AMSSO-Chapter 26: Big Shopping Spree

“Buy a food bowl?” Jiang Yunnuan was even more confused. “What are you buying that for?”

She’d only been separated from her fellow sect members for a few days, right? Why couldn’t she understand anything they said at all?

Qin Yiwei glanced at her, “You’ll know when we get back.”

“Let’s hurry.” Chu Jingzhuo urged. “It’ll be dark soon.”

“Right, let’s hurry.” Xin Jinrui also nodded. “Master told us to come back early to cook!”

Although they were all at Foundation Establishment Stage and could live without food for days by taking fasting pills, before they left, Master had instructed them to buy more ingredients and remember to return on time to cook.

Because of Jiang Yunnuan’s situation, they’d already been delayed for a while. They had to quickly get to the marketplace.

They had a lot of things to buy.

“Cook?” Jiang Yunnuan was once again dumbfounded. “For who?”

“For Master!”

“Master wants to eat? What nonsense are you all saying?”

She’d been under her Master for so many years and had hardly ever seen Master eat!

Master basically always took fasting pills!

“We’re not talking nonsense.” Chu Jingzhuo shook his head. “This is a bit complicated. Once we’ve bought everything, we’ll explain it to you on the way back, otherwise we won’t have time!”

After saying that, no matter how confused and full of questions Jiang Yunnuan was, they immediately headed toward the marketplace.

Jiang Yunnuan very much wanted to ask more about that spirit artifact earlier, but she could only temporarily suppress all her questions.

But when they arrived at the marketplace, she was once again dumbfounded.

Qin Yiwei and the others started a massive shopping spree!

Each of them held a list, splitting into two groups to start buying.

Jiang Yunnuan followed Qin Yiwei.

What shocked her the most was that Qin Yiwei bought dozens of large iron pots!

She really couldn’t hold it in anymore, “Why are you buying iron pots?”

“For alchemy.”

“Alchemy?!”

Jiang Yunnuan’s voice cracked. “Iron pots are for cooking, right?!”

To refine pills, don’t you need a pill furnace?

However, Qin Yiwei was calm, “They can also be used for alchemy.”

“…Who said that?”

Jiang Yunnuan’s brain was mush, as if it had been eaten away.

Otherwise, why couldn’t she understand what her senior sister was saying?!

What kind of proper alchemist would use iron pots to refine pills?!

“Master said so.” Qin Yiwei said with complete confidence.

“Master…”

Again it was “Master said so.” Just what exactly had Master told them?!

Jiang Yunnuan remembered she’d only been away from the sect for a few days. How had things turned out like this?

Since when had they started listening to Master so much?

Qin Yiwei didn’t care about Jiang Yunnuan’s shocked and incredulous expression, since she herself had reacted the same way earlier.

They would slowly explain this kind of thing after returning.

After buying the iron pots, she looked at the materials in the blacksmith shop and asked, “Do you want to buy some materials?”

“What materials?” Jiang Yunnuan was still completely muddleheaded.

“Don’t you want to be an artifact refiner?”

Qin Yiwei still remembered that in her previous life, Jiang Yunnuan had been an outstanding artifact refiner.

When she was in Wanxuan Sect, due to limited conditions she had no resources to become an artifact refiner, but she had always secretly refined some small things by herself.

Later, after joining another sect, even though the resources there were not much—still far more than Wanxuan Sect—she quickly stood out.

If it weren’t for that scum Yue Xuhai, she would’ve had a much brighter future!

Having another chance, Qin Yiwei hoped Jiang Yunnuan could do better.

“I…”

Facing Qin Yiwei’s question, Jiang Yunnuan fell silent for a moment, “But, to become an artifact refiner, you need a lot of materials to practice with.”

“Then buy them!”

“You say it so easily.” Jiang Yunnuan rolled her eyes at her. “Where would the money come from?”

If she had money, would she still be so conflicted?

“No worries, we have money!” Qin Yiwei grinned, pulling out several low-grade spirit stones she had just looted from Yue Xuhai. “These are enough to buy quite a lot of materials to practice with, right?”

Once some ordinary items were refined, they could be exchanged for money.

After exchanging for money, they could buy new materials to continue refining.

As long as they endured the difficulties at the start, things would get much better later on.

“This…”

“Just say whether you want to or not!”

“…I want to!”

Although her feelings were complicated, Jiang Yunnuan still nodded.

She also wanted to refine artifacts.

“Good, then let’s buy them!” Qin Yiwei cheerfully led her to buy a lot of things.

After buying a pile of materials, Jiang Yunnuan came to her senses and was a little worried, “We spent all the money, when we go back, the grandmasters might not be happy.”

They usually handed over half of the good things they found to the grandmasters to serve as sect funds.

Although the things handed over mostly ended up in Master’s hands, they’d already grown used to doing so.

When the grandmasters were mentioned, Qin Yiwei’s smile stiffened, and a bit of bitterness and sorrow appeared on her face.

She patted Jiang Yunnuan, “We’ll talk about it when we go back, it’s a long story.”

Just as she said this, Xin Jinrui and Chu Jingzhuo returned.

They were also carrying several cages, which held all kinds of chickens, ducks, and geese.

These spirit fowl stretched their necks and cried out, making a terribly noisy racket.

“Why did you buy so many things?”

Seeing these two senior brothers who looked like they were fleeing a famine, Jiang Yunnuan completely forgot her earlier question.

They each had a storage ring, since storage rings were necessary for cultivators.

But the space inside their storage rings were very small, at most the size of half a room, and could only store some important items.

Also, living animals couldn’t be stored inside.

Only Mu Shiyue had a beast-dwelling ring.

“Master wanted them.” Xin Jinrui put the cages down.

“What does Master want these for?”

These were all ordinary-grade spirit fowl. They tasted alright, but didn’t have much spiritual energy.

“Master wants to eat them.” Xin Jinrui answered as if it were obvious.

Jiang Yunnuan: “…”

“Have you bought everything?” Chu Jingzhuo looked at the list in his hand and asked.

“All bought.” Qin Yiwei nodded.

“Alright, then let’s hurry back.”

Because they’d bought so many things, their storage rings couldn’t fit them all.

Everyone carried big bags and cages, attracting strange looks from passersby.

They’d really never seen cultivators in such a state!

Men and women alike were all good-looking, with outstanding temperament, but carrying big bags, cages, and iron pots, they didn’t look much different from anyone else!

On the way back, Xin Jinrui sighed, “If only we had a flying magical tool, we wouldn’t need to rush like this!”

He was a sword cultivator, but to ride a sword, one needed to at least reach Golden Core Stage.

Besides, his sword couldn’t carry other people!

“Yeah.” Chu Jingzhuo nodded. “Third Senior Sister, work harder, we’re waiting for your flying magical tool!”

“….” Jiang Yunnuan didn’t even know what to say.

Not to mention the difficulty of refining a flying magical tool, they couldn’t even afford the materials!

They’d only been apart for a few days, why did they dare to dream so big?

She’d just wanted to ask them what was going on, when up ahead the ground suddenly shook.

A group of people rushed out from ahead, their faces full of terror, “Run!”

Then came the roar of a tiger, startling a flock of birds into flight.

When Qin Yiwei and Jiang Yunnuan saw the appearance of some of those people, their expressions immediately changed.

And when they saw the direction those people had escaped from, their faces instantly turned pale.

“Master!”