Chapter 247: 247. Chapter 247: Conversation with Di Xin

247. Chapter 247: Conversation with Di Xin.

Long Xuan nodded, looked at her and said: "Then I'm afraid you will have to stay on the ship for a long time."

"I'll take you to pick a cabin that can be lived in first. Most people haven't chosen yet. Those who are slow can only go to pick the cabins under the deck."

"The lighting there is poor, the air is poor, and I guess few people will like to live below."

Di Xin smiled: "Choose one

The two pushed open the door and walked together toward the living area on the third floor.

The third floor did not occupy much space; it was just a corridor with three rooms on each side.

After Di Xin walked into the corridor, she discovered that five of the six rooms on the third floor were already occupied, with only one room left vacant at the back; there was no room for choice at all, and she frowned slightly.

"Whose room is the one next to mine?" Di Xin asked.

"Mine!" Long Xuan said quite naturally.

Di Xin glanced at this male neighbor and asked again, "Then who is living opposite me?"

"Miao Peipei, a very cute girl!" Long Xuan said quickly.

Di Xin narrowed her eyes slightly, and the way she looked at Long Xuan began to change.

"And who are living in the other three rooms?" Di Xin asked seriously.

"Leng Yan, Ye Qingluan, and Nie Qingcheng—all beauties!" Long Xuan answered subconsciously.

Di Xin's expression turned strange, and she looked at him with an unnatural look, suddenly teasing, "Are you abusing your power to commit theft while acting as a guard? As a grown man, are you really not ashamed to live in the women's dormitory?"

Di Xin wore a look of mockery.

Hearing this, Long Xuan was stunned; he finally realized something was wrong—the person living to his left was Di Xin, and the person living to his right was Leng Yan.

The person living opposite him was Nie Qingcheng, Miao Peipei lived in the top-left corner, and Ye Qingluan lived in the top-right corner.

Good grief, he was surrounded by a circle of female neighbors, and since there were only six rooms in total on this third floor, he really was living in the women's dormitory; wouldn't people think he was a pervert?

"Hey! You can't wrong me like that! This wasn't arranged by me! They chose it themselves!"

"They said the top floor had a good view, good lighting, and fresh air, so they insisted on living on the third floor—what could I do?"

Long Xuan was unsettled; if he didn't explain this clearly, wouldn't his reputation be ruined? How would the crew outside view him?

Di Xin gave him an indifferent look, then turned and walked into her room.

"Hey! Wait, I have something important to discuss with you!" Long Xuan also hurriedly walked in, closing the door behind him.

"What? Why did you follow me in? Are you eyeing my large medicine garden again?" Di Xin looked at him with a vigilant gaze.

Long Xuan showed an embarrassed look and chuckled dryly, "How could that be? I just happened to obtain a treasure in the ancient tomb, so I wanted to make a deal with you."

Long Xuan rummaged through his storage ring and took out a pill bottle containing Soul-Restoring Pills.

This little rich woman had everything; there weren't many things that could tempt her, so he had no choice but to use his trump card.

He had already used one Soul-Restoring Pill and still had two left in his possession.

As for why he didn't take out the Heaven-Mending Pill, it was entirely because Di Xin was a mortal with no attributes in her body and no aptitude for Gu cultivation; things that repaired Gu cultivation aptitude were useless to her, as she had no room to fall further.

Looking at the pill bottle, Di Xin showed curiosity, snatched the bottle, and poured a purple pill into her palm.

Soon, a golden light flashed in her right eye, shining onto the pill.

Seeing this eye that could emit light, Long Xuan was shocked; it was actually the Qian Clan's Golden Pupil—she had actually stolen the Qian Clan's Golden Pupil.

Good grief, she really had a lot of nerve to dare target the Qian Clan Merchant Association; how on earth had she survived until now?

What other power in this world was she afraid to provoke? It was likely she even had the Long Clan's exclusive Gu formulas on her.

Long Xuan suddenly remembered that when he was in the Far West Region, the Long Clan had recruited a batch of Array Masters when they were mass-producing Earth Mover Beetle Armor, and among them was a disguised Di Xin.

Could it be that she had disguised herself and snuck into the Long Clan just to steal his Earth Mover Beetle Gu formula and cement technology? Long Xuan thought with a strange expression.

He suddenly remembered that after he returned, he discovered an Array Master had died in the formation, and he had found the Earth Mover Beetle Gu formula and cement technology on the corpse; presumably, Di Xin was not the only one eyeing his technology.

Observing this, it was clear that it was impossible for any clan's exclusive technology to be one hundred percent confidential; it was just that those who stole the technology dared not use it in front of outsiders, otherwise, once discovered, it would surely invite endless trouble.

Di Xin observed the purple pill with her Golden Pupil for a moment, revealing a strange brilliance, and looked at him with an incredulous gaze.

"It's actually a pill that can repair the soul; I've traveled far and wide for so many years and picked up countless treasures, but this is the first time I've seen a pill that can repair the soul."

"I want this pill; name your price!"

As she spoke, Di Xin put the pill back into the bottle and then took the opportunity to store it in her own storage ring.

Although her soul was not damaged and this pill was useless to her, who could guarantee that their soul wouldn't be damaged in the future? No one could guarantee that.

Once the soul was damaged, it was truly too difficult to recover, so upon seeing such a spirit pill, she immediately wanted to collect one just in case.

Long Xuan had long anticipated her actions; anyone facing such a pill that could repair the soul would trade for it and keep it on their person.

Di Xin was a person with foresight, so Long Xuan did not believe this Soul-Restoring Pill wouldn't tempt her.

"I want all the materials on this list."

Long Xuan was not polite and directly placed the list of materials for the Three-Legged Golden Toad that he hadn't collected yet in front of Di Xin.

Having operated his pill business for so long, he had basically collected seven or eight-tenths of the materials on the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu formula; now, only the last two-tenths remained, which included many top-grade spirit insects that were extremely difficult to collect.

That Golden Toad had already exceeded the category of top-grade spirit insects; it needed to eat many top-grade spirit insects to complete its metamorphosis into a Gu.

Di Xin took the material list, scanned it quickly with her Golden Pupil, and rapidly calculated the total value.

"You really are opening your mouth like a lion; for a mere second-grade spirit pill, you dare to ask me for a pile of top-grade spirit insects—you really know how to do business," Di Xin said, looking up and rolling her eyes at him.

Long Xuan immediately acted like a rogue, saying, "I just saved your life; if it weren't for my ship, you would definitely have been captured by that group of Gu Kings, so this also includes your life-saving money, as well as the ticket price for boarding the ship—I've already given you a discount because we're very familiar."

Di Xin's mouth couldn't help but twitch; why did she feel like she had boarded a pirate ship?

She suddenly discovered that every time she met this Long Ba Pi, she would be skinned by him a few layers; every time he saw her, it was like seeing a rich woman, his eyes shining, trying every possible way to fleece her—he was simply shameless!

"Fine! You win! I'll give you this life-saving money, and after this, I won't owe you any favors."

"However, I'll need a few months to give you these top-grade spirit insects."

"Do you have anything else? If not, get out first; I want to take a bath. I think that rain-making bathing artifact you designed is not bad. I want to experience it."

Long Xuan couldn't help but roll his eyes—what rain-making bathing artifact? That was called a shower.

When he designed the Divine Dragon Ship, he subconsciously used a lot of modern technology, such as showers, toilets, faucets, and solar water heaters; every living room had these technologies. He didn't expect Di Xin to actually guess that the shower was for bathing; she did have insight.

But what did she mean by giving it to him in a few months?

If she had them on her, she could give them on the spot; if she didn't have them, how could she give them in a few months? Could she create things out of thin air?

Wait.

Long Xuan suddenly thought of a possibility.

This area was within the influence of the Realm Bead, and the Straw Gu couldn't be used; after a few months, when the Divine Dragon Ship sailed out of the Realm Bead's influence, the Straw Gu could be used normally.

Could she be planning to teleport to some place via the Straw Gu to fetch these materials for him?

After all, no one would be idle enough to carry a pile of spirit insects on them to take up space; even if Di Xin had them, they must be hidden in her secret insect room.

Good grief, she likely had a Straw Gu on her too; he would invent a technology, and she would steal it—how on earth did the Long Clan keep secrets? Their secret grounds had become a sieve.

In that case, could she also instantly teleport to her luxurious large medicine garden in a few months? Long Xuan's eyes lit up immediately.

Di Xin often patronized the treasure vaults of various clans, and had even emptied the national treasury of the Xuanyue Empire; heaven knows how many expensive spirit medicines had been newly transplanted into her luxurious large medicine garden.

If Di Xin could really instantly return to her luxurious large medicine garden, then he would have to fleece this rich woman properly.

Perhaps her large medicine garden had many Earth-grade and Heaven-grade spirit medicines.

He was currently too lacking in these things, which brought up the energy core of the Divine Dragon Ship.

His Divine Dragon Ship was equipped with a massive number of arrays, which required massive amounts of energy to consume.

For daily needs, he used the solar technology he learned from the Empress's tomb to maintain the daily operation of the arrays; once overloaded, it would consume backup spirit stones.

But this energy was still far from enough; he needed a powerful formation eye to transport high-quality energy, otherwise, the current Divine Dragon Ship could not block the attacks of Gu Kings.

His initial plan was to place a pile of god-level spirit medicines such as the Heaven-Mending Tree, World Tree, Soul-Nourishing Wood, Living Wood, Divine Dragon Wood, Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, and Demon Flower in the formation eye of the Divine Dragon Ship.

These spirit medicines were either twelfth-rank or super twelfth-rank, and their energy quality was terrifyingly high; once gathered together, they were enough to form terrifying energy, and creating an array that could defend against Gu Kings was definitely not wishful thinking.

So he now needed a large number of Earth-grade and Heaven-grade spirit trees; as for the issue of occupying space, there was no need to worry at all.

Even if there were many divine trees, he could plant them all in the World Tree seed, and then he would only need to place one World Tree seed in the formation eye, which would not occupy any space at all.

But now the Straw Gu was disabled, he couldn't return to his large medicine garden, and the divine trees in the medicine garden couldn't be brought over either.

The Heaven-Mending Tree and World Tree he had on him were still seedlings and weren't of much use.

So his current Divine Dragon Ship had no formation eye, and it would be very dangerous if he encountered a Gu King powerhouse; he urgently needed a batch of divine trees to serve as the formation eye—relying solely on those divine trees in his medicine garden was far from enough, even if they were all added together, they couldn't compare to the Spirit Spring.

After Long Xuan rolled his eyes, he immediately showed a fawning smile and said to Di Xin with a cheeky face, "Di Xin, don't rush the bathing thing; let's talk about your luxurious large medicine garden—that large medicine garden of yours..."

However, before Long Xuan could finish speaking, Di Xin's expression changed instantly, and she hurriedly pushed Long Xuan out of the door, then the door slammed shut with a loud "Bang!" (End of chapter)