Ethan

That's right, the neighbor next door is the guy who visited in the South District before. What a coincidence.

After Ethan walked out of the room, he was a little surprised to see Alex Reed. What a coincidence. He nodded to Alex and immediately closed the door. Alex also nodded and closed the door again.

In the following days, Alex started his career of earning spiritual stones again. But three days later, a scream broke the tranquility of the early morning once more.

Alex looked out through the newly opened crack in the door. The monks in the alley gathered and surrounded a house not far away. Another... incident has occurred.

"How can this old man be so lucky," Alex thought to himself.

In the crowd, Alex saw Ethan Li again. He was whispering with the people around him and pointed at the house where the accident happened. As he thought about it, an idea suddenly popped up in Alex's mind. "Is this fellow Daoist a demon cultivator?"

Most cultivators would subconsciously avoid seeing anything related to demon cultivators, so why did this fellow Daoist Ethan approach them? Some demon cultivators are like this. They are obviously cruel and ruthless but pretend to be upright masters. Of course, there are also some upright cultivators who play more games than demon cultivators.

In this world, no one can tell whether they are demons or not. Although the demon cultivators have not found him in the past six months, through Alex's careful observation, he found that demon cultivators like to appear at night and are very open-hearted to people. But at night, there was no sound of fighting. Even the doors and windows of the victims' rooms were intact. It was not until the smell of blood filled the air the next day that people discovered another corpse.

After committing crimes repeatedly, they could always ensure that the corpse would not resist. Could it be that every time they went out to work, they carried the goddess of luck on their backs? Or the demon cultivators were quick, accurate, and ruthless. Or they are not morally upright and use dirty tricks to subdue the person first.

Alex is more inclined to the second one. Just like the Taoist friends who wanted to deal with him before, these people knew to poison him first. The methods of the demon cultivators are more cunning, and who knows how many tricks they will play.

"Alas... It won't work if there are three burrows outside the market. We still have to move to the small courtyard in the middle."

He is not afraid of trouble, but it is troublesome to always be troubled. After killing a Taoist friend in the alley, the next half month was much more peaceful. It was like a sacrifice.

After another ten days, Alex couldn't hold it in any longer, packed up his things, opened the door, and went to the street of shops.

Treasure Pavilion.

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John West carefully checked the patterns on the anti-miasma talisman. After checking all the talismans, a smile appeared on his face.

"Fellow Daoist Alex, I will still charge eight spiritual stones for this batch of anti-miasma talismans."

"Thank you."

Alex clasped his hands and fists. This time he brought a hundred anti-miasma talismans. After entering Treasure Pavilion, he was not blind, and there were people buying anti-miasma talismans nearby. The selling price of Treasure Pavilion was only seven spiritual stones. John West still charged eight spiritual stones. No matter if he had other ideas or not, the spiritual stones in his hands were real.

"Brother, take a look at these anti-miasma talismans."

John West reached out and took out a stack of more than a dozen anti-miasma talismans from the inside of the counter. Alex took these anti-miasma talismans in his hands.

"The spiritual pattern on this one is intermittent, and I'm afraid it will not be powerful enough after being activated."

"There was a problem with this one as soon as it was written."

...

"This one..."

Alex found out at a glance that none of the dozen anti-miasma talismans were of the fine quality level.

"Brother, you said that you don't have enough experience in making talismans. See if there is any talisman with flaws that can escape your eyes?"

"Some of these miasma-removing talismans are practice works sent by disciples in the sect, and some are collected from other talisman masters."

"I won't hide it from you. I have experimented with your miasma-removing talismans."

"After your miasma-removing talismans are activated, they can expel miasma within 50 feet and can last for a quarter of an hour."

"And these miasma-removing talismans have different ranges of miasma expelling, and the maximum is only 30 feet."

John West said.

"The durability is not good either. It's good enough if it can last for half a quarter of an hour."

"Are you interested in continuing to cooperate with me, your elder brother?"

"I'd love to have you."

Alex agreed immediately. Even if John West restored the original price to buy his anti-miasma talismans, he had no way to counter it and would offend the old man instead. Now it seems that both sides are in a good position and everyone is happy. Besides, Alex also wanted to get some information from John West to see if he could leave Dreamcloud Market in advance.

One hundred anti-miasma talismans, eight hundred low-grade spirit stones.

"Brother, the houses in the middle area have been vacated."

Before Alex asked, John West said in advance.

"No. 23 Courtyard Ding, don't be afraid to spend spirit stones, act quickly, there are many people who want to rent a house."

At this time, John West came close and said something sneakily.

"No. 23 Courtyard Ding?"

Alex nodded, and when he was about to ask what was different about this courtyard, he found that John West had gone to greet other guests.

When Alex arrived at the General Affairs Hall, he found that there were many cultivators crowded in the hall. The steward William he was looking for was surrounded by cultivators.

"Fellow Daoists, the allocation of houses needs to be decided by the Foundation Establishment Ancestor, and William is a steward."

"William is the old ancestor's vanguard. Whatever the old ancestor tells him to do, William will do it."

"It is William's responsibility to serve you fellow Taoists."

"The houses in the market are still being counted. It is estimated that it will be reorganized in less than half a month."

"We will sort them out as soon as possible and let you all rent suitable houses as soon as possible."

William's face was full of smiles, and he sent the casual cultivators around him out of the General Affairs Hall. After watching everyone leave the General Affairs Hall, William's fake smile disappeared. He saw Alex in the crowd and nodded imperceptibly. Watching William return to the room inside, Alex looked around and walked in quickly.

"Fellow Taoist, long time no see."

Watching Alex enter the room, William sat behind the stone table without moving, but a smile appeared on his face.

"Today I have free time, so I came to visit Manager William."

Alex clasped his fists. William gestured to Alex to sit down, and without delay, he said, "Daoist, you came at the right time. I happen to have a few extra houses."

At this moment, William did not hide anything at all, which was very different from what he said outside.

"I want to rent Courtyard No. 23 Ding. I wonder how much it costs?"

William narrowed his eyes and leaned back. "It seems that Daoist has a close relationship with Manager John West."

"...I remember Daoist said before that you want to share the rent. If you share the rent of this courtyard, it will cost 50 spirit stones a month."

Speaking of this, William lowered his voice.

"But... Daoist needs to pay an additional 50 spirit stones if you want to rent it."

Shua——

The next moment, a small pile of shiny things appeared on the stone table in front of William.

Shua——

The shiny things disappeared. It was as if they had never appeared. Only the smooth patina was shiny.