I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 1835: Chapter 921: Five Element Coins

“Fellow Daoist, need a ride?”

As Xiao Yuli stepped out of the teleportation array in Northern Abyss City, a cultivator with a kind face approached and asked her.

What is a ride?

Xiao Yuli looked confused, and seeing her expression, the cultivator quickly pointed to a notice board nearby.

[The ferry flying boat to the main city departs every hour, ten Five Element coins per ticket.]

“The last ferry flying boat just departed. Fellow Daoist, if you’re in a hurry to go to the main city, you might consider our ox cart. It’s spacious and fast, with only three seats left, and will leave when it’s full…”

Listening to the long explanation from the cultivator, Xiao Yuli finally understood what a ride was.

With her status as a Golden Core Cultivator, she should have flown directly, but being in an unfamiliar environment and mainly here to inquire about Emperor Chen Qing, she didn’t plan to be so ostentatious.

“If I were to charter a ride, what would the price be?”

However, Xiao Yuli had no intention of squeezing into the ox cart with loose cultivators, and her question made the cultivator who was touting customers show a look of delight, thinking this was a major client from some Immortal Cultivation Family.

“My name is Niu Jingfa. Our ox cart has twelve seats in total, and the price is the same as the official ferry flying boat, but it’s a private delivery service to your doorstep. If you charter the whole thing, I’ll give you a discount, just a flat rate of one hundred Five Element coins.”

Niu Jingfa spoke heartily. Their Niu family had recently risen as a cultivator family, primarily prospering during the pioneering of the Eastern Wilderness Plateau, specializing in herding cattle and sheep for the Five Elements Sect, accumulating their first Spirit Stone.

The ancestor of the Niu family discovered a business opportunity while taking a teleportation array and waiting for a ferry flying boat, and after establishing connections with the Five Elements Sect, they filled the gaps between flying boat departures and earned quite a bit.

“What is a Five Element coin?” Xiao Yuli asked with confusion after listening.

“Fellow Daoist is from an outer region. The Five Element coin is a currency issued by the Five Elements Sect in various immortal cities in the Eastern Wilderness. Every one hundred Five Element coins can be exchanged for a piece of Low Grade Spirit Stone at the Five Elements Sect Spirit Stone Shop. Because this is a low-profit business, we basically settle in Five Element coins. If you don’t have any, just give me a Low Grade Spirit Stone directly.”

Upon hearing Xiao Yuli’s question, Niu Jingfa knew she wasn’t a cultivator from the Eastern Wilderness. While he spoke, he took a round coin with a square hole from his storage bag, engraved with intricate Five Element patterns, smooth and hard around the edges, yet shining with a layer of spiritual light.

“Exchange a hundred for me.”

Xiao Yuli took out two Low Grade Spirit Stones, one for chartering the ride and one for the exchange.

Niu Jingfa immediately responded enthusiastically, taking out a string of Five Element coins tied with a rope and handed them to Xiao Yuli: “Please wait a moment, customer. The parking fee here is quite high, I’ll dispatch your exclusive vehicle right away.”

After speaking, Niu Jingfa was about to leave, and Xiao Yuli instinctively wanted to stop him.

After all, according to the customs of the Tianhe Realm, saying such words usually meant a scam; they would definitely take the Spirit Stone and run.

But then she thought it was only two Low Grade Spirit Stones, and didn’t mind too much.

What surprised her, however, was that after a moment, Niu Jingfa did return with a spacious six-wheeled ox cart, but riding the ox was a girl who looked thirteen or fourteen years old, with two high pigtails.

“Customer, this is my daughter, Niu Manfeng. She just got into the Longevity Academy last year, and now during summer break, she’s here to earn some tuition…”

After Niu Jingfa’s introduction, Xiao Yuli nodded, then boarded the ox cart that Niu Manfeng was riding.

As Niu Manfeng waved the whip in her hand, the ox cart began heading toward the main city.

Guan Xiaolong, who was responsible for this teleportation array, immediately picked up his Heavenly Communication Device to report the news after seeing Xiao Yuli leave.

Although Xiao Yuli was trying her best to conceal it, different realms of cultivators required different amounts of Spirit Stones when using the teleportation array, so as soon as she appeared, Guan Xiaolong knew she was a Golden Core Cultivator.

While the Five Elements Sect adheres to the principle of treating guests kindly and doesn’t specifically detain or interrogate, paying attention to high-ranking cultivators is unavoidable.

After all, if a Golden Core Cultivator went berserk, it could cause massive destruction in Northern Abyss City.

Song Huangdae, who was in charge of the liaison project, reported the news from Guan Xiaolong to E Yun immediately.

“Find out where this Fellow Daoist is staying, and then send a visiting card, explaining the rules here in the Eastern Wilderness.”

Facing an unfamiliar Golden Core Cultivator, E Yun was certainly full of vigilance, planning to personally meet them.

“Yes.”

After receiving the instruction, Song Huangdae left to handle this matter.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yuli, still on the ox cart, was unaware she had been targeted by the Five Elements Sect before even reaching the main city.

She sat in the window seat with the best view, observing the rows of independent small courtyards along the way and the more towering skyscrapers, while playing with the Five Element coins in her palm.

In the Tianhe Realm, there hadn’t been a sect force that thought to implement a smaller unit of payment than the Low Grade Spirit Stone. For example, during the period of the Eastern Emperor Court, there was a complete set of Emperor’s Coins, which, relying on coercion, even replaced Spirit Stones altogether.

At that time, even the Great Holy Lands were forced to use Emperor’s Coins.

However, where there are people, there’s corruption. The Eastern Emperor Court exploited the authority of the Human Emperor, massively over-issuing Emperor’s Coins to amass wealth, resulting in a situation where, in the later period of the court, cultivators from top to bottom preferred bartering over using Emperor’s Coins for transactions.