Longevity Gu Dao: Start From Refining Infatuation Gu

Chapter 80: Exchanging Law Weapons for Food, Cultivators Bowing for Five Dou of Rice

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At this moment, Zhou Sui was still planning to continue his cultivation when suddenly he heard a knocking sound from outside the house.

"Who is it?"

With a thought, Zhou Sui sensed an elderly cultivator appearing outside the door. He looked to be around seventy or eighty years old and had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.

He immediately recognized the person as his neighbor Qian Wei, a master of artifact refining. However, they were only acquaintances and not very familiar with each other.

He didn't expect Qian Wei to come knocking on his door.

"Fellow Daoist Qian, may I ask why you suddenly came to visit?"

Zhou Sui opened the door and asked.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou."

Seeing Zhou Sui open the door, Qian Wei was delighted and immediately explained his purpose, "It's like this, I wonder if Fellow Daoist Zhou has any spare food and spirit meat. I can exchange them for low-grade Law Weapons."

He wanted to exchange spirit rice and spirit meat with Zhou Sui.

"Exchange spirit rice and spirit meat? Does Fellow Daoist Qian not have any food left?"

Hearing this, Zhou Sui was stunned. To be honest, he had never heard of such a thing before.

Previously in Misty Cloud City, spirit rice and spirit meat were not worth much. It was simply absurd for other cultivators to want to exchange these foods for pills and Law Weapons.

But now, Qian Wei was actually willing to exchange precious Law Weapons, which was truly unimaginable.

It was like using gold to exchange for rice and flour.

During peacetime, no one would do such a foolish thing.

"I don't have any left. They've been gone for a long time. Who could have expected that Misty Cloud City would be besieged for such a long time? I didn't expect to store so much food. The food I stored earlier has long been eaten up, and I don't even have a single Fasting Pill left."

Qian Wei was regretful.

If he had known how important food was, he would have stored a lot of it.

It was nothing like now, where he was bowing for five dou of rice.

But there was no other way. The storage space in a cultivator's storage bag was limited, mostly only one or two cubic meters. Most of it was used to store manuals, Law Weapons, pills, and other precious treasures. Who would store food?

Moreover, Fasting Pills were not cheap, and no one would store a large quantity of them.

"Even if you run out of food, you can still buy it. Haven't you heard that shops are now limited in supply? Why sell your Law Weapons at a low price?"

Zhou Sui asked.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, don't you know?"

Hearing this, Qian Wei seemed a little surprised. "Last night, the warehouse storing spirit rice and meat in Misty Cloud City was attacked by spies from the Shadow Demon Sect. A large amount of food was destroyed. Even the Immortal Mist Sect can't produce a large amount of food now. Even if you go to the shops now, even if you spend ten times the price, you won't be able to buy a single grain of rice."

"The Shadow Demon Sect cultivators attacked the spirit rice warehouse?"

Zhou Sui was stunned. After all, he had been staying at home and rarely went outside, so he naturally wasn't very aware of what was happening outside.

He didn't expect that spies from the Shadow Demon Sect would actually attack the spirit rice warehouse.

Undoubtedly, this was a heavy blow to the Immortal Mist Sect.

After all, the storage space in a cultivator's storage bag was limited, and it was impossible to store all the food in it. There were still large amounts of spirit rice and meat stored in the warehouse.

Normally, these places were heavily guarded.

But apparently, those spies from the Shadow Demon Sect had made a move and somehow deceived the guards. They set fire to the warehouse, destroying the spirit rice and meat inside.

This also led to a sharp decline in the food stored by the Immortal Mist Sect in Misty Cloud City.

Originally, if there were limited supplies, the cultivators in Misty Cloud City could have eaten for over a year.

But now, many spirit grains have been burned, and meat has been destroyed, resulting in a large amount of food disappearing.

This will undoubtedly lead Misty Cloud City into a state of famine, and who knows how many cultivators will go hungry.

No wonder Qian Wei is willing to exchange Law Weapons for food.

After all, even if Law Weapons are precious, they cannot fill one's stomach.

Now, I don't know how many cultivators are anxious to exchange pills, Law Weapons, talismans, and other things for food.

"Sorry, we don't have much food reserves either. If Fellow Daoist Qian has some, I have some talismans that maybe we can exchange. The price will be very cheap."

Zhou Sui said calmly.

He didn't plan to trade food with the other party.

Indeed, he still had a large amount of food on him, and perhaps he could take advantage of the situation to exchange a large number of Law Weapons and pills at a low price.

He might even make a fortune.

The problem is, it's too dangerous to do so.

If other cultivators find out that he has a large amount of food, it's likely that what will come is not wealth, but calamity.

Having stayed in Misty Cloud City for so many years, he is already familiar with the nature of cultivators.

Don't be fooled by the appearance of these cultivators being kind and friendly on weekdays. Once there is a profit to be made or an opportunity to bully the weak, they will not hesitate to turn hostile and become Rogue Cultivators.

With weapons in hand, killing intent arises.

That's what cultivators are like.

Money can be earned at any time, there's no need to take risks at this time and become a target of public criticism.

"You don't have any food either? Then I'll take my leave."

Hearing this, Qian Wei's face turned green. He originally didn't have any food on him and wanted to use Law Weapons to exchange for food from other cultivators.

But this kid actually wanted to use talismans to trade for food with him, isn't that nonsense?

If they were in the wilderness, talismans would have some use.

But in Misty Cloud City, talismans can't be eaten.

If he really exchanged his remaining food, he would probably starve to death.

He wasn't stupid enough to do that.

So he left without hesitation, heading to other places to exchange food with other cultivators who had sufficient supplies.

"Fellow Daoist Qian, take care."

Zhou Sui waved his hand, bidding farewell to Qian Wei.

But he quickly realized that it wasn't just Qian Wei who came to his door.

Neighboring cultivators like Zhu Fellow Daoist, Sun Fellow Daoist, Feng Fellow Daoist, and more than ten other cultivators at the late Qi Refining stage also came, wanting to trade for food with Zhou Sui and obtain food.

Obviously, these cultivators were also caught in a food crisis and wanted to take advantage of the situation to exchange for a large amount of food.

Some even took out their hidden treasures, such as pill formulas, Law Weapons, pills, and manuals.

Unfortunately, Zhou Sui rejected them one by one, saying that even his own family didn't have much food.

These cultivators could only leave disappointed.

After all, they couldn't force Zhou Sui. With Ji Bingyu and Xia Jingyan, two cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refining, these cultivators had to consider their own weight. Whether it was worth it to really take action.

Of course, if Zhou Sui was still at the first level of Qi Refining, he would have been killed by these aggressive neighboring cultivators a long time ago, and they would have taken away all his food.

At this point, no one would care about neighborly feelings.

The most important thing is that they didn't have much emotional connection to begin with, at most just acquaintances, not too familiar.

(End of this chapter)