“Junior Brother, what would you like to buy?”
Shopkeeper Liu put away the items and Spirit Stones, then personally escorted He Pingsheng into the merchant association.
He Pingsheng looked around.
He didn't need Magical Artifacts or Treasure Artifacts.
The Medicinal Pills for cultivation had already been prepared by the Old Man and were in the side hall, so he didn't need those either.
The only thing he needed was Talismans.
The Mountain Moving Talismans among the Two-Rank Talismans were used up, but he still had four Skyfire Talismans.
This Skyfire Talisman was an enhanced version of the Fire Talisman.
He had never used it before and didn't know its power.
Based on the effect of First Grade Talismans like the Ice Arrow Talisman and Fireball Talisman, which could instantly kill any Qi Refinement Stage Disciple, He Pingsheng estimated that the Skyfire Talisman should be able to instantly kill any Foundation Establishment Stage Disciple.
As He Pingsheng's cultivation improved, it could now be said that Foundation Establishment Stage Disciples posed no great threat to him.
The threats came more from higher-level Cultivators.
For example, Golden Core Stage Disciples.
And also, this guy Wuwei.
He and Wuwei seemed to have no enmity, but He Pingsheng believed that Wuwei would definitely cause trouble if he had the chance.
Looking at it this way, he also needed to prepare some Three-Rank Talismans for attack.
“Where are the Two-Rank Talismans?” He Pingsheng asked.
Shopkeeper Liu said, “Junior Brother, please come this way…”
The Two-Rank Talismans were not on this floor.
Only after they went up to the second floor did He Pingsheng see them.
However, there weren't many types; besides the Fire Talisman, there was only one called the “Sharp Golden Talisman.”
This Sharp Golden Talisman was also an offensive Talisman; once activated, it could immediately release a sharp Golden Attribute Qi, capable of harming enemies.
Each Sharp Golden Talisman cost around three thousand Spirit Stones.
Too expensive!
But no matter how expensive, he had to buy them.
“Senior Brother, give me two Sharp Golden Talismans!”
He Pingsheng paid six thousand Spirit Stones and received two Sharp Golden Talismans.
“Are there any Three-Rank Talismans?” He Pingsheng asked again.
Shopkeeper Liu's face fell, and he said, “No… Junior Brother, what are you thinking?”
“All the Talisman supplies for our Cultivation Alliance rely on Tianfu Mountain!”
“Three-Rank Talismans are not only difficult to make, have a low success rate, and use extremely precious Materials, but each Three-Rank Talisman is also a trump card and a great weapon in the hands of Golden Core Stage Old Ancestors. These things might not even be available for tens of thousands of Spirit Stones!”
“If our merchant association had them, the high-ranking officials of the Cultivation Alliance would have bought them long ago!”
“How could they remain until now?”
“Such items can only appear at trading fairs for Golden Core Cultivators!”
“We can’t get our hands on them!”
“Let alone our Fenghe Estate, none of the merchant associations in Matou Mountain Market could possibly have Three-Rank Talismans!”
Alright!
If there aren't any, then there aren't any!
He would make a trip to Tianfu Mountain later and ask Senior Sister Qiao.
After leaving Fenghe Estate, He Pingsheng didn't go to the other merchant associations inside.
All the merchant associations here sold similar items.
He then went to browse the street stalls again.
To be honest, ever since the last time his three little darlings were tricked by a scruffy Old Man here, He Pingsheng had developed a psychological shadow about buying items from street stalls.
For items on street stalls, especially those he didn't recognize, he would try his best not to touch them if possible.
Following this principle, He Pingsheng walked around again.
“Boss, what is this round, bulging thing? Can you let me see it?” He Pingsheng stopped in front of a stall.
The stall owner looked very young.
With a sweep of his Divine Thought, the other party's cultivation was only at the sixth layer of the Qi Refinement Stage.
He was quite bold to dare to set up a stall with only six layers of Qi Refinement.
“Alright, Senior Brother!” The guy, thinking He Pingsheng was a Qi Refinement Stage Disciple, casually called him Senior Brother, then handed over a dark, round, cake-like object.
He Pingsheng naturally didn't care about being called Senior Brother or Junior Brother. He picked up the round object and examined it.
From his intuition, this should be a Formation Plate.
To be precise, it was an incomplete Formation Plate.
“This is a half-broken Formation Plate!” He Pingsheng weighed the Formation Plate in his hand. “Where did you get it?”
The young man smiled, a bit awkwardly, and said, “I picked it up, hehehe… If Senior Brother likes it, just give me any price you think is fair!”
He Pingsheng couldn't tell the grade or purpose of this Formation Plate.
But it didn't matter.
He would put it into the gathering treasure basin later to reinforce it; even if it only reinforced into two First Grade Formation Plates, he would still profit.
“Ten Spirit Stones, how about that?” He Pingsheng asked the young man.
The young man was immediately overjoyed and said, “Yes, yes, yes…”
For the current He Pingsheng, ten Spirit Stones truly didn't matter whether it was a loss or a gain.
If he lost, he lost.
After paying the Spirit Stones, he casually tossed the Formation Plate into his Storage Pouch, then departed on his Flying Sword.
He Pingsheng planned to go back and reinforce the Talismans first. If Fenghe Estate received the poison Medicinal Pill, he would send someone to retrieve it, instead of having to go himself.
However, after flying for less than half an incense stick's time, He Pingsheng saw a cluster of Sword Qi suddenly shoot up from the ground not far away, blocking him in mid-air.
Who else could be the person flying on the sword if not Feng Daogu?
Feng Daogu, from a hundred zhang away, suddenly flung the long sword in her hand, and the soaring Sword Qi descended through the air.
“Feng Daogu?”
He Pingsheng's pupils slightly contracted, and the next moment, he immediately took out a round, small shield: the top-grade spirit tool Holy Wood Shield.
“Open…”
The Wood Attribute Spiritual Qi within his body surged into the small shield, fully expanding all eight Restrictions on the small shield.
A thick green shield immediately appeared in front of He Pingsheng.
The green light shield was a full ten feet in circumference.
The Wood Spiritual Qi within He Pingsheng's body continued to pour into the Holy Wood Shield.
He Pingsheng didn't know if this shield could block Feng Daogu's single sword strike.
But he had nowhere to hide now.
The opponent's attack came too quickly; he had no time to activate any Talismans.
Because previously, activating a Talisman always required several breaths of time.
“Open…”
At the same time, He Pingsheng also circulated the Golden Spiritual Qi within his body, opening a thick Golden Attribute protective shield.
Spell: Vajra Shield.
With two layers of protection, he didn't believe he couldn't block this single sword strike of yours!
The instant He Pingsheng had just opened the Holy Wood Shield, a colorful Sword Qi in front of him descended like a bolt of silk.
Bang…
The expanded Holy Wood Shield's phantom blocked this sword strike.
However, the Holy Wood Shield's light dimmed sharply, and with a bang, it was torn apart by the Sword Qi.
Fortunately, although the shield was broken, it blocked about ninety percent of the Sword Qi.
The remaining less than ten percent of Sword Qi landed on the Vajra Shield and was easily blocked by the Spell, Vajra Shield.
After blocking Feng Daogu's single attack, He Pingsheng used the Flying Sword under his feet to quickly descend from high altitude.
Fighting on the ground was safer than fighting in high-altitude.
At least he didn't have to worry about falling to his death, right?
Feng Daogu was not foolish either; seeing He Pingsheng land, she moved her feet and followed closely.
Before He Pingsheng could steady himself, Feng Daogu, who was already within thirty zhang, raised her hand again and unleashed another sword strike.
Sword Qi mixed with Sword Qi transformed into a ten-foot-long bolt of silk and slashed down.