Tianyuan Xuanxian

Chapter 124 Frost and Dew
The ferry is extremely spacious, and there is even a building on it that looks like a small city, with all kinds of shops.

A certain amount of spirit stones is required to take the ferry. After Chen Xuan boarded the ferry, there was a toll booth in front of him, and a cultivator was there to give a special introduction.

There are three levels of payment. Those who pay 100 spirit stones can board the ferry, but can only walk around the ferry. The ferry does not provide a place to rest.

To upgrade to the next level, one needs to pay 500 spirit stones. The ferry can provide rest houses, which are extremely luxuriously decorated and have mortal maids to serve daily life. However, the spiritual energy in such houses is thin and cannot be isolated from the detection of others.

The most advanced ones need to pay one thousand spirit stones. The ferry will provide these cultivators with a top-level cave, which has a spirit gathering array and a magic array to isolate the breath. There are also exclusive ferry guards guarding outside the door.

This type of monks can freely choose maids to take care of their daily life. These maids include both mortals and monks, and they are all extremely beautiful. The ferry will provide them with various immortal foods for free, and these monks can enjoy a 20% discount on all their consumption on the ferry with their identity jade cards.

After a brief thought, Chen Xuan took out five hundred spirit stones and handed them to the cultivator who was charging the fee. After receiving a jade token from him, a young girl immediately walked out of a nearby house and led Chen Xuan directly to the room assigned to him.

Chen Xuan casually put the jade token into his sleeve, but he did not follow the girl's steps to her residence. Instead, he walked straight to the bluestone deck, stood by the railing at the edge of the ferry, and stared blankly into Qianzhou City. His gaze finally stopped at the City Lord's Mansion in the center of the city.

At this moment, at the top of the City Lord's Mansion, there was also a figure in snow-white clothes standing there quietly, looking into the distance at the ferry that was about to set sail.

The mortal girl who was originally going to lead Chen Xuan to his residence, seeing that Chen Xuan did not follow, turned around, walked to Chen Xuan's side, stood quietly beside Chen Xuan, and did not urge him.

She had lived on the ferry for many years and had seen all kinds of guests, so she was not surprised by Chen Xuan's behavior. She just thought that it was his first time traveling far away and he was reluctant to say goodbye to his hometown.

Suddenly, a light blue circular shield rose from around the ferry. This was a defensive formation set up by the ferry to prevent people on board from being injured by the strong wind during the journey.

At the same time, the huge ferry started moving, slowly rising into the air and flying towards the south.

Chen Xuan remained motionless until Qianzhou City continued to shrink in his sight, gradually becoming a black dot in the distance, and finally completely disappeared from his sight.

Chen Xuan turned to look at the girl who had been standing beside him and said calmly:

"Lead the way."

The girl nodded, then turned around and took Chen Xuan towards her residence.

Chen Xuan's residence was in the "city" on the ferry. The girl took Chen Xuan to two rows of luxurious houses.

Chen Xuan released his spiritual sense to explore. The row of houses on the left were covered with a formation, blocking the detection of his spiritual sense. At the door of each room, there was a cultivator standing, and their aura was around the Foundation Establishment stage.

The house on the right is just a house, without any formation blocking it. Chen Xuan's spiritual sense can sweep through it and take in the situation in most of the rooms.

There were only a few rooms shrouded in formations that blocked spiritual consciousness, but they were very different from the formations on the right, and each one was unique.

"It should be the formation set up by the cultivator in the room himself."

Chen Xuan came to this conclusion in his mind, and after a moment of hesitation, he planned to ask Zhu Yin to help him set up a formation to isolate his room from detection.

After all, I have too many secrets and it is not appropriate to expose them in front of others.

When Chen Xuan's spiritual sense swept through the rooms that were not separated by formations, the expressions of the cultivators in them all changed.

Some of them showed fear on their faces after feeling Chen Xuan's spiritual power as vast as the ocean, and bowed to Chen Xuan from a distance. Some of the cultivators snorted coldly and emitted powerful spiritual power in an attempt to force Chen Xuan's spiritual power back.

Chen Xuan's expression tightened and he withdrew his spiritual sense. There were many masters in the Jindan stage among those cultivators. Although Chen Xuan was not afraid, he did not want to cause trouble.

Finally, the girl led Chen Xuan to the outside of a room. She took out a jade token from her bosom that was exactly the same as the one in Chen Xuan's sleeve and embedded it into a groove in the door.

The door suddenly lit up with a faint light, and then opened automatically with a rumbling sound.

The house is extremely luxurious with carved beams and painted buildings, and there is a faint scent of sandalwood. It seems that the ferry has put a lot of thought into the accommodation of the monks.

Inside the room, there was an extremely spacious hall, filled with all kinds of commonly used furniture. On one side of the living room, there were two adjacent houses, one large and one small. The girl who led Chen Xuan skillfully introduced them to Chen Xuan.

The larger one is Chen Xuan's residence, and the smaller one is the girl's room.

Seeing Chen Xuan frowning, the girl immediately explained:

"According to the rules on the ferry, women who serve guests must live in the same room with the guests during these days. Otherwise, they will be considered unable to fulfill their service duties and their wages will be deducted."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan's expression eased a little and he did not pursue the matter any further. He would just have to let Zhu Yin set up another formation in his room.

After looking through the entire room, Chen Xuan instructed the girl:

"I will be in seclusion these days. You don't need to do anything else. You are not allowed to enter my room without my permission. If you have anything important to tell me, just knock on the door."

Hearing this, the girl nodded obediently.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan walked straight into his room. With his spiritual sense, he found that the girl did not make any unnecessary movements. She just walked into her own room and packed up.

As soon as Chen Xuan thought about it, Zhu Yin immediately appeared beside him. He opened his mouth and spit out two formations, one large and one small, covering the entire house and Chen Xuan's own room respectively.

Afterwards, Chen Xuan asked Zhu Yin to protect him, and he entered the Ten Thousand Demons Pool.

The killings in the past few days caused Chen Xuan to accumulate a lot of dark energy in the Ten Thousand Demons Pool, and he also collected enough spiritual energy in the Ten Thousand Demons Pool in advance, which was enough to sustain his cultivation for a long time.

But he did not enter the state of cultivation immediately. Instead, he solemnly took out a storage bag from his arms. The storage bag still exuded the unique fragrance of Gu Jinxue.

The soul mark on the storage bag had been erased by Gu Jinxue. Chen Xuan probed his spiritual sense into the storage bag and immediately took a breath of cold air.

Inside was a mountain of spirit stones, roughly estimated to be about 100,000 in number.

In addition to the spirit stone, a peace amulet emitting moonlight and a jade slip were hung on one side.

Chen Xuan's mind moved, and he took out the amulet. There were lines engraved on the amulet, which should be similar to the formation. The lines emitted a hazy moonlight, which was the same aura that Gu Jinxue displayed when fighting.

On the back of the amulet, four small characters were written in delicate and graceful handwriting, similar to Gu Jinxue's temperament. It was obvious that she had written it herself. Chen Xuan smiled knowingly. These four characters were: May you be safe.

He put the amulet away with great care, and then took out the jade slip.

Chen Xuan opened the jade slip, which contained detailed records about the foundation-building and the tenth level of the Golden Core Stage, as well as some of his insights during his practice.

The handwriting is the same as that on the amulet, both written by him.

Chen Xuan felt a warm current in his heart. Putting aside other things, the 100,000 spirit stones alone were an astronomical figure for him.

The ticket for this ferry costs five hundred spirit stones. Chen Xuan could imagine that if he only relied on the more than one thousand spirit stones he had on him, he would not even be able to pay for the teleportation array once he arrived in Jiayuan City.

After a long time, Chen Xuan put all these things away, took out Mo Yan's Nascent Soul, and began to practice breathing exercises.

The golden elixir of a Jindan cultivator and the primordial infant of a Yuanying cultivator are both transformed from the cultivator's dantian and can be regarded as a place to store spiritual energy.

The reason why Gu Jinxue was able to quickly reach the Nascent Soul stage was, firstly, because her own cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and secondly, because Chen Xuan gave the Soul-Devouring Sect's golden elixir to Gu Jinxue to help her break through.

The blessing of massive spiritual energy, his Yao Chi fairy body and infinite fairy resources, which could almost be regarded as a bottleneck in his realm, allowed him to break through quickly and turn the tide of the battle.

The Mo Yan Yuanying in Chen Xuan's hand is equivalent to all the spiritual energy accumulated in a Yuanying cultivator's body. For Chen Xuan, who has only a small foundation, it is enough to support his cultivation for a long time.

For five consecutive days, Chen Xuan's realm was steadily improving. During this period, the girl on the ferry came to knock on the door many times, asking if he needed meals and whether he needed to clean the room, etc., but all of them were rejected by Zhu Yin imitating Chen Xuan's tone.

The girl was not surprised by this. These immortals often did not want to be disturbed after they were in seclusion, so after asking a few times, she stopped knocking on Chen Xuan's door, fearing that the immortal would be angry and report her to the steward.

The steward on the ferry who was in charge of looking after these maids was quite strict. If they made a mistake, deducting their salary would be the least of their worries, but being kicked off the ferry would be a disaster.

Some time ago, one of her sisters was molested by an immortal and wanted to do something indecent to him, so she talked back to him. The ferry manager then stripped her of her maid status and gave her to the immortal.

It is said that the immortal has an extremely powerful background and is a genius disciple of a top sect. He behaves extremely domineeringly, but he refuses to live in the "sky" room on the right, but instead lives in the second-class "ground" room on this side.

After her sister was given to the immortal, she could be seen following the immortal carefully for the first two days, but later on, she disappeared without a trace.

It is said that the immortal used it as a cauldron for cultivation, sucked out all its essence, and then threw it off the ferry silently.

The girl's name was Shuanglu. She was quite pretty and would attract people's attention when she walked on the street. However, in Chen Xuan's eyes, she was far inferior to Gu Jinxue.

It was not until the seventh day that Chen Xuan opened the door and walked out. The girl hurried forward to greet him and bowed respectfully.

Chen Xuan nodded, then asked:
"Do you know where there is a shop that sells medicinal herbs?
Seeing him nod, Chen Xuan said:

"take me."

The girl was overjoyed to hear this. She stayed in this small room for seven days in a row, which made her, with her lively personality, feel a little uncomfortable, but she did not dare to leave the room at will.

Let’s not talk about the rules on the ferry for now. What if an immortal discovered us and wanted to capture us to make a furnace? Wouldn’t that be terrible?

Although there were clear regulations on the ferry that monks were not allowed to attack the maids on the ferry, rules were no match for spiritual stones. Since the day she boarded the ship, several sisters had mysteriously disappeared.

Even if Chen Xuan didn't deliberately try to investigate, he could still clearly hear the girl's thoughts. This made Chen Xuan a little curious. Since life on the ferry was so harsh and difficult, why did she still come here to work?

Walking on the road, Chen Xuan couldn't help but ask the reason.

After a long silence, Shuanglu explained:
"To become an immortal!"

After hearing this, Chen Xuan was immediately surprised. How could the power behind this ferry be willing to pay such a price?

As if seeing the doubt in Chen Xuan's eyes, Shuanglu said frankly:
"We women have been unable to control our own destiny since the day we boarded the ferry. The only way to leave the ship is to be noticed by some immortals who can redeem us for a hundred spirit stones and take us away, or we can save up a hundred spirit stones and redeem ourselves."

"What does that have to do with becoming an immortal?"

After hearing the girl's words, Chen Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"As long as we stay on the ferry for three years, the ferryman will reward us with a bottle of elixir that can make us immortals. The monthly salary of the ferryman is only half a spirit stone. Even if we don't eat or drink, we can only save up six spirit stones. So if we want to save up a hundred spirit stones as soon as possible, we can only become immortals with the help of that bottle of elixir.

After becoming an immortal, although she is still a maid, her salary has quadrupled. And as long as she has cultivated, she will be protected by the ferry rules and be able to survive better."

Chen Xuan couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

The girl smiled knowingly.
"There's nothing wrong with it. Most of us maids are homeless women. We are grateful that the ferry can give us a place to stay. In the world of monks, our lives are as worthless as grass. At least here, there is still hope of becoming a monk and turning our lives around!"

Walking out of the monks' residence, there is a very long pedestrian street with shops of all sizes on both sides, selling a wide variety of goods.

As the two were walking, a man came towards them. The moment she saw that man, the girl's expression changed and she couldn't help but move closer to Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan was stunned, then turned to look at the man. The man was a short young man with a fierce look on his face. He was covered in jewels and was extremely ostentatious.

Behind him followed two old men, both of whom were in the late Jindan stage.

His eyes looked around, as if he was looking for something.

When he saw Frost Dew beside Chen Xuan, his eyes lit up, like a hungry wolf seeing its prey, revealing excitement.

The girl's body trembled slightly. This man was the monk who used her sisters as furnaces some time ago. Several maids had been taken away by him in these days and had never been seen since.

At this moment, the young man walked quickly towards Chen Xuan and reached out to grab the frost and dew beside Chen Xuan.

(End of this chapter)