Chapter 66: 66. Chapter 66: Thoughts on Going Online

66. Chapter 66: Thoughts on Going Online

"Fine, continue!"

Fang Xing sighed and watched as the old man picked up the pair of gauntlets.

"Rank 1 High-Grade magical tool, forged from 'Blazing Spiritual Iron.' Unfortunately, its range of use is relatively narrow, only suitable for body cultivators... There is a slight defect on the gauntlets, and one array pattern of the 'Like a Mountain' formation is broken. It is worth 750 low-grade spiritual stones."

The old man picked up the pair of gauntlets, pondered for a moment, and gave a quote. Then, he carefully picked up the Qing Que Sword:

"Rank 1 High-Grade flying sword, the blade is intact, well-maintained, and engraved with two major arrays: 'Sharp Metal' and 'Wind Control'... Worth 900 spiritual stones!"

The more he looked, the more he muttered to himself. How did these two High-Grade magical tools look exactly like those belonging to the two famous bandit cultivators?

Was his previous quote a bit too low?

Fang Xing nodded slightly.

Although he remembered that at the auction, the set of High-Grade magical tools, the Iron Feather Swords, finally sold for several thousand spiritual stones, the situation was clearly different.

The Iron Feather Swords were not only a set of magical tools but also the best of the best, capable of forming a sword array, comparable to Top-Grade magical tools.

Plus, with everyone bidding at the auction, it was normal for the price to be much higher.

In normal times, the price of a High-Grade magical tool was around 500 to 1,000 spiritual stones.

This Rank 1 High-Grade "Qing Que Sword" was not only well-maintained but also the type of flying sword that cultivators welcomed very much. Before, it would have sold for at least over 1,000 spiritual stones in the market.

Now that the situation was special, he could only accept whatever the other party said.

However, Fang Xing was sure that the other party still had room to make a profit! They might even make a lot!

But as the saying went, magical tools were useless to him unless they were blood-refined magical tools!

He had tried this Qing Que Sword; if he didn't inject magic power, relying solely on the sharpness of the flying sword itself, it was only slightly stronger than the Ink Pattern Sword; it was also a piece of trash!

Hearing the assessment at this time, he immediately understood.

'So, besides the sharpness of the blade itself, flying swords also rely on the array restrictions within the sword body to attach power... I always feel that this world is targeting me...'

At this time, the old man finally finished counting slowly: "This guest, we only accept 'Fire Blazing' and 'Ancient Green Vine' for spiritual herbs. If we add them all together, this old man can give a price of 2,172 low-grade spiritual stones..."

"Fine."

Fang Xing nodded, glanced at the old man's stall, and picked out a tiger-headed long saber: "Good saber..."

This saber was very heavy, weighing about 30 or 40 catties, but in Fang Xing's hands, it was as light as a feather, and he swung it casually: "What is the name of this saber?"

"Guest has a good eye. This saber is named 'Tiger Sha.' It is forged from the spine of a Yao tiger and Hundred Sha Iron. It is a blood-refined magical tool. It only costs 100 low-grade spiritual stones." The old man's eyes flashed as he introduced it.

"I'll buy it!"

Fang Xing now had plenty of spiritual stones in his pocket, and he was not at all polite when using them.

For him, such a blood-refined magical tool was more useful than any High-Grade magical tool.

"Fine..."

The old man smiled and counted out twenty strange five-colored crystals, solemnly handing them to Fang Xing, along with 72 low-grade spiritual stones: "Guest, please keep them safe..."

'It's actually a mid-grade spiritual stone...'

Fang Xing had only heard of the great name of this kind of spiritual stone before; it was said that one piece could be exchanged for 100 low-grade spiritual stones.

Receiving it at this time, he indeed felt the extremely intense and rich spiritual energy within the mid-grade spiritual stone, and his heart couldn't help but stir: 'Cultivators can cultivate with spiritual stones... Unfortunately, warriors cannot do it, but if warriors in this world cannot do it, Blue Star warriors might not necessarily be unable to do it... Next time, I'll throw a few more low-grade spiritual stones into the black market to see the effect...'

This was part of Fang Xing's previous probing plan.

Even, by chance, he let Gu Yun discover that there were strange talismans being sold in the black market, suspected to be related to evil deities...

Because of her father, Gu Yun absolutely despised everything related to evil deities. Hearing this information, she naturally went to the black market to investigate immediately and even got a low-grade Golden Light Talisman, which she sent to the Faith Theory Department for testing.

Fang Xing planned to wait until the winter break was over to ask about the test results inadvertently.

As the whistleblower and the person in the know, and also one of their own, Manager Bai Ziling of the Faith Theory Department would definitely tell Gu Yun the news.

This was the same as telling Fang Xing!

'Although it seems a bit like using a friend, I am sure these cultivation items have no danger... I will compensate her a little more in the future.'

At this time, he calmly put away the spiritual stones and felt some malicious gazes around him, but he sneered in his heart: 'Here to send spiritual stones again...'

Fang Xing stood up, did not leave directly, but instead began to stroll around swaggeringly.

After all, the stall owners here were not always the same; they came and went. Just in this short while, a few new stalls had appeared in the cave.

Fang Xing came to a stall and looked at the lifelike puppets that looked like dolls: "How much for this..."

Some of these puppets were bird and beast mechanisms, while others were human-shaped. They were only the size of a palm, looking shiny and quite good.

"Since you know this is a puppet, you should know that without a cultivator's spiritual sense, it is impossible to manipulate it at all..."

The stall owner selling the puppets wore a bamboo hat, covering most of his face, and answered unhappily.

Warriors were existence that suffered discrimination in the cultivation world, even if they were Primordial warriors!

Among the hundred arts of cultivation, the one warriors used the most was still talismans, but even with Primordial Qi, they could at most activate Rank 1 Mid-Grade talismans. Once they reached the Rank 1 High-Grade level, they were basically insulated from warriors.

As for the higher Rank 2 talismans, it was even more so. Even cultivators in the early and mid stages of Qi Condensation might not be able to activate them smoothly. Late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators could activate them, but they would also consume most of their own magic power, and after activation, it was difficult to control, with a high probability of injuring themselves. As for warriors? Keep dreaming!

In terms of pills, the situation was about the same. If a warrior forcibly swallowed High-Grade spiritual pills, they would only end up with ruptured intestines and stomach, also insulated from Rank 2 pills.

Magical tools were even more miserable; except for blood-refined magical tools, don't even think about the others!

Formations were vaguely the head of the hundred arts of cultivation. Whether it was the manufacture of formation flags and formation disks or the technique of setting up formations, it had nothing to do with warriors. The only use of Primordial warriors was to inject Qi into some low-grade formation flags... which could save about half a piece of spiritual sand.

Puppets were even more so. Without a cultivator's magic power to activate the puppet and no spiritual sense to manipulate it, buying it back could only be used as a toy.

"Although I am not a cultivator, I have disciples, friends, and relatives..." Fang Xing picked up a mechanical bird: "How much for this puppet?"

"Rank 1 Low-Grade puppet. If you like it, I'll give you a discount... take it for 150 spiritual stones!"

The stall owner looked at Fang Xing and said seriously.

"I'll buy it!"

Fang Xing took out a pile of low-grade spiritual stones very generously and held the toy bird in his palm.

The mechanical bird was made of wood, with five-colored feathers on the surface, and it also carried dense array patterns.

As he walked, he tried to input Primordial Qi, and it was indeed like a clay ox entering the sea, and he might even break the puppet...

'It really doesn't work...'

Fang Xing thought to himself, but he had other ideas for buying this puppet.

'The Unpolished Jade Realm is equivalent to a Primordial warrior, and it is already the peak of this world... But I still have a path!'

'If I break through to the Courage and Resolve Realm, open the Mud Pill Palace, and possess spiritual alien power... perhaps I can try to manipulate it. Maybe it will work?'

By then, this puppet would be an excellent experimental subject.

"Hmm?"

After walking around a few times, Fang Xing was about to leave when he saw a petite and cute female cultivator coming to set up a stall, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Looking at the small banner the other party put up, which clearly had the Green Leaf mark of the Green Pill Workshop, he felt more confident and hurriedly leaned forward: "Miss Xiao Rui..."

"Who are you?"

Xiao Rui looked up, clearly not recognizing the disguised Fang Xing.

"Hehe, I bought a few bottles of pills from Miss Xiao Rui back then. It's normal that you don't remember... Are these things you are selling genuine products from the Green Pill Workshop?"

Fang Xing looked at those bottles and jars.

"Of course, the jade bottle seal and the spirit-sealing talisman are intact. Fellow Daoist can check at will..."

Xiao Rui made a gesture of "please."

"Not at all, not at all, I trust Fellow Daoist..."

Fang Xing's eyes flashed, and he had already taken in all the pills, asking sternly: "I wonder if you accept spiritual herbs here?"

"Naturally, we accept them. Sigh... ever since the beast tide, our original herb-picking team from the Green Pill Workshop has dispersed. Now, it's not easy to start the furnace again..."

Xiao Rui sighed, but Fang Xing's expression stirred when he heard this.

It seemed that the Green Pill Workshop was a bit unlucky this time; even the precious alchemist didn't escape...

He calmed down and looked for the pills he needed: "Tiger Marrow Pill... and 'Qi Replenishing Pill' suitable for Primordial warriors to cultivate... give me ten bottles of each!"

When Xiao Rui heard this, she immediately beamed with joy.

This was a big customer.

Not only were the spiritual stones abundant, but there were also so many spiritual herbs. Clearly, he was an extremely powerful herb picker, and perhaps there was even a force composed of herb pickers behind him.

'Could it be the Medicine King Gang?'

Xiao Rui thought to herself, picked up a spiritual herb brought by Fang Xing, and gave an estimate: "Erosion Immortal Grass, originally three spiritual stones per plant. Now that it is difficult to receive goods, I can give five more spiritual sands..."

By the end of the calculation, most of Fang Xing's package of spiritual herbs was given to Xiao Rui, and he even had to pay quite a few spiritual stones, which made him have to sigh at the exorbitant profits of alchemists.

'Walking around like this, I feel like the greed in the air is almost about to condense into substance...'

Fang Xing found a corner in the market, sat cross-legged, with the "Tiger Sha Saber" he just bought on his knees, and sneered in his heart.

At this time, he pressed his hand on the saber, injecting strands of Unpolished Jade internal energy, which was Primordial Qi.

Under the infusion of Primordial Qi, he gradually refined this blood-refined magical tool and learned how to use it.

'Tiger Sha Saber, after being filled with Primordial Qi, can fly in the air, but the farthest distance from the owner cannot exceed a hundred paces. In terms of power, it is equivalent to an ordinary low-grade magical tool...'

'Besides that, an array of "Wind Saber Technique" is engraved in the saber body. After being filled with Primordial Qi, it can trigger a "Wind Saber," and its power is about the same as the Wind Blade Technique...'

'That's it?'

After truly refining a blood-refined magical tool, Fang Xing suddenly felt that his previous choice not to refine the Ink Pattern Sword with his own essence blood was a correct choice.

'A Primordial expert driving a blood-refined magical tool is actually about the same as an early-stage Qi Condensation cultivator using a low-grade magical tool... I can kill ten of such goods with one saber!'

If Fang Xing were holding the Tiger Sha Saber now and performing the Ghost God Saber Technique, both his speed and strength would far exceed driving a blood-refined magical tool.

A warrior is a warrior; learning the methods of cultivators is just imitating others.

Unless... the power of the blood-refined magical tool could be comparable to a Rank 1 High-Grade magical tool, or have special functions, only then would he take a second look.

'Sure enough, am I just suitable for rushing up and swinging a saber to chop people?'

Fang Xing suddenly felt quite melancholy!

Then, he saw a group of people walking over, and their target was clearly himself!