After my Daoist partners broke off their engagement, they pledged their loyalty to me!

Although both the Weapon Refining Peak and the Pill Refining Peak are located within the Misty Sacred Land, the distance between the two immortal peaks is not short.

If Jiang Lin were to walk, who knows how long it would take to reach his destination.

Fortunately, he didn't need to go to the alchemy peak to find the menial disciples; he only needed to go to the trading market.

The trading market is also called the miscellaneous servant market. The vast majority of people who come here are miscellaneous servant disciples, and a small number of outer disciples also come.

Although the items in the miscellaneous market are almost useless to outer disciples, they sometimes return to their secular families and inevitably need money and other things.

As soon as Jiang Lin left the weapon-refining peak, he sensed someone sneaking around him. Already on guard, he quickened his pace and soon shook off the person behind him.

The three people in the shadows quickly walked up and stopped where Jiang Lin had disappeared, their expressions not very good.

"Hmph! Jiang Lin is quite wary." Zhou Peng snorted. To be on the safe side, he had specially brought two people with him to help, but he didn't expect to make a wasted trip.

The two men beside him chuckled. One of them opened his folding fan, fanned himself, and said softly, "It's alright. Let this kid go. He's a menial disciple. If he doesn't want to die from the poison, he has to go back to the Weapon Refining Peak no matter what."

"Brother Cheng is right."

Another person offered their opinion: "We just need to wait here and wait for Jiang Lin to return."

Hearing their words, Zhou Peng's scar twitched, and he cupped his hands in greeting to them: "What you two say is absolutely right. Then I won't trouble you to wait with me. I'll wait for Jiang Lin here myself."

The man holding the folding fan is Cheng Qi, and the one speaking behind him is Wan Kun.

Like Zhou Peng.

Cheng Qi and Wan Kun are both team leaders of mines, but they are from other mines, not mine number six.

Their cultivation levels were all at the third level of the Qi Gathering Realm.

Zhou Long told Zhou Peng to teach Jiang Lin a lesson, but Zhou Peng thought Jiang Lin might know some accomplices.

In addition, Zhou Peng had previously beaten Jiang Lin severely.

Therefore, just to be on the safe side, he called over Captains Cheng Qi and Wan Kun to come with him.

"Brother Zhou, you won't get your spirit stones back as promised."

"Yes, the spirit stones will not be refunded."

Wan Kun and Cheng Qi were overjoyed; they had earned some spirit stones from the trip, making it a worthwhile deal.

Watching the two leave, Zhou Peng's face showed a hint of displeasure, but he quickly put that displeasure behind him.

My cousin Zhou Long is an outer disciple, and I will need to rely on him in the future, so I must do a good job of what my cousin asked me to do.

"Hmph! Jiang Lin, I hope you come back soon so I can complete my mission and teach you a lesson!" Zhou Peng sneered, his eyes flashing with malice as he stared in the direction Jiang Lin had disappeared.

He has made his decision.

Break one of Jiang Lin's legs!

Little did he know, behind a very well-hidden large tree, Jiang Lin stood watching Zhou Peng waiting for him to return. He took a deep breath: "Looks like I'll have to improve a bit more this time!"

Having made up his mind, Jiang Lin quickly left.

The miscellaneous servants' market was not far from the weapon-refining peak, and Jiang Lin arrived at the market in no time.

For a fleeting moment.

Jiang Lin thought this was a street in a secular town.

Because there were vendors hawking their wares everywhere.

"Come and take a look! The discarded pills from Alchemy Peak are cheap, good quality, and reasonably priced – no cheating on anyone, young or old!"

"The miscellaneous disciples of Lingfu Peak are selling the scrap spirit talismans from Lingfu Peak. Anyone interested is welcome to come and take a look."

"Top-quality, handy weapons. Come find me if you need them. Bartering is supported."

"..."

These people would simply set up small stalls on both sides of the market road, and put whatever they had to trade on their stalls. Interested people would then approach and inquire.

Jiang Lin looked at them and saw that there were quite a lot of different kinds of things.

Waste spirit stones from the Refining Peak are considered one of the "mainstream currencies" here.

Waste spirit stones are still spirit stones. As a disciple, one cannot do without cultivation resources. Waste spirit stones and waste spirit pills are resources for everyone, and the more the better.

Jiang Lin immediately searched for stalls selling martial arts techniques.

Outer disciples sell martial arts techniques, which they did not learn from the Misty Holy Land, but rather acquired by chance while traveling or doing missions.

This does not prevent them from trading and selling for money.

There are quite a few handymen disciples who share the same goal as Jiang Lin.

These menial disciples were all gathered around a certain stall in front, and Jiang Lin walked over as well.

The stall owner, who was surrounded by the servant disciples, was wearing a blue robe with a green tag hanging from his waist. The green tag was the mark of an outer disciple.

At this moment, the outer disciple was shouting, "Come and take a look! In the miscellaneous goods market, I'm probably the only one who can produce so many martial arts manuals at once."

"Elementary-level martial arts manuals are priced at fifty taels of silver per book. There is absolutely no other price.

The levels of spiritual martial arts are divided into four ranks from low to high: Mortal Rank, Profound Rank, Earth Rank, and Heaven Rank!

Each grade is further divided into elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels.

The lowest level of martial arts is the mortal-level martial arts, but it is more than enough for a menial disciple.

Among the menial disciples, there were quite a few who still had some money saved up, and some of them bought a copy on the spot.

Seeing this, the outer disciple selling martial arts techniques rolled his eyes and chuckled, "Gentlemen, there are only ten copies of the martial arts manual in total. Each copy sold reduces the supply. If you don't buy them, someone else will, and you won't be a match for them in the grand competition."

As soon as he said that, some of the handymen disciples were tempted and took out their money. In the blink of an eye, half of the ten martial arts manuals were sold.

The remaining servant disciples were envious, but couldn't afford it.

Someone came up with an idea: they found a few people to pool their money and buy a copy together.

Upon seeing this, the outer disciple laughed and said, "Brother, this martial arts isn't some textbook knowledge. This thing is inscribed on a jade slip. Crushing the jade slip will only allow one person to obtain the cultivation method."

Therefore, those handyman disciples who didn't have enough money had no choice but to grit their teeth and give up.

Someone wants to borrow money from others to buy it.

But we're all competitors, and since I can't afford it, I'm naturally unwilling to lend you money to buy it.

Otherwise, wouldn't that just strengthen our own enemies?

As the people around him gradually left for other stalls, Jiang Lin, who had already inquired about the stall, walked over and looked at the jade slip introduction on the stall.

Seeing another person approaching, the stall owner grinned: "Buying martial arts manuals? Which one do you want? We have introductions."

Jiang Lin didn't look at the remaining martial arts techniques anymore, but instead asked in a low voice, "Greetings, senior brother from the outer sect. I'd like to ask if you have any more powerful martial arts techniques here?"

A low-level mortal martial art?

Even with cultivation, he couldn't distance himself from the other wealthy handyman disciples.

Therefore, he needs to cultivate an even more powerful one!

"Even more powerful?" The outer disciple was taken aback, looked Jiang Lin over again, and nodded, saying, "I have both mid-level and high-level mortal-rank martial arts here, but I'm afraid you can't afford them."

Seeing that Jiang Lin didn't seem to be joking, the man whispered, "Mid-level martial arts are one hundred taels of silver notes per book, and high-level martial arts are two hundred taels of silver notes per book."

Ordinary-level martial arts techniques can still be traded with money, but if it's a profound-level martial arts technique, then it can't be bought with this amount of money.

Jiang Lin had inquired about it in the surrounding area beforehand.

The stall owner is an outer disciple who operates with integrity. Many of his repeat customers take the money they earn back to their secular families, so you can trade with him with confidence.

However, at most, they can only obtain mortal-level resources.

Jiang Lin naturally didn't have that many silver notes.

In order to bring Zhao Yishu to the spirit mine at the Refining Peak of the Misty Holy Land to test her talent, we had already spent almost all our money.

But he has a better form of hard currency than money.

Spirit Stone!

The outer disciples' eyes lit up immediately upon hearing that there were spirit stones.

He looked around and then said frankly, "If you have low-grade spirit stones, I'll give you five spirit stones for a mid-level mortal martial art, and ten spirit stones for a high-level one."