Chapter 242: A sky-high wanted order

Seeing the wary expressions on everyone's faces, Long Xuan knew his plan had succeeded.

Anyway, no one would believe that one person could refine so many Spirit-Gathering Pills; this must be the handiwork of the sect behind him. Everyone would be deeply convinced of the powerful background he had fabricated.

Plus, with the Honesty Gu there to testify, there was even less reason to doubt.

In this way, in this unfamiliar environment, his safety rate would be greatly improved.

He put on an arrogant look and continued: "Presumably, everyone can see that the list is all about materials for shipbuilding."

"Xinghai City is the largest port in the Xuanyue Empire, and its shipbuilding technology is the most advanced. Presumably, this is the place least lacking in shipbuilding materials."

"I think the materials on this list should be able to be collected here! Now, who is willing to trade with me!"

As soon as his voice fell, Steward Mo suddenly spoke: "My Mo Clan is the largest shipbuilding clan in Xinghai City. My young master has all the materials you need, and we will take all these two hundred-plus Spirit-Gathering Pills."

"Men, quickly move all those materials out of the young master's warehouse."

Hearing this, Young Master Mo turned his head stiffly and looked at him with a confused face.

The others all changed their expressions, showing unwillingness.

Although the materials on the list were more expensive than the last, and the total price was much more expensive than that spirit herb list,

but what kind of place was this? This was the largest shipyard in the Xuanyue Empire, and the thing they lacked the least here was those shipbuilding materials.

They all had the things on that material list on them and could trade for a large number of Spirit-Gathering Pills. Who wouldn't be tempted by so many Spirit-Gathering Pills?

However, this Steward Mo was simply too overbearing, actually planning to eat all the Spirit-Gathering Pills by himself, not even leaving them the soup. He was simply insatiably greedy.

Everyone's faces turned ugly, and they cursed inwardly, but under the pressure of the Gu King, they could only suppress their dissatisfaction in their hearts and didn't dare to say a word.

Next, things were simple. Long Xuan only traded with Young Master Mo alone and instantly collected all the materials for shipbuilding. The speed was simply incredible.

It was just that for some reason, this Young Master Mo had been bitter-faced, and he didn't know why he was so unhappy.

After completing this trade, Long Xuan was ecstatic in his heart. Now the materials for refining the Soul-Reviving Pill and shipbuilding were all collected.

He was about to return to his peak state and then build a ship to go to sea. He didn't know how wonderful the world on the sea would be. Long Xuan clenched his fists.

Seeing him finally walk down, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. They had thought this Master Ye would continue to linger up there and then continue to take out hundreds of Spirit-Gathering Pills to tempt them.

Fortunately, this Master Ye's Spirit-Gathering Pills were finally exhausted. If he took out more, they would be scared to death.

However, after he no longer took out Spirit-Gathering Pills, everyone felt a burst of disappointment in their hearts.

After Long Xuan went down, soon a female Gu Master smiled and took over, placing a pile of treasures on the table.

After Long Xuan didn't find anything he was interested in, he stopped paying attention.

It was worth mentioning that there were too many Essence-Refining Gu Masters participating in the trading session. If everyone went up to walk through it one by one, the time consumed would be long.

So only a small part of the Gu Masters who urgently needed many treasures went up to show their treasures. They could only collect the treasures they needed quickly through this method.

Most people generally traded privately below. Although this situation didn't need to show treasures and avoid bringing about a murderous disaster, the drawbacks were equally obvious.

That was, they didn't know who had the things they needed, and they didn't know who needed the things they didn't need.

So they could only talk to each other one by one using soul transmission, which was inefficient, but it was also considered making friends.

Many people participated in this gathering purely to make friends. Why wasn't a trading session a suitable venue for making friends?

It should be known that the purpose of Young Master Mo holding this trading session was to make friends and make a group of like-minded people who liked to explore.

Unfortunately, plans couldn't keep up with changes, and it was all ruined by Steward Mo.

So even if Long Xuan's trade ended, after he went down, countless people would still trade with him privately.

Not long after he walked down, many Essence-Refining Gu Masters talked to him using soul transmission, the content of which was nothing more than requesting him to refine Spirit-Gathering Pills.

The quality of the Spirit-Gathering Pills sold by this Master Ye was clearly much higher than other alchemists, so almost all the Essence-Refining Gu Masters here placed their hope of breaking through to the Spirit-Sea stage on him.

The soul transmissions that came over suddenly were too many, like a pile of mosquitoes buzzing in his ears.

It was fortunate that Long Xuan had a pile of split souls; otherwise, with so many soul transmissions surging over, his head would have exploded.

Didn't they know how to come one by one? It was almost crowded!

Long Xuan could only split one split soul after another to connect with them, and finally, even the split souls of his clones were utilized. Only then could he barely talk to everyone at the same time.

Then he inexplicably had a pile of orders, and he would be busy next.

As for the traded things, they were the various expensive materials needed for the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu formula.

The material quantity of two hundred thousand was not eaten by this group of people.

It should be known that these two hundred thousand materials were not the final material quantity. Once he magically modified the Three-Legged Golden Toad's Gu formula so that the Three-Legged Golden Toad could absorb the treasure qi of both dead treasures and living treasures at the same time, the material quantity would inevitably increase significantly.

He was still far from collecting all the materials for the Heaven-Devouring World Toad.

The following trading session had no more climaxes. One Gu Master after another walked to the table, but no more treasures that could shock the whole scene were taken out. Long Xuan had always been uninterested.

Only after Old Sun took the stage did something interesting happen.

He placed a pile of pills on the table, completely filling the table. There were countless precious pills.

However, no one below was willing to step forward to trade.

The reason was simple: this Old Sun had done two dishonest things in a row at the trading session, and his reputation was completely stinking. Everyone dared not trust him anymore.

Who knew if there was poison in the pills on his table?

Some alchemists in the Gu World would play tricks on the pills and then do some filthy things. They had to be on guard.

This Old Sun was so dishonest, everyone was skeptical about his character. Who would dare to buy his pills?

As a result, the pills that filled Old Sun's table were all passed over. The scene was once awkward, making Old Sun unable to step down at all.

In the end, he could only collect all the pills with an awkward face, leave in a dejected manner, and then leave the trading session directly.

Without accident, after today's incident, he was notorious and couldn't survive in Xinghai City at all. No one dared to buy his pills anymore.

Leaving this area to develop elsewhere was his only choice.

At this moment, Long Xuan became vigilant. Cutting off someone's wealth was like killing their parents. Would he form a blood feud with this person and then be retaliated against by him?

This matter really couldn't be blamed on him. He hadn't done anything. It had always been this person who had malicious intent first, and then reaped the consequences. If he had to blame someone, he could only blame his own crooked mind, which eventually led to such an end. He couldn't blame others.

In fact, Long Xuan was thinking too much. He had fabricated his background to be so scary, who would dare to provoke him? Others were too late to avoid him, who would dare to anger his sect?

One moment senior brother, one moment senior sister, one moment master's wife—it was simply too scary. Once provoked, it would be like poking a hornet's nest.

But Long Xuan had always been cautious. Even if he didn't guard against this Old Sun, he had to guard against the others at the trading session.

After all, he had shown too many treasures today, and he couldn't guarantee that the fabricated sect could scare everyone.

So the trading session was only halfway through when he took advantage of the gap to go to the toilet to perform a displacement.

He left a clone here, while the main body hid in the World Tree seed.

Then he let the rabbit hold the World Tree seed in its mouth and slipped away from under the soil, leaving without anyone knowing.

After entering the World Tree seed, Long Xuan couldn't wait to plant all ten nine-hundred-year Iron Woods.

These ten nine-hundred-year Iron Woods were all just dug out from Young Master Mo's manor and were all alive, so they would definitely be able to be planted alive.

Afterwards, he took out a small green bottle like a treasure. Inside were dozens of drops of green liquid, emitting a charming brilliance.

Long Xuan carefully opened the bottle cap, used soul power to take out ten drops of Heaven-Soaring Creation Liquid, and dripped them onto the ten nine-hundred-year Iron Woods respectively.

In an instant, the ten Iron Woods grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, their volume expanded rapidly, and not long after, they all became thousand-year Iron Woods.

Looking at these ten thousand-year Iron Woods, Long Xuan showed an excited smile.

With these ten thousand-year Iron Woods, he was enough to build the hardest ship bottom, and he could also set sail with peace of mind.

It was just that his time was limited, and the Medicine Gu had been placed by him in the medicine garden to ripen the Divine Dragon Wood.

Otherwise, how could thousand-year Iron Woods be enough? He had to use ten-thousand-year Iron Woods to make the ship bottom.

And not just the ship bottom, he had to use ten-thousand-year Iron Woods to build the entire ship body.

However, the opening of the Sky Island ruins was imminent, and he had no way to make the most perfect ship body. Building the entire ship body with ten-thousand-year Iron Woods was simply extravagant.

At worst, after this matter, it wouldn't be too late for him to replace the ship bottom with ten-thousand-year Iron Woods. Anyway, things like ships could be dismantled.

Once the ten thousand-year Iron Woods were formed, all the materials needed for the Divine Dragon Ship were considered completely collected.

Long Xuan showed joy, immediately took out the blueprints, and decided to officially start the plan to build the Divine Dragon Ship.

He suddenly frowned and showed a thoughtful look.

The volume of the large ship was simply too large, requiring massive manpower to manufacture, and it was time-consuming.

Relying on him alone, don't even think about building such a large ship in a short time. Even with the help of five clones, such a large workload was definitely not something six people could easily complete.

So after thinking for a while with the blueprints, Long Xuan decided to dismantle the Divine Dragon Ship into countless parts and hand them over to different shipyards to manufacture.

Of course, the core parts must never be touched by outsiders.

He and his five clones only needed to piece all the parts together and finally complete the drawing of the array formations. In this way, the workload would be greatly reduced, and a lot of time could be saved.

If he didn't do this, he might not be able to complete it before the Sky Island ruins appeared.

After all, he not only had to consider the time needed for shipbuilding but also the time needed to travel to the Sky Island.

The Endless Sea Region where the Sky Island was located was simply too far from here, not to mention how many accidents would happen on the road.

He had to leave at least one year to travel to the Sky Island. His shipbuilding time was only about one year at most, and the time was really a bit tight.

Next, Long Xuan began to dismantle the rudder, anchor, keel, front sail, main sail, mast, stern rudder, hull, deck, cabin... into dozens of blueprints, and then went out carrying the blueprints.

The shipbuilding locations of the various clans in Xinghai City were at the seaside port.

On one side of the seaside port was a row of shipyards. The shipyards of the major clans in the city were all here, but the shipyards of the five major clans in Xinghai City were the largest, and their shipbuilding strength was also the most solid.

Long Xuan intended to hand over the parts that tested technology the most to the shipyards of the five major clans.

Due to the disabling of the teleportation array, most people could only choose to take a boat.

So during this period, the business at the port was extremely hot, and the passenger flow was much larger than in previous years, which was extremely lively.

When Long Xuan arrived at the port, he saw ships densely parked at the port, large and small.

The large ones were as many as five stories, just like high-rise buildings floating on the sea, easily accommodating ten thousand people, with great visual impact.

Such a large building ship was naturally for passenger business, carrying nearly ten thousand Gu Masters, taking several years to reach another extremely distant region.

If the five-story building ship was full of passengers, just selling tickets would probably collect hundreds of millions of spirit stones.

Each of the five major clans in Xinghai City had a five-story building ship, and by relying on long-distance passenger transport, they earned a lot of money.

It was worth mentioning that the teleportation array could not replace transportation tools like ships.

Because the farther the teleportation array transmitted, the greater the pressure on the body. Using the teleportation array for long-distance transmission was enough to crush people into meat paste.

Only super powerhouses or Gu Masters carrying teleportation tokens could offset the pressure from space. And every time the teleportation array was activated, it consumed massive amounts of spirit stones, which the net worth of ordinary Gu Masters couldn't afford.

So most low-realm Gu Masters, wanting to go to a distant region, could only rent mounts. If they were on the vast sea, without a place to stay, taking a boat was their only choice.

So building ships carrying thousands or even nearly ten thousand Gu Masters often appeared at the port, heading to various distant regions.

These passengers also came from different regions inland, gathered together, and the number of Gu Masters was enough to make people click their tongues.

Long Xuan was wearing a third-grade alchemist's clothes at this time, with a third-grade alchemist's medal on his chest, and his appearance had also been disguised.

After all, he was striving for perfection, and the materials used for shipbuilding were extremely expensive.

To avoid those shipbuilders from embezzling, he could only disguise an identity they couldn't afford to provoke.

Since Long Xuan dared to disguise, he was naturally not afraid of anyone seeing through the flaws. Every alchemist was the most outstanding disguise master, and the disguise pill he refined was of perfect grade, which was difficult for people to see through.

Breath-concealing technique was also not a rare thing. After being improved by his golden finger, it was also difficult for people to see his true cultivation realm.

It might be a bit exaggerated to say that this level of disguise could deceive all Gu Kings, but he was confident that he could deceive all Spirit-Sea Gu Masters.

It was worth mentioning that the third-grade alchemist medal couldn't be faked, except for those with the Heavenly Mechanism Eye. Presumably, no one could think that someone could disguise as a third-grade alchemist.

As soon as he appeared here, the people nearby quickly avoided him, fearing that they would bump into this noble figure, with awe in their eyes.

The number of third-grade alchemists was extremely small. Such an existence could refine spirit pills that allowed Spirit-Sea Gu Masters to break through to Gu Kings, and their appeal was unquestionable.

Once provoked, it would be like poking a hornet's nest, and I don't know how many strong enemies would be recruited.

So a third-grade alchemist was heaven in this world, enough to make everyone fear. This identity was also enough to make anyone dare not embezzle his things.

Wherever Long Xuan passed, the crowd suddenly emptied a large area. Under the condition of no obstruction to his line of sight, he quickly saw one wanted order after another posted around.

The bounty on the wanted order was as high as one hundred billion, and below was a portrait of a middle-aged woman.

Long Xuan couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. This woman seemed a bit familiar. Why did she feel like she had seen her somewhere before?

No wonder so many people were gathered here. It turned out that a sky-high bounty order with an amount as high as one hundred billion suddenly appeared here. Such a high bounty was enough to make anyone's heart move. Were these wanted orders just posted?

What kind of heaven-defying thing did this woman do to make the bounty so ridiculously high?

Tsk tsk, a sky-high bounty of one hundred billion, it was truly scary.

Out of the feeling that this middle-aged woman was a bit familiar, Long Xuan couldn't help but ask a man not far away: "Hey! What kind of heaven-defying thing did this woman do? Why is the bounty so high!"

Long Xuan put on an arrogant look.

Facing the questioning of a third-grade alchemist, the man didn't dare to be slow and said carefully:

"I heard that this woman ransacked the national treasury of the Xuanyue Empire. The Emperor was furious, so he offered such a high sky-high bounty."

"Currently, all forces in the Xuanyue Empire are hunting down this female thief."

"It's a miracle that she can live until now."

Hearing this, Long Xuan's mouth couldn't help but twitch, and he continued to ask: "Do you know what cultivation realm that female thief is?"

"A terrifying existence that can steal the national treasury must be a Gu King peak, right? Everyone assumes she is at the Gu King peak realm." The man answered again.

Long Xuan was thoughtful and waved his hand to let the man leave.

"Could it be her?"

Long Xuan frowned, thinking while walking into the shipyard responsible for the Mo Clan.

Resuming two updates next week.

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