Peerless: Auspicious Beast's Star Revival Plan

Chapter 35 Jade City

Wang Rui brought Huo Yuqing to Cuiyu City, the sky was getting brighter, and the city was slowly waking up, and humans or spirit beasts passed by them from time to time.

Jade City is a ring-shaped city, with the golden tree as the center, and the surrounding buildings radiate outward in a circle, and the whole city presents a shape of concentric circles.

The city is divided into fan-shaped areas by different roads. There are a lot of plants dotted around the buildings with emerald roofs and brown walls. The courtyards of the houses are full of life, and some courtyards still have spirit beasts.

The owl-type soul beast flapped its wings and landed on a perch in the courtyard by the roadside and began to doze off. The cat-like soul beast stretched out by the roadside... Huo Yuqing even saw a golden monkey soul beast sitting with its legs crossed in a certain house. Weaving straw hats at the gate of the yard.

And the surrounding humans seem to be accustomed to such a scene.

"These spirit beasts seem to be very smart." The girl said softly.

"When spirit beasts live among humans, their intelligence will grow faster than when they live in the forest." Wang Rui reached out to pick up the grass leaves on the roadside, "Although they still can't reach the level of human intelligence. , but the intelligence of those spirit beasts that live with humans is far superior to that of their fellows living in the forest."

Soul beasts survive by instinct, but if they can be guided reasonably, their intelligence is actually not low.

Among the ordinary animals in his previous life, the obviously social animals like wolves and lions had good intelligence, and whales and dolphins even had their own language and could communicate with each other.

Pet cats and dogs with a lifespan of only more than ten years can distinguish human commands, and trained orangutans can even communicate with humans through sign language!
This is true for ordinary animals, let alone spirit beasts whose lifespan is calculated in units of ten thousand years.The long life is doomed that the soul beast cannot be without wisdom.

The key is to have a civilized environment.

Even if it is a healthy human being, if he is isolated from human civilization for a long time, his mind will gradually degenerate to be no different from a beast.

"They will learn and imitate human beings ignorantly." Wang Rui said softly, "Ordinary spirit beasts live in the forest ignorantly, except for some naturally powerful races who know to take the initiative to cultivate since childhood, most of the spirit beasts even If the cultivation reaches ten thousand years, it will only grow with instinct."

"And those who live in the city with humans..." Wang Rui pointed to the soul beasts that can be seen on the street, "They are more intelligent than the soul beasts in the forest, and they have developed their intelligence earlier, and they can realize Realizing the importance of active cultivation, the smartest ones will also imitate human soul masters to practice meditation."

At this time, suddenly a few colorful birds and beasts flew over, circling above the heads of Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui.

"Hello, alien humans! Welcome to Jade City! Welcome to Jade City!" These bird spirit beasts said in a funny and weird tone, "Please abide by the rules of this city, and do not harm any soul beasts and humans in the city! Do not harm the soul beasts and humans in Jade City by any means! Otherwise bad things will happen!"

"Why can they talk? Are these soul beasts also cultivated for 10 years?" Huo Yuqing's eyes widened, looking at the fancy birds flying around in surprise.

"They are not 10-year-old soul beasts." Wang Rui shook his head with a smile. "These are listening parrots with a thousand-year cultivation. They are good at imitating various sounds. This kind of soul beasts prey on and scare the enemy by imitating different sounds. , can naturally speak human language... In fact, they may not be able to understand what they are saying."

"I can understand!" One of the parrots screamed, and its companion was still repeating what it said just now, obviously it was much smarter than the others, "Don't scold me!"

"Okay, okay, I was wrong!" Wang Rui hurriedly dragged Huo Yuqing out of the area.

"What is the bad thing that parrot said?" Huo Yuqing asked a little worriedly, "Is it true that there won't be bad guys sneaking in to harm the soul beasts in the city?"

Wang Rui struggled for a while, and came up with a relatively euphemistic explanation, "Well, most intelligent creatures will not offend the healing department that can save their lives. As for those with poor brains, when they see soul beasts, they want to Hands-on... The closest to Jade City is Gu City, and the soul masters and soul beasts there are all poisonous. So they occasionally need some living things... Well, let's try their own level or something. "

Although Jade City is said to be a place where healing soul masters and soul beasts gather, it is also the most heavily guarded city among the five cities of the Beast Sect.The little black dots circling in the sky are all raptor-like soul beasts, and the weakest ones have the fighting strength equivalent to Contra.

If someone really can't bear to make trouble in Jade City... you can think about setting up a few tables first.

With the force value of Jade City, even if Mu En came in person, he would be able to stop him for a while.

Huo Yuqing didn't think there was anything wrong, "My mother also taught me that if a person can't suppress his greed, he deserves to be punished."

"Well said, young man." Something patted her on the shoulder.

Huo Yuqing was taken aback. She turned her head and saw a wrinkled human face protruding from the trunk of a big tree, smiling kindly at her.

"Don't think he can speak, but this guy doesn't have 10 years of cultivation. Plant spirit beasts can't move, but they learn to speak human language earlier than ordinary spirit beasts." Wang Rui explained before she asked.

"That's right!" Dashu said, "I have to stand here for another 2 years before I can leave. Come, reach out your hand."

A few juicy purple fruits fell from the branch and landed in Huo Yuqing's palm.

"Take it and eat it, little human being." Big Tree said kindly, "Remember to take my children to other parts of the continent after eating!"

"Thank you!" Huo Yuqing thanked politely, then wiped the fruit with her sleeve, and handed it to Wang Rui, "Do you want it?"

"I don't want it." Wang Rui had a strange expression on his face, "I suggest that you eat it carefully. Think about it, if its fruit is delicious or has any special effects, do you still use it everywhere?"

Huo Yuqing took a sip in disbelief, and her little face was wrinkled into a ball of sourness, but she still ate a fruit that was sour sour, and then put away the core.

Wang Rui smiled and shook his head. He led Huo Yuqing to the commercial street in the middle of Jade City, "This is the commercial area of ​​Jade City. There are many shops. I know someone who opened a shop here. Let me introduce you to it." She worked there for a while."

"Thank you!" Huo Yuqing's eyes widened in surprise, wouldn't her goal be more than half achieved?

Looking forward along this street, at the end of the road is a column-style building, from a distance you can see many people and spirit beasts gathered there, and the majestic and thick trunk of the golden tree is behind those buildings.

"Near the root system of the golden tree is the place with the strongest life energy, and it is also the place where the healing soul masters and soul beasts in Jade City rescue the wounded." Wang Rui raised his head forward, "And this is the place of Jade City. market place."

Most of the houses on both sides of this street have sheds in front of them. The roofs of the sheds are covered with tangled green vines. Under each shed, there are people or spirit beasts setting up stalls.

"Do soul beasts also set up stalls to sell things?" Huo Yuqing stared in disbelief at a purple-gray squirrel that was half the height of a human being, who was bit by bit putting a pine cone the size of an adult's head into a squirrel. Pine needles as thick as sweater needles are laid out.

The squirrel noticed what she said, and nodded in a humane way, then picked up the sign on the side and waved it towards them.

[Pine cones and pine needles of the 8-year-old troll pine, [-] gold soul coins per pine cone, three gold soul coins per pine needle, and pine nut retail hardware soul coins per piece. 】

The pricing is very fair, which is already a great thing for human beings.

Huo Yuqing stared at the sign dumbfounded.

The squirrel tilted its head, ran out from under the shed, raised its front paws to stand upright, and made a gesture of embracing the sky, then stared at Huo Yuqing with a pair of black peas-like eyes.

"Uh, tree?" The girl guessed that the squirrel was trying to tell her something, "Troll pine?"

The squirrel nodded, and then maintained the posture of raising its forelimbs, its entire upper body began to rotate in circles, and then its arms began to wave like windmills.Then it seemed to be holding something, and made an escape movement very nervously.

The corner of Wang Rui's mouth twitched, this squirrel is really a showman, look at this non-physical performance, the old drama skills are level!

"The giant pine beats people with its branches, and then it is very difficult for you to pick the pine cone?" But Huo Yuqing found it very interesting, so he continued to guess.

The squirrel nodded sharply, looking very happy, it went back under the shed, broke a pine nut, and handed it to Huo Yuqing.

"I have no money to pay you..." Before the girl could finish her refusal, the squirrel forcefully stuffed the pine nuts into her hand, and then ran back to its booth.

"Take it, this guy thanks you for watching it act. The pine nuts of Troll Pine are very nutritious and good for snacks. The smell it emits can also help you concentrate." Wang Rui said with a smile.

"Won't it lose money doing business like this?" Huo Yuqing asked with some hesitation.She rubbed the hard shell of pine nuts, and a fragrance of pine and cypress came out, which refreshed one's spirits.

"What does it lose?" Wang Rui smiled, "The pine cones are all grown on the troll pine, and it usually eats this thing. In fact, in the earliest days, soul beasts with better brains gathered here, Replace the natural materials and earthly treasures that are not suitable for you with some that are more suitable for you to assist in cultivation. But bartering is troublesome after all, and this form of spending money to buy and sell has gradually formed."

"Later, in Jade City, there were also elixirs specifically for spirit beasts for sale. Most of the spirit beasts wanted to sell little bits and pieces that were useless to them to buy elixirs—of course, there were also humans who came out to set up stalls to make money."

They passed by several food stalls that were connected together, and a few food-type soul masters with relatively low cultivation were selling their martial souls.

"But you can't expect the spirit beasts to have any concept of bargaining in their little brains. They are not that smart. The value of these items has been specially estimated by someone." Wang Rui explained with a smile, "The thoughts of the spirit beasts It’s still at a very simple level of exchange.”

The basic daily necessities in Jade City will be provided by the city, and if you want to buy pills or other things, you have to make money yourself.

The way to make money is not just to come to the business district to set up a stall. There are also many jobs in Jade City that need to be completed by human hands.

In fact, the city's economic system and social structure are very fragile and incomplete.But this is not a purely human city after all, more pure-minded spirit beasts account for more than half of the population, and there are also longer-lived ferocious beast-level spirit beasts to maintain order in the city... Jade City has been operating well in this way.

Huo Yuqing had never seen such a strange market. She followed Wang Rui through the commercial street, looking around, wishing she had eight eyes.

The snow-white spirit deer lies quietly under the vine roof, with its shed antlers and some auspicious herbs in front of it.

The delicate purple-haired boy was loudly selling bundles of snow-white spider silk. Behind him was a huge spider spirit beast that was still spinning silk diligently. Several women gathered around his stall.

A huge golden tortoise was quietly lying on one side, covered with gold soul coins, and the sign next to it said [Gold soul coins enshrined on the golden tortoiseshell carapace can bring good luck, five gold soul coins for one [Pieces]...It sounds outrageous, but the key point is that there are people and beasts standing there picking gold coins, which shocked Huo Yuqing.

A booth was full of soul beasts. Huo Yuqing took a closer look and found that it was a middle-aged woman who was cleaning the carapace of a huge fiery red scorpion—[Cleaning service, starting from five coppers] Huo Yuqing thought for a while , I think this business is probably based on size, after all, there is a very huge rhino standing quietly aside.

Behind the middle-aged woman was a thick pink python, which was curled up and dozing, with bundles of bright pink snakeskin and price tags on its body.

"How do they collect money? Soul beasts don't seem to have pockets." Huo Yuqing asked curiously. After all, the number of gold soul coins on some price tags starts from a few thousand.

"Most of the soul beasts that can set up stalls here have their own storage soul guides." Wang Rui said, "Look at the tail of that big snake."

There was indeed a silver ring hooked on the tip of the pink python's tail.

Huo Yuqing exclaimed.

Soon after passing a shop that sells and repairs soul guides, the dark-skinned female shopkeeper is sitting in the shop behind the shed.There are a few baskets under the teng vine shed, and the boxes are filled with various types of storage soul guides, from earrings to rings, in any shape... This casual attitude makes these soul guides look like Like a basket of beans.

"Two gold soul coins for one piece?" Huo Yuqing's eyes widened. Is the storage soul tool worth less than the pine nuts that the squirrel gave her?
"It's not worth anything, it's only grade one, and you can't put anything in it." The shopkeeper sitting in the shop shouted cheerfully, "They're all small things made by apprentices, and they only charge the cost price of metal. The young man chooses One piece?"

"No, I don't have enough money." The girl smiled and shook her head. She thought in her heart that if the salary offered by the job Wang Rui introduced was enough, she could save the money to buy a storage soul guide.

"The little guy will come to Auntie to buy it after you have saved enough money!" The shopkeeper said with a smile.

"sure!"

They left the soul tool shop, and soon, Huo Yuqing was attracted by a very special stall.

There was no emerald green vine canopy on that booth, and a middle-aged man in black was sitting on a small bench with a few small bottles in front of him.Behind him was a thick perching branch, on which stood a meter-high red-eyed crow.

"Stalls like this without vine roofs generally only accept barter, or do not have someone to appraise the price of the goods." Wang Rui said, "That is to say, buying things at such stalls is a test of one's eyesight. "

"Oh, young man, you understand quite well!" The middle-aged man didn't speak, but the crow made a rough and ugly voice, "We only accept barter here~"

"Produced by Gu City, the elixir that can allow soul masters to leapfrog challenges, a life-saving weapon with only a little side effect, one piece of five to eight drops of blood~ Hurry up if you want to buy it, baby~"

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