Fairy lantern markets, large and small, are usually located on separate islands, with giant fairy lanterns floating above, and people gathering, trading, and playing on the islands.
There are fixed ships between each island, sailing on the sea to pick up and drop off passengers, and what is more interesting is that these ships do not need anyone to steer them.
After the person who wants to take the boat gets on the boat, he puts the spiritual stone in the groove on the bow of the boat, and the boat will find its own way to the opposite island.
As for ordinary people on the island, they can take fixed ferries back and forth.
By the time Tong Yan and the others approached the nearest fairy lantern island, the sky had completely darkened.
The huge fairy lantern clearly illuminated the entire island, and the quiet sea surface reflected the moon and fairy lanterns in the sky. The sea breeze swept across the land, causing ripples like fish scales.
The island was buzzing with people, breaking the silence in my ears. The sounds of hawkers and chatter, and occasionally a few quarrels broke into my eardrums.
The boat cut through the water and slowly docked at the ferry. The people on the bow used their long legs to step on board easily.
After landing on the shore, Gu Yuqi turned his back to the light, his tall figure cast a shadow, and the world behind him was clearly light and dark.
He stretched out his hand towards Tong Yan, who was still on the boat, his stern face hidden in the darkness and unable to be seen clearly.
"Come up."
Tong Yan stared blankly at the long, slender hand in front of him. The joints were clearly defined. Under the blurry light, it made people feel thicker, more powerful, and reassuring.
After hesitating for a moment, she put her hand into the other person's palm and used his strength to get ashore.
It's just an ordinary physical contact. If she cares about avoiding taboos in everything, wouldn't it look too pretentious?
Tong Yan immediately landed on the shore. The huge force under his feet caused the boat to shake slightly, and the boat surface collided with the water waves, making a gradually fading sound.
"Thanks."
As soon as she stood firm, she immediately withdrew her hand, but the infected temperature continued to rise in the places where her two hands had touched.
People who look so cold on the outside actually have hot hands.
Gu Yuqi lowered his eyes and glanced at her lightly, then naturally walked towards the island along the cobblestone avenue with his hands behind his back.
There are tall and straight trees standing on the roadside, and various lanterns are hung regularly on the tree trunks, driving away the darkness under the trees one by one.
As we walked higher up, the number of pedestrians finally increased, and the voices in our ears became louder. A few silk robes were occasionally interspersed among the many thin gauze-like dresses.
The former are locals, while those wearing silk are mostly monks or business travelers from outside.
The market on this small island is not very large. Small shops are partly open-air and placed next to each other on both sides of the street. Occasionally, some have built sheds, which are also surrounded by intertwined flowers and vines. It is very unique and extremely original.
The market has a dazzling array of shops, many of which are Penglai’s local specialties, such as handicrafts made from various shells and conches, pearls of varying sizes and quality, strange-shaped fish, and the monks’ stalls also display demon elixirs from monsters in the sea.
Animal bone scales.
Perhaps because they live on an island and are surrounded by the sea, the monks here in Penglai mostly have water spiritual roots, followed by fire spiritual roots.
It's just that the water element is plentiful at the seaside, so it is naturally more difficult for the fire element to exist here. This will make it very difficult for monks with fire spiritual roots to practice.
Therefore, Penglai can't help but have a chain of spiritual root contempt. The water spiritual root despises all other spiritual roots, and the fire spiritual root is despised by all spiritual roots.
Just like Renxiu, most of the monsters on the seabed can control the water attribute, and the monster pills are naturally mainly water-type monster pills.
The demon pill is very useful. Although the monks cannot directly absorb the spiritual power inside, after removing the demonic energy and impurities inside through elixir refining, the remaining pure spiritual power can be absorbed as a spiritual stone.
It's just that this is too troublesome, and it has to go through the hands of an alchemist, and the spiritual power extracted in the end is not even enough to pay for the refining. Therefore, few people engage in such a loss-making business.
Demonic elixirs can also be used to refine weapons to increase the properties of magical weapons. Therefore, many refining masters will purchase high-level demon elixirs.
Some demon elixirs can also be used as medicine, but Tong Yan doesn't know how to make elixirs, so he doesn't know exactly how to use them as medicine and what diseases they can cure.
Men and women walked together on the street. She had heard before that Penglai women were respected, but now she looked at these people on the street and didn't see any difference.
Maybe...women's clothes are bolder?
After walking around for a while, Tong Yan found that many people were holding small fairy lanterns in their hands, and most of the people holding fairy lanterns were walking in the same direction.
Are you planning to put out fairy lanterns just like putting out river lanterns during the Lantern Festival?
Tong Yan decided to buy one himself, and asked the salesman about it, and naturally he knew everything.
Gu Yuqi walked a little ahead of her, neither too fast nor too slow, always keeping one step away from her.
I really don't know if he wants to get rid of Tong Yan and go shopping by himself, or if he is shopping with someone else.
After passing by a shop selling lamps, Tong Yan stopped. He didn't go directly into the shop. He paused for a moment and looked at Gu Yuqi's back.
The people in front quickly looked back alertly after her footsteps stopped ringing.
"I plan to buy a lamp." Tong Yan pointed to the lamp shop next to her and said, if Gu Yuqi hadn't stopped just now, she planned to go in and buy it without saying hello.
Gu Yuqi followed her finger to look at the lamp shop, and then caught a glimpse of the people coming out of it, each holding a fairy lantern.
Then he responded coldly, "Yeah."
The shop selling fairy lanterns is a two-story wooden building, which is much more formal than the flower and rattan umbrella shed.
The two of them entered the shop and walked up to a clerk who had just become available.
"How can I sell the lamp?" Tong Yan asked the clerk.
The person at the counter is a young man in his early twenties. When he hears someone else buying something, he habitually smiles enthusiastically, revealing his little fangs that have lost age.
"An ordinary lantern costs five spiritual stones, and a fairy lantern costs twenty spiritual stones. Which one do you need?"
A very beautiful face broke into his sight. The owner of the face looked at him with curious eyes, and the pupils were very penetrating.
"I want a fairy lantern." Tong Yan also stared at the young man's little tiger teeth and found that the teeth seemed a bit cute.
"Okay... okay, please wait a moment." The young man quickly placed a beautiful fairy lantern on the counter and pushed it in front of Tong Yan.
He looked her straight in the eyes and said, "Your fairy lantern."
Tong Yan smiled at him and thought about how to ask people about things. Just as he was about to reach out and pick up the fairy lantern, a voice from the side interrupted and said, "I want another lantern."
Then a hand passed her and placed the money for two lamps on the counter.
The young man looked at Gu Yuqi, his eyes suddenly darkened for a moment, and then he smiled and said, "Okay, please wait a moment."
Looking at the spiritual stones on the table, Tong Yan couldn't help but look up at Gu Yuqi.
But his eyes followed the young man holding the lamp and he didn't respond to her.
When the young man returned to the counter with the fairy lantern again, Tong Yan asked him, "What is the difference between this fairy lantern and ordinary lanterns? Do you put the lanterns after you buy them? What is the meaning of putting the lanterns here?"