The Journey of Immortal Cultivation
Chapter 111 - 85: First Arrival at Tea City (Request for Pink Tickets)

Chapter 111: Chapter 85: First Arrival at Tea City (Request for Pink Tickets)

On this day, they finally saw the true face of Rock City.

Deng Hao asked the entire team to get up at 3 a.m., an hour earlier than usual. It was a typical case of "seeing the mountain and killing the horse," as they could see Rock City in the distance yet it still took them half a day to reach it. Once they entered the territory of Rock City, the scenery within their field of vision changed immediately. Those visually tiresome trees, flowers, pits, and slopes were almost completely gone. In their place were fields upon fields, acres upon acres, mountains connected to mountains of lush green fields—

An endless expanse of tea fields. Tea fields that seemed to sing softly under the caress of the breeze, tea fields that greeted with a smiling face in the sunlight and dew. Every mountain and slope within sight was covered in a tender green that was heartbreakingly fresh, with countless tea trees lined up in neat rows, like giant green silkworm babies lying in the mountains, wriggling under the tease of the wind. Only in front of such beautiful scenery could one feel the greatness of mortal efforts.

In front of the vast expanse of tea fields, in front of the Cloud Tiger Trading Team, stood a large rock about seven or eight people could embrace together, with its front side cleaved by a sword, inscribing two large characters: Rock City. The writer apparently used a sword as a pen, between iron hooks and silver strokes, the Sword Intent was vast, and the killing aura was chilling.

Wow, is it necessary, to write such threatening characters on this Boundary Marker, scaring the passing merchant teams? Ning Xiaoxian stuck out her tongue, Mr. Yan saw that, and gently smiled, saying, "This is the handwriting of the former Clearing Void Sect Leader. This rock itself is the ’Peace Pillar’ of the entire Rock City, it is said to contain a Boundary Suppressing Treasure inside, which can deter demons and prevent them from causing trouble."

Rock City looks quite large, can this rock really suppress it? "What is the Boundary Suppressing Treasure inside the rock? If it’s valuable, maybe she could consider coming back to pry it out when she becomes more powerful in the future?

"It is said to be the ’Sword Intent’ of the Clearing Void Sect Leader. At that time, he had reached the peak of the Void Refining Stage, just one step away from the Separation and Union. The Sword Intent he released, of course, deterred any who dared to provoke boldly."

What is this Sword Intent? She blinked her eyes, admitting that her own realm was not enough, and she didn’t understand. She had a good habit: if she couldn’t figure something out, she wouldn’t bother thinking about it again. Instead, Changtian laughed and said, "This Sword Intent is nothing much. Let him go out, and I’ll throw him ten or eight slashes."

He’s in a good mood. Thinking about it, it makes sense, as Changtian loves drinking tea, and they had now arrived at the famous tea town in the Nan Zhanbu Continent!

The elevation of Rock City actually wasn’t very high, it was probably just over four hundred zhang, roughly around 1300 meters above sea level. However, along their journey, the soil they saw was mostly red soil, presumably acidic, which is suitable for tea growth. Ning Xiaoxian once read in a magazine that tea is an alkaline plant, yet ironically prefers to grow in acidic soil, the specific reason she had already forgotten. But looking at the environment in Rock City, where the land is moist, and clouds and fog linger all year round, it really is very suitable for tea tree growth.

During the journey, Deng Hao had introduced her to the characteristics of Rock City’s tea—this tea might not be the best quality in Nan Zhanbu Continent, but it is definitely the earliest!

Due to the relationship with the water and soil, or some other reason, now that it’s just entering September, the first batch of autumn tea in Rock City was almost ready to be picked and fried. While the tea from other regions on this continent would not start being picked until the end of October. Between them, there’s a whole month and more difference!

Time is money, this is a truth applicable in any world. For example, today before writing this manuscript, Shui Yun just bought some authentic Yunxiao loquats, each catty costing thirteen yuan RMB, but just half a month ago, you had to spend twenty yuan to buy them; if you want to eat this lung-moistening fruit even earlier, half a month before the season starts, the_Price per catty would be thirty-five yuan!

This is the profit of the early market that doesn’t make sense. The saying goes, ’the world bustles for profit,’ the debut of this continent’s first batch of autumn tea this year is the public secret that attracts countless merchant teams to trek through mountains, brave thorns, and daringly cross the continent infested with demons, rushing to Rock City.

According to Deng Hao’s experience, if the autumn tea bought in Rock City is priced at forty taels of Silver per catty, it can be sold for about 300 taels in the Central Province, and if traded to the farther Northwest and Northeast State counties, the price could reach an astonishing 670 taels per catty! Of course, the premise is you have the life to bring the tea to such remote places.