Heart Cultivation

"This, first buy something from my shop then I will give a rough direction where you can find a lodge," the shopkeeper was tricky and wanted to rob off her money first, since she looked outsider he will make sure to ask ten times higher prices whatever she intend to buy.

He will make money this way and close the shop for today"s business.

"I don"t want to buy anything," Lin"an blinked at the ridiculous stake, how come this auspicious to compel someone, if she don"t want buy then it was not necessary, right?

Other than this shop, half of the market was closed at this late hour, while few eateries were still swarming with customers but Lin"an don"t want to go there and ask, she don"t want to attract unwanted attention.

"Then I can"t tell you which direction is the lodge, go and search it yourself," the shopkeeper waved his hand worry free.

He cannot be magnificent and help selfless, did she take him as magnanimous? He would never give a penny as charity then how can he help altruistic?

"It"s just a direction, I will find out," Lin"an was a royal, how can she take his rudeness as granted, she walked toward a street in order to find the lodge.

She was currently around the central market of the big city, after the long street she was puzzled which way she should head toward, in the middle of the night, it was difficult to stop someone and ask a direction or a place, Lin"an concluded that she took wrong direction, she walked back from where she started, she chose another direction and again felt lost amid the streets, it was because she never has the liberty to walk around in the city.

She could have bought a map but there was no such shop around, the shopkeeper was giving attention and he was sure now that the girl was outsider else until now she would have found the lodge located back street.

Lin"an came back to ask the shopkeeper.

"My stake is the same, just buy anything from my shop and I will tell the address of the lodge," he shamelessly repeated.

Lin"an agreed halfheartedly, it was better to buy and ask the direction rather than to get lost in the streets, she was left with no option she had to admit but if she ever returned with her mother or any elder, she would definitely come to teach this shopkeeper some morals.

She was not a regular buyer or common customer to know the market prices but still it felt that shopkeeper intentionally as ked this sky high price but she could pay, when the shopkeeper sell out on a higher price he was happy aand pointed at the back street where she could find a lodge, Lin"an saw his mischievous smile and gritted her teeth, she was scammed seriously.

Now she was more determined to teach this shopkeeper some morals whenever she had chance.

It was a silent rule, cultivators who happened to visit a Manias as a visitor, they should be treated well, because many cultivators leave their homes just to seek path and learning, they were homeless for the sake of learning, they should not be tricked and scammed but Clandestine Manias was facing its worst so the morals were also degenerating with the time.

Lin"an creased her brows but did not show her displeasure, her attention was to find a lodge first.

She entered in the reception area and saw a man half asleep and drooling at the desk in front of him, Lin"an tapped on the desk, "I wanted to rent a room," she told the man when he opened eyes and looked at her, though she was still blur in his eyes, he rubbed his eyes and asked, "For a night or a week?"

"For a week," she replied.

"Would you like to pay rent in the Jade pins or gold pins?" he asked again, this girl seemed wealthy and when she brought out jade pins for the payment, his intuition got a confirmation.

"Do you want a subtle protection during your rest, if yes you have to pay to hire a cultivator who would make sure that no one break in your room and disturb your rest or cultivation," he explained still half asleep.

"What? Protection? I am renting your lodge, does not it means it is safe to stay here? Then why extra payment for hiring a cultivator, I can"t understand what is going on," Lin"an was scammed by the shopkeeper and now this lodge attendant wanted to rob her, it was truly out of her expectations.

"Ma"am, if you can"t pay, you may leave," the attendant simply waved his hand to shoo her away, it was disrespectful now.

She gritted her teeth and spoke, "Did the city archon introduce this new rule?" she wanted explanation of this d.a.m.n things which were going on here.

"Haha, does the drunk toad has this much time to take a look which rule is being followed and which had been broken thousand times in a single day," the attendant bent toward her and stared in her eyes.

She was scared in her heart to hear this and especially the behavior of the attendant was frightening.

Was he speaking truth? Did the city archon never bother what was happening in the city? This was not the same place as it was when she last came with her father many years ago.

Jen was wide awake and currently learning the true strength of her supreme roots, she wanted to know if she really hold a supreme level and her roots were that unique?

But it was not simple, she had to explore her current Legend Realm acmes Pair if she wanted to learn about supreme roots and control the heart of any extreme in future.

She was able to grasp the true nature very early and she could still use it if she faced a lower level cultivator but what about higher level opponents?

She has to grasp the ultimate Peace for this purpose, and her Legend level acmes pair can provide the path.

But it would take time, since she has spread her barrier, she noticed someone entered in the lodge at this hour, who could it be? She was curious.

Jen was careful and checked the doorway then she moved and checked who was arguing with the attendant? She was a girl and as expected, the attendant was trying best to rob her jade pins.

Jen returned back, she cannot leave Zhi Chang alone.

Jen sprinkled some more water on her face and started walking in the room, after some time when she felt that she would fell unconscious on the floor, she chose to sit on the chair, and brought out the s.h.i.+nning ball which the core elder gave her.

She put it inside her storage and observed the arrow marks on her fingernails, she thought if she could use small dots of solar start back then can she still use this way of manipulation essence barrier and trigger the core of opponent?

"Perhaps, I am not thinking sane anymore," she told herself.

The attendant got a third level weapon to use against the girl who was guarding from the day, this was strangle weapon and one could easily use it from distance.

What needed was the imperativeness to use this weapon and strangle her successfully.

Jen was sure that no one will come looking for this room because no one was spying anymore from the late morning.

Just as Jen was about to fell asleep on the chair, the door knocked, she shook her head and forcefully opened her eyes, with only her dominion aura lingering around her she went to open the door.

Lin"an was given a room beside their room, before she could sit and plan out her next day, she felt that something was wrong with this room, and it seemed someone was keeping eyes on her, she was annoyed, what kind of protection was this and she paid blunt amount too?

In all that, the h.e.l.l with the privacy of a woman, she stood up really annoyed, opened the door of her room and her eyes fell at the man standing against the next room door.

She called him directly, the same time Jen opened the door, the man got puzzled why this woman came out at the wrong time?

"Hey, I don"t want to stay in this room, what the h.e.l.l is with the d.a.m.n protection, I don"t feel safe in this room," Lin"an has lost all her manners long ago when the shopkeeper scammed her.

If this lodge tried to do the same, she would start yelling vulgarities soon because of her short temper, her short temper was just opposite of her delicate appearance and it was pretty horrible too.