CHAPTER 921: CHAPTER 921: THE DEPTHS OF XICHENG MARKET

"This...?"

Seeing the Jade Bottle Zhu Fei handed over again, Fatty Pang hesitated slightly, but ultimately accepted the Jade Bottle, gratefully saying:

"Since that’s the case, I won’t stand on ceremony, Brother Zhu, thank you very much."

As he spoke, Fatty Pang raised his hand, gratefully cupping his fists towards Zhu Fei.

Zhu Fei shook his head with a smile, "The polite one should be you, Brother Pang."

With that, Zhu Fei had already handed the other three Heavenly Pills to Chen Tianxing, who had been standing beside him all this time.

"Tianxing, hold on to these three Pills. You should be able to use them when you break through the Heavenly Immortal Realm in the future."

He paused, and then Zhu Fei added, "I have some matters to attend to next, Tianxing, and Brother Pang, if you have anything, you can contact me through the Communication Pearl."

After saying that, Zhu Fei didn’t wait for Chen Tianxing and Fatty Pang to react, his figure flickered, and then he disappeared from the spot directly.

...

An hour later, Zhu Fei’s figure had appeared in a herbal shop in Western City Market.

After observing along the way, Zhu Fei found that the Western City Market he had come to now was evidently of a higher standard than the Northern City Market he was previously in.

Not only was the Immortal Spirit Qi here more concentrated, but even the Cultivators here had much higher cultivations.

Along the way, most of the Cultivators’ cultivation levels were beyond Zhu Fei’s ability to discern.

This situation could only be explained in one way, that is, most of the Cultivators here were above the Profound Immortal level.

It seems that Brother Hong was right; the so-called Peace Square indeed has a deeper foundation than I imagined.

"Excuse me, fellow Daoist, is there anything you need help with?"

Just as Zhu Fei was pondering, a man’s voice suddenly came from beside him.

Zhu Fei turned his head and discovered that the person in front of him was precisely a steward of the shop he was currently in.

This steward was wearing a gray robe, with an herbal pattern on his chest, which should be the shop’s insignia.

However, these were not what caught Zhu Fei’s attention the most. What concerned Zhu Fei the most was that the steward in front of him had already reached the Early-stage Profound Immortal Realm!

Just a steward in this shop already had an Early-stage Profound Immortal cultivation, so what could be the cultivation of the shop’s owner? Or those whose cultivation levels he couldn’t see?

Thinking of this, Zhu Fei couldn’t help but feel secretly shocked by the cultivation levels of the Cultivators in Western City Market.

It seems that my current identity and the rank of that silver jade token mean nothing in this Western City Market now.

This shows that the so-called five major identity levels of Peace Square must not be all there is, there is likely more that I don’t know.

These thoughts only lingered in Zhu Fei’s mind for a moment before his attention returned to the gray-robed man in front of him, and he said:

"I would like to ask if you have Three Divine Flowers, Seven Lotus Seeds, or Dark Illusion Vine here?"

Zhu Fei listed several herbal names in one breath, expecting the other party to be overwhelmed, but the gray-robed man simply smiled faintly and said:

"Yes, the herbs you need, fellow Daoist, would altogether cost a total of 1.95 million low-grade Immortal Crystals. I can make it 1.9 million low-grade Immortal Crystals for you, how about that?"

Hearing the gray-robed man’s response, Zhu Fei was truly shocked this time.

One must know that the herbs he wanted to buy now, although not extremely precious, were all quite rare.

Generally speaking, an ordinary herbal shop might not have them.

However, the gray-robed man gave a positive answer, which shows how solid the foundation of this herbal shop is.

Or rather, the foundation of the entire Western City Market was beyond what Zhu Fei could imagine now.

"Okay, please help me fetch them," Zhu Fei nodded after recovering from his initial shock, and quickly responded, "This is 1.9 million low-grade Immortal Crystals, please have a look."

With that, Zhu Fei handed a storage ring filled with Immortal Crystals to the gray-robed man.

The gray-robed man just glanced at it casually, then accepted the ring, smiled, and nodded to Zhu Fei, "Alright, please wait a moment, fellow Daoist."

In no time, the gray-robed man returned to Zhu Fei with a ring, handed it over, and said:

"Fellow Daoist, these are the herbs you need, please check them carefully."

"Hmm."

Zhu Fei took the ring, looked over it briefly, and after confirming that everything was correct, nodded to the gray-robed man, and then walked out of the shop directly.

After leaving the shop, Zhu Fei did not head straight back to Northern City Market but instead found a nearby Rest Inn to stay in.

In fact, aside from wanting to familiarize himself with Western City Market in advance, Zhu Fei came here to purchase materials for refining the Heavenly Swapping Pill.

The Heavenly Swapping Pill is a third-grade primary Pill, its main function being to alter one’s appearance and conceal one’s original aura.

The reason Zhu Fei wanted to refine this type of Pill was naturally to hide himself.

Because the thing he was going to do next absolutely couldn’t have him casually revealing his identity. If discovered by those with ill intentions, it could result in a catastrophic outcome.

Now, Zhu Fei found a room, set up several layers of prohibition around it, and took out the Pill Furnace again, along with the herbs he had purchased.

Though Zhu Fei couldn’t say he was completely confident in refining a third-grade primary Pill, with the help of Purple Dark Spirit Liquid, simply achieving the Pill formation shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

"Hiss—"

With the rise of the Divine Blue Netherworld Fire, a stream of Purple Dark Spirit Liquid was preemptively introduced into the Pill Furnace by Zhu Fei.

Following that were herbs like the Three Divine Flowers, Seven Lotus Seeds, and Dark Illusion Vine, all fed into the Pill Furnace by Zhu Fei one by one.

About an hour later, the Pill Furnace contained no less than dozens of kinds of Medicine Liquid, intertwining and tumbling.

Just when these Medicine Liquids were about to form the Pill model, Zhu Fei suddenly felt a wave of emptiness in his body!

Oh no!

Zhu Fei’s heart tightened, realizing this was a symptom of insufficient Immortal Essence, indicating that his cultivation level also posed an issue in refining third-grade Pills.

Though he thought this, Zhu Fei’s hands didn’t slow down.

He took a Star Origin Pill and swallowed it, while also summoning another stream of Purple Dark Spirit Liquid, merging it into the Pill Furnace.

With this, the previously unstable Pill Furnace finally calmed down again.

Another hour later, as a pill fragrance wafted out from the Pill Furnace, Zhu Fei extracted twelve Heavenly Swapping Pills from it and placed them into a Jade Bottle he had prepared beforehand.