Start a mysterious island

Chapter 363: Be careful when sailing the ship of ten thousand years, there is nothing wrong with being cautious (two chapters in one)

"Tap, step, step..."

Slight footsteps sounded on the street, and Lin Li walked into the shop selling spiritual stones.

Just as he thought when he first stood outside the store, the store selling spiritual stones was quiet inside, with no one else except the dozing clerk.

Lin Li thought to himself as he stared at the clerk with his right hand supporting his cheek, his eyes closed, and his head shaking, as if he was about to lie down on the table and sleep at any moment.

"This clerk is really generous and is not afraid of thieves sneaking in and stealing things."

Lin Li walked forward, came to the counter, stretched out his right hand, and knocked on the counter.

"Dong dong dong..."

As the sound of knocking on the counter came, the clerk who was dozing with his eyes closed was startled and opened his eyes immediately.

"Well……"

"Hello, sir, do you need anything?"

The clerk who woke up quickly rubbed his eyes, then stood up from his chair and greeted Lin Li.

The clerk in front of me is actually not very old. He looks to be only fourteen or fifteen years old at most. He is not tall, only 1.6 meters tall.

Lin Li looked down at the young clerk, then he reached into his pocket and took out a fist-sized piece of spiritual stone ore and placed it on the counter.

"I have some spiritual stone mines of this quality, and I want to exchange them for spiritual stones. Do you accept them here?"

The young clerk did not reach out to touch the spirit stone mine that Lin Li placed on the counter. He nodded and said, "Please wait a moment."

After saying that, the young clerk left the counter and ran to the door of a room in the store.

Lin Li saw the clerk reaching out and knocking on the door, and then said, "Uncle, there is a customer who wants to exchange some spirit stone mines for spirit stones."

Uncle? It turns out that this young clerk is a relative of the shop owner! No wonder he dared to doze off while sitting at the counter while working.

After all, if it were anyone else, they wouldn't have the guts to sit and doze off during working hours, because if they were discovered, they would be fired...

Through the young clerk's words, Lin Li understood the relationship between him and the shopkeeper. Then, he saw the door that had been knocked opened, revealing a middle-aged man in his fifties with thinning hair. Walk out of the room.

"Hello, sir." Under the guidance of his nephew, the shopkeeper came to Lin Li and greeted him with a smile.

"Hello." Lin Li nodded in response, and then saw the other party pick up the spirit stone mine he put on the counter.

Immediately afterwards, a wave of spiritual energy emanated from the shopkeeper.

At the beginning of the second stage, Lin Li felt the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the shopkeeper, and made a mental judgment about his cultivation.

"Sir, the quality of your spirit stone ore is good..." After checking the quality of the spirit stone ore in his hand, the shopkeeper said with a smile.

"How many spiritual stones can this spiritual stone mine be exchanged for?" Lin Li asked.

The shopkeeper weighed the spirit stone ore in his hand and said, "You can exchange it for seven."

The fist-sized spirit stone mine can be exchanged for seven spirit stones the size of pigeon eggs. The owner of this shop is quite honest in doing business, and there is no evil intention to lower the price. Lin Li nodded with satisfaction.

Then, with a thought in his mind, he took out more than thirty pieces of different sizes of spirit stones that he had obtained in the cave before, from the mysterious island, and placed them on the counter in front of him.

The shopkeeper and his nephew suddenly opened their eyes in shock after seeing what Lin Li did.

"With his hands empty, he just waved his hand, and so many spirit stone mines appeared out of thin air. This guest is a practitioner who has awakened the power of storage space!"

After Lin Li took out all the spirit stone mines on the mysterious island, he said to the shopkeeper who looked at him with wide eyes.

"Shopkeeper, please help me replace all these spiritual stone mines with spiritual stones."

The shopkeeper who came back to his senses immediately responded with a smile, "Okay, sir, please wait a moment. I will help you calculate how many spiritual stones these spiritual stone mines can be exchanged for."

Later, through some calculations by the shopkeeper, Lin Li obtained dozens of spiritual stone mines of different sizes from this treasure hunt, which could be exchanged for a total of 320 spiritual stones.

Lin Li originally estimated that the spirit stone mines he obtained could be exchanged for 300 to 400 spirit stones. Now, the number of 320 spirit stones is just within the range of his estimate.

After the shopkeeper calculated the results, Lin Li didn't say anything more and directly asked the other party to exchange them for spiritual stones.

"Sir, where did you get all these spiritual stones?" At this time, the shopkeeper asked subconsciously.

Then, he felt that it was a bit impolite to ask, so he quickly added, "Sorry, if it's not convenient to say it, you don't have to answer."

Lin Li didn't expect that the shopkeeper would ask about the origin of the spirit stone mine, but when the other party asked, he just said it casually, but it didn't really matter. This was not Blue Star anyway.

"I accidentally picked up these spiritual stone mines outside the city..."

"Guest, you are so lucky...Xiao Ke, please put these spirit stone mines away, and I will get the spirit stones for the guest."

Naturally, the shopkeeper didn't believe what Lin Li said. After all, if you accidentally picked up one or two pieces of spiritual stone ore outside the city, it would be normal. Picking up so many at once was obviously impossible.

The shopkeeper asked casually, and Lin Li answered casually. The two parties did not continue on this topic.

Then, he ordered his nephew to pack up the numerous spiritual stone mines, and then entered the room from which he came out earlier.

When the young clerk saw his uncle leaving, he immediately took out a linen bag from the cabinet under the counter and put the spirit stones on the table into the linen bag piece by piece.

When he put all the spirit stones into the linen bag, the storekeeper who left walked out of the room again. This time, he was holding a wooden box in his hand.

"Sir, all three hundred and twenty of your spirit stones are here. Please check them out."

The shopkeeper placed the wooden box he was holding on the counter. Then he opened the box and saw many crystal clear spiritual stones stacked in the wooden box, which were as big as pigeon eggs.

Because it was the first time to trade with this store, the trust between both parties was not high, so Lin Li followed the other party's instructions and began to check whether the spiritual stones in the wooden box were genuine.

After spending a few minutes, he checked all the spirit stones in the wooden box and found that there were no problems. Lin Li immediately put the wooden box containing the spirit stones into the mysterious island.

The shopkeeper had no objection to Lin Li taking away the wooden box, because even the spirit stone and the box were originally meant to be given to the other party.

"It's a pleasure to cooperate. If I still have the spirit stone mine in the future, I will come to you again..." Lin Li said to the shopkeeper with a smile.

Then, with the other party's warm greetings, he left the shop selling spiritual stones.

"Uncle, this is the first time I have seen a practitioner who has awakened the power of storage space." The young clerk said as he looked at Lin Li who stopped a carriage on the roadside and left in the carriage.

"Don't tell me it's you, it's the first time I've seen him, and I just felt that he was exuding the first stage of the second stage of spiritual energy fluctuations." The shopkeeper said with emotion.

"The first stage of the second stage? Uncle, are you mistaken? This customer doesn't look very old! He is so young, and he has already reached the first stage of the second stage." The young clerk said in surprise.

"I can't make a mistake. If I still make a mistake when sensing at such a close distance, my store has been open for so many years in vain." The store manager said.

Then, he withdrew his gaze from the carriage that was leaving in the distance, turned back to the counter, picked up the linen bag containing the spirit stone ore, and entered the room where he was before.

The young clerk saw the shopkeeper entering the room, and he sat back on the chair behind the counter.

Then, he held his cheek with his right hand and looked at the passers-by on the street outside the store. He thought about the young guest he had just entertained and murmured to himself.

"The first stage of the second stage. If I can reach the first stage of the second stage before I am thirty years old, I will burn high incense."

The carriage drove towards its destination in an orderly manner. Lin Li, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the busy street scene outside the window, and his thoughts spread out.

“This trip to Bibo Lake to hunt for treasure, I finally harvested 320 spiritual stones, which if converted into cash, is 16 million.

It took half a day of hard work to earn 16 million. Before, I would have never dared to think about it. There are so many opportunities to make a fortune in the spiritual world! "

Next, Lin Li will take a carriage to a restaurant that specializes in selling oysters. According to the plan he conceived during lunch, he will buy a batch of pearls in case of emergency.

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The sun is setting in the west, and in more than an hour, night will fall.

The bright red sunset passes over the mountains on the horizon, painting the backs of the mountain peaks with a layer of bright color.

Most of the world is dyed red by the setting sun at this moment. Tired birds return to the forest, and flocks of birds return to their homes under the setting sun.

When caravans walking in the wilderness see that the sky is getting dark, caravans who are closer to the city will choose to speed up to the city, hoping to enter the city before dark.

The caravan, which was still far away from the city and could not enter the city before dark even if it speeded up, began to look for a flat place to set up camp peacefully and prepare to spend the night in the wild.

On the shore of Bibo Lake, at a gentle location, a large caravan consisting of dozens of carriages stopped.

Because there was no time to reach Dongwu City before dark, the caravan chose to set up camp here.

The carriages were connected end to end to form a huge circular fortification, and then the caravan personnel set up tents in the circle. After the shelter was set up, everyone began to prepare a fire for cooking.

Large pots were set up on the bonfires. Water from Bibo Lake was poured into the pots. After boiling, the cooks with average skills began to put noodles into the pots.

A middle-aged man full of energy and extraordinary temperament sat in front of a small round table. He picked up the tea poured by the servant, took a sip, and said to the guard captain standing in front of him.

"Captain Wang, it's going to be dark soon. Have you made arrangements for the personnel responsible for night security?"

The guard captain responsible for the safety of this caravan was a strong man with a mid-level second-level cultivation. Hearing his employer asking about the night guard, he immediately answered.

"Shopkeeper Wu, you have seen that we escorted your caravan all the way to Dongwu City. We are professionals, so please be at ease!"

"Captain Wang, I recognize your professionalism, but be careful.

After dawn tomorrow, we will have another half day's journey to Dongwu City. Seeing that this trip is about to reach the end, I don't want to make any mistakes at this last moment.

Please remind your people, so that everyone must be at your best tonight and make sure no mistakes are made.

When I get to Dongwucheng, I will find a restaurant and treat everyone to a big meal. "The caravan manager said in a sincere tone.

The reason why he was still so vigilant when he was about to arrive in Dongwu City was because he had encountered similar lessons before.

When he was young, he once led a caravan. The night before he was about to arrive at his destination, because everyone relaxed their vigilance, the caravan was successfully attacked by alien beasts that night, causing a lot of casualties and cargo. Loss.

Since that time, the caravan manager never dared to let down his guard again. Every time he went out for business, after dark, he would give countless instructions to the guards escorting the caravan.

When the guard captain heard what his employer said, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll remind my brothers later."

The caravan manager smiled with satisfaction, then glanced at his servant, who understood the situation, took out an envelope from his arms, and handed it to the guard captain with both hands.

The guard captain took the envelope handed over by the servant, opened it and took a look. There was a wad of cash inside.

A bright smile suddenly appeared on his face, he put the cash into his arms, and then immediately turned around and left. It seemed that he was going to find his brothers to explain the vigilance tonight.

"I hope everything goes well tonight. After tonight, I will leave after dawn tomorrow and arrive at Dongwu City at noon." The caravan manager leaned back on his chair, raised his head, looked at the red sunset on the horizon, and muttered to himself road.

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Under the bright red sunset, a carriage was running quickly on the stone road.

"Xu..."

The driver driving the carriage pulled the reins in his hand and signaled the horse to stop.

The horses immediately slowed down after receiving the signal, and the carriage stopped at the door of a villa.

"Sir, we've arrived." The driver turned around and said to the passengers in the carriage.

"Okay." Lin Li came out of the carriage, handed the fare to the coachman, and then jumped out of the carriage.

Just now he went to a restaurant specializing in selling oysters to buy pearls. Because the restaurant owner had not returned from a long trip like last time, so the person who entertained him this time was the restaurant owner's assistant Liu Yun.

We are all old acquaintances, and the process of acquiring pearls went very smoothly.

Because Lin Li had just purchased a large number of pearls not long ago and came to purchase them again soon after, Liu Yun was very curious, but she did not ask.

After trading the pearls, Liu Yun enthusiastically persuaded Lin Li to stay and wanted to treat him to dinner at a restaurant.

Unfortunately, Lin Li had already made arrangements, so he declined Liu Yun's kindness.

Last time he failed to persuade Lin Li to stay for a meal, and this time he failed again. Liu Yun wanted to make amends for this.

So, she asked the hotel's chef to pack a lot of food for Lin Li and let him take it away.

The kindness was hard to refuse, and it could be accommodated in the mysterious island without taking up much space, so Lin Li accepted the other party's kindness with a smile.

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