Chapter 29: Di Xin

If his own combat power wasn't enough, he would be tied hand and foot in everything he did. If his own strength was hard enough, how could he not even dare to go to an ancient tomb?

So the thing he had to do next was to improve combat power. It was best to refine a powerful outer Gu. Having an outer Gu would greatly improve his single-combat ability.

If one were to argue whether outer Gu or inner Gu was stronger in the Gu world, it was endless and controversial. Two completely different systems, it was really hard to compare.

But in the Spirit Gathering Stage, outer Gu was far stronger than inner Gu. This was indisputable and completely uncontroversial.

Because Gu cultivators in the Spirit Gathering Stage had just started cultivating, the spirit power stored in their bodies was extremely thin.

Even if the inner Gu's ability was powerful, if the spirit power wasn't enough, the inner Gu's function couldn't be unleashed. Maybe it would be exhausted after one use, or maybe it couldn't even be used once.

Because of the limitation of insufficient spirit power in the early stage, the benefits of inner Gu were naturally far inferior to outer Gu.

Therefore, the vast majority of Gu cultivators in the Spirit Gathering Stage or Essence Refining Stage mainly refined outer Gu. When fighting, the Gu cultivator just needed to hide behind cowardly.

So if one wanted to improve combat power as soon as possible, refining outer Gu was undoubtedly the best choice.

It was also precisely because of this reason that Long Xuan's Cockroach Gu had long since stopped selling well.

Gu cultivators were a rare group. The entire market only had those people, and there was a limit of one for each type of Gu worm. Plus, the vast majority of Gu cultivators only refined outer Gu, so the market for Cockroach Gu had long been saturated.

The sales of Cockroach Gu were not good, and Long Xuan's economic source was completely hit hard. The collection of materials for the Ice Cold Divine Flame was still far away.

Thinking of this, Long Xuan's good mood from creating the cultivation method disappeared without a trace instantly.

To refine outer Gu, one must first make money. Forced by circumstances, Long Xuan could only walk out of the room to look for a plan to get rich.

Coming out of seclusion early was not as good as coming out of seclusion coincidentally. Long Xuan turned around the market and happened to hear that a treasure exchange meeting was going to be held today, and it was a treasure exchange meeting exclusive to scattered cultivators in the Spirit Gathering Stage.

He was immediately overjoyed and immediately followed the crowd, preparing to go over to join in the fun.

The treasure exchange meeting was not the kind of street stall transaction in the market. In terms of specifications, street stalls were far from being comparable to the treasure exchange meeting.

Wealth should not be exposed. Who dared to place priceless things on a stall? Tired of living?

So treasure exchange meetings with higher concealment emerged as the times required.

Of course, it was impossible for all Gu cultivators in the market to come to participate.

Those qualified to participate in the treasure exchange meeting must have a certain family fortune and a very good reputation. Those who had rumors of killing to seize treasures and demon cultivators who liked to kill and seize goods must be excluded. Otherwise, the treasure exchange meeting couldn't be held at all.

And after the treasure exchange meeting ended, it was strictly forbidden to talk everywhere about who had what. Those big-mouthed people naturally had to be excluded.

Although the binding force wasn't enough, such people wouldn't want to participate in the treasure exchange meeting next time and would be jointly boycotted by the group.

After setting the restrictive conditions, there were very few people qualified to come to participate in the treasure exchange meeting. Basically, a secret room could accommodate them.

This small cluster of people was a high-quality group. Everyone had a certain family fortune, so various heavy treasures would definitely appear at the treasure exchange meeting. Treasures rarely seen outside could possibly appear at the treasure exchange meeting.

These heavy treasures definitely couldn't be seen at street stalls no matter what. As long as you participated in such a treasure exchange meeting, even if there was no harvest, it would broaden your horizons.

If you had the intention of picking up leaks, naturally you could only pick up big leaks at the treasure exchange meeting.

Long Xuan was thinking about beautiful things there. Just like this, with anticipation, he followed a few female scattered cultivators into a two-story building, turned left and right, and walked into a hidden secret room. The person guarding the door didn't stop him either.

His big name was now known to everyone in the entire market, the founder of Cockroach Gu. His name was very loud.

He earned crazy money by selling Cockroach Gu. Among a group of poor scattered cultivators, his family fortune was considered quite good, so naturally he was qualified to participate in this treasure exchange meeting.

As soon as he entered the venue, Long Xuan's eyes lit up. Although the treasure exchange meeting was in a secret room underground, the venue was surprisingly bright, and the decoration was also quite good. At this time, quite a few scattered cultivators were conducting small-scale transactions.

Long Xuan scanned a circle roughly. The venue had more than ten round tables, each round table was surrounded by people. People who were familiar sat at one table, a group of scattered cultivators with some reputation sat together eating desserts, fruits, and tea on the table, talking and laughing with each other. Even more, they took out their treasures and placed them on the table. Roughly estimating the number of people, it should be less than a hundred.

Scattered cultivators with a certain family fortune were naturally far more than these, but not everyone had time. Only a small part came.

And this kind of scale of treasure exchange meeting would be held from time to time. If you missed this time, you could wait for the next time, and it wasn't that you had to come.

As soon as Long Xuan arrived at the venue, many people swept their eyes toward him.

"Truly a rare guest. I didn't expect that the treasure exchange meeting I held could attract you, this big homebody. This is the first time I've seen you participate in a treasure exchange meeting. Could it be that you have good things in your hands!"

Not far away, a beautiful female scattered cultivator in a yellow skirt wearing a veil teased.

Whether Long Xuan was an entomologist in his past life or a Gu cultivator in this life, he was a research fanatic, always hiding at home, not listening to things outside the window, and focusing only on research, with very closed information.

It wasn't that he didn't come on purpose before; he completely didn't know when the treasure exchange meeting was held.

Otherwise, he would participate even if he stopped his research work. After all, this was a good opportunity for him to pick up big leaks and get rich. Doing research also required money.

Long Xuan looked toward the sound and saw a stunning woman wearing a veil standing not far away. He didn't know what was wrong with the beauties in this world; they all liked to wear veils.

Although the information was very closed, Long Xuan still knew this woman. There were only three people in the market who sold unique top-grade Gu worms. She was one of them, earning a full pot of gold by selling top-grade Gu worms.

At the same time, she was also a rare array master. Scattered cultivators were one poorer than the other, without a fixed place to live, and often didn't need to trade expensive array disks to watch over their residences, so the income from this craft wasn't big for her.

Instead, she relied on this craft to frequently enter and exit the treasure vaults and medicine gardens of small Gu cultivator families. She was a famous master thief.

The group that relied on excellent array-breaking techniques to frequently sneak into major clan treasure vaults was also called "Array Guests" in this world. Array Guests often passed through the major clans' mountain-protecting great arrays silently to steal treasures, counting as existences that all major clans hated deeply.

And this Di Xin was a powerful Array Guest who only stole from Gu cultivator families and not scattered cultivators. The thing Long Xuan was most impressed by her was that this woman was afraid of cockroaches, so she refused to buy his Cockroach Gu.

It was also precisely because Long Xuan was the only one in the entire market who sold cockroach-type Gu worms that she was also very impressed by Long Xuan.

"So it's Sister Xin. Excuse me, excuse me. I'm too lazy to go to the treasure exchange meetings held by others. This is not, as soon as I heard that you were holding a treasure exchange meeting, I immediately rushed over. Sister Xin's face must be given."

Although he didn't participate in treasure exchange meetings before because the information wasn't well-informed, he still understood the art of language and knew how to speak to shorten the distance between people.

Hearing this, Di Xin covered her mouth and chuckled lightly, saying: "I didn't expect that I could still have such a big face, being able to let you, this busy person, come in the middle of your busy schedule. Then my treasure exchange meeting will definitely not let you down."

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