"With a soft *poof*, Mo Shangchen spat out a mouthful of fresh blood without warning, his face drained of all color. The others were startled and immediately asked:"

"Greetings, friend. What's wrong"

But someone was plotting against you

"First, find a safe place for the stranger to calm down."

At a critical juncture, Li's proposal is still more reliable.

In the evening, Lian Xiye wanted to step forward and help the other person up, but Mo Shangchen refused him. He cupped his hands in a gesture of respect and said:

"My apologies, I was rude. I've been struck by a backlash and am unable to join you esteemed friends for tea. Perhaps another time. For now, I must return home to tend to my wounds."

Without waiting for anyone to respond, he turned and left.

Five people looked at each other, and finally Lian Yexi led a few of them into a teahouse. They ordered a small private room and talked about their encounter with Mo Shangchen.

In the evening, due to financial constraints, Lian Xi decided to sell some of his own belongings that he wasn't currently using. These included low-grade spiritual artifacts, talismans, and some low-grade pills. He planned to visit small shops in the scattered cultivator market as prices there tended to be lower.

Those who set up stalls in the casual cultivator market were all cultivators with no background or backing. The things they sold were a motley collection, and you could exchange them for items or purchase them with spirit stones. He wanted to find a suitable price to sell it off, otherwise he wouldn't even have enough spirit stones for lodging at night.

Result fell in love with a storage box at a stall one evening, and Mo Shangchen also took a liking to the same thing.

Originally, Mo Shangchen wasn't planning to yield. However, after seeing Lian Xiye's face, he changed his mind.

"This friend of yours seems unfamiliar, shouldn't you be from Moshan City"

"My friend is very polite. My fellow cultivators and I came here to attend the Qi Wu Pavilion auction. We just arrived today."

Even in the face of danger, she responded calmly and confidently.

His words also hinted that he was not a lone cultivator, but belonged to a sect with backing and had fellow disciples around him. The fact that he could come to the Qiwu Pavilion auction showed at least that he had ample spirit stones.

Mo Shangchen smiled after hearing this, but he had wanted to be friends with the other party anyway, so he said with a smile:

"I wonder which sect you belong to"

"I am an inner disciple of Yuntengzong."

At dusk, Lian Xi bowed his hands in greeting.

"Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you! It seems I must play the role of a gracious host."

On the street, Mo Shang smiled and said.

"Looking at your Daoist robe, it seems you're a disciple of the Qianji Sect. What is your honorable name"

"I am a wandering soul on the dusty road." Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!

"So you're the young master of the City Lord's Mansion. It's a pleasure to meet you!"

After discovering the other party's identity, Lian Xiye's eyes lit up. He then politely engaged in conversation and didn't mention the storage box he had been interested in anymore.

The two seemed to hit it off immediately, and even that evening, one invited Moshanchen for tea, taking the opportunity to introduce him to his fellow disciples, leading to the events that transpired before.

He got along well with all of you before. Why has he turned against us after we arrived This isn't our fault, is it Don't you think we offended the City Lord's Mansion before even getting our hands on the Spirit Stones

Du Yan said with some helplessness.

"It shouldn't concern you guys, right!"

At twilight, Lian Xiye spoke with some uncertainty. But the gleam in his eyes swept across Ren Yi as he did so.

Rill felt Lian Xi Ye's gaze, but she shrugged nonchalantly and said:

"The cultivators of Qianji Men have a bad habit, they like to calculate everything before doing it. I reckon that just now wasn't calculating my fate, but calculating Daoist Du's fate, and then being backlashed."

Can your destinies not be calculated

Ye Qing exclaimed in surprise.

"I don't know about Du Daoist's situation. My fate is not something a Golden Core cultivator like him can calculate. Perhaps the Headmaster of their Thousand Machines Sect could give an accurate reading."

Ripples said arrogantly.

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions on several faces changed. Especially Lian Yexi, a flash of light crossed his eyes before he smiled and tried to smooth things over:

"The blame for this doesn't lie with us. Let's just wait until the auction ends before making any plans!"

"He got backlashed because of his own actions. Let's find a place to live first! This time, let's rent a courtyard with strong spiritual energy. I also want to try breaking through to the peak of the late stage of Jindan."

The conversation immediately changed topic.

"As Eileen said, we should find a place to stay now."

Then several people left the teahouse together.

On the other side, Mo Shangchen returned to the City Lord's Mansion and immediately swallowed a healing pill to begin repairing the internal injuries caused by the backlash. After a large Zhoutian cycle, the pill worked its magic, and he opened his eyes.

Mo Shangchen stroked his chest and then began to recall how the events unfolded.

He had previously eyed a storage box with Lian Xiye because he felt it wasn't an ordinary one, which is why he wanted to buy it. He hadn't originally planned on letting it go after meeting Lian Xiye.

But when he saw the other person's face, he realized that they were someone with a noble bearing. People like that usually prioritize making friends.

Upon learning that the other party was also an inner disciple of Yuntian Sect, Mo Shangchen became even more certain of his calculations and thus chatted with the other party very smoothly.

Upon seeing his fellow sect member, he spotted another individual whose aura was comparable to Lian Yexi's. It was the red-cloaked female cultivator. He instinctively calculated their strength but was met with a backlash. This was the first time he had experienced such a backlash since his cultivation journey began.

Before, his master had told him that the Tianji Gate was about observing the celestial patterns of heaven and earth, and calculating the principles of all life below. However, revealing heavenly secrets came at a price, so unless absolutely necessary, they would not easily calculate for others.

This time was an exception, but it made him hit a snag. So after the pain in his chest subsided, he had someone investigate Ripple's background, wanting to know who this mysterious person was.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. The five companions went to Qiwu Pavilion together, led by a late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator, to a private room in the basement. This was because they were auctioning off a Nascent Soul Fruit, which is why they received such special treatment.

After the five people sat down, they began to browse the auction items for the day. Lian Ri saw several heaven and earth treasures that nurtured spiritual roots on the surface. The original body didn't understand them back then, and she herself didn't need them for cultivation, so she generously donated a large sum of spirit stones to Lian Xiye, allowing him to get his hands on these good treasures.

Without her support this time, she wanted to see if these treasures would still fall into Lian Xiye's hands, especially a fifth-grade orchid grass. Although this kind of grass is common, it is rare for it to grow to the fifth level.

This is the gentlest nourishing root herb, just needs to be paired with some ordinary spirit plants to refine into medicine liquid. Taking one drop daily for seventy-seven forty-nine days will have miraculous effects. It is said that it can even increase your spiritual root value.

The ripples have already made their decision, and they will get that fifth-order Orchid Grass no matter what.

Last time, these things went into Lian Xiye's pockets. They probably nourished his hidden spirit root, otherwise, the other party's cultivation would not have increased so quickly.

As the evening deepened, when Lian Xiye saw that fifth-grade orchid, for some reason his heart skipped a beat. He vaguely felt that this spiritual herb was important to him and wanted to take it down. However, thinking of his empty storage pouch, he felt a little discouraged.

With a crisp clang of the gavel, the auction officially began.

In a medium-sized private room on the third floor, Mo Shangchen happened to look toward the private room where Lianri and they were located on the first floor. Beside him was an unusually respectful middle-aged man., claiming that the Han family was guilty and that's why they moved. However, no one wanted to listen to her.Because the ripple incident was handled so decisively, she knew that rumors would spread af...