A master of supernatural powers who started from low martial arts

"Where are you coming from? Welcome, of course you're welcome!"

No matter what the other party's origins are, it is not wise to offend a Jindan Zhenren. Liu Zongxing smiled quickly:

"I will record it for you and issue an identity card. Please wait."

As he said this, he quickly asked his men to fetch a unique jade token glowing purple, recorded the information on a strange jade plate, and then presented it respectfully with both hands:

"Senior, this is the Zixiao Talisman that only the Jindan Zhenren of the Immortal City can hold, and it allows you to stay in the Immortal City for a long time. Please accept it."

Lu Yuan nodded, put it away, and said:

"I plan to rent a cave in the fairy city, but I don't know where to go?"

Liu Zongxing immediately said:

"If you want to rent a cave, you can go to Xianju Hall. You are new here and you must be unfamiliar with this place. How about I take you there?"

Lu Yuan agreed: "Okay, thank you for your help."

Liu Zongxing immediately gave instructions to his monks, then left the attic and personally led Lu Yuan to fly towards the Xianju Hall in the city.

The main urban area is quite large. Although cultivators are allowed to fly, they are only allowed to fly over the main roads. They cannot fly wherever they want. Under the leadership of Liu Zongxing, Lu Yuan flew over thirty miles in just a few moments and landed in front of a rather imposing attic.

As soon as you step in, you'll see a service hall right in front of you. It's quite noisy, and there are already many casual cultivators in simple and cautious clothes scattered in front of several counters, asking questions.

"Get out of the way!"

Liu Zongxing had a bit of a bully vibe. As soon as he came in, he shouted and drove the casual cultivators who were blocking his way aside, then said to the monk in charge:
"Hurry up and ask your boss Qian to come out in person. I have a distinguished guest to entertain!"

When the monk in charge saw that it was Liu Zongxing, he did not dare to neglect it at all and immediately went upstairs to report. Soon, a rather wealthy monk hurried down and his eyes immediately fell on Lu Yuan behind Liu Zongxing:
"Master Liu, who is this?"

"This senior is a distinguished guest."

Liu Zongxing deliberately kept the secret and said with a smile:

"This is not a place to talk. Why don't you invite us to sit in the inner hall?"

Anyone who can be called a senior by Liu Zongxing is most likely a Jindan Zhenren. Qian Siming immediately realized and said earnestly:

"Please come in, senior! I'll have someone serve tea right away!"

Under the awestruck gazes of the surrounding monks, Lu Yuan followed the other party into the elegant and quiet inner hall, and was served spiritual tea by a maid.

After sitting down, Qian Siming looked at Lu Yuan and said with a polite smile:

"This senior is quite unfamiliar to me, may I know who you are?"

Lu Yuan slightly released a trace of magical power, causing the two managers to feel a huge spiritual pressure. Then he said slowly:
"I am a wandering wanderer, and I have come here to travel and plan to stay temporarily in Longshan Fairy City. I am planning to rent a cave with rich spiritual energy. I wonder if it is possible?"

"Yes, of course!"

From the powerful aura of magic just now, Qian Siming confirmed that the other party was a genuine Jindan cultivator. He hurriedly instructed the waiter outside:

"Quick, go get the marked map of the cave!"

The two waiters took the order and quickly brought in a huge map. After unfolding it, it showed the location and general situation of each cave in the fairy city area in great detail.

Lu Yuan scanned the map with his spiritual sense, and before he could ask, he saw Qian Siming walk to the map and enthusiastically introduced it:

"With your cultivation level, only the top-grade caves in the Immortal City can be worthy of your status. Top-grade caves are mostly located in the outer areas of the core of the spiritual veins. The concentration of spiritual energy is stable at above the third-order medium, which can fully meet the cultivation of the Jindan Zhenren level."

"However, there are not many caves of this type in the Immortal City. There are less than twenty in total. Most of them have been allocated to other Jindan Zhenren. Now there are only five available for selection."

"There is a top-grade cave house on each peak. Each peak has a protective formation. It has everything such as quiet rooms, medicine gardens, fire rooms, etc. I have marked out the five cave houses. Do you want me to take you to inspect them one by one?"

Lu Yuan took a quick look and was surprised to find that the five superior caves actually included Bai Qianfeng's cave. He couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

Bai Qianfeng's cave was not rented for money, but allocated for free by the Immortal City. However, it is obvious that a high-quality cave has great value, so after his death, the cave was taken back by the Immortal City.

He did not reveal anything and asked:

"What are the rental prices for these five caves?"

Qian Siming replied:
"Replying to Senior, the prices of high-quality caves are similar. The annual rental price is about 1,500 spirit coins. If you live here for a long time, I can give you a 10% discount."

"One thousand and five spirit coins?"

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows:
"If I rent it for ten years, wouldn't it cost more than 10,000 spirit coins? This price seems a bit expensive, doesn't it?"

Spiritual money is the hard currency of the Yuanlingtian immortal world. It is not like the modern society on Earth where paper money can be printed at will and over-issued to cause inflation.

Although the exploration and mining of spirit stone mines associated with spirit veins has been ongoing in the world of immortal cultivation, the spirit money made from spirit stones has a wide range of uses. It can be used for spiritual practice, refining equipment and formations, etc. It is constantly consumed while being produced, so its purchasing power has always been very stable.

Taking the situation in Longshan Immortal City as an example, an ordinary cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining may not be able to earn a hundred spiritual coins even if he works diligently for a year. To earn a thousand spiritual coins, even a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage would need to have a skill and spend a lot of time and energy.

In this case, a cave dwelling would cost 1,500 spirit coins a year, which is quite expensive.

Normally, if an ordinary cultivator dared to bargain for the rental price of the cave, Siming would have spat at him long ago. However, facing Lu Yuan at this moment, he was humble and patient and said:
"Senior, this price was set by the top leaders of the Immortal City, not just something I randomly ordered. You get what you pay for. You should know what the level of a top-grade cave with a rich spiritual energy of the third-level middle is. In addition, there is a Nine Thunder Demon Subduing Formation in the main city area, so even if a large-scale zombie tide sieges, it can be kept safe. The safety is absolutely guaranteed. It is not easy to own a cave with such a rich spiritual energy and guaranteed safety these days."

"Of course, I can totally understand if you think it's too expensive. In fact, this price is for completely unfamiliar foreign monks. There is another way to get a bigger discount or even waive the rental fee."

"Oh?"

Lu Yuan asked knowingly:
"In what way?"

Qian Siming smiled and said, "Longshan Immortal City is eager to recruit talents. If you are willing to join the Immortal City and sign a contract, you can get a rent reduction of more than 50%. If you sign a special contract, you don't even need to pay spirit stones, and the Immortal City can allocate a cave for free for cultivation. Are you interested?"

"Special Contract."

Lu Yuan said calmly:
"No need for that. I am used to being a free-spirited person and don't want to be bound by anything for the time being. Just pay the spirit stone. Take me to see these five caves first, and then decide which one to rent."

Having searched Bai Qianfeng's soul before, he naturally knew that Longshan Immortal City had five levels of contracts for independent cultivators and foreign cultivators, including the special level plus one, two, three, and four.

Contracts of different levels have different obligations, rights, and benefits. The special contract is the highest level contract for Jindan cultivators. Once signed, one can obtain a superior cave residence allocated by the Immortal City and be assigned a position. The price is that one must be stationed in the Immortal City for fifty years and must obey orders in an emergency and must not escape.

This kind of spiritual contract requires a vow of Dao heart, which itself has considerable binding force. Even if there is someone stubborn enough to ignore the damage to their Dao heart, fail to fulfill their obligations and choose to escape, they will eventually be included in the wanted list of the Immortal Alliance and be wanted by all the immortal cities in the Western Yanzhou region, and there will be no place for them to stay in this vast world.

Knowing that people at the Jindan level could not be recruited with just a few words, Qian Siming kept smiling and said nothing more, but said respectfully:
"I understand. I will take you to inspect the cave now."

As he said this, he gave an instruction to the waiter, and then personally took Lu Yuan to several caves.

As for Liu Zongxing, he did not continue to follow them. Instead, he left immediately after watching them go away and went to report the matter to higher-ups.

Lu Yuan knew this very well but didn't care. He leisurely followed Qian Siming to the five caves and examined them one by one.

Outside the main city is a stretch of continuous peaks. All the superior caves are built on these peaks, and all the caves, including Bai Qianfeng's, are in relatively outer areas.

After Lu Yuan inspected them one by one, he found that the spiritual environments of these five caves were indeed similar. The only difference was in their shapes.

After looking around, he immediately chose an elegant cave on Zizhu Peak, and then paid four thousand five hundred spirit coins to rent the cave for three years.

And that was when he had just decided to rent the cave.

On Liuyun Peak, not far from Linglong Peak, the highest peak in the Immortal City, True Lord Huanglong's eldest disciple, True Lord Liuyun, who is now in charge of the affairs of the Immortal City, has already received a report from the head officer Liu Zongxing.

"Oh? A strange Jindan Zhenren came to the Immortal City and wanted to rent a high-quality cave?"

Master Liuyun asked with great interest:
"What is this person's origin?"

Liu Zongxing shook his head and said:

"I asked him before, but he only claimed that he was a wandering cultivator, without mentioning his specific origins."

Master Liuyun's expression became even more amusing:

"A free cultivator in the Jindan stage? Nowadays, without the support of family and sect forces, cultivators who can cultivate to this level are extremely rare. This person's origin seems to be a little unusual."

When Liu Zongxing heard this, he immediately said solemnly:
"Master, could this person be some evil cultivator from the inner realm who disguised himself and came to us?"

Of the vast Xiyan Continent, about half has now fallen under the catastrophe of corpse demons, but the inner area behind various anti-defense lines is actually still barely safe and stable.

In a relatively stable environment, it is inevitable that there will be bad cultivators such as robber cultivators and evil cultivators. In order to practice, they will set ambushes and kill other cultivators, rob resources, or practice evil magic and sacrifice blood to mortals. They are the ones that everyone wants to kill.

These people were surrounded and blocked by the major immortal cities in the inner domain. Once they could no longer survive, they would flee to the outer domain defense line and change into another identity.

Regarding Liu Zongxing's speculation, Master Liuyun said calmly:

"Since his origin is unknown, we cannot rule out this possibility. Do you know what this person's specific cultivation level is?"

Liu Zongxing recalled:

"This person's magical power is unfathomable. I feel that he is slightly stronger than the several cultivators in the early stage of Jindan that I have seen before. He may be in the middle stage of Jindan."

"Middle stage of Jindan?"

Master Liuyun frowned and smiled:
"Then we need to pay more attention to them. Three Jindan Zhenren died a few days ago. If we can recruit them into the battle hall, we can make up for the gap in combat power."

Liu Zongxing was stunned for a moment, and said with some surprise:

"But Master, this person's origins are unknown. If we accept him into the war hall..."

Master Liuyun said lightly:
"Longshan Immortal City is a place where all kinds of people can be found. There have always been many sinners and calamity cultivators hiding here. No matter what the background of this Jindan cultivator surnamed Lu is, as long as he behaves himself in this immortal city, he is a useful talent and can play a role."

Although a Jindan middle stage True Man is a big shot no matter where he is, there are nearly twenty Jindan True Man in Longshan Immortal City, and there are also two great Nascent Soul cultivators, Huanglong Zhenjun and Wei Bufan, in charge. Even Liuyun Zhenjun himself is a Jindan late stage cultivator, so they don't really take a Jindan middle stage True Man seriously.

For him, the only thing he considered was whether this person could be used by the Immortal City.

As soon as he thought of this, without waiting for Liu Zongxing to say anything, Master Liuyun spoke again:
"Go down, and come back to tell me when he has chosen a cave. I will then choose a day to visit him and see what he is like."

Liu Zongxing immediately agreed:
"Yes, I'll go right away!"

soon.

After paying the spiritual money, Lu Yuan obtained the core array plate of Zizhu Peak, which was equivalent to the key to the cave, and officially became the owner of the cave.

Such a large cave naturally requires servants to do some cleaning and looking after chores. Qian Siming eagerly recommended a place called Huiyinglou that specializes in providing servants. Lu Yuan was too lazy to make any more arrangements, so he simply let the other party make the arrangements and sent a group of servants to Zizhu Peak.

There were twelve servants in total, most of them were young women, each of them had a pretty face and graceful figure, but their cultivation was mostly low, only at the initial stage of Qi Refining, with a few at the middle stage of Qi Refining.

According to the introduction of the manager of Huiying Tower, most of these women are excellent people selected from among mortals. They have all been trained in welcoming guests, taking care of spiritual plants, and raising spiritual birds and beasts. It can be said that they know everything. Even if they don't know how, they can quickly get started with a little teaching.

After a brief comparison, Lu Yuan selected two of the most beautiful women with the highest cultivation and more maturity as servants, and then started work that day.

Of course, in order to prevent the two women from being spies planted by Longshan Fairy City, he first used the magical power of nightmare to stamp their minds, making them loyal in an instant.

After that, Lu Yuan settled down completely and officially began his retreat, preparing to break through the threshold of the middle stage of Qi Refining and Spiritualization in one go. (End of this chapter)