Chapter 1338: Quasi-Ninth Grade in Sight

"A top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure?!"

When Li Luo said this, Zhao Xiuyuan, Qin Zhenlin, and the others were stunned for two seconds, feeling as if they had misheard, but they quickly came to their senses and were instantly furious.

"Li Luo, I think you've gone mad!"

Zhao Xiuyuan gnashed his teeth. This bastard, opening his mouth to ask for a top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure — this wasn't a lion's mouth anymore, it was simply a dragon's maw as deep as an abyss!

A top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure was worth as much as a true ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light — what an astonishing value that was? Even among their Heavenly King lines, top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures were extremely scarce.

And now, Li Luo opened his mouth asking each of them for a top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure as payment for his intervention to purify the curse — this was black-hearted to the extreme.

Qin Zhenlin's eyes also held anger; Li Luo's asking price was a little too reckless.

"Li Luo, don't toy with us. Do you really think we can produce a top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure?" Qin Yi, however, was quite calm, her voice soft as she spoke.

Li Luo laughed upon hearing this: "Isn't this just trying first? What if there really is a fat sucker?"

Zhao Xiuyuan said with an ugly expression: "Li Luo, stop being unreasonable. Quickly act to purify the curse for us. This Ghostly Domain is extremely bizarre; we still need to cooperate."

"Earlier, you didn't look like you wanted to cooperate." Li Tingyue said with a gentle smile, but her words carried thorns.

Seeing that there really was no way to extort a top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure, Li Luo could only settle for the next best thing, and reluctantly said: "If you don't have top-grade ones, then each of you hand over three high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures."

Zhao Xiuyuan took a deep breath and said coldly: "Up to now in the Boundary River Treasure Domain, we've only obtained one high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure, and you still want three?!"

"Only obtained one high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure? That's so pathetic?" Li Luo didn't believe it.

Zhao Xiuyuan clenched his hands tightly, the veins on the backs of his hands pulsing, clearly straining to contain the fury in his heart. This bastard — not only extorting, but also adding humiliation.

Seeing this, Li Luo understood that what they said might be true. After all, other teams didn't have Li Hongyou's treasure-hunting ability, so before they could only visit Ghostly Domains one by one to try their luck. But one should know that not every mid-sized Ghostly Domain contained a high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure.

"Fine, one will be one then."

Li Luo thought briefly, then magnanimously waved his hand. After all, he couldn't really watch Zhao Xiuyuan, Qin Zhenlin, and the others turn into Polluters, because if they then turned around to deal with his side, that would also be a very thorny matter.

So he'd take what he could get, lest he really anger them to the point of mutual destruction with him.

Seeing Li Luo's hateful look of regret at not having squeezed out more oil, Zhao Xiuyuan, Qin Zhenlin, and the others were all so angry their teeth itched, but now being at his mercy, they had no other choice.

So they could only endure the intense heartache and each took out a high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure and tossed it over.

Li Luo used his phase force to catch the two high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, carefully inspected them, and only then nodded in satisfaction.

"Come on." At this moment, his gaze as he looked at Zhao Xiuyuan, Qin Zhenlin, and the others suddenly became much softer.

Only Zhao Xiuyuan and the others had no pleasant expressions, each of them sitting cross-legged on the ground with dark faces.

And Li Luo fully displayed an attitude of "the customer is supreme," smiling all over his face as he took Jiang Jiang Qinge's hand and performed a serious purification for them.

Another hour later.

The expressions of Zhao Xiuyuan, Qin Zhenlin, and the others all eased somewhat. They disgustedly wiped away the black traces at the corners of their eyes, while inwardly feeling as if a great boulder had been lifted from their hearts.

Li Luo laughed: "Everyone, the curse within you should be purified, but I must remind you — next time you need detoxification, there will still be a fee. After all, you all know what our relationship is like."

"Shut your crow's mouth!" Zhao Xiuyuan was furious. This Li Luo was truly rotten to the core, actually cursing them. Once the matters here settled, he would definitely find a chance for revenge.

Li Luo smiled and paid no heed to his cursing, but instead turned around and walked toward Lv Shuanglu, laughing: "Miss Lv, those two bottles of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light from before — you haven't traded them away, have you?"

Lv Shuanglu gave a light laugh and said: "I've been keeping them all for you."

Her jade hand extended, and an exquisite jade box appeared in her palm. She lifted the lid, and two vials of Spiritual Water Wonder Light radiating dense spiritual energy lay within.

A trace of fiery eagerness flashed in Li Luo's eyes. He could feel that if he absorbed and refined these two vials of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light, then his wood-earth phase would truly evolve to quasi-ninth grade.

By then, he would also achieve the feat of three ninth-grade phases — and moreover, three ninth-grades with both a primary and an auxiliary phase!

Li Luo took out four high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures. Two of them were precisely the ones extorted from Zhao Xiuyuan and the others earlier; these two high-grade ones were not counted among the team's spoils, because they were entirely obtained by Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge alone.

As for the other two, Li Luo had previously discussed with Li Foluo and the others to allocate them for use first.

"According to the previous exchange price, four high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures for these two vials of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light." Li Luo handed over the four high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, and laughed: "Don't worry, these Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures have all been refined, and there are no hidden dangers within them."

Zhang Cuicheng, who stood nearby, saw this and spoke up: "Brother Li Luo, you saved us. For this favor, how could we still need any high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures? Just take these two bottles of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light for free."

At the same time, he looked at Lv Shuanglu and said: "Put it on my tab, deduct it from my annual salary later."

Lv Shuanglu said expressionlessly: "At your annual salary, it would take six years and five months to deduct, and our Golden Dragon Treasure House doesn't have such a rule."

Zhang Cuicheng scratched his head and said in surprise: "My annual salary is that low?"

Regarding this brute who completely didn't understand the price of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light, Lv Shuanglu was already too lazy to explain to him. If this fellow were to manage a branch of the Golden Dragon Treasure House, he would probably become the only loss-making branch in their entire Golden Dragon Treasure House.

Li Luo laughed: "Many thanks, Brother Zhang, but the Golden Dragon Treasure House has its rules, and using everyone's favors here would be somewhat cheapening them."

Zhang Cuicheng said somewhat distressedly: "Favors really are troublesome."

If it weren't for favors, he wouldn't have traveled ten thousand miles to the Boundary River Domain of Outer Shenzhou, only to end up causing such a huge mess.

And now, Lv Qing'er's favor hadn't been repaid yet, and here with Li Luo he owed another one. How was it that every time he came out, he grew more and more in debt?

Li Luo pushed the four high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures toward Lv Shuanglu again. The latter hesitated for a moment, then with a flick of her slender jade finger, took away two of the high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, while also pushing the two bottles of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light over.

"Items of the Treasure House cannot be given away without price — that is the rule. However, earning a little less profit is within the rules. Although you don't care about these two high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, I can't just not show any gesture at all." A smile rose at the corner of Lv Shuanglu's lips as she said.

Upon hearing this, Li Luo smiled and nodded, put away the two high-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures that had been pushed back, then took the jade box containing the two vials of quasi-ninth-grade Spiritual Water Wonder Light. Feeling the intense spirituality flowing within, his heart couldn't help but grow increasingly fervent.

His preparations for breaking through to the Marquis rank grew ever more complete.

Boom!

However, just as Li Luo's heart was surging, suddenly a thunderous roar erupted between heaven and earth. Everyone felt that the malevolent energy within the Ghostly Domain began to surge at an alarming rate.

"The Ghostly Domain is expanding!"

Jiang Jiang Qinge suddenly spoke. Her beautiful eyes looked toward the distant rear, where the massive blood-qi wall that existed was directly rushing rapidly toward the distance at this moment — that was the Ghostly Domain expanding.

And as the Ghostly Domain rapidly expanded, it would naturally also cover more people within this region.

Li Luo's expression changed slightly. He focused his gaze toward the depths of the Ghostly Domain, where within the swirling blood mist, faintly, there seemed to be a colossal object growing at an astonishing speed.

And the extremely dense malevolent energy within this Ghostly Domain seemed to be drawn by some attraction, continuously streaming toward that direction.

As the malevolent energy was drawn away in large quantities, the colossal object in the depths of the Ghostly Domain finally gradually became clear.

Li Luo's pupils sharply contracted at this moment.

Because they saw that within the rolling malevolent energy, a giant flower bud approximately several thousand zhang in size, comparable to a mountain, was continuously growing, soaked in the malevolent energy.

The flower bud displayed a blood-red hue, and upon its petals, countless twisted and hideous faces seemed to writhe, spreading a chilling and ominous aura like a tide.

This sight made everyone feel a chill shoot from the soles of their feet straight to the crown of their head.

The gigantic blood-red flower bud swayed slowly between heaven and earth, sometimes drooping low as if a demon were looking down upon the people on the earth.

On the bud, thick blood-red liquid dripped continuously, as if...

... it were drooling with greedy and thirsty saliva.