Recalling that terrifying scene, Zhang Huaping was greatly shocked internally.

But after all, she was an experienced traveler.

She pretended that nothing had happened, repeating to herself, "I can't hear it, I can't hear it," as she bypassed the warehouse and walked outward.

But the peace was short-lived.

Just as she distanced herself from the trouble, passing by the blacksmith shop,

Inside came the Duang~Duang sounds of iron being forged and angry shouts.

The sizzle of roasting meat.

Incomprehensible terrifying murmurs.

Weird and bloody shouting from a sacrificial ritual.

...

Utterly chilling.

She didn't dare to go inside and see.

If she wasn't mistaken, there must be something extremely horrifying happening inside.

In that instant, she instinctively felt it wasn't a blacksmith shop at all, but rather a barbecue joint, as if someone inside the house held an iron skewer, lit a stove, and brushed various sauces...

A group of strong men enthusiastically eating and drinking.

Surely, a normal blacksmith shop wouldn't release such a fragrance or sound of roasting meat, would it?!

"I didn't hear anything, I was just passing by the accessories and tailoring store to have a look."

She knew she was beginning to panic.

The fear in her heart was like that time when she unearthed an ancient tomb.

This mountain estate inside the deep mountains was even more terrifying and inhumane than rumored!

And she had inadvertently uncovered a corner of the inhumane atrocities of these Demon Cultivators.

Everywhere were unimaginable frightening scenes.

At that moment, she steeled herself in her heart.

Lifting the top of her skull, she pinpointed a slowly pulsating brain nerve with a red-hot Acupressure Hand.

Sizzle!!!!

The brain forcibly calmed down.

This was a secret technique taught to her by a friend who subdues ghosts.

When encountering evil, never panic. Once you're anxious or afraid, you're almost certainly doomed.

If you really can't hold it any longer and start to panic, use this technique to forcibly calm the brain. Friends who used it said it was practical.

Phew!

She took a deep breath, and the nerves in her head were replaced by new brain cells growing, which calmed her considerably.

Pretending nothing happened, she smiled and came to Jiucai Rong and Su Yuniang, "I took a walk, the atmosphere is quite harmonious."

"Yeah, we've almost finished looking through the procurement list now."

Jiucai Rong was unaware of those hiding in the warehouse, boasting insanely, revealing their true nature, and had already scared this visitor terribly.

At this time, he had already prepared a list and said seriously:

"A total of 2,138 Magic Coins, mostly books and some small tools, forging materials also assisted, among which we bought three Lower Grade Spiritual Roots Meat Lingzhi for a total of three hundred Magic Coins, two Storage Bags for a total of a thousand Magic Coins."

Most of them have just been approved by the old manager with public funds.

It belongs to the construction expenses of the mountain estate; otherwise, even if you sold them, you wouldn't be able to gather so many Magic Coins.

Only a small portion is personal procurement by various blacksmiths.

It's just that Meat Lingzhi, too heart-wrenching!

Is such a tiny Lower Grade Spiritual Root worth 100 Magic Coins?

Isn't this world insane for making money?!

How can those Loose Cultivators afford good Spiritual Roots?

In fact.

Unless you perform exceptionally well in your studies and get recruited and nurtured by major families, which is equivalent to getting admitted to a prestigious university, sponsoring their family-specific Spiritual Roots, along with a cultivation technique.

If your academic results aren't great, you can only self-pay for Spiritual Roots, basically causing an average family to go bankrupt.

The family provides for your education from a young age, saving money to buy Spiritual Roots, usually choosing the local abundant specialties of the Three Royal Families Spiritual Roots, "Xinyi," "Wine Rice," "Sword Song."

Among them, Xinyi is the most commonly chosen.

After all, it is one of the Nine-State, Xinyi Continent, with pink Xinyi flower seas covering mountains and plains, breathtakingly beautiful.

Yet, after planting Spiritual Roots, there's no guarantee of a successful blooming into the Three Flowers, and you might as well lose your life!

Raising children is too hard.

Over the years, the birth rate has been declining year by year, prompting various aristocratic families and wealthy clans to constantly encourage city mortals to have more children and study more to ensure the continuation of cultivators.

At this moment, Zhang Huaping took a look at the list:

"Yes, these are not our usual pre-prepared supplies. For special procurement, it could require coordination from different city places, needing to come back tomorrow."

"Yes, these items are no problem."

Zhang Huaping glanced at the procurement list with the three Meat Lingzhi and was startled, then pretended as if nothing happened.

This is a kind of Lower Grade Spiritual Root that Demon Cultivators use to deceive mortals into cultivation.

Talent: Blood and flesh proliferation.

Mortals who cultivate this kind of Spiritual Root have no other abilities; they are meant to be exploited by others.

Used by Demon Cultivators to create Meat Fields, commonly referred to as ginseng fields, the output would be enormous.

What would they want with this stuff... are they planning to use living humans as Meat Fields?

Unimaginable.

Combining with themselves... the use of this Meat Field is inexplicably more and more perverse the more one thinks about it.

It's just too terrifying.

"I'll go back to prepare, and then deliver this batch tomorrow." She was ready to leave; this place was too unsettling.

"Thank you, sister." Su Yuniang said.

"You're welcome." Zhang Huaping forced a slight smile, bade farewell to everyone, then returned to the Teleportation Array to leave.

After the merchant left, it was already dusk.

Everyone emerged from the blacksmith shop and other facilities.

And those hiding in the warehouse were released, drunkenly, leaving a mess of cards and dice.

"Everyone quickly open the boxes, get the goods sorted out."

"Move aside, let me open the boxes, I'm lucky."

"I'm going to check on that cow."

"Pfah, you only know to look at the cow, aren't there chickens, ducks, geese too."

...

Everyone was in high spirits.

Soon, Jiucai Rong roamed around, inquiring with Hairpin Lady and others, finally letting out a breath of relief:

"Today, we're all normal, the blacksmiths kept detached throughout, only a few of us interacted, and nothing unusual happened."

He feared those crazies acting crazy, but this time they disguised themselves very successfully!

"Indeed, it was a complete success, thanks to my Su Yuniang researching the normal words and deeds of villagers in the mountain estate."

Su Yuniang said while opening the boxes.

Inside were various daily supplies, and forging materials commonly used.

And after the crowd surrounded and touched the cow for a while, Jiucai Rong hurriedly sent it to the Medical Fairy's clinic for feeding, so that human blacksmiths might have milk to drink in the morning in future.

As for the chickens and ducks, they were temporarily handed over to Shrimp Catcher to see if they could be raised.

In fact, Ning Zheng procured these lower-level Demon Beasts for them because he saw they were very interested in farming and construction, so he got a batch for them.

A temporary distribution made everyone elated!

"Life's getting better."

"Animal husbandry is open too."

"This mountain estate is so cool."

...

Holding chickens, ducks, and geese, blacksmiths rubbed them against their cheeks, happiness overflowing.

Ning Zheng saw their happiness and felt delighted, after all, she procured a large amount of supplies for the mountain estate, enriching its development.

After letting them store and count everything in the warehouse, Ning Zheng took six thousand Magic Coins from the eleven thousand coins they had.

Leaving five thousand Magic Coins in the mountain estate as working capital.

Half of which still had to be used to pay for tomorrow's order.

Mainly because she didn't trust those sneaky, lock-picking bandit blacksmiths, she felt safer taking it herself.

"One Storage Bag arriving tomorrow stays at the mountain estate, another one I will take."

Ning Zheng, as the old manager, instructed Jiucai Rong, and then seeing them all busy, shook her head with a smile, then descended the mountain.