"It’s no matter, this little thing is useless to me anyway."
After flicking the jade talisman to Zhang Feng, Lu Qing departed gracefully.
The young boy was left standing there, holding the jade talisman, in a daze.
"Ah Qing, have you thought about what you want to do?"
Little Li hid in Lu Qing’s embrace, secretly transmitting through Divine Soul to him.
It had heard everything Zhang Feng said earlier.
"I have some clues, but I still need to ponder them. Let’s find a place to settle first," Lu Qing replied.
Then, Lu Qing found an inn and rented a top room.
To do this, he spent his last piece of middle-grade spirit stone.
By this point, all of Lu Qing’s low-grade and middle-grade spirit stones were completely used up.
Only a few of the most precious high-grade spirit stones remained.
However, high-grade spirit stones are rare and sought after, even for cultivators at the Primordial Spirit Realm.
Therefore, they are generally rarely circulated in the Little Cang Realm.
With such resources, Lu Qing naturally wouldn’t easily take them out.
"Is this the high-class room?"
Entering the reserved private room with Little Li and the others, Lu Qing felt invigorated as soon as they stepped in.
The room was filled with spiritual energy, pristine and untouched by any impurities.
In the corner, a stick of sandalwood incense was burning, its refreshing scent calming the heart and spirit, seeming to cause an emergence of spirit light.
Moreover, the tea-making tools, cultivation cushion, and other items in the room were all of the highest quality.
"This upper room is set with an array connected to the underground spirit vein, gathering the earth’s spiritual energy for guests to cultivate.
This sandalwood incense is also a kind of spirit incense that can calm the heart and spirit, aiding in quicker meditation."
Lu Qing examined the room and soon discovered its mysteries.
He couldn’t help but sigh.
No wonder this top room is so expensive, costing ten low-grade spirit stones a day.
The spiritual charm in this room was several times richer than in the cave mansion on the Holy Mountain in his homeworld.
Not to mention the items in the room that were all of magic artifact grade.
One could say, this private room in his homeworld would be an unparalleled cave mansion that many Golden Core Realm powerhouses would fight to obtain!
Furthermore, he could see that those who opened inns and taverns in Canglan City must have extraordinary backgrounds.
Otherwise, without some connections, how could they set arrays to connect to the city’s subterranean spirit vein to operate?
"Ah Qing, the spiritual energy in this upper room is so abundant, if we stay here for a year or half, my cultivation might breakthrough!"
Little Li jumped down from Lu Qing’s arms, feeling the rich spiritual energy around with delight.
"Stay for a year or half? If we don’t find a way to earn more spirit stones soon, we might not even last ten days," Lu Qing said with a laugh.
He couldn’t use the high-grade spirit stones he had, and the last remaining middle-grade spirit stone was just used as a security deposit for the room.
Even if they neither ate nor drank, they could only stay here for ten days at most.
"Oh, so, Ah Qing, have you thought of a way to earn spirit stones?"
Little Li realized and quickly asked.
It and the Five Elements certainly couldn’t be counted on.
As a spiritual beast, in a city full of human clan cultivators, they had to be cautious and hide their tracks.
Otherwise, who knew if someone might have bad intentions and target them.
After all, the physical body, bloodline, and demon core of a spiritual beast are true treasures to some people.
"Hmm, I’m planning to rely on the path of talisman making to see if I can earn some spirit stones."
After listening to Zhang Feng’s introduction, Lu Qing had already had a plan in mind.
He didn’t consider being a bodyguard or escort.
Such work definitely involved fighting and killing.
Being new, he was quite unfamiliar with the external magical arts and powerful figures.
If he accidentally provoked someone powerful and suffered a setback, he would have nowhere to cry even if he wanted to.
Thus, another approach was more suited for him.
That was selling elixirs, magical treasures, and talismans.
It happened that he bore the heritage of the Divine Talisman Sect and the Li Huo Sect, proficient in Artifact Refining and Alchemy, as well as inscribing talismans, among many other cultivation skills, making this path suitable for him.
However, Alchemy and Artifact Refining both required a lot of spiritual materials, with too high a preliminary investment, not suitable for the currently impoverished Lu Qing.