Chapter 279

After spending a little price, he managed to buy two Yin God-level techniques, and Zhang Jian was in high spirits.

Zhang Jian then strolled around and discovered many good things, but none could compare in value to those two Yin God-level techniques.

Zhang Jian also noticed that other sect masters, or even Primordial True Persons, were scavenging bargains—clearly, some good items had already fallen into the hands of other cultivators.

After walking around, Zhang Jian stepped up to a bookstall.

Before him stood a rather inexperienced cultivator, young in appearance, with a faint half-demon aura, yet selling ancient texts.

On this small stall, there were no other magical artifacts—only volumes upon volumes of ancient books, all standard rune scriptures.

Seeing a customer arrive, the young cultivator's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said:

"Honored guest, are you in need of rune classics?"

"These ancient books of mine are all premium editions, undamaged in the slightest; the paper is of top quality, made primarily from orthodox Jia Wood spiritual plants, refined and forged—suitable for long-term storage, and reading them brings not only the fragrance of books but also nourishes the spirit!"

Though this young cultivator appeared young, the traces of spiritual power bursting within his body showed he had already completed the Fate Testing and Foundation Establishment.

"The《Sun True Classic》……"

Zhang Jian casually picked up an ancient book, feeling its wood-like texture, his eyes flickering with emotion—yet the book before him made his expression slightly strange.

The last time he encountered the《Sun True Classic》, it was a trap; this time, there was no trap.

The《Sun True Classic》was written in ancient times by a saint king whose Dao pierced heaven and earth—the Western Extreme Sun King.

It belongs to the sage classics of the cultivation world.

Before many sages of the cultivation world ascended to the Heavenly Gate, they often left behind their understanding and insights of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth—not mere cultivation methods, but heavenly realizations, used to educate future generations.

Moreover, the lineage of many cultivators' Dao stems from this—wise individuals can draw cultivation methods from these ancient sages' and saint kings' classics, cultivating longevity and Dao arts.

Such classics as the《Sun True Classic》are to cultivators what the Four Books and Five Classics are to ordinary scholars taking the imperial examinations.

Of course, the《Sun True Classic》before him was clearly a hand-copied edition, not the original, but to Zhang Jian, it was still of immense value.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon a stack of ancient classics before him.

《Wood Virtue Classic》《Fire Emperor Classic》《Imperial Talisman Classic》《Light Origin Classic》《Ten Directions Salvation True Classic》……Besides over a dozen classics written by sages, there were many miscellaneous texts, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Jian's mouth.

He then smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist, I want all these classics—what would you like in exchange?"

"All of them?"

Hearing this, the young cultivator's eyes brightened slightly, he hesitated briefly, then said:

"Honored guest, since you want them all, I'll give you a discount—ten top-grade spirit crystals, only ten top-grade spirit crystals, and you can take them all!"

Ten top-grade spirit crystals are roughly equivalent to one thousand standard spirit crystals.

Zhang Jian's mind stirred—this was not expensive—so he immediately took out ten directional spirit crystals and handed them to the stall owner, waving his hand as he packed the entire stack—over a hundred ancient classics—into his blood-womb bag at once.

Beside him, the dragon maiden Green Pearl witnessed this scene, her expression unchanged.

This young cultivator was likely a guardian of a scripture pavilion from a declining sect, taking advantage of his duty to watch the tower to run a secondhand trade.

Copying these ancient classics is a grueling task, but those who do it well can supplement their cultivation and earn a little hard-earned income.

Such stalls are not uncommon.

Rarely encountering such a find, Zhang Jian bought over a hundred ancient classics from several other stalls before entering a side shop of the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

At that moment, a lovely young maiden approached gracefully at the entrance.

Seeing Zhang Jian, and behind him the dragon maiden Green Pearl, her eyes brightened, and she spoke respectfully:

"Honored guest, I do not know what you require—may I be of assistance?"

"In our Treasure Gathering Pavilion, we have all kinds of cultivation resources, including every manner of cultivation methods—everything one could need!"

"Excellent—I require a Yin God-level technique containing spatial true intent; a Primordial Spirit-level technique would also do!"

"Yin God-level technique, Primordial Spirit-level technique?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator in charge of reception froze momentarily, then smiled.

"Honored guest, please wait a moment—our Treasure Gathering Pavilion does store spatial-type Yin God-level techniques; follow this junior to the rear hall, where I will first apply for the necessary permissions and retrieve the relevant technique sequence data for you!"

"

She bowed respectfully and hurriedly led Zhang Jian into an elegant chamber within the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, exquisitely arranged.

Ancient and fragrant.

Incense burned in the central hall—precious spirit-nourishing incense smoldered slowly in the censer, wisp after wisp of green smoke curling up, making one unconsciously feel a deep warmth, as if even the wandering thoughts in the heart vanished completely at that moment.

On the side table, there were also several pots of blooming spirit flowers, exhaling a refined fragrance.

Soon after, a female attendant brought up spirit fruits and tea.

Zhang Jian smiled faintly at the sight, yet also perceived the depth of the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Shortly thereafter, the female cultivator who had just received him came hurrying back, a smile on her face.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, honored guest!"

"This junior has already activated partial permissions in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, retrieving all currently available spatial-type Yin God-level and Primordial Spirit-level techniques—these are categorized and stored entirely on this jade slip; you may browse and choose at your leisure, senior!"

At this moment, she held out a jade slip and handed it to Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian raised his hand, took hold of the jade slip, and a thread of Yang God divine sense sank into it—immediately revealing a vast array of spatial techniques.

Among them, spatial techniques were first divided into two major categories.

Yin God-level and Primordial Spirit-level.

Each of these further split into two types: standard and premium.

This is put politely—actually, one is the cheap version, the other the deluxe edition.

Zhang Jian first glanced at the Primordial Spirit-level spatial techniques—here, the lowest price started at tens of thousands of top-grade spirit crystals.

And the most expensive among them even exceeded millions of top-grade spirit crystals.

This made Zhang Jian startled!

For example, one technique called《Sleeve Holding Heaven and Earth》is said to originate from extraterritorial void; upon successful cultivation, one can shift stars and move constellations, block out the sky and sun, overturn heaven and earth as easily as taking something from a pocket—truly a divine ability.

For example, there is a method called 'Inverting Heaven and Earth'; practicing this method allows one to easily invert space, and one's movement through space is as if traveling a short distance to the ends of the earth, with escape speed reaching the utmost limit.

For example, there is a method called 'Qianyuan Splitting the Void Great Law'; mastering this method also allows one to escape into the void, easily controlling void storms of a spatial nature, and can effectively snipe some cultivators skilled in spatial escape methods.

For example, there is a technique called 'Five-in-One Spatial Sequence Set'; it is a sequence set of spatial techniques, and once mastered can form a primordial spirit immortal method, as well as five Yin-spirit-level spatial techniques linked together, ultimately forming a spatial distortion meteor that strikes cultivators into the endless hell, leaving them no place to turn over.

All these wonders, even Zhang Jian felt his eyes opened wide.

The only problem is that they are too expensive.

Most of these precious and powerful techniques involve knowledge of law-class runes.

Knowledge of the law class is precious.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell again on the Yin-spirit-level spatial techniques, and these prices were much more friendly.

Most prices hover around four to five thousand top-grade spirit crystals.

While the more precious ones are only around twenty thousand top-grade spirit crystals.

For Zhang Jian, he currently does not need extremely precious spatial techniques; as long as he can comprehend the true meaning of space, that is sufficient.

Secondly, Zhang Jian also turned his gaze toward some techniques with great potential but in a fragmented state.

The fragmentation is not a problem; relying on his extraordinary comprehension, Zhang Jian believes that perfecting them merely takes more time.

After searching for a moment, Zhang Jian's gaze finally settled on a Yin-spirit-level extra-territorial inheritance.

'Huangting Blessed Land Great Law!'

Price: fifteen thousand spirit crystals (damaged condition).

After Zhang Jian carefully read its introduction, he immediately felt moved.

This technique is said to come from the extra-territorial void; practicing it allows one to condense a blessed land, within which one can entrust a primordial spirit mark, thereby cultivating an immortal body of longevity, dwelling in the world at ease.

This technique's killing ability is not strong, but after successful cultivation, one will naturally gain two special abilities: one is directed transmission, allowing one to transmit back to one's own blessed land space at any time; the second is defense.

This defense is multifaceted, not only able to defend against external enemies' attacks, but also able to defend against various calamities; the blessed land has the ability to avoid calamities.

This is very good.

Zhang Jian hopes to comprehend its profundity and integrate it into the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State, or perhaps it could greatly enhance the profundity of the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State.

Of course, it also contains several great Dao truths, such as the truth of the earth, next some truth of time, and the truth of yin and yang.

Cultivating such a technique will extend for him after the fourth Yin-spirit tribulation a road to heaven.

However, he currently does not have so many top-grade spirit crystals on his person.

Among the cultivators he killed, the wealthiest was likely the Ghost Mother.

But within the spatial treasures, there were only about five to six thousand top-grade spirit crystals.

However, gathering this amount of spirit crystals, Zhang Jian also has an idea.

After thinking, Zhang Jian spoke to the female cultivator beside him.

'I just saw that your establishment seems to also have a business of recovering various techniques and treasures?'

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator nodded slightly and said.

'Senior, our Treasure Gathering Tower not only sells various techniques, treasures, and heavenly and earthly spiritual medicines, but also recovers these treasures; as long as there is value, we have dedicated people doing this business!'

She spoke very implicitly, but Zhang Jian felt secretly alarmed.

After thinking, Zhang Jian then said.

'I still have two pieces of primordial spirit-level treasures that I have set aside; I do not know if your establishment recovers such treasures?!'

'Primordial spirit-level treasures?'

The female cultivator's expression froze for a moment, then she became solemn and said.

'Senior, primordial spirit-level treasures are not something juniors like me can decide on; please wait a moment, and allow this junior to invite the tower master to come out and receive you!'

Zhang Jian nodded; since selling treasures naturally requires appraisal of treasure quality, Zhang Jian has ample patience to wait.

The Treasure Gathering Tower did not make Zhang Jian wait long; shortly after, a person wearing purple splendid robes, with a sturdy and burly figure, walked out from within, his body circulating with a thick layer of pure yang light.

This is a primordial spirit true person.

'I am Floating Cloud Child; I have seen you, Dao friend!'

At this moment, the female cultivator beside him hurriedly introduced: 'Senior, this is the tower master of the Great Qian Branch of the Treasure Gathering Tower, Floating Cloud True Person!'

'So it is Floating Cloud Dao friend!'

Zhang Jian smiled slightly, but he did not report his sect; instead, with a flip of his palm he took out the two primordial spirit-level treasures he had obtained from the Ghost Mother's body.

These two treasures emitted two grand spiritual mechanisms from deep in his palm, and two shocking evil qi were firmly locked between Zhang Jian's five fingers.

One of these treasures is the Myriad Souls Skull, and the other is the Blood Soul Banner.

Floating Cloud Child glanced at them, and his expression moved slightly; these two treasures are obviously demonic path treasures at first glance, but merely observing their aura shows they are quite extraordinary.

He secretly raised his estimation of the person before him by another level; the opponent does not look like a demonic path primordial spirit, but rather like one who exterminates demons and upholds the Dao, who happened to seize demonic path primordial spirit treasures, a righteous primordial spirit; he has encountered such a situation before...

However, the Treasure Gathering Tower does not care about the guest's background; as long as there is no open challenge to the human race and the state gods causing conflict, then they are a guest.

'Please, honored guest, release the restriction!'

Zhang Jian, upon hearing this, loosened his palm; the two treasures immediately floated up, turning into two streams of light flying toward Floating Cloud Child's front.

These two treasures had already been sealed by him using the Starlight Binding Soul Method.

Floating Cloud Child's palm deep down a spiritual light enveloped the two treasures; his primordial spirit divine sense slightly probed them, and after a moment he moved the two primordial spirit treasures in front of a treasure mirror, illuminating them once.

Zhang Jian watched this scene; obviously this primordial spirit true person should have specialized in appraisal and mirroring, or the method of returning to the source by tracing back, or similar primordial spirit immortal methods.

Very professional.

After a moment, Floating Cloud Child seemed to have collected much data; after checking for a moment he smiled at Zhang Jian and said.

'Dao friend, your treasures are indeed primordial spirit-level treasures; although they are left-handed, they are not damaged!'

'The original preservation is also complete!'

'The primordial spirit techniques fixed on the primordial spirit treasures are all complete, and there is no damage!'

Fuyunzi's eyes flickered with a hint of a smile.

To obtain two Yuan Shen-grade treasures at today's market is already a modest gain.

There's no need to elaborate on Yuan Shen-grade treasures.

Yuan Shen-grade treasures are usually nurtured as life-bound artifacts by Yuan Shen True Persons, and naturally, at least one or more Yuan Shen-grade techniques are inscribed within them.

Such inscribed techniques are typically capable of automatic activation.

When unleashed at a critical moment, they can turn the tide of battle.

Moreover, the most precious aspect of a treasure lies in its multiple auxiliary functions; if its master benefits, all these auxiliary functions will be fully exerted.

For example, this Ten Thousand Souls Skull in his hand is a Yuan Shen-grade treasure crucial for cultivating the Blood Soul Great Law, capable of devouring ghosts, separating killing intent and resentment to nourish itself, while the soul essence supplies the master's cultivation.

It also carries two Yuan Shen-grade techniques and multiple Yin Shen-grade techniques, making it exceptionally formidable.

As for the other item, the Blood Soul Banner, its standing among Yuan Shen treasures is also considerable.

Daoist Fuyun pondered slightly, gazing at Zhang Jian before speaking.

"Yuan Shen treasures are extremely precious, but since they are specifically nurtured by Yuan Shen True Persons, their use is limited, and combined with selling costs, we can only purchase them at around sixty percent of value. This Ten Thousand Souls Skull—we offer fifteen thousand top-grade spirit crystals!"

"As for this Blood Soul Banner, it is quite remarkable; if displayed, it would likely attract interest from a Devil Path Yuan Shen True Person. We offer seventy percent, pricing it at twenty-two thousand. I wonder if the esteemed guest is certain about selling?"

Zhang Jian's gaze fluctuated.

The Blood Soul Banner having devoured hundreds of thousands of battle souls indeed holds immense potential; although after repeated redemption and cleansing, the main souls within have been redeemed, its essence remains.

However, twenty-two thousand is also quite reasonable.

"Agreed!"

Zhang Jian nodded slightly, then and there consented to the sale.

Yet he still felt a strange sense of error.

He had previously slaughtered numerous heretical cultivators, killing them and discarding their treasures as mere wreckage, never expecting they could be resold, let alone fetch such a price...

"Too hasty..."

At the same time, Zhang Jian directly paid the spirit crystals for purchasing the Yellow Court Blessed Land Great Law, thus completing this transaction.

However, Zhang Jian did not immediately depart; instead, he proceeded to purchase some ancient scriptures within the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Next, these are the spiritual medicines required for Foundation Establishment.

Lastly, these are prepared for Zhao Shu and Zhang Chang'an.

Thus, carrying the joy of a bountiful return, he left the Dragon Palace and returned to Haojing City.