Chapter 559: Tianxuan ambushed, signs of Nascent Soul

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Tianyuan Building, seventh floor.

The fat cultivator's expression changed greatly, extremely surprised.

A dignified transformed Demon Emperor actually sneaked into the human immortal island, this is a big event.

Once discovered, it might brew a war!

In the Mountain and Sea World, humans and demons are incompatible.

Since the end of the ancient war, a truce treaty was signed, it seems that there is no large-scale war, only some small-scale opening wars are going on, but everyone knows that this is only temporary.

After more than three thousand years, that peaceful situation has tended to collapse.

Tianyuan Dao Sect as the Central Plains Holy Land, the news is the most well-informed.

As far as he knows, except for the Central Plains where there is no demon trouble, the other four states have already started to restart the war of fire.

Especially the Northern Sea is the most prosperous!

More than a hundred years ago, the demon race coalition army killed into the Northern Pole Night Demon Sky, and the destruction of the Yuanmo Sect was the most significant sign.

The holy land collapsed, the Northern Sea immortal cultivation world had no leader, even if new forces like the Canghai Righteous Alliance appeared, it was just a drop in the bucket.

Everyone knows that once the demon race over there catches their breath, the new war of fire will inevitably sweep the entire Northern Sea!

It is precisely because of this that the human side of the Northern Sea adheres to the concept of "settling the inside before resisting the outside," and major forces have been colliding in the open and in the dark, intending to fight for the high and low, so that someone can lead the resistance to the demon race coalition army.

In this case, a transformed demon cultivator whose name and origin are unknown, quietly sneaked into the important city of the southeast, must have a plan.

Is it an outpost? Coming to explore information?

Or a saboteur, trying to destroy the alliance between the Penglai Immortal Sect and the Demon Luo Flow?

Or, purely a personal act, not mixed with any right or wrong?

In a short period of time, the fat cultivator looked at the face in the bronze mirror and his thoughts turned rapidly.

But gradually, he showed a look of suspicion and uncertainty.

"Eh..."

"The body is a Tianxuan Fighting Gull?"

"Once transformed, the demon cultivator's Nascent Soul can cover up the real body, even under this Demon-Illuminating Treasure Mirror, it can only be concluded that it is not human."

"Could it be just a third-stage demonic beast?"

"But how can a third-stage demonic beast transform? Could it be that it was lucky enough to swallow the legendary Transformation Grass?"

Many thoughts lingered in his heart.

Regardless, the fat cultivator couldn't sit still, first sent a sound transmission down.

Then he quietly got up and went down the seven-story high building.

Coming to the first-floor lobby, seeing the slightly confused woman, he walked straight over.

"I am Fu Chaosheng, the manager here, if the guest has any needs, Fu is willing to serve you."

Looking at the smiling face on the round face, Tianxuan's expression froze.

Core Formation cultivator!

She was still wondering why she entered this shop, but no one greeted her.

She just thought Tianyuan Merchant Alliance had a big shop and background, and didn't bother to greet guests warmly.

Unexpectedly, the one who came to entertain her was actually a Core Formation cultivator!

Although it was only the early Core Formation stage, backed by the Tianyuan Dao Sect, Tianxuan didn't dare to be slow.

"I am Tianxuan, I have a batch of demonic beast materials in my hand, I don't know if your shop accepts them?"

Fu Chaosheng raised an eyebrow, "Demonic beast materials? What race is it, why don't you take it out and let me see."

Tianxuan was embarrassed: "It's not very convenient here!"

Fu Chaosheng smiled, reaching out an invitation, "Then change to another place, please this way."

Tianxuan had no objection, following the other party's footsteps, constantly going up the stairs.

The spiral staircase gave people a feeling of no end.

When entering a vacant room, Tianxuan had a feeling of breaking through the water curtain for a moment.

Once inside, she took out the last batch of materials left in the storage bag.

Third-stage demon king crab body, the most eye-catching are the crab pincers, crab legs, and some thick big tendons, eyeballs, bones.

Even, in a separate jade box, there are ten demon pills with different attributes!

Seeing this scene, even Fu Chaosheng, who was well-informed, could not help but be surprised.

"Third-stage Green Emperor Crab, Tyrant Crab, Demon Spider Crab... even the Poison King Crab is here. Fellow Daoist Tianxuan, which demon sea area's demon crab tribe's old nest did you end?"

Tianxuan's expression was cold, "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, just say whether you accept it or not?"

Fu Chaosheng rubbed his hands and chuckled.

"Accept, how can I not accept it, but I have to identify it. Fellow Daoist, don't mind waiting for me for a while!"

"Hmm."

Tianxuan nodded, and sat down on the side.

Fu Chaosheng identified the quality of various materials while chatting with the other party.

Although the other party was wary, many questions were avoided.

But for Fu Chaosheng, the answer to the question was not important, what he needed to see was the reaction.

Finally, Fu Chaosheng gave a fair price for this batch of goods.

Three million spirit stones!

All paid in top-grade spirit stones!

Tianxuan was a bit dissatisfied at first, she felt that it could be premium, but after hearing that it was all paid in top-grade spirit stones, she agreed happily.

The master explained before, if possible, try to use medium-grade spirit stones to settle the account, the best is top-grade!

She didn't understand the difference brought by the grade of spirit stones before.

But after watching the master use the God-Sealing Compass to arrange the array several times, basically consuming top-grade spirit stones, she knew that cultivators urging magic treasures also had thresholds.

"Taking back this income, plus the previous transactions, it just happens to be ten million. Especially such a batch of top-grade spirit stones, the master should be very satisfied."

Tianxuan agreed to this transaction happily.

As expected of the Tianyuan Merchant Alliance, it is atmospheric, and the settlement is all top-grade spirit stones! 【559-6

After some mutual expressions of emotion, both sides reached a deal.

Seeing Tianxuan carefully place the three hundred high-grade spirit stones into her storage bag, Fu Chaosheng clapped his hands and said with a beaming smile:

"You are not a local, are you, fellow Daoist?"

"Mm."

"Since it's rare for you to come here, why not look around our shop?"

Tianxuan felt a bit tempted.

Fu Chaosheng struck while the iron was hot, saying, "Our shop not only has the most comprehensive cultivation resources in the North Sea, but also some unique resources from the Central Plains. If you take a look, you might just make some gains!"

Tianxuan thought for a moment and nodded.

In any case, her business was basically finished, and nothing had gone wrong.

Her master had been in secluded cultivation for over half a month with no sign of emerging, so he did not need her.

It would be better to look around first and broaden her horizons.

Next, personally accompanied by Fu Chaosheng, Tianxuan began to browse the various goods in the Tianyuan Tower.

There were mineral materials of all attributes, medicinal herbs of various grades, fresh potted spiritual plants, and magic tools and talismans with different functions.

Even array discs and high-grade elixirs, rarely seen in the outside world, were common sights here.

During this process, Tianxuan also paid special attention to several types of medicinal herbs.

Those were all things her master had specifically instructed her about before; they were of great use to him.

After secretly noting down the prices and reserves of those herbs, Tianxuan's footsteps stopped in the magic treasure area on the sixth floor.

On the shelves, magic treasures emitting powerful spiritual energy fluctuations were on display.

They were of various shapes and infinitely profound.

In particular, her gaze was fixed firmly on a fan.

Under her perception.

Wind-attribute spiritual energy lingered upon it; even without anyone activating it, it brushed against space from time to time.

Of all the shelves, this spot was the cleanest; there was not a speck of dust, and not even the residual magic power of those who had tested the treasures remained.

"You have an excellent eye, fellow Daoist!"

"This treasure is named the Nine-Wind Banana Fan. It was refined using the trunk of a banana tree with a lifespan of one hundred thousand years. After it was refined, nine strands of Immaculate Wind were fused into it, making its power incomparably strange and great!"

"As a high-grade magic treasure, the Nine-Wind Banana Fan is also one of the treasures that anchors our shop."

"If a Jin Dan cultivator obtains it and uses it as their life-bound magic treasure, through diligent refinement, they can summon wind and rain, and shatter mountains and split the earth. If one has a wind-attribute spiritual root, it is like adding wings to a tiger, doubling its power!"

Listening to Fu Chaosheng's introduction, Tianxuan stared fixedly at the banana fan, her eyes full of longing.

She asked subconsciously, "How many spirit stones for this treasure?"

Fu Chaosheng smiled slightly, "It's not cheap, but it's not expensive either. An ordinary Jin Dan cultivator would have to exhaust their family fortune to buy it. But it's not expensive either; those three million spirit stones in your hand, fellow Daoist, would be more than enough."

Tianxuan's eyes widened suddenly!

Three million!

Why don't you just go rob someone!

She knew that high-grade magic treasures were of high value and very expensive.

Her master had chatted about it in his spare time; ordinary low-grade magic treasures generally cost under one hundred thousand, and as long as a Jin Dan loose cultivator wasn't poor to the point of desperation, they could afford to purchase one or two.

What constrained the number of magic treasures a Jin Dan cultivator had was not financial power, but strength.

Those whose magic power was not vigorous enough found one magic treasure to be their limit.

Those whose spiritual sense was not strong found two to be barely enough.

Only those who were strong in both could simultaneously activate two or three magic treasures.

At the very least, the treasures her master used to use often amounted to only three or four, and one had even been destroyed.

And once a magic treasure reached the mid-grade, the price began to skyrocket.

Ranging from one hundred thousand to one million.

High-grade magic treasures were even more rare and sought after.

Rarely would anyone take them out to sell.

If a cultivator wanted to obtain one, most relied on refining, tempering, and nourishing it themselves, using their own energy and ample time to slowly nurture it to the high-grade level.

Such magic treasures were no longer as simple as mere weapons.

While the cultivator was alive, they could be treated as objects of life-bound cultivation.

After the cultivator died, they could also be passed down as the heritage treasure of a family or a sect.

Many powerful Jin Dan sects only had one or two high-grade magic treasures as their sect-anchoring treasures.

Thinking about it seriously, three million spirit stones for an excellent high-grade magic treasure might not actually be very expensive.

But...

Tianxuan shook her head abruptly, "Forget it, I can't afford it."

Fu Chaosheng smiled, "Business is about negotiation. If you really want it, fellow Daoist, we can discuss the price further."

His words were quite tempting.

Tianxuan opened her mouth, but in the end, she still refused.

Luo Chen cast a sound-insulation spell and said calmly, "Wu Qi was able to pass the invitation to me through the Feiyan merchant fleet, so he must be paying close attention to the Feiyan Archipelago. If I set out this way, I'm afraid I would fall into their sight before reaching Cold Light Island. Revealing my Core Formation cultivation and forcibly requisitioning the White family's merchant ship would be the same."

Fu Chaosheng remained all smiles, "It was a pleasure talking with you today, fellow Daoist. It shows that our affinity is not shallow, and we will surely meet again in the future."

Afterward, he personally saw Tianxuan downstairs and out of the Tianyuan Tower.

After leaving the Tianyuan Tower, Tianxuan felt a bit dejected.

Having a treasure that was extremely compatible with her placed right in front of her, yet being unable to take it, was truly uncomfortable.

When it came down to it, it was because her pockets were empty!

She wondered if, after helping her master with things in the future, he would give her some pocket money?

Mentioning empty pockets, Tianxuan's mood improved again.

This time, by helping her master earn ten million spirit stones back, she could be considered to have made a great contribution.

In particular, the number of high-grade spirit stones inside, added to the previous transaction, totaled four hundred!

Upon returning, she would surely be praised.

Perhaps, once her master emerged from seclusion, he would pass that cultivation method he had been researching on to her.

She had been trapped at the early stage of the third rank for several hundred years.

Measured by the realms of human cultivators, it was roughly the peak of the third level of Jin Dan.

If she obtained the cultivation method, perhaps she could break through to the mid-stage of Jin Dan, taking another step closer to the fourth rank of human form and condensing a Nascent Soul.

While she was full of anticipation, she did not know that someone was lurking in the shadows.

On a secluded mountain path, five people sat in a circle, watching the water mirror in front of them.

Under the concealment of an array, the five people did not leak a single bit of their aura.

But their Jin Dan stage realms were known to each other.

One of them looked down at the mirror and said, "This woman has good methods; she sold off the demon crab materials in batches within a short time and gained a large amount of profit. Yet she made us suffer a muffled loss in the dark!"

Another echoed, "Indeed. If our Qian family hadn't tried to sell that batch of demon crab materials to the Lianfeng Firm and been rejected, we wouldn't have known that this woman had actually hoarded so many similar materials."

If it were just one batch of demon crab materials, for each family, it wouldn't be an issue.

Selling them off would always yield a profit.

But Tianxuan had dumped the materials of over a thousand demon crab corpses in just over half a month, which caused supply to exceed demand.

Although Lengguang Island was large, swallowing so many materials all at once would still cause problems.

Not to mention that the price of raw materials would be suppressed, even the magic tools and treasures refined by those weapon-casting forces using the demon crab materials would be much the same.

As a result, the price of the finished products would inevitably not be very high either.

Therefore, the price of raw materials would be suppressed even lower by them.

Fortunately, the forces behind these shops in Feileng City that purchased demon crab materials were mostly known to each other.

Even if there were grudges, in the face of profit, they could still reach a consensus.

Therefore, the three families met and gathered five Jin Dan cultivators, wanting to recoup their losses.

As for how to recoup the losses?

That was very simple!

"In a moment, once this woman steps into the range of the array, we five will strike simultaneously and kill her with lightning speed."

"Afterward, we three families will split the spirit stones inside equally."

"As for the rest of the property, my Qian family will choose first; you have no objections, right!"

Among the five, except for another Qian family cultivator, the remaining three nodded.

Afterward, they discussed the details of the upcoming strike.

With five people striking together, the commotion would inevitably be significant, but with the array's concealment, the cultivators in the city would not be able to react for a while.

The most important thing was not to let Tianxuan destroy the storage bag when she was on the verge of death.

Regarding this problem, the Qian family, which contributed the most, also had a countermeasure; they had specially prepared a treasure that could briefly isolate the mental connection between a cultivator and their storage bag.

Although it was only for an instant, it was enough for the five to blast Tianxuan to death with thunderous force!

"She's in!"

"Prepare!"

Just as they were fully prepared and about to strike.

Suddenly, a special pressure enveloped the area covered by the great array.

Especially where the five were located, it felt as if the world had been isolated, and they were in another space.

Not only was the spiritual energy within their bodies unable to be mobilized, but they couldn't even perceive the spiritual energy of the outside world.

With their minds shocked, the five could only watch helplessly as the female cultivator in the water mirror drifted away.

After the female cultivator left.

That special pressure suddenly dissipated.

Only a cold snort reached the ears of the five.

"Business is not done like this by you people; get back!"

The five looked at each other, their eyes full of horror.

After a long while, the Qian family cultivator said tremblingly, "It seems to be Elder Fu?"

Fu Chaosheng, the person in charge of the Tianyuan Alliance in the North Sea, ranked high as one of the four great elders.

And his own cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul stage.

When walking outside, everyone had to give him face.

Even some well-known late-stage Nascent Soul old monsters in the North Sea had to treat him with courtesy.

For no other reason than that this person also represented the Tianyuan Dao Sect of the Central Plains!

They didn't know why Fu Chaosheng wanted to protect Tianxuan, but in any case, this job couldn't be done now.

Even after going back, they would have to prepare gifts and go to his door to beg him not to hold their petty actions against them.

The five did not hesitate further, packed their things, and slunk back.

On the ground, the chubby man looked at the escaping light in the sky, muttering to himself.

"With the power of one demon, it is impossible to collect so many third-rank demon crab materials; there must be a force behind this woman."

"Especially when she faced a magic treasure that was extremely compatible with her, she didn't dare to use the spirit stones in her hand, which shows she is just a subordinate running errands outside and has no right to dispose of those spirit stones."

"To be able to have a third-rank demon beast, and a demon cultivator who has taken human form at that, run errands for oneself, the person behind the scenes is either of a high realm or has a very large background."

"At this time of changing winds and clouds, and with matters concerning my Dao Sect's schemes, no anomalies can be tolerated."

"I want to see which fellow Daoist has quietly come to Feileng without showing their face."

While muttering, his footsteps seemed slow but were actually fast, trailing far behind that cyan escaping light.

Not long after.

His footsteps stopped outside a mountain valley.

Looking at the valley filled with clouds and mist and heavily guarded, Fu Chaosheng frowned.

"A third-rank array, with Nascent Soul aura permeating it; my guess was not wrong, it really is a Nascent Soul cultivator."

"But this aura is truly unfamiliar; I have never seen it before."

"In that case, I must meet them and probe their background."

He lifted his step, intending to enter the valley, but the moment he raised his foot, his expression changed abruptly.

Only to see the wind and clouds in the valley change suddenly!

A momentum soared into the sky!

Dragons and tigers gathered, black clouds permeated, and large amounts of spiritual energy were extracted from the earth veins.

Not only that, the free-roaming spiritual energy of the four directions of heaven and earth also began to gather toward the valley.

Above the horizon, there was even a faint silver light flickering.

Seeing this familiar scene, Fu Chaosheng blurted out.

"Signs of Nascent Soul formation!"

(End of chapter)