Chapter 38: Long Xuan's Strategy

With the Extreme Grade Spirit Insect in hand, he immediately couldn't wait to go back and create Extreme Grade Gu Formulas, no longer having the mind to dig mines.

Mines couldn't be dug up, and it was too time-consuming for cultivation. He didn't intend to waste precious time on mining.

As for what Spirit Insect materials were missing, just buy, buy, buy. There was no need to do physical labor here.

Thinking this way, Long Xuan was eager to return home and had no intention of continuing to stay here. He immediately took his four clones and walked out.

After walking out of the cave entrance and seeing the long-lost sunlight, Long Xuan took a deep breath of fresh oxygen, then ordered the four clones to block the cave entrance again, trying to make it so that no one could see there was a cave here, before leaving and embarking on the journey home.

Half a month later, he returned to the Far West Market, dusty and tired. Since he had already made up his mind to sell the fossil mine vein, he would absolutely not drag it out, lest there be many nights and many dreams.

Because the transaction amount was huge, Long Xuan made multiple preparations for his own safety.

First, he had to disguise himself and wear a mask. This was a must. Making a disguise was enough to avoid most of the trouble.

Secondly, he had to have an identity that others couldn't afford to offend. Long Xuan intended to disguise himself as an alchemist.

He himself was an alchemist, so he didn't need to disguise, but he had to unintentionally reveal that he had a powerful alchemist master behind him; otherwise, who could be shocked by a Grade One Alchemist with the lowest rank?

But this wasn't enough. Long Xuan was cautious by nature and lecherous to the extreme. He actually wanted to leave all this to his clones to do.

If something really went wrong, the one who died would be an insignificant clone, and the main body could completely "wind tight and retreat."

It would be best to unintentionally let others know that this was a clone, so even if caught, it would be useless.

Only in this way could he ensure he would be foolproof.

Just like this, Long Xuan, who was as steady as an old dog, made heavy disguises and came to the entrance of the Qian Clan Auction House.

Like the psychology of most loose cultivators, he believed that the Qian Clan Merchant Association, constrained by the Honesty Gu, would absolutely not do things like "the shop is big and bullies the customers," so he would prioritize looking for shops with the word "Qian" whether buying or selling resources.

Now that he had developed the habit, he felt full of security whenever he thought of Qian Clan merchants being constrained by Honesty Gu.

Because the price of the mine vein had no upper limit, if the total value was calculated, even just 1% of the value far exceeded the bearing limit of all major clans.

So auctioning the mine vein was undoubtedly the most suitable method of handling it. Although it would still be a loss, this was also an unavoidable thing.

As soon as Long Xuan entered the auction house, he saw a familiar fat man entertaining customers. His appearance was truly too conspicuous, so Long Xuan recognized at a glance that he was the Qian Duoduo he met at the Qian Clan Gambling Stone Shop back then.

Long Xuan saw him, and he naturally saw Long Xuan.

Upon seeing a person who wrapped himself tightly and wore a ghost face mask walk in, Qian Duoduo's eyes immediately lit up.

Having been in business for many years, he had long since refined a pair of "fire eyes and golden pupils" and could see at a glance who had good goods and who was making up the numbers.

In his view, the more good things a person had on them, the more they would wrap themselves tightly so that their face couldn't be seen, lest they be recognized and invite trouble.

This person wrapped himself tightly and airtight. Except for a pair of eyes exposed outside, he didn't expose a single bit of skin. His lecherous degree was the only one he had seen in his life, so he concluded that this person must have good things on him; otherwise, why would he be cautious to such a degree?

So Qian Duoduo's round face immediately squeezed out a smile and welcomed him with a smile.

"This gentleman, I am the manager here. Do you have good things to auction at my Qian Clan Auction House?" Qian Duoduo asked directly.

Long Xuan nodded, took out a pill bottle, handed it to Qian Duoduo, and said with an arrogant tone: "This is a Spirit Gathering Pill. See if it qualifies for auction!"

He didn't come here to sell pills, of course. He just wanted to unintentionally expose his identity as an alchemist to increase his sense of security.

Back then, he bought a pile of waste pills from the Little Medicine Boy, and the Spirit Gathering Pill was the most valuable one in that pile of waste pills.

He easily cracked most of the materials with the Heavenly Mechanism Eye. For the small part he didn't understand, he directly livered it out by looking at the progress and livering the fragmentary formula, and soon livered it out.

Since his Heavenly Mechanism Eye had cracked most of the materials, the completeness of the fragmentary formula was already very high, and it didn't take Long Xuan long to patch the fragmentary formula.

The reason why the Spirit Gathering Pill was the most valuable in that pile of waste pills was that the Spirit Gathering Pill had the effect of breaking through realms. The Spirit Gathering Pill was enough to increase the breakthrough rate of the Spirit Refining Stage by 10%.

Don't underestimate this 10% breakthrough rate. In this region with thin spiritual power, having a Spirit Gathering Pill at least gave you a 10% breakthrough rate. If you didn't have a Spirit Gathering Pill, the breakthrough rate was infinitely close to zero.

In the ancient times, which were far away, spiritual power was rich, and practitioners could complete breakthroughs without borrowing Spirit Pills.

But in the current era of thin spiritual power, even geniuses had to borrow the power of pills to complete breakthroughs.

It was precisely because of this reason that the Realm-Breaking Pill was extremely expensive in this world, enough to make Gu cultivators of the same rank break their heads and get it at all costs.

Moreover, the medicinal power varied from person to person. The 10% breakthrough rate of the Spirit Gathering Pill was an average value calculated based on a large group.

Gu cultivators with high aptitude had stronger absorption ability, so the breakthrough rate would naturally be higher than the average value. Gu cultivators with low aptitude had poor absorption, and the breakthrough rate would be lower than 10%.

As for Long Xuan, whose meridians and Spirit Sea were as solid as a rock, such a Spirit Gathering Pill with such low medicinal power was almost useless to him. I'm afraid he would need to create a Realm-Breaking Pill formula with stronger medicinal power by then.

So for geniuses with purchasing power, the breakthrough success rate of the Spirit Gathering Pill was far more than 10%, which was enough to make them exhaust their net worth to buy it.

Because of various concerns, this was the first time Long Xuan took out the Spirit Gathering Pill to sell.

This thing was not a simple Grade One Spirit Pill. Not only was the cost high, but the refining difficulty was also extremely great. Even if a Grade Two Alchemist condescended to refine such a Grade One Spirit Pill, a success rate of 1/30 would be good. A Grade One Alchemist was almost impossible to refine a Spirit Gathering Pill.

With the refining difficulty of the Spirit Gathering Pill, it couldn't be mass-produced at all. Being too rare also led to it being hard to buy on the market. Once it appeared, it would inevitably be snatched up, and its transaction price exceeding a Grade Two Spirit Pill was a very normal thing.

The purpose of Long Xuan taking out the Spirit Gathering Pill today was not to make money.

It was to use the refining difficulty of the Spirit Gathering Pill to tell others that the Spirit Gathering Pill couldn't be refined by a Gu cultivator like him in the Spirit Gathering Stage, and it must come from the hands of his master behind him. If you want to make a move, you'd better weigh it for me.

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