After a busy morning, An Chen actually helped Zhang Youcai complete five transactions, helping Zhang Youcai gain over 2,800 Spirit Stones in value.
An Chen was a little suspicious, did Zhang Youcai repay the favor or not?
Anyway, Zhang Youcai was very happy.
And An Chen also used this morning to familiarize himself with the usage of the disguise ring.
In fact, this thing is still a bit difficult to use.
Because it requires the Cultivator to clearly know what they want to transform into.
Then, by injecting Spiritual Power, the ring will use some illusion-like techniques to change the user's appearance in the eyes of others.
Knowing clearly what to transform into sounds simple, but it's difficult to do.
Many people, when using this type of disguise tool for the first time, would make their faces 'a mess', faces that no human could possibly have, and some parts were even blurry.
It's easy to remember some features of a face, but it's very difficult to remember all the details of the entire face.
Sometimes, even if someone looks at another person's face and wants to 'mold' an identical face, it still takes a lot of effort.
But this was not a problem for An Chen.
Whatever face he wanted to change to, he just needed to extract one from his memory, and it would be exactly the same after being molded.
Before, every time An Chen acted as a shill, he never used his own face, but instead randomly found a few faces of passersby from Earth in his memory and changed into them, so that no one in Kyushu would recognize him, and he wouldn't make enemies by deliberately raising prices.
"Brother Sun, your acting is really something! I've never sold goods so smoothly! Take these Spirit Stones, don't be polite!"
Zhang Youcai patted An Chen's shoulder and laughed loudly, saying that he also handed An Chen a small bag of Spirit Stones, which contained a full eight hundred Spirit Stones.
"Not at all, I didn't do much."
An Chen was routinely modest, but his hand naturally took the small bag directly and put it into his qiankun bag.
"Brother Sun, I really think you can achieve great things!" Zhang Youcai gave a thumbs up and said, "If I have the chance, I will definitely introduce you to my master, maybe he can even let you join his Sect!"
"No, no, I've already joined Qingfeng Sect now, it's not good to change jobs."
An Chen quickly waved his hand to refuse.
Although Qingfeng Sect was a bit weak, it was still a Sect after all, with its Foundation here, relatively stable, equivalent to having an 'official position' within such a Sect. Cultivation with a Loose Cultivator like Jubao Daoren, although a bit freer, was also a bit more dangerous.
On this matter, An Chen still chose to play it safe.
His current development goal was also to develop steadily, trying his best to raise his Realm.
"Then, farewell!"
Zhang Youcai cupped his hands, smiled slightly, waved his hand, and turned to leave.
An Chen also turned and walked in another direction.
At the other end of Qingfeng City, Hong Shan took Ye Xinning for a stroll in the city.
"Although this Qingfeng City is not big, I didn't take you around completely last time. I heard there are many dessert shops in this area. Don't you love sweets? Whatever you want to eat today, Master will buy it for you!"
Hong Shan walked slowly behind, while Ye Xinning looked around curiously in front.
This entire street was selling desserts, and a faint fragrance permeated the whole street.
Ye Xinning's gaze was quickly drawn to a Sugar Shop. She walked over quickly, looking at the dazzling array of candies.
Although these candies were not better than those made with modern Earth's sugar-making technology, Ye Xinning saw that the shelves inside were filled with sugar sculptures.
Each small figure carved from sugar was lifelike.
"I want that one."
Ye Xinning's eyes sparkled as she pointed to the sugar sculpture and turned to look at Hong Shan.
"Hehe, good, Master will buy it for you!"
Hong Shan smiled.
Ye Xinning was indeed still just a child.
But when he found out Ye Xinning wanted to buy two, his expression darkened.
"Is that for that kid?"
Ye Xinning stuck out her tongue.
"Can't I have two for myself?"
Hong Shan rolled his eyes.
"I don't believe you."
By the time they left the snack street, Ye Xinning's qiankun bag was already full of delicious pastries and candies.
For some unknown reason, the qiankun bag's preservation and anti-corrosion functions were particularly strong; food placed inside would not spoil for a long time, so it could be eaten slowly.
"Master, that's the Tong Shen Hall, right?"
Ye Xinning pointed to the distant spire building, one of the largest and most iconic buildings in the city, the Tong Shen Hall.
"Hmm, I took you there last time, didn't I?"
"I heard there's a Pagoda of Spiritual Connection in the Tong Shen Hall? I saw it on the tongshen jade talisman. An Chen also went in a few days ago, and he seemed to have gained a lot. My Realm is only Cultivation level four, just a little bit more and I can Breakthrough to the fifth level. I was thinking if I could..."
Hong Shan raised an eyebrow.
"Want to go in and try your luck?"
Ye Xinning nodded.
Hong Shan smiled.
"Impatience! The Qingfeng Secret Realm is opening tomorrow, and you just have to enter the Pagoda of Spiritual Connection at this time? As for your Realm, don't worry too much. Didn't I give you a Magical Artifact for self-preservation? Attacks below the Spirit Nurturing Stage can't harm you at all. This time, just treat it as an outing; it's quite nice to go in and look around."
Ye Xinning, however, was not very satisfied.
"I'm going in to seek Opportunity, not for an outing! If it's for an outing, why do I have to enter the Secret Realm?"
Hong Shan sighed, as if disappointed.
"I'd like to let you go in and seek your own Opportunity, but you also need to have that strength. It's not that Master is discouraging you, but Cultivation level four entering the Secret Realm is really too dangerous! If you didn't have the Magical Artifact for self-preservation that I gave you, what good would it do even if you found a treasure after going in?"
An innocent man is guilty because of his treasure.
If one is merely a Loose Cultivator of low strength, even if they find rare treasures, they will be snatched away by others.
If it's just losing the treasure, that's one thing, but some people will go to extremes and kill the person to eliminate future troubles.
Things like murder and robbery happen most frequently in Secret Realms.
There's a saying that Cultivators who enter Secret Realms are all bandits, and that saying is absolutely true.
"You don't know, even those major Sects of the righteous path will act like bandits, relying on their large numbers and high strength to forcibly seize things. After you go in, take what you can, and absolutely don't touch what you can't! If you take something, you have to do it secretly..."
Ye Xinning's expression changed again and again.
"Master, I feel like you know a lot about this..."
It was as if he had experienced it firsthand.
Had Hong Shan been robbed before?