CHAPTER 39: CITY DETAILS (2)
She took a moment to gather her thoughts before speaking about the sale of the land in the inner city.
The city lord's mansion won't sell any land, not even an inch, as the inner city's land is considered treasure by the Black Rock family.
The only record of the family selling land was when the Jade Pavilion entered the city and set up their auction house, offering the family ancestor a chance to purchase a Foundation Building Limit Breaking Pill.
The city lord used this pill to reach the middle stage of the Foundation Realm. Therefore, I don't think the lord is ready to sell any land in the city for spirit stones, as he earns a lot from city management. Jessica concluded about the city.
"As for the families in the cities, there are a lot of qi training families as the city itself cannot support one more foundation establishment family or cultivators.
Although many tried to reach the foundation establishment realm after reaching the peak of Qi training level by going to the first-class city where there are a lot of foundation caves available to rent and try to impact the realm., none could reach the foundation realm as it requires foundation pill which is rare even in the first-class city.
And I don't know much about the pill details, but I heard sects and families are supporting the empires and fighting for resources, if you serve in empire war you can exchange for the pill."
"The top families who were there in the city from the inception of the city used to have peak-level Qi practitioners after a lot of accumulation in the city, but they all died of old age or died trying to impact the foundation realm and now the second generation of these families maintain the business."
"These eleven Qi training families are proficient in artifact manufacturing, alchemy, formation, talisman, spirit farming,
"There are three families proficient in formations, The Fire snake family is proficient in attacking formations, the earth crab family is proficient in defense formation, and the yellow horse is proficient in support type formations, each family sells only one type of formation in their shops, and they will sell some formation as an allocated quota by the city lord."
"There are two families proficient in artifact manufacturing: the Qi family, the Red Sword family, and the Blue Shield family. As their names suggest, they specialize in manufacturing swords and shields, respectively."
"The two proficient families in alchemy are: the Fire Dan family and the Water Dan family, the Fire Dan family sells the qi training pills while the Water Dan family sells the relatively rare healing and support elixirs."
"The purple puppet family is one of the families proficient in making monster puppets with their bodies, while the spirit puppet family is proficient in making and selling humanoid puppets. Which are made with metal and spirit wood."
"The last two families specialize in spirit farming; The medicine hut family grows medicinal spirit plants while the purple tree family specializes in growing spirit fruits and spirit rice."
The Sea Ship family is the only remaining family with members skilled in manufacturing and formations. They specialize in building ships for both cultivators and mortals, and they have a monopoly on the shipbuilding industry in the city.
"Excluding these families, there is one more person in the city who has reached the peak of the Qi training period, he came to the city 5 years back and won the auction of the land which the city lord auctioned every 10 years. His name is Black Fang, and he said to have come here to recuperate his injuries after a fight with his enemy."
"Nobody wants to fight him as he is an individual cultivator at the peak and prime of his age to reach the foundation establishment realm, unnecessary conflict will result in retaliation against their family members, so the families maintain minimal relationships with him to avoid conflicts."
The next city from here is another 300 miles and it is a tier 2 city with an alchemist as a city lord.
The First Tier City is 1000 miles from here and controlled by a golden core cultivator.
"These are the only details I know about the city and the family cultivators in the city."
"If you ask anyone, they will say the same information but with fewer details."
Ray patiently listened to every detail and thanked Jesica for the valuable time she had given them to explain all the intricate information in great detail.
While Ray was preparing to get up and leave, he saw the hesitation on Jessica's face as she was hesitating to ask something, so Ray sat down while giving time for Jesicca to organize her words and speak.
"Sir, you said you have five elemental spirit roots right," Jessica asked as a confirmation.
"Yes, I'm a five-elemental spirit root cultivator," Ray confirmed
"Sir, the thing is Jay is also born with Five elemental spirit roots, but I couldn't find any suitable practice in this city, so I had to leave the city to find it in the neighboring city, but the boat was attacked midway, and my trip was canceled, and I have to return empty-handed."
"Sir, it's impolite to ask but could you sell the five-elemental exercise to us, I will purchase it at double the market price." Jessica pleaded.
Ray thought for a second and agreed: "Yes, but I don't have it written on a sheet with me. I'll recite it to you so you can note it down, verify its authenticity, and pay me the market price."
Jesicca immediately took a parchment and got ready to note down the sutra and Ray began reciting the sutra to her.
She first wrote down the sutra and showed it to Ray to check for any omissions, Ray checked it twice, cleared a few mistakes in it, and passed it back to her.
She confirmed the authenticity then Jessica paid him with ten low-grade spirit stones which Ray generously accepted and was thankful to her as he wanted to exchange a few broken spirit stones he generated for spirit stones, but it might draw attention at the exchange office as he just exchanged broken spirit stones.
Her payment has come at the right time which has solved the dilemma for Ray.