Chapter 51: The Whereabouts of Thousand-Year Ice Marrow

The result goes without saying? After three cups of wine went down, before he could start shouting, before he could last even a second, he fell directly onto the table. The snoring sound started instantly, shaking the sky, and the penetrating power could even be heard downstairs.

Long Xuan shook his head helplessly. He really was a wine-loving drunkard, actually risking his life just to drink wine.

Anyone who knows wine knows that wine cannot be mixed; mixing makes it easier to get drunk. Drinking one type is already life-threatening enough, yet he actually mixed them. He was really stubborn.

Worthy of being the Wine God, I admire him! I admire him!

Long Xuan admired him to the point of prostration.

Not long after, the waiter started serving the dishes. The rich aroma of the dishes made Long Xuan's appetite open wide. He immediately gorged himself, eating with great joy.

You must know that the dishes and meat in this world contain spiritual power, and the taste is far superior to his past life.

And what he ordered were all signature dishes.

How expensive can signature dishes in this world be?

They are truly expensive without an upper limit.

If you use heavenly treasures and high-grade spirit beast meat to cook, the price of the dishes is truly boundless.

The legendary dragon liver and phoenix marrow wouldn't be an exaggeration even if sold for hundreds of millions of spirit stones, but dragons and phoenixes have been extinct in this world for I don't know how many tens of thousands of years, so even if you wanted to eat them, you couldn't.

It's just that this market is too poor, the shop is too small, and the top-grade ingredients are limited, so the table of signature dishes Long Xuan ordered cost only fifty thousand spirit stones.

But this is already quite a lot. Long Lie drank ten thousand worth of his wine, and he ate fifty thousand worth of dishes. It's very fair.

After Long Xuan was full and satisfied, he burped and immediately jumped out of the window to leave.

Don't misunderstand, he wasn't trying to escape the bill or eat a free meal. Wasn't there still one in the room?

This is the rule in the bill-paying world: whoever stays until the end pays the bill.

How could Long Xuan know that for such a table of expensive dishes, the people in the restaurant, fearing that Long Lie would escape the bill, guarded him for three days and three nights. He actually slept for three days and three nights, and no matter how they called him, he wouldn't wake up, almost being carried out as a corpse...

Speaking of Long Xuan at this time, after he walked out of the restaurant, he continued to walk toward the direction of Big Stone Village. However, another change occurred, blocking his steps home again.

He patted his storage bag and took out a communication talisman. The back of the communication talisman was full of strange symbols, and rows of small characters began to appear on the front.

There are four most profitable special professions in this world: Alchemist, Artifact Refiner, Array Master, and Talisman Maker.

This communication talisman is a product of a Talisman Maker, used for long-distance communication.

However, communication talismans are expensive and one-time use, so they cannot be used for idle chat; only when major events occur will they be used for communication.

Long Xuan's circle of friends is narrow; he only keeps communication talismans with a few of the richest scattered cultivators in the market, such as the Array Master Di Xin.

The purpose is to facilitate the exchange of goods at any time. After all, scattered cultivators come and go without a trace; it is common to not be able to find their tracks.

And this communication talisman that suddenly vibrated was given to his Yan avatar by an artifact refiner named Jin Zeng when he participated in a certain trading fair. Outsiders all called him Master Jin.

There are only three scattered cultivators in the market who sell superior-grade Gu worms, and this Master Jin is one of them, always relying on selling Golden Armor Gu to make a fortune.

Long Xuan really didn't expect Master Jin to contact him at this time. The friendship between the two was limited to transactions and was not deep.

Long Xuan looked at the handwriting on the communication talisman. Excluding the polite words, the general meaning was that Master Jin had prepared wine and dishes and wanted to invite him to be a guest. A few days ago, he dug up something in the Great Snow Mountain that looked very much like Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, and wanted him to go over to appraise it and prepare wealth.

Long Xuan's eyes immediately lit up.

Thousand-Year Ice Marrow had made him search for a long time; today, was there finally a lead?

Long Xuan couldn't help but clench his fists. As long as the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow is in hand, he can immediately refine the Ice God Flame. That is a flame that can release cold air; he gets excited just thinking about it.

So Long Xuan immediately sent the Yan avatar to take wealth from home.

He only brought a small part of things this time. No way, the fatter the wealth, the less the storage bag can hold.

It was difficult for him to even pack hundreds of millions of spirit stones, let alone bring other treasures. He still had nowhere to pile up the several storage bags of fossils brought out from the fossil mine vein.

So every time he went out, he could only put a large amount of wealth at home, and only carry less than one-tenth of his wealth on his body.

Now hearing that Master Jin had Thousand-Year Ice Marrow in his hands, Long Xuan immediately arranged for the Yan avatar to take treasures suitable for Master Jin.

"Just had a big meal at the Qian Family Restaurant, and now my stomach is bloated. How can I eat anything else? This Master Jin's arrangement is really not the right time."

Long Xuan rubbed his round stomach and sighed helplessly. Master Jin invited him to eat, and he couldn't not give him face. The most important thing was that Thousand-Year Ice Marrow was something he must obtain, so he could only go and eat a few bites symbolically.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about letting the avatar go to eat for him, but thinking that the avatar didn't have the golden finger to see the progress, and appraising treasures was far less professional than the main body, he still decided to endure the fullness and go there himself.

Master Jin is a scattered cultivator and has no place to go, so he opened a cave abode in a nearby mountain with abundant spiritual power to live in. It is not too far from the market, so Long Xuan didn't take long to arrive.

Seeing a cave with a stone door in front, Long Xuan knew it was Master Jin's residence.

Looking at this cave abode, Long Xuan secretly marveled. There are many scattered cultivators who choose to live in caves, not just Master Jin.

On one hand, it is because the spiritual power in the mountains is abundant, far superior to the crowded market.

On the other hand, it is also because it is quiet, with no one to disturb, and one can calm down to practice.

The most important thing is that it is cheap. Living in the market, just the rent is a not-so-small expense.

But there are also disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage is that living in the mountains alone, with no one to look after and no one to protect, it is easy to be targeted by demon cultivators to kill and seize treasures.

Just for this reason alone, Long Xuan couldn't have the idea of living in a cave.

It was just that the protective array Master Jin bought from Di Xin was powerful enough, otherwise he wouldn't be able to live in peace either.

"Senior Long, you are here. My master is waiting for you inside."

As soon as Long Xuan arrived at the door, he found a youth already waiting at the door. Seeing him, he immediately greeted him respectfully.

It was the first time Long Xuan had seen someone call him senior, and he was really afraid of being called old.

Speaking of which, he could also afford the title of senior. Currently, he is already a Gu cultivator at the late stage of Spirit Gathering, which is considered better than the bottom but worse than the top among the scattered cultivators.

"Is it true that your master picked up a piece of Thousand-Year Ice Marrow?" Long Xuan chatted casually.

The youth immediately replied, "We scattered cultivators have shallow knowledge. Even if we really see treasures, how can we distinguish them one hundred percent?"

"Thousand-Year Ice Marrow is simply too rare. My master has also never seen it before and can only judge it from the descriptions in books. Whether it is true or false still requires you to judge it personally."

Long Xuan nodded and said, "Then I will go see it personally. Lead the way!"

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