Tainted will

The Teng Family was a famous cultivation family in the Tiannan Province of the Northern azure continent. The family head, Teng Zhe, reached the peak of supreme mortal realm in the last twenty years.

Because the Teng family had an ancestor like him, not many dared to mess with them.

Even though they weren't a big sect, The Teng family city was also under the Red Lotus sect's rule, a first rate righteous sect. And Teng zhe was even an inner elder of the sect. So their position was very high in the Tiannan province.

The Teng Family's exchange fair provided a platform for the cultivators to trade in. At the beginning of each month, Teng Family City was very busy.

Where there are lot of people, there will naturally be a lot of conflicts. Sometimes, people would fight the moment they met. Because of that, the Teng family ancestor, Teng zhe, set a no fighting rule in the city.

Everyone in the city was prohibited from fighting.

The moment the order came out, everyone in the city obeyed, especially after Teng Zhe personally came out and killed few Yin-Yang void cultivators.

On this day, a purple light flew across the sky toward the Teng Family city.

It was none other than Bai Ming.

Its been nearly two months since Bai Ming had broken through to the spirit realm, during this period of time he had gotten accustomed to flying after much training.

Not only that Bai Ming had also completely developed his first peak extremity grade sword path martial skill, he also succeed in breaking through the restriction on the flying sword after spending a good amount of time.

Bai Ming's gaze swept the Teng Family City before him. This city was very large, and at first glance, he couldn't even see where it ended.

Outside the city stood four Teng Family disciples greeting travelers with smiles and handing out tokens.

Bai Ming expanded his divine sense and immediately found out that four of them were at the core formation realm.

Looking at the long line of people going into the city, Bai Ming wasn't in any rush. He checked everyone in the line and found that everyone was a cultivator, but the strongest was only at the 7th layer core formation realm.

Just when Bai Ming was about to join the line, ray of light arched across the sky over to the city entrance. An figure wearing a rainbow-colored robe released a very strong aura. Bai Ming sent out his divine sense and was slightly suprised. This person wasn't old at all, only about 20 years old, but had already reached the peak of spirit realm.

The figure casually waved his hand and created a wind that blew everyone away. The people with lower cultivation were sent flying, while many were rolling on the ground.

Bai Ming was unfazed, he expressionlessly looked at the figure. The thought of killing him for body refinement material crossed through Bai Ming's mind, but he quickly put it in the back of his mind.

This was new place with new rules, he couldn't do as he pleased, atleast till he had a good understanding of how this place works. Of course if Bai Ming had unparalleled strength he wouldn't have given a damn about these so called rules of the world.

The figure coldly glanced at Bai Ming, but once he scanned Bai Ming his expression turned milder as he slightly nodded at Bai Ming, to which Bai Ming also returned the gesture, then the figure walked to the gate. He threw out a token and the four guards became very respectful. One of them even followed the person into the city.

Those low level cultivators all revealed looks of envy and jealousy, but none dared to showe their displeasure. They didn't lack any self awareness.

Bai Ming watching this scene thought secretly, 'Strength is always supreme, no matter if it is in the village, mainland or even earth for that matter. In this world an individual can reign supreme above all else with his own strength, but in earth only those that have money, status, political influence or have military power are the top dogs.'

Bai Ming continued to move towards the city gate ignoring the gazes of those cultivators.

These people wanted to gang up and beat Bai Ming for not waiting for his turn. But seeing that they could not see through his cultivation base and looking at how young he was, they immediately thought of him having worthy background.

Bai Ming paid thousand spirit stones to enter the city. The higher one's cultivation base was the greater was one's entry fee, this was a rule set by current Teng city head, Teng zhe.

Of course, if a individual with Supreme mortal realm cultivation base or higher came, they could enter freely.

'If I want to stay here for more than a month, I have to pay three thousand spirit stones every month. Hehe, quite greedy aren't they.' Bai Ming thought as he began searching for an place of residence.

There were people moving to and fro on the street. Large tall trees were planted on both sides of the street and under its shade were all kinds of stalls; some sold food like soft bean curd, meat and vegetable dishes; while others sold jewellery and all kinds of other stuff.

Bai Ming walked past the stalls, then he saw buildings; tall and luxurious buildings, spirit houses and white-grey tiled houses.

Shops, hotels, inns, smithies and so on appeared one after another.

Bai Ming quickly found an inn. He payed five hundred spirit stones and got an room for himself for the month.

'Now, I should begin gathering information. Information is also an kind of strength, I should also get an map.' Bai Ming thought as his gaze landed on one of the workers in inn.

Next he gave the waiter of the inn some spirit stones and collected information on the Teng city, about the major powers in the city and also understanding the rules of the city, while also learning more about the trade event.

From what Bai Ming had learnt, there were total of 108 provinces in the Northern continent. Each province was made up of nearly hundred cities.

The strongest powers in the Tiannan Province where the three first rate righteous sects and one first rate demonic path valley.

The Teng family city was under the influence of one of the three righteous path sects, the red lotus sect.

The requirements for a sect to be a first rate sect was that they needed to simply have a Divine astral realm cultivator.

Bai Ming quickly walked through the streets heading toward the Lotus Treasure Pavilion in the east of the city.

The Lotus Treasure Pavilion had four floors. The items in each floor were several time more expensive than the ones in the last. Currently, there were about seven or eight cultivators bargaining with the workers inside.

Before Bai Ming entered, he took out a black cloak to cover his head. After entering, he looked around the first floor and found that it mostly contained treasure swords, flying swords, tier 2 and below pills, treasure armour and some other stuff. All of the flying swords were high quality, sealed in boxes with talismans on each end to prevent the sword essence from escaping.

In addition to all of these swords, there was a blue crystal pillar in the center of the room with three flying swords floating in the middle with the tips of the swords pointing down.

The three flying swords dimmed and brightened. Sometimes they would even shine brightly.

Flying swords were different from the treasure swords, Flying swords had the innate ability to fly. Most core formation cultivators and bellow would usually own one flying sword, of course they could also be used to fight in battles.

As Bai Ming looked at the three swords in the center, a worker walked up. He was about 19 years old and looked very bright. He carefully examined Bai Ming. It was pretty normal for customers to hide their faces because many cultivators didn't want to be recognized. As for Bai Ming's cultivation level, he had the lotus Treasure Pavilion's own special treasure to check. The more he checked, the more excited he became, because Bai Ming's cultivation level kept changing between 1st and 2nd layer of spirit realm.

Although this worker was surprised, he didn't show it on his face. He respectfully asked, "Does senior have his eyes on these flying swords?"

Bai Ming withdrew his gaze and looked at the worker. He was instantly able to see that the worker was at 3rd layer of elemental realm and calmly asked, "Does this treasure Pavilion sell tier 5 beast wings, formation flags preferably higher quality one's, spirit realm cultivation pills?"

The worker nodded and brightly smiled. "Senior, I'm afraid that you will only find these quality items in our Lotus Treasure Pavilion, as they are not things normal people can buy. If senior is interested, please follow me to the third floor."

Bai Ming calmly walked toward the stairs. The worker quickly followed to lead the way Just before he stepped on the ladder, he turned and looked at a cultivator that was currently bargaining with a worker. He eyes grew colder as he pondered for a moment before stepping onto the stairs.

After arriving at the second floor, the worker quickly went to talk to a middle-aged man in a room before quickly returning downstairs.

The muscular middle-aged man approached Bai Ming, clasped his hands and gave a slight bow, and said, "Senior let me accompany you to the third floor."

He quickly led Bai Ming to the third floor, before he had a quick exchange of words with a old man before returning downstairs.

Bai Ming took a look at the old man and found that he couldn't see through him. He was surprised by this. The first floor had a elemental realm cultivator and the second floor had a core formation cultivator. Going from this pattern now the third floor probably had a spirit realm cultivator. Does this mean that there is a Yin-Yang void realm cultivator in charge of the fourth floor?

The old man only had few stands of green hair and his eyes occasionally shone. He got up, clasped his hands, and said, "Esteemed guest, we have many Yin-Yang void realm formation flags. Lucky we also have a 5th tier high grade bird beasts corpse, but we can only sell it has a whole. As for spirit realm pills there are few of them in stock. Which one would you like look at first."

Bai Ming expression was calm and cool as he asked, "How much for a single tier 4 and tier 5 formation flag?"

"Just thousand for a single tier 4 formation flag and ten thousand spirit stones for tier 5." The old man replied with a smile.

Bai Ming nodded, his heart felt heavy from the absurd price. He thought for a second, "Let me see that demon beast corpse."

The old man laughed and pointed at the golden chair to the side. "Fellow cultivator, please sit and I'll go grab them for you." With that, he poured a cup of tea before walking next to a wall and hitting it. Ripples appeared on the wall, then it turned more and more illusionary.

After twenty whole minutes.

'The beast corpse will cost me 50,000 spirit stones, but i can just take it's wings and resell the corpse and the beast core, it should fetch around 30,000 spirit stones. I currently only have 160,000 spirit stones, if add the cost of purchasing beast wings, I will have 140,000 remaining. If I purchase another hundred formation flags, I will have 40,000 spirit stones remaining. Then to buy the most detailed map of the northern continent I could get costs around two thousand spirit stones, but it is needed. Then I need another three hundred high quality papers for the trade event, that will cost me another thirty thousand spirit stones. Spirit realm qi gathering pill costs a fucking fortune, but the effects are also astonishing.' Bai Ming frowned secretly, he just finished going through all the materials and was already tight on funds thinking of the costs.

After a careful thinking session, Bai Ming bought hundred tier 4 formation flags, Tier 5 beast wings and sold back it's body for thirty-three thousand spirit stones after some verbal battles. Then Bai Ming also brought an extremely detailed map of the northern plains, 300 high quality writing paper and also brought books on the history and power system in the northern continent.

Now Bai Ming had only had 6000 spirit stones remaining.

As for selling all low grade treasures, beast cores and martial skills he had accumulated till now, Bai Ming wanted to wait a bit.