist who had alerted him.

”Think nothing of it!” The middle-aged Martial Artist smiled and waved his hand.

The queue moved very slowly. As he waited with nothing else to do, Jing Yan’s mind entered his Sumeru Ring to check the resources within.

This check startled Jing Yan.

”Where are my Top-grade Spirit Stones?”

Inside Jing Yan’s Sumeru Ring, there used to be a considerable number of Top-grade Spirit Stones. Before coming to Pill Country, although Jing Yan hadn’t specifically converted to Top-grade Spirit Stones, several years had accumulated nearly ten thousand.

Including the five thousand Top-grade Spirit Stone reward Jing Yan received for participating in the Alchemy Conference, his total should have reached more than fourteen thousand.

But now, Jing Yan discovered that there were only just over a thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones left in his Sumeru Ring.

Over fourteen thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, only a little over a thousand left?

How was that possible?

”Did my realm breakthrough actually consume over ten thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones?” Jing Yan’s eyes widened.

He could hardly believe it.

Over ten thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, all consumed in one breakthrough?

When Jing Yan broke through, he didn’t just use Top-grade Spirit Stones, but also a substantial amount of Elixirs.

He quickly checked the consumption of his Elixirs.

Although Jing Yan had never specifically counted his Elixirs, he had a rough idea of the number of various Elixirs for enhancing a Martial Artist’s Primordial Energy.

Upon counting this time, Jing Yan was stumped.

”Can it be? The consumption is that terrifying?”

”This is just the breakthrough from Dao Spirit Realm to Daoist Master Realm. What if it’s from Daoist Master Realm to Dao King Realm?” Even Jing Yan was unable to stay calm.

Even if he could refine High-level Elixirs in the future, earning resources more easily, to sustain his own cultivation consumption would also be strenuous.

”Ah! The consumption is indeed terrifying. The resources consumed in this breakthrough alone would be enough for dozens of average Peak Dao Spirit Realm Martial Artists to break through,” Jing Yan helplessly shook his head.

The resources consumed in his cultivation were indeed vast. If he hadn’t been able to refine Elixirs to exchange for resources, it would have been truly difficult to gather so many.

”I must earn more resources!” Jing Yan affirmed secretly, accepting the reality of his massive resource consumption.

Then, Jing Yan began to study the Qiankun Array Path Advanced Study. In this Advanced Study, there were many Array Formation methods for Intermediate Arrays.

Queueing up!

After waiting for four hours, it was finally Jing Yan’s turn.

”I would like to lease a stall,” Jing Yan told the staff member.

”You can. There is one available now, and you can lease it for a maximum of three days. The rental cost for one day is one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones,” the staff member glanced at Jing Yan, who wore a mask, and seemed a bit puzzled why he was wearing one, but after a slight hesitation, he did not ask further questions.

A stall’s daily rent being one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones was indeed incredibly expensive.

Jing Yan now understood why the Pill Spirit Conference didn’t hold an auction and yet could still earn a vast amount of resources—just the rental fee for the stalls was an astronomical figure. How many stalls were there in the Pill Spirit City? At least ten thousand.

”Do you want to rent it? If not, please step aside,” the staff member urged.

There were too many people wanting to lease stalls.

”Rent! For three days,” Jing Yan took out three hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones for payment.

Afterwards, a Guard came over and led Jing Yan to the location of his leased stall.