Chapter 31

"I want all these books on array formations. What treasure do you intend to trade them for? I don't have many things here; do you want a few hundred Cockroach Gu?"

Knowing she was afraid of cockroaches, Long Xuan made a joke.

Di Xin gave him a reproachful look and said slowly: "As a loose cultivator, compared to those Gu cultivators from great clans, my cultivation speed is much slower. I want to become an Essence Refining stage Gu cultivator as soon as possible and need treasures that can accelerate my cultivation speed. I wonder if you have any?"

Hearing her request, Long Xuan tossed her a Hundred Flowers Pill and said: "I wonder if this kind of spirit pill will do?"

He was quite confident in the Hundred Flowers Pill's effect of increasing spiritual power; to date, he had never seen a Spirit Gathering stage pill with stronger medicinal effects than the Hundred Flowers Pill.

Di Xin took the Hundred Flowers Pill, brought it close to inspect it carefully, and soon revealed a look of pleasant surprise.

This was the first time in her life she had seen such a spirit pill; it was the first time she had seen a spirit pill containing such vast spiritual power, which was simply far higher than any other Spirit Gathering stage spirit pill, making her overjoyed.

This spirit pill had medicinal effects more than three times better than similar spirit pills; once taken in large quantities, the cultivation speed would be terrifyingly fast.

If she had this spirit pill to assist her cultivation, she was confident she could break through to the Essence Refining stage within a few years.

She didn't hide the joy on her face at all, looked up at Long Xuan, and said: "I consider myself well-informed, but this is the first time I've seen this kind of spirit pill. I want this spirit pill; how many spirit pills do you intend to trade for my array inheritance?"

Long Xuan was completely confident in his spirit pills, so he wasn't surprised at all by her agreement.

Considering that in this world, techniques were not passed on lightly and knowledge was the most expensive thing, he didn't hold back at all and directly held up five fingers, preparing to offer five thousand Hundred Flowers Pills to buy all the array books.

Don't be frightened by such a massive quantity of spirit pills; Long Xuan's pill success rate was nearly one hundred percent, and his pill yield rate was also nearly one hundred percent.

Others might find it difficult to refine such a massive quantity of spirit pills, but for him, with his exaggerated alchemy efficiency, five thousand spirit pills really wasn't a difficult task.

He was currently preparing to build a larger alchemy furnace to attempt his self-created Big Cauldron Alchemy Technique.

That is, directly throwing dozens of times the materials into the alchemy furnace, and when the pills were finished, he would directly get dozens of times the yield, producing a few thousand pills in one go.

This would save him from wasting too much time on alchemy and delaying his progress in researching formulas.

This concept was his own original invention; no other alchemist dared to do this, and no one had ever thought of it.

With such a low success rate in alchemy, who would dare to throw in dozens of portions of materials at once? If it failed, the loss would be unusually heavy.

Furthermore, alchemy strictly controlled the proportions and dosages of the formula materials; being off by even a fraction wouldn't work.

Long Xuan doing this was equivalent to changing the formula, which would lead to more variables, undoubtedly increasing the difficulty of alchemy and further lowering the success rate.

Only a bold madman like him would dare to do this.

Of course, there was no such large alchemy furnace in this world, so he could only build one himself through self-taught artifact refining; therefore, this terrifying plan had to be shelved for the time being.

However, what Long Xuan didn't expect was that after Di Xin saw him hold up five fingers, she mistakenly thought he was offering five hundred spirit pills, which made her reveal a look of joy; she hadn't expected there to be so many spirit pills of such high quality, which greatly exceeded her expectations.

Even if she were beaten to death, she wouldn't think of the terrifying number of five thousand; no one could possess such a large pill yield—it was absolutely impossible.

Di Xin considered herself to have gotten a great bargain, so she immediately shouted loudly: "Good! Five hundred spirit pills! Deal!"

As if she were afraid he would go back on his word.

Long Xuan was dumbfounded on the spot.

The two of them were like one not knowing how rich the other was, and the other not knowing how poor the other was.

Of course, Long Xuan wouldn't be foolish enough to say he was prepared to offer five thousand spirit pills; since the other party misunderstood, let her misunderstand.

So Long Xuan, also as if afraid she would go back on her word, and also believing he had gotten a massive bargain, immediately began taking out the Hundred Flowers Pills bottle by bottle.

Five hundred Hundred Flowers Pills—such a massive quantity, it would take him a long time just to take them out.

In a short while, the pill bottles piled up the entire table, and Di Xin, while pouring out the Hundred Flowers Pills to check them and stuffing them into her storage bag, laughed until she couldn't close her mouth.

If she knew Long Xuan was prepared to offer five thousand, who knows if she would still be able to laugh; by then, she would probably regret it to the point of her intestines turning green.

The books on array formations were not many and were easy to carry; Long Xuan moved them all into his storage bag in one go, then, afraid she would go back on her word, immediately walked back.

"Wait!"

Di Xin suddenly called him to a halt, looked at his back, and said: "I forgot to tell you, everything I've learned and those books you took were all taken from a certain array master; they can't see the light of day."

"You can use the arrays in those books secretly, but absolutely don't let anyone see them; the books record unique array diagrams, and it's very easy for people to recognize their source, which might bring you big trouble."

Long Xuan hurriedly turned his head, looked at her fiercely, and said through gritted teeth: "Then why didn't you say so earlier? No wonder you sold them so cheaply."

At this moment, he finally understood why she didn't have the concept that techniques shouldn't be passed on lightly, and why it was so easy to get the array books from her.

It turned out these array books weren't hers at all; they were all stolen by her, so of course, she wouldn't feel any heartache about passing on this knowledge.

However, seeing that she had already put all the Hundred Flowers Pills into her storage bag and was revealing a playful smile, he knew it was impossible to get them back.

Oh well, anyway, he was prepared to process the array patterns microscopically, and it was even very likely he would create an array of his own.

No matter how he chose the final configuration of the array, it would undergo major changes, ensuring that others wouldn't be able to tell its source.

Hearing what Long Xuan said, Di Xin's smile stalled; cheap? He actually called spirit pills of such high quality cheap—did he even know the value of things? Then what did he mean when he held up five fingers just now...

Di Xin's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly felt she had missed out on a hundred million.

"I forgot to tell you, my spirit pills were also all stolen; you must never use them in front of outsiders, and even less so trade them away, otherwise, it will be a big disaster."

Long Xuan also thought that if Long Lao saw the Hundred Flowers Pills and recognized that they came from his own fragmentary formula, it would definitely cause unnecessary trouble, so he took the opportunity to warn Di Xin before returning, feeling satisfied and proud.

Di Xin glared at him fiercely, and only then did she begin to introduce her third treasure...

Time passed bit by bit, and Long Xuan kept his eyes wide open, watching batch after batch of treasures on the table, trying to wait for an opportunity to pick up a big bargain.

Di Xin went down, and a second loose cultivator went up; the second loose cultivator went down, and a third loose cultivator went up...

Batch after batch, by now, it was unknown how many people had changed in front of the table, and the treasures brought out were already too numerous to count.

But all the treasures were traded at equivalent values, and Long Xuan didn't wait for a single opportunity for everyone to be blinded.

Don't ever treat everyone as a fool; what kind of idiot would bring out something they couldn't grasp or see through to sell? Trying to pick up a bargain here really wasn't an easy task.

(End of chapter)