Since Xingdi took the initiative, Qin Lingyun naturally agreed. After all, Xingdi was a mysterious figure from 10,000 years ago. Although he never explicitly said it, Qin Lingyun knew that Xingdi's cultivation must have been very high, so his vision must be extremely high.

  However, Qin Lingyun first needs to figure out the problem with the purple crystal card. With a slight scan of her divine sense, she discovers a Golden Jade Pavilion nearby and senses that many cultivators holding cards are entering it.

  However, most of the cards in the hands of many monks are mostly blue, occasionally white, and none are purple.

  Qin Lingyun walked into the Golden Jade Pavilion and found many cultivators standing in front of different counters. There were several counters, each with a jade stone sign in front of it with different words engraved on them, including exchanging spirit stones, storing spirit stones, and card-related matters. On the wall hung a notice, which Qin Lingyun's divine sense scanned, explaining the uses of various cards in detail.

  It turned out that the Jinyuge was a shop specializing in trading spiritual stones. Many cultivators, due to having too many spiritual stones which were inconvenient to carry or needed to be stored for various reasons, could store their spiritual stones in special cards provided by the Jinyuge. Different cards represented different levels of authority, and the purple crystal card belonged to the VIP level.

  Qin Lingyun walked up to a counter and handed over the purple crystal card. The store clerk, who had been slow due to Qin Lingyun's ordinary attire, immediately showed respect on his face. The purple crystal card was a symbol of status, and it was impossible to obtain one without storing tens of thousands of spirit stones.

  The shop assistant swiped the purple crystal card on a special rectangular device and got a number with just one glance.

  42,750 pieces of low-grade spirit stone!

  "The shop assistant respectfully asked: 'How many pieces of Ling Stone does senior need to withdraw?'"

  Qin Lingyun said lightly: "First withdraw 5,000 yuan."

  The shop assistant led Qin Lingyun to a room in the back, then another middle-aged man with more luxurious clothes patted his storage bag, and a pile of spirit stones appeared inside the room.

  Five thousand pieces of low-grade spirit stones were piled together, emitting a dazzling glow. Qin Lingyun's face showed no expression as she swept her hand and stored all the spirit stones into her storage bag.

  The middle-aged man then used a special technique to modify the number of spirit stones in the purple crystal card, and there were still over 30,000 pieces left inside.

  "Now we have spirit stones, let's go outside and buy some things." said Xingdi.

  Qin Lingyun left the Golden Jade Pavilion and walked back onto the main street, strolling past many small stalls along the way. Xing Di's expression was solemn, his eyes scrutinizing every item.

  "A first-class medium-quality Fire Scale, and it's only thirty spirit stones, I'll buy it."

  "That piece of cyan debris, yes, the one in the unobtrusive corner of the left stall, stupid stall owner, this is a fragment of the top-grade spiritual artifact Qing Xiao Jian, treating jade and pearls as rubble, selling it for only ten spirit stones, hurry up and buy it."

  "That's a hard shell shed by the Nine-Turned Spirit Silkworm, it can be used to feed spirit insects, buy it."

  "There is also the Yīn Shān leaf, which is exactly what you need to open your hidden spiritual root. Although it's impossible to fully open the entire Xū Xiān spiritual root, the sealed hidden spiritual root can't be left dormant either. After opening the hidden spiritual root, you can cultivate two sets of techniques at the same time and have more options for using spells."

  All the way, Xingdi, who was originally steady and serious, seemed to have a hint of frenzy in his eyes when buying items. With many Ling stones on hand, he wanted to buy everything he saw, whether it was Ling symbols, medicinal materials or some strange and unusual objects, almost filling Qin Lingyun's storage bag.

  Qin Lingyun was too busy putting the items into her storage bag and didn't even have time to examine them carefully. At this moment, Xingdi's eyes lit up again: "That black ring over there must be bought."

  Qin Lingyun walked over to take a look and found that it was just an ordinary black ring, but Qin Lingyun felt a strange sense of familiarity. She thought for a moment, then probed her divine consciousness into the storage bag, and a strange expression suddenly appeared on her face.

  Xingdi didn't notice Qin Lingyun's expression. After getting the black ring, he cast his gaze onto other stalls again.

  But Qin Lingyun's heart was filled with many doubts, and on this black ring, there was also a carving, which was the shape of a green dragon. On top of the ring, there was also a small ancient seal character.

  Qin Lingyun had once purchased a strange blue phoenix ring, but later due to various things, the ring was forgotten in her storage bag. Now that she saw this blue dragon ring, she found that the two were almost the same size, the craftsmanship was very similar, and the materials should be roughly the same.

  "What's the connection between these two?" Qin Lingyun was puzzled in her heart, but since Xingdi could pick out this ring from the small stall, he should be familiar with its origin.

  But now is not a good time to ask, because Xingdi is in the midst of buying and Qin Lingyun wants to speak up several times, but can't find an opportunity.

  Watching the storage bag getting more and more stuff, but Xingdi was still buying non-stop. Qin Lingyun couldn't help but feel a bit unbearable, she found an opportunity to say discontentedly: "Xingdi, items like the Nine-turns Demon Silkworm's shed hard shell are useless even if we buy them, because I don't even raise spirit insects."

  Xingdi said: "Little girl, what do you know? The things I buy are all useful. Moreover, there are so many spiritual stones here. You don't even use them for cultivation, and keeping them doesn't make much sense either."

  Qin Lingyun smiled bitterly: "I can buy medicinal materials and refine more Qi-increasing pills for sale, besides, you said that opening the hidden spirit root also requires buying medicinal materials with spirit stones, those that are not very useful should be avoided as much as possible."

  "Don't worry, the 5,000 spirit stones have almost been spent. Next, let's find a place to carefully sort out the items we've purchased. I think there are still many good things inside."

  Qin Lingyun shook her head, Xingdi was indeed unaware of thriftiness when buying things, but it could be understood. Being trapped in the stone tablet for over 10,000 years, not finding something to vent about would drive one mad. Since Xingdi chose to vent by buying things, she'd just go along with him. After all, he had bought quite a few good cheap items.

  At this time, it was almost midnight. Qin Lingyun continued on her way and finally arrived at a large hall where she could rent a place to stay temporarily in Qingyachi City.

  Inside the main hall were some disciples wearing black Taoist robes. When they saw Qin Lingyun walk in, one of the disciples immediately came forward: "Is fellow Daoist here to rent a room?"

  Qin Lingyun said: "Yes, I don't know what kind of houses there are."

  That disciple said, "The houses rented out here are all owned by the Black Water Gate. There are three grades in total: upper, middle and lower. The lower grade requires five spirit stones per month, the middle grade is twenty, and the upper grade is fifty."

  "What's the difference between them?"