As long as the spirit stones are sufficient, she doesn't need many for cultivation, except for research on formations and alchemy.
Lin Yan has enough spirit stones of her own. If not, some of her formation plates and some demon beast inner cores can be sold for money.
Now, she just needs to wait for that person to arrive.
The rising sun dispels the darkness shrouding the town. People in the real world wake up, and this quiet city becomes busy and noisy.
Lin Yan's room faces the street below. Although there are some soundproofing formations, Lin Yan can still hear the hawking sounds from the street.
With a thought, she suddenly wanted to experience the bustle of the marketplace. Whether it was in the last century or this world, it seemed like a long time since she had lived like an ordinary person.
Going downstairs, she exchanged some small change with the innkeeper and walked onto the street with a cloth bag containing the change.
The steamers for the steamed buns were piled high, and the heat made the proprietress behind them blush.
"Buy steamed buns, big meat buns!"
The aroma of the buns made Lin Yan, a cultivator who had been abstaining from grain for several years, suddenly salivate. She was not a born cultivator; she had been a mortal for a longer time, so she took a few copper coins and bought buns.
The proprietress of the bun shop was very enthusiastic, and her buns were very affordable.
These few buns seemed to have suddenly flipped a switch. Lin Yan walked from one end of the street to the other, buying many snacks.
Buns, fried dough sticks, soy milk, wontons. Some she ate on the spot, and some she carried. The food of the mortal world had no spiritual energy, but it tasted very good.
Its original flavor was no less than what she ate in modern times.
She walked and bought all the way, and those she couldn't finish, she casually gave to the beggars by the roadside. Soon, a group of beggars followed her.
Lin Yan didn't drive them away. Instead, she bought more things, took a bite, and continued to share them with them.
By the time she had walked the length of the street, the beggars behind her were all full.
"Go back, come find me again tomorrow morning." Lin Yan waved them away.
"Thank you, miss, thank you, miss!" They thanked Lin Yan together, then hugged the food in their hands and ran away.
"Miss is truly kind-hearted!" A scholar in a green robe walked over, fanning himself.
He seemed very confident in his elegant demeanor, but Lin Yan, having seen many handsome men and beautiful women in the cultivation world, was completely unmoved by this person who was deliberately putting on a show.
She ignored the scholar and prepared to return to the inn where she was staying.
"Miss, please wait." He blocked Lin Yan's path.
"Young scholar, do you have something to say?" Lin Yan asked without politeness.
He was stunned for a moment, and the fan in his hand stopped fanning.
"Miss, although what you did just now was kind, it might spoil their appetites. Although they are just beggars, any beggar who can survive here is not simple.
Miss must be from out of town. If you are unfamiliar with the place and get into trouble with them, you might suffer." He said, as if he was thinking of Lin Yan.
"How could a scholar think that I am simple?" Lin Yan said, and without giving the scholar in the green robe time to react, she left there directly using her movement technique.
"Huh?" Looking at the person who had suddenly disappeared before him, the scholar in the green robe stood there dumbfounded.
Under the shroud of dark clouds, a person wearing a black robe clutched his chest, his face filled with pain and resentment.
He never expected to encounter such a tough opponent. Not only did he not gain any advantage, but he was also seriously injured and only managed to escape by expending his vital essence.
Just you wait. One day, he would kill his way back, refine that person into a puppet, and make them serve him.
The dark clouds churned, and his body felt increasingly unwell. He happened to see a town in front of him and decided to use the flesh and blood of these mortals to restore his vital essence!
It was an honor for these mortals to be able to help him!
Lin Yan, who was cultivating in her room, suddenly felt a sense of unease. She stood up and walked to the window. Opening the window, she saw the dark clouds in the sky.
"Finally, they're here!"
After opening the window, Lin Yan directly flew out of the window on her sword, heading straight for the dark clouds.
Just as the person in the dark clouds was about to attack the townspeople, a flying sword interrupted his spellcasting.
"Who is it?" He dodged the flying sword and looked in the direction from which it came.
"Ling Xiao Sword Sect, Tan Tai Wang Shu!" The flying sword returned to Lin Yan's hand.
"Youngster, you are merely at the Golden Core stage, how dare you interfere in your grandfather's business?" He laughed arrogantly.
"Your excellency is already at the end of your rope, yet you still speak so boastfully?" Lin Yan looked at his injuries and the wound on his chest that was still bleeding.
"Even if this old man only has one breath left, you are not a junior who can look down on me. Since you have delivered yourself to my doorstep, I will use your Golden Core to heal Grandpa!"
A Golden Core cultivator from a righteous sect would be much more useful than the mortals in this town!
Thinking this, he clawed at Lin Yan.
Lin Yan raised her sword to block. In just a few breaths, Lin Yan and he had exchanged many blows. Although Lin Yan was only at the Golden Core stage, that was merely her realm and did not represent her strength.