Nick opened his eyes after roughly 5 hours and a small sliver of silver light passed through them before vanishing. Nick stood up and began to fix up his room by replacing the paint and then left his room . jakob was in the newly refurbished dinning room reading a book while drinking tea. "The back area is your problem." He said without looking up from his book. Nick nods and walks out the back door where his eyes light up as he sees the spiritual plants that litter the area and the disordered green house that besides being dirty was still in perfect shape . nick collections everything he sees as useful before reducing everything else to ash and summons some water which he uses to clean the green house inside and out. Nick then places seeds for tier 3 herbs into each of the planters before watering them with spirit water and going back inside the house where he decides to check out the city . nick walks out the front door and nods at the work jakob did before he walks out the front gate which no longer squeaks. The buildings in the city were mostly white from the limestone they where made from with red clay roofs In standard box shape with a few exceptions. Nick quickly walked down street while observing the citizens who were surprisingly mostly comprised of cultivators most of them were still only body refiners at most the second level while there were a few qi gathering as well as occasionally an origin core cultivator he even saw a cultivator he could not figure out the cultivation of. Nick finally made it into a market area where there were dozens of stalls set up selling various things from pills to formation plates to weapons and armor as well as random artifacts . nick makes his way through the crowd while examining several stalls that were selling artifacts in hopes of finding something interesting. Nick suddenly feels something soft pressed on his left arm causing him to instinctually send out a pulse of aura to ward off whatever it is .

"aaah!"

A yelp of surprise comes from his left as a woman backs up in fear away from nick. Nick looks at the woman before cold walks away leaving the woman shivering at the coldness in nicks eyes.

'Gods for a second there I thought he was going to kill me after I tried to pick his pocket!' The women thinks to herself.

Nick ignores the woman since he knows that she is only a mortal from her actions and goes back to looking for artifacts . unknown to him that a certain old man with golden eyes was watching him with a look of interest from a cloud overhead.

Nick eventually goes through the market before leaving in disappointment , he then walks about the city haphazardly where he finds a treasure pavilion as well as several official stores for various things a cultivator might need. He stops by a noodle shop and orders a bowl of beef brothers with wheat noodles and onions and mushrooms with a raw egg on the side. As he eats with a content smile on his face a couple of men walk in loudly and yell "its time to pay up old man!" The shop keeper is an old mortal man with heavy wrinkles and a kindly temperament. "I already paid your group this month! Please don't cause trouble sirs!" The shop keeper says loudly. The men sneer "we're doubling the payments from now on so pay up!" One of them says before looking at nick with greed in his eyes. "You pay up as well brat!" Nick just ignored the man and continued eating.

The man's face turns into a snarl "don't ignore me when I talking to you brat!" He says while reaching for nick. Nick puts down his chopsticks and waves his hand wrapping n both of the men in his qi before he slowly condensed it and as it did the two men panicked and tried to get free but as they are mortals they couldn't and so screams of fear rang out before cracking sounds from bones breaking to screams if pain before more cracking and squelching from blood being wrung out until all that remains of the men was two marbles that are a dark red color.