Chapter 114: Tianyuan Trading Firm

Since he was letting his External Incarnation go to the Eastern Extreme Region, Ye Qingxuan had naturally made sufficient preparations.

The books he had read during his years in the Xuantian Sect were not read in vain.

Regarding the information on the surface of some major forces, Ye Qingxuan could not say he knew them like the back of his hand, but at least he had some understanding.

After leaving the teleportation plaza of Dongbincheng, Ye Qingxuan, after some inquiries, finally came to the largest trading firm in Dongbincheng—the Tianyuan Trading Firm.

The Tianyuan Trading Firm was a trading firm established by the hegemon-level force, the Tianyuan Sect.

The Tianyuan Trading Firm located in Dongbincheng was only a branch of the Tianyuan Trading Firm.

The main business of this branch of the Tianyuan Trading Firm in Dongbincheng was to go to the Eastern Extreme Region to conduct cross-regional trade and escort some clients to the Eastern Extreme Region.

Every year, many geniuses of low cultivation from major forces, for various reasons, secretly left the five inner regions and went to the four outer regions to train and roam.

As for whether there were protectors secretly following these geniuses, that was unknown.

Ye Qingxuan found the Tianyuan Trading Firm because he was prepared to go to the Eastern Extreme Region through the escort business of the Tianyuan Trading Firm.

Just as he stepped into the luxurious and atmospheric branch of the Tianyuan Trading Firm, a shop assistant immediately greeted him and asked:

"Esteemed guest, what do you need?"

Ye Qingxuan looked at the environment inside the trading firm for a moment and said casually:

"I want to go to the Eastern Extreme Region."

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, the man instantly understood and nodded:

"Guest, please come this way!"

Then he took Ye Qingxuan to a private room, knocked on the door:

"Manager Lin, there is an esteemed guest who needs to go to the Eastern Extreme Region."

As soon as the voice fell, a voice came from inside:

"Come in!"

After receiving permission, the shop assistant brought Ye Qingxuan in.

In the private room, a middle-aged man had just stood up from his seat and looked at Ye Qingxuan, who had just entered, with a smile:

"Guest, please sit!"

At the same time, he waved his hand, signaling the shop assistant to withdraw.

After the shop assistant withdrew, this Manager Lin looked at Ye Qingxuan, who was already sitting opposite him, and asked:

"I wonder why the guest is going to the Eastern Extreme Region?"

Facing Manager Lin's inquiry, Ye Qingxuan did not answer but narrowed his eyes and asked back:

"What? Does your Tianyuan Trading Firm have the habit of probing into clients' privacy?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's impolite counter-question, Manager Lin's expression did not change, but he smiled and apologized:

"Guest, please forgive me; it was my mistake. I was just asking casually."

Immediately after, this Manager Lin asked tentatively:

"Then I wonder what the guest's cultivation base is?"

Seeming to fear that Ye Qingxuan would misunderstand, this Manager Lin explained:

"Guest, don't misunderstand; asking about the cultivation base is just a normal convention. After all, our trading firm also needs to know what the cultivation base of the clients traveling to the Eastern Extreme Region is, right?"

After condensing the Dao seed of the minor divine ability: Heaven-Deceiving, as long as Ye Qingxuan intended to conceal it, basically only existences above the Void Penetration Realm could see through his true cultivation base.

From the moment Ye Qingxuan teleported to Dongbin Prefecture, he had been concealing his cultivation base.

This was also the reason why Manager Lin, who was sitting opposite him and possessed a peak Nascent Soul Realm cultivation base, could not see through his cultivation base.

When going out, it was better to be careful; Ye Qingxuan could not guarantee whether a few scumbags would appear in a large group.

Only by making others unable to see through him and making them feel wary of him could he avoid some unnecessary trouble.

Ye Qingxuan did not need to deceive everyone; making everyone feel wary of him was enough. He only needed to make the individual middle-to-low-level cultivators of the Tianyuan Trading Firm feel wary, and that was enough.

As for the high-level officials of the Tianyuan Trading Firm above the Void Penetration Realm, they wouldn't personally take action against a client they had never met before, right? That wasn't realistic.

Regarding Manager Lin's reason for asking about his cultivation base, Ye Qingxuan was somewhat dismissive.

What Manager Lin said was a fact, but according to what Ye Qingxuan knew, although the Tianyuan Trading Firm would ask about the client's cultivation base as a matter of course, it would not forcibly check the client's cultivation base.

Seeing Manager Lin asking so earnestly, Ye Qingxuan looked at him steadily and smiled playfully:

"Oh? Is that so? Then you can record it as Golden Core Realm cultivation!"

Having said this, the aura of Ye Qingxuan's Golden Core Realm cultivation flashed and disappeared in an instant, only exposed for a moment before being concealed again.

Truth and falsehood were mixed; even if he exposed his true cultivation base, the Manager Lin opposite him would probably be suspicious.

Seeing Ye Qingxuan's such powerful concealment method, a look of wariness appeared deep in Manager Lin's eyes, but he still wore a smile on his face:

"Okay, then thank you for your cooperation, guest."

"The departure time for our Tianyuan Trading Firm's next trip to the Eastern Extreme Region is March 3rd of next year, and the cost is 300,000 high-grade spirit stones per person. I wonder if the guest can accept that?"

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan calmly took out a storage bag and threw it to Manager Lin:

"No problem, give me the boarding voucher!"

Although it was his first time going to the Eastern Extreme Region through the Tianyuan Trading Firm, Ye Qingxuan was very clear about the process.

Seeing Ye Qingxuan so familiar with the process, Manager Lin was somewhat surprised, wondering what he was thinking, but his movements were not slow.

After checking that the spirit stones Ye Qingxuan gave were fine, he took out a golden token and handed it to Ye Qingxuan:

"Guest, please keep this well. On March 3rd of next year, you can board our Tianyuan Trading Firm's ship to the Eastern Extreme Region with this golden token."

Ye Qingxuan took the golden token, checked it, and after confirming there were no problems, nodded slightly and turned to leave the private room.

Watching Ye Qingxuan's departing figure, Manager Lin had an inscrutable look in his eyes, subconsciously turning and playing with the ring on his finger.

After a long time, Manager Lin shook his head slightly:

"Forget it, the risk is too great; better not take action."

He had worked at the branch of the Tianyuan Trading Firm in Dongbincheng for many years and had received countless clients.

Among them were many young masters who had secretly run out and wanted to go to the Eastern Extreme Region to roam.

Some of these young masters were specifically released by major families and had protectors secretly following them.

But the Eastern Extreme Region was too far from Dongbin Prefecture, so generally, protectors would come to the Tianyuan Trading Firm in advance to greet them and obtain a boarding spot.

And some young masters had really run out secretly.

Ever since many years ago, Manager Lin couldn't resist his greed and took action against a young master who was squandering spirit stones in the Eastern Extreme Region, he hadn't expected to succeed so easily and had also obtained massive cultivation resources.

From that time on, these young masters with deep pockets and lack of experience all became fat sheep in Manager Lin's eyes.

Being far away in the Eastern Extreme Region, even if those young masters fell, as long as they didn't fall directly at his hands, he, backed by the Tianyuan Trading Firm, didn't worry about being implicated.

He was able to cultivate to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, only one step away from the Deity Transformation Realm, by relying on the resources obtained from these young masters to purchase a large amount of elixirs to assist his cultivation.

However, he was not without failures; once, he directly provoked a direct descendant of a force with a Void Meditation Realm mighty figure sitting in charge.

That Void Meditation Realm mighty figure had left protective measures on his junior, and at the moment of life-and-death crisis, the protective measures were activated, directly saving that young master.

And he directly counter-killed everyone who had taken action against that young master, causing this Manager Lin, who had always been hiding behind the scenes, to lose a partner.

Fortunately, he hadn't taken action himself, so even if the forces behind those young masters investigated, they could only find that it was the work of loose cultivator bandits in the Eastern Extreme Region.

As for himself, he had never appeared, always manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

However, although he wasn't implicated, he had calmed down a lot because of this, and the selection of targets for his actions became increasingly cautious, and he dared not take action against disciples from truly major forces again.

After all, although he hid deep, wanting to find him was not a difficult task for some truly major forces.

After Ye Qingxuan left the branch of the Tianyuan Trading Firm, he temporarily lived in an inn close to the endless sea areas.

Having been in the Di Xuan Realm for so long, this was Ye Qingxuan's first time seeing the sea areas of the Di Xuan Realm, which had a unique flavor.

Although the scenery of the endless sea areas was beautiful, it did not make Ye Qingxuan indulge.

At this time, he was standing by the window in the inn room, looking toward the direction of the Eastern Extreme Region, lost in thought.

Although the resources of the Eastern Extreme Region were not as abundant as those of the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm,

it was still a major region; if cross-regional trade could be conducted, the benefits would be absolutely astonishing, which was also the reason why the branch of the Tianyuan Trading Firm spent a large amount of resources and energy to go to the Eastern Extreme Region.

After all, the environment of each region was different, and some special medicinal herbs grown and special spiritual minerals derived in each region might not necessarily be found in other regions.

Just like one of the specialties of the four outer regions, Mixed Spirit Stones and Mixed Spirit Fruits, which had no small attraction for cultivators in the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

Mixed Spirit Stones were actually spirit stones mixed with faint chaos energy.

Only regions like the four outer regions, which were expanding and where world rules were not yet completely stable and perfect, would give birth to special ores like Mixed Spirit Stones that contained faint chaos energy.

Mixed Spirit Stones did not have much effect on the cultivators themselves, but they could be used to temper magic treasures, allowing magic treasures to advance during tempering.

The chaos energy in Mixed Spirit Stones, after being tempered by world rules, although it remained, had become extremely gentle, far less violent than the chaos energy outside the world.

For cultivators who possessed natal magic treasures or pseudo-natal magic treasures, this gentle chaos energy was an excellent supplement for natal magic treasures.

So for them, Mixed Spirit Stones were heavenly treasures they couldn't ask for.

Even Ye Qingxuan's natal magic treasure, the World Map, was no exception.

Although the World Map did not fear the erosion of chaos energy, directly absorbing the energy of Mixed Spirit Stones could save the process of refining.

Even the energy contained in Mixed Spirit Stones had no small auxiliary effect on the growth of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi, which could further accelerate the conversion of the origin of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi.

Mixed Spirit Stones could be divided into First to Tenth Order according to the concentration of gentle chaos energy they contained.

If there were enough Mixed Spirit Stones and they were of a high enough level, there was even a glimmer of hope to forcibly temper a supreme-grade spiritual treasure to the threshold of an immortal artifact, becoming a pseudo-immortal artifact.

A pseudo-immortal artifact was a magic treasure whose quality had reached the level of an immortal artifact, but it did not contain immortal Dao rules.

Even so, for forces below the hegemon level, pseudo-immortal artifacts were also rare treasures.

So for forces below the hegemon level, the more Mixed Spirit Stones, the better, which led to a very large market demand for Mixed Spirit Stones in the five inner regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

However, because the Eastern Extreme Region was too far away, many forces with insufficient strength, although they knew of the existence of Mixed Spirit Stones, did not know the source of Mixed Spirit Stones.

As for hegemon-level forces? They naturally did not lack gentle chaos energy, and even had heavenly treasures better than Mixed Spirit Stones.

As for Mixed Spirit Fruits? They were fruits nurtured by Mixed Spirit Trees absorbing gentle chaos energy.

Mixed Spirit Fruits were also divided into First to Tenth Order and could nourish the bodies of cultivators of different realms, enhancing the cultivator's physical strength and meridian toughness.

Although after a cultivator broke through a realm, the body would undergo transformation together, and the ability to withstand spiritual energy impact would become stronger.

But after a cultivator's cultivation base improved, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy also became faster, and the pressure on the body and meridians became even greater.

So heavenly treasures that could enhance a cultivator's physical strength and meridian toughness would also be sought after by cultivators.

The faster a cultivator absorbed spiritual energy, although it could not directly improve the conversion efficiency of the spiritual root, the compression and fusion of spiritual energy in the body was also equivalent to a disguised improvement in cultivation speed.

This had the same effect as the Spirit-Nurturing Honey produced by the Spirit-Nurturing Bees Ye Qingxuan farmed.

Mixed Spirit Fruits were even excellent auxiliary cultivation treasures for cultivators who practiced body-refining techniques.

The trunk of the Mixed Spirit Tree, after being baptized by gentle chaos energy, was also a rare artifact-refining material.

So Mixed Spirit Stones, Mixed Spirit Fruits, and Mixed Spirit Trees were all one of the main commodities of the Tianyuan Trading Firm's cross-regional trade.

Likewise, they were also one of the purposes of Ye Qingxuan's trip to the Eastern Extreme Region.

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