Chapter 236

The Third Young Master looked at the Honesty Gu in Long Xuan's arms with burning eyes, walked over excitedly, looked at it carefully for a few times, and laughed: "I, Qian Gao, am the most handsome man in the world!"

As soon as this fat man who was about to become a lump of fat finished speaking, the Honesty Gu in Long Xuan's arms had double eyes releasing golden light, blindingly bright; only a lie that was outrageous would make its eyes so bright.

Seeing this person was so dishonest, the Honesty Gu was suddenly angry, glaring at this fat man with wide eyes, and was about to rush up and eat him in one bite.

Long Xuan was startled, hurriedly pressed it down, and kept stroking its head to appease it.

This child, its temper is truly too big.

However, the Third Young Master was not surprised but happy; the bigger the temper, the stronger the constraint of the Honesty Gu.

The Third Young Master smiled and said: "I am very satisfied with this Honesty Gu; you can swear in front of it now; let's complete the trade as soon as possible."

Long Xuan nodded; he didn't switch the Honesty Gu to the state of liking to hear lies, because he truly didn't intend to refine the Three-Legged Golden Toad; switching the state would instead be counterproductive.

He raised three fingers and said directly to this Honesty Gu: "Today I swear in front of the Honesty Gu that I will never refine the Three-Legged Golden Toad in this life, and will never spread the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu formula in any form."

"If I violate these words, let me be eaten by the Honesty Gu in one bite!"

As soon as Long Xuan's words fell, the Third Young Master immediately walked over with a smile, enthusiastically hugged his shoulders, and laughed: "Good! With these words of yours, I am completely at ease."

"I will give you the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu formula right now!"

Saying that, the Third Young Master transmitted the Gu formula of the Three-Legged Golden Toad into Long Xuan's mind using soul power.

At the same time, he also took out the Honesty Gu he had just refined, to prove that the Gu formula he took out was guaranteed to be true and hadn't been tampered with in any way.

A Gu formula with a material quantity of fully two hundred thousand; it took a long time for the soul transmission to finish.

Long Xuan was completely stunned; the Gu formula of the Three-Legged Golden Toad actually needed over two hundred thousand types of materials, simply scaring people to death.

However, thinking of the heaven-defying combat power of that mountain-sized Three-Legged Golden Toad he saw before, Long Xuan didn't find it strange.

The heaven-defying ability of the Three-Legged Golden Toad is indeed worthy of so many materials, and it's even a bit too little.

As long as the belly of the Three-Legged Golden Toad stores enough treasures, it can truly achieve invincibility among top-grade Gu worms; its strength varies according to the quantity and quality of the treasures, so this setting represents that its strength has no limit.

For such a heaven-defying Gu worm, using two hundred thousand types of materials to refine it is truly not expensive; not only is it not expensive, but it is also too cheap.

However, the disadvantages are equally obvious; the difficulty of collecting materials is simply nightmare level.

Fully two hundred thousand types of materials; the difficulty of collecting the main insect must be nightmare level.

The number of top-grade spirit insects needed is unknown; he is afraid he will need to collect for a long time before he can collect so many materials completely, and the resources that need to be spent are an astronomical figure.

These materials certainly cannot be collected from the Third Young Master; otherwise, wouldn't it be clearly telling him that he wants to refine the Three-Legged Golden Toad?

So the matter of collecting Gu formula materials began to make Long Xuan's head ache again.

But he could only let nature take its course at this time, and take one step at a time.

After he threw the pill bottle containing the Heaven-Mending Pill over, the Third Young Master immediately revealed a look of excitement, hurriedly caught it, and immediately poured the Heaven-Mending Pill into his palm, judging the truth and falsehood with the Golden Pupil.

After seeing that there was no problem with the Heaven-Mending Pill, the Third Young Master revealed a smile, carefully put the Heaven-Mending Pill into the pill bottle and stored it well, turned to look at Long Xuan and said again:

"You can be considered to have saved my life; I, Qian Gao, am the most grateful person; from now on, you are my brother."

"After I survive this crisis, you come to my house as a guest, and I will introduce my sister to you!"

"Then I will not be able to refuse your kindness; as long as the Third Young Master invites me, I will definitely give face." Long Xuan smiled, and his vigilance toward the Third Young Master reduced by a few points.

Because Qian Clan merchants rarely lie, he said this sentence truly treating him as a brother and would not have the heart to harm him.

Wait, Qian Clan merchants rarely lie; then that sentence of his wanting to introduce his sister to him should also be true, right? Long Xuan's expression became strange.

After the two completed the trade, everyone was happy.

The Third Young Master needed to return to Tianyue City to handle many things, and also needed to find time to go into seclusion to refine the medicinal power of the Heaven-Mending Pill.

And Long Xuan also needed to find a quiet place to refine the medicinal power of the Heaven-Mending Pill, and repair his aptitude as early as possible.

So the two soon parted ways.

Long Xuan didn't carefully select the location for seclusion; he casually found a mountain top, used the Earth Master to dig out a mountain cave, and prepared to use this place as his temporary cave abode.

In the mountain cave, Long Xuan took out a blue jade stone and a letter, revealing a thoughtful expression.

These two items were exactly what that group of Gu Spirit Sect juniors dropped.

Speaking of which, it was also a coincidence; the main material of the Three-Legged Golden Toad is the Golden Toad, a top-grade spirit insect that is rarely encountered in a hundred years and is extremely difficult to find.

How could the main material of such a heaven-defying Gu worm as the Three-Legged Golden Toad be so easy to find? Normal people wouldn't dream of discovering the traces of the Golden Toad even in ten lifetimes.

Even if the Qian Clan Merchant Association wanted to collect the Golden Toad, it would be full of difficulties; due to the rarity of the materials, it also led to very, very few people in the Qian Clan Merchant Association being able to refine the Three-Legged Golden Toad.

At this time, Long Xuan was worrying about how to find this Golden Toad, and as a result, it came in the next second; this letter happened to record the hidden location of the Golden Toad.

Isn't this a coincidence? Long Xuan had to suspect who arranged this script, giving him a feeling of unreality.

Wait, his clone had just finished killing those five Gu Spirit Sect people, and hadn't walked a few steps before seeing the Third Young Master being attacked.

The distance between the two sides was simply too close; could it be that those five Gu Spirit Sect people wanted to use the information of the Golden Toad to make a deal with the Third Young Master?

That Third Young Master risked coming out, also precisely to complete this deal? The existence of the Golden Toad absolutely has fatal temptation for Qian Clan merchants.

It's just that this deal had unexpected occurrences; not only was the Third Young Master caught by the opponent and completed the assassination, but those five Gu Spirit Sect geniuses also died accidentally, and the letter and that jade stone whose function couldn't be seen fell into his hands.

Long Xuan took a deep breath; thinking of this, he truly felt that there was this possibility.

However, at this time, Long Xuan frowned, his expression extremely conflicted, without any joy of picking up a bargain.

He is not stupid; the hidden location of the Golden Toad must be extremely dangerous, extremely dangerous; otherwise, the Gu Spirit Sect people would have simply caught it themselves and directly used the Golden Toad to trade with the Third Young Master.

After all, the value of the Golden Toad was obviously a hundred times higher than the information hiding it.

This is enough to show that the hidden location of the Golden Toad must be extremely dangerous, not something that the Gu Spirit Sect people could easily set foot in.

And it is not difficult for him to guess that the Gu Spirit Sect is absolutely a giant crocodile in this region; the degree of danger of a place that can make the Gu Spirit Sect not dare to easily set foot in can be imagined.

So Long Xuan hesitated.

If it were any other thing, he would definitely give up now; no matter how shocking the value of the treasure was, he would absolutely not risk his life.

But it just happened that the Golden Toad was the thing he needed most; the Golden Toad was simply too difficult to collect; if he was unlucky, he wouldn't dream of seeing the traces of the Golden Toad in his entire life.

If he missed this Golden Toad today, he wouldn't dare to guarantee whether he could see a second Golden Toad in the future.

Even if a second Golden Toad really appeared in the world, it would definitely be taken away by the Qian Clan Merchant Association who heard the news and rushed over.

Whether it was competing for financial resources or the speed of information collection, he was completely unable to compete with the Qian Clan Merchant Association.

And everyone in the world knows the importance of the Golden Toad to the Qian Clan Merchant Association; once someone finds the Golden Toad, they will definitely run to the Qian Clan Merchant Association to sit on the ground and raise the price immediately; in this way, he has even less of a play.

Out of the above considerations, Long Xuan's thinking began to slowly tilt toward adventure.

For a long time, Long Xuan sighed heavily, picked up this letter, and looked through it carefully.

According to the letter, the location of the Golden Toad is on the Sky Island in the Endless Sea Region.

The Sky Island floats to the water surface every five hundred years; the rest of the time it is submerged at the bottom of the water; there is a Sky Island ruin on the island that only Essence Refining stage can enter, and there are countless treasures inside, and the Golden Toad is one of them; the letter also marked the hidden location of the Golden Toad on the island in detail.

Every time the Sky Island appears in the world, it will inevitably attract countless Essence Refining stage Gu Cultivators to board the island to hunt for treasure, and the time from the Sky Island's appearance in the world is only two years away.

As for how dangerous the Sky Island ruin is, the letter didn't have too much description; it should be that the Third Young Master definitely knew about the Sky Island ruin, so there was no need to describe it too much in the letter.

However, the Endless Sea Region alone was enough to make Long Xuan's head big.

The Endless Sea Region is far away from the continent and requires taking a boat for a year to enter the Endless Sea Region.

And the small boat has small defensive power, slow speed, and poor endurance, and simply cannot cope with various dangers on the ocean.

If one wants to enter the distant sea without risk, one must build a large boat, because only if the surface area of the boat is large enough can one carve an array formation enough to resist the attack of sea dragons.

In front of sea dragons, driving a small boat is a death.

This requires him to research the technology of building large boats.

And the large boat has a huge volume, and the hull must also use hard materials enough to resist the attack of sea beasts, so building a large boat is simply too money-burning.

The cost of building a large boat enough to resist the attack of sea dragons is simply an astronomical figure, not something that a force can easily bear, let alone an individual.

Long Xuan tapped his fingers lightly on the table, thinking about the feasibility of this plan.

His space is insufficient, and most of his treasures were left at home before he went out; the wealth he has now is definitely not enough to support him in building a large boat.

Although he has many heaven-defying things on him, selling any one of them would be enough to build a large boat.

For example, Heaven-Mending Fruit, Soul-Nourishing Wood leaves, Longevity Gu, and various heaven-defying techniques he developed.

But how could he dare to sell these things? Even if he were poor to death or starved to death, he would absolutely not dare to sell these things.

Long Xuan thought for a long time and finally decided to grit his teeth and build a large boat.

Because he suddenly thought that he had an ability that other shipbuilders didn't have, and that was that he could carve small array patterns with the help of the Heavenly Mechanism Eye.

Other shipbuilders need to carve a massive number of array patterns to resist the attack of sea dragons, so the volume of the boat must be very large.

And he doesn't need to build such a large boat at all; he only needs to build a medium-sized boat, which is enough to resist the attack of sea dragons.

In this way, his shipbuilding is simply too material-saving.

In this way, the cost of him building a boat will not be as expensive as imagined.

If he lets the working rabbit and a group of clones work overtime, by selling a large number of spirit pills, plus selling some other resources, he should be able to gather the money to refine a medium-sized boat.

Long Xuan's eyes brightened, but if he really built this boat, I'm afraid he would need to recruit a group of sailors with deep-sea experience.

After all, he knows nothing about things on the sea and doesn't understand any dangers at all.

Sailing on the sea requires rich professional knowledge; he is a layman in this field, and it is definitely not possible for one person to do it alone.

And the strength of this group of sailors he recruits cannot be too weak, and the number cannot be too small; every time the Sky Island appears in the world, it will attract countless boats, and every captain will have a large group of helpers.

Every captain also comes from people in different regions; those captains from large regions are definitely unfathomable and are definitely not easy to deal with.

So he needs to hug together with some people to resist the captains from different regions.

He must have a team for this treasure hunting trip; otherwise, being alone on the boat will easily be attacked by other boat teams and fall into a dangerous situation.

(End of chapter)