Chapter 474: Hanlan Market

Once a spirit beast advances, most can learn new skills from their bloodline. Wang Yu was naturally very interested in Xiao Bai's true strength now.

Bai Li seemed to understand the meaning of Wang Yu's words. After a "hiss" from its mouth, it flicked its tail against the ground, its body soared into the air, and it just raised its head and let out a dragon roar at the high sky.

In an instant, the nearby air was filled with wild winds, blowing larger and larger.

"Whoosh," "Whoosh."

Over a dozen cyan wind blades, each about a foot long, swept out from the wild wind and landed on the ground near the pond, leaving over a dozen deep marks.

Then Bai Li opened its mouth again, and dark clouds gathered, and a torrential rain fell instantly.

But the temperature of the wild wind dropped suddenly, and the rain turned into dense white ice cones, shooting onto the nearby ground like a rainstorm, leaving a large area of crystalline ground.

Not only that, faint thunder came from the dark clouds, and wisps of electric light flickered.

But suddenly Bai Li let out an unwilling low roar, the wild wind stopped abruptly, the dark clouds scattered, and Bai Li's giant python form was revealed again.

The white spirit beast looked at the dark clouds scattering all around, its eyes full of confusion, seemingly unaware of what had happened.

"Come down. This kind of ability is not something you can control right now." Witnessing all this, Wang Yu's face showed a very satisfied expression, and he beckoned to Bai Li.

After advancing, Bai Li not only possessed the ability to summon wind and rain but also seemed to have mastered a trace of the skill to control thunder and lightning. Although it clearly looked very strenuous and could not be displayed smoothly, this also showed that the beast had learned a new bloodline talent after advancing, and successfully mastering this ability was only a matter of time.

Bai Li flew down from the air, landed beside Wang Yu again, rubbed its head against its master's thigh, and let out a somewhat aggrieved hiss.

"Xiao Bai, you have done very well. As long as your magic power is higher, you should be able to master the power of thunder and lightning. During this time, consolidate your new realm first and don't use your abilities easily." Wang Yu suppressed the joy in his heart, stroked Bai Li's head twice, and comforted it.

Bai Li clearly understood Wang Yu's words, nodded its head twice, then flicked its body and crawled quickly toward the pond, diving in with a somersault.

The black-green Iron-Headed Crocodile in the pond, seeing Bai Li enter, immediately perked up, moved closer, and sniffed hard at the other's body with its nose, seemingly wanting to smell something out.

"Bang."

A white tail directly whipped onto Da Lü's body, knocking it to the bottom of the pond like a ball.

After a while, the black-green Iron-Headed Crocodile floated back to the surface with "gurgling" bubbles.

This time, Da Lü didn't dare to get close to its companion anymore and could only crawl to the edge of the pond, aggrieved, swallowing pieces of beast meat to vent the depression in its heart.

Witnessing this scene, Wang Yu's eyes brightened slightly.

After reaching the second rank, Xiao Bai not only had new abilities but its physical body also seemed much stronger than before. Looking at it this way, its actual combat power should be even higher than he had originally imagined; at the very least, ordinary early Foundation Establishment cultivators might not necessarily be its match.

He then pinched a spell with one hand, the white flames on his body rolled, turned into a white fireball, and escaped into the ground. A moment later, he returned to his cultivation quarters.

He sat cross-legged on the cushion, patted the storage bag at his waist, and the bag opened wide, with two things flying out from within.

They were two wooden boxes, one large and one small.

Wang Yu flicked his sleeve, and the lids of the two wooden boxes opened automatically, revealing the things inside.

In one box was a small piece of thumb-sized red jade, and in the other box were seven or eight snow-white beast cores the size of broad beans.

These two things were the two unexpected joys that Shi Qiuping had brought back from Hanlan Market last time.

A small piece of Yang Gang Jade, and several beast cores of the first-rank Ice Li Ants.

The latter goes without saying; after all, it was a specialty of the Eastern Wasteland and only a first-rank material, so it was not strange to be able to buy it at the Hanlan River Market.

But the Yang Gang Jade was different. This was a genuine second-rank material and a very rare one among fire-attribute materials.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to buy it when he was at the Four Symbols Gate before, and could only use other first-rank materials to replace it for artifact refining.

However, such a small amount of Yang Gang Jade was not enough to refine the lotus platform artifact for auxiliary cultivation; at the very least, ten times more material was needed.

The large sum of spirit stones he gave Shi Qiuping back then was mostly used to purchase fire spirit crystal ore and second-rank beast bones. The rest was used to buy this bit of Yang Gang Jade and Ice Li Ant beast cores. As for the news about Ice Marrow, it was not found in Hanlan Market.

According to Shi Qiuping's account, the shopkeeper selling the Yang Gang Jade clearly stated that there was more Yang Gang Jade, but even if there were spirit stones, he was unwilling to sell the rest and wanted to barter.

"Barter."

Wang Yu raised his hand and grabbed at the void. The small piece of red jade in the box fell into his hand. After playing with it for a while, he muttered, not feeling too strange.

After all, at the second-rank level, many materials and treasures were indeed willing to be exchanged for things they needed, rather than just spirit stones.

Now that Xiao Bai had advanced to the second rank, it was time to refine a suitable protective artifact for it. After all, once a spirit beast reached the second rank, it could also nourish a life-bound artifact.

It seemed that he would have to make a personal trip to Hanlan Market.

Wang Yu pondered this, and soon made a decision.

Several days later.

A bone boat flew quietly out of the black fortress, heading straight toward Hanlan Market.

At the end of the upper reaches of the Hanlan River, in a mountain range over a hundred miles away from the riverbank.

At the foot of a high mountain surrounded by layers of white mist, there was a complex of buildings composed of several intersecting streets.

Wang Yu stood on a street, examining the multi-story pavilion in front of him. After seeing the "Bijing Pavilion" plaque hanging on the gate, he walked in with an unchanged expression.

"Fellow Daoist... ah, so it's a senior. I wonder what the senior wants to buy in our pavilion? Our Bijing Pavilion sells both ranked artifacts and artifact-refining materials." A young woman in her twenties, seeing Wang Yu walk in, immediately greeted him with a smile. But after her divine sense sensed the unfathomable spiritual pressure on the other party, her face changed greatly, and she bowed respectfully, saying.

Wang Yu swept his gaze across the first-floor hall, seeing counters placed all around, with some artifact-refining materials and a few low-rank artifacts inside, before saying calmly to the young woman:

"Besides ranked artifacts, do you have any second-rank artifacts or materials for sale here?"

"Senior, our pavilion certainly has second-rank artifact-refining materials and artifacts, but I am not sure if I can make the decision. I will call the shopkeeper to come out and entertain the senior personally." The young woman replied hurriedly upon hearing this.

Wang Yu nodded and said nothing more. The woman hurriedly pinched a spell with one hand, released a spell that flew directly to the floor above, and then waited quietly on the side.

Wang Yu walked casually to the counters, carefully examining the materials and artifacts covered by a layer of restriction. ===== CHAPTER 475 =====