Chapter 418: Veteran Actors

Yun Yang said: "Although the Dragon People's bloodline taboo has vanished, that does not mean the Dragon People can become strong enough to make all demon races tremble. Naturally, the Kunpeng clan has long had a habit of hunting Dragon People. Though few Dragon People have gone out in recent years, the emergence of the Dragon People has long attracted the attention of the demon races."

"They're just waiting for you to cause trouble so they can target you."

"Is that so," Yan Buji laughed. "Then that would make it even harder to sell you the sequence iron. If they discover this trend and use it as an excuse to come looking for trouble, how are we to handle ourselves?"

"Yet the Dragon People will always develop; the Boundless Abyssal Trench may not be a great place, but it's not hard to get there if one wishes," Yun Yang said.

"In that case..." Yan Buji's eyes flicked, and he smiled, "It seems we can only have the members of the Wing Race go themselves to mine the sequence iron."

Yun Yang frowned, "Brother Yan, do you really think so? The Dragon People are a great clan with a heritage. Now that they've joined the alliance, we trade with each other; even if demon races attack, we can ask the Snow People to intervene for mediation..."

"But that would inevitably put the Dragon People on the front line. They need development now, yet their ability to face danger is still poor," Yan Buji shook his head.

"So, Brother Yan, are you about to break the pact?!"

"Since we never traded, it can't be called a breach. As for that batch of sequence iron, I, Yan, will consider it never mined, and let the Wing Race go themselves to the Boundless Abyssal Trench to look for it!"

Having said that, Yan Buji turned and left.

Yun Yang let out a cold snort, turned, and flew into the sky.

At that moment, several sea‑dwelling demon races watching from the shadows sneered, "I said the Dragon People would trade with anyone for profit, and this is the result?"

"Or are they just afraid we'll cause them trouble?"

"Ugh, they're just insignificant Dragon People, yet they still dare to appear. Aren't they scared of the Kunpeng clan's great beings meddling with them!"

"If one intends to annihilate a clan, even a great being must think twice. Moreover, the Dragon People have lifted the bloodline taboo, yet they still harbor fear of us demon races, and that alone is enough."

"Do you really intend to let the Wing Race go to the Boundless Abyssal Trench to mine sequence iron?"

"Impossible; the senior demon races in the Boundless Abyssal Trench would never let them in!"

"But... that lazy current has already eroded them..."

"We'll just relay the news back; the rest is none of our business."

After a few demon races departed, Yan Buji, heading toward the Dragon People City, smiled.

"These demon races are such a hassle; we still have to act out a play with Yun Yang just to get rid of them."

"The trade with the Wing Race could not be cancelled, but later Yun Yang, in the Otherworldly Alliance, seemed to spread the tale of the Dragon People breaking the pact as if seeking revenge, which forced Yan Buji to go confront him again; the two only stopped when others intervened to separate them."

"After that, everyone seemed to know that the Dragon People and the Wing Race were not on good terms."

"This is also a tactic to confuse the demon races; after all, the demon races are powerful, and even though the Otherworldly Alliance has the ancient Daoist ancestor Xue Man Shan stationed, it could not abandon the Snow People's Shallow Dusk Snow Mountain to go around extinguishing fires for others, could it?"

"As a result, the demon races no longer have a reason to raise armies and accuse others; of course, they can still come forcefully to cause trouble."

"However, even after Yan Buji stayed in the Dragon People City for half a year without seeing any demon races arrive, he realized their thoughts were probably all focused on the Boundless Abyssal Trench, guarding against the Wing People going there to mine sequence iron."

"Yun Yang's side does what it will; Yan Buji can't control that, but secretly Yan Buji and Yun Yang have already completed the deal."

"That batch of sequence iron Yan Buji claimed to destroy was thrown by his men into the seventh layer outside the Boundless Abyssal Trench, and later he secretly had someone retrieve some of it."

"Yan Buji knows that the mining output reports coming from Wang Man are almost all fabricated, so the actual reserves are far greater than the Dragon People's internal reports suggest."

"So all of this was done to confuse the demon races' scouts."

"The later transaction was purely trust‑based; Yan Buji first dropped an Accumulation Device containing sequence iron at a location, and after some time went back to claim his payment."

"Seeing that he had received an astonishing five million low‑grade Spiritual Stones, Yan Buji lifted his brow:"

"After the Day Layer, there are actually Spiritual Stone veins?"

"The Wing Race lives within the Day Layer; acquiring so many Spiritual Stones cannot be done by trade alone."

"Even if they possess Spiritual Materials that are scarce on the surface and can fetch a good price, the volume of circulating currency required for the transaction is there; with this many Spiritual Stones..."

"The Wing Race's reserve of Spiritual Stones must be in the hundreds of millions..."

"They're truly wealthy; no wonder the demon races despise them. Yan Buji even wishes they could be exterminated so the Wing Race could have them all to themselves."

"Of course, colonizing the Wing Race and having them earn money for us would be even better."

"Come to think of it, the Day Layer and the Night Layer are among the few ways to travel to the Five Realms without crossing the Five Realms boundary, similar to how I use the Heaven Gate Law to teleport in the Youming Jie."

"However, Yan Buji has tried; within the Five Realms one cannot cross the boundary directly to other great domains, but if one passes through the Youming Jie, it's no problem."

"The Day Layer and Night Layer lie outside the Five Realms' territory, belonging to the sky; presumably, locating their spatial nodes would allow them to serve as transit stations."

"The sky has no boundary; it only has endless gale winds and formidable demon beasts that can live within those winds."

"Races like the Otherworldly Race, blessed with unique advantages, can possess such vast resources without being heavily affected by surface powers—a rarity."

"So even if Yan Buji wishes to go to the Day or Night Layers, without knowing how fierce the gale winds and sky demon beasts are, he has no intention to do so."

"Leave one million for the Dragon People; the rest I'll gladly take," Yan Buji laughed.

"Fine water flows long; to make a horse run you must let it eat grass."

"From this viewpoint, the sequence iron trade can go on forever."

"It's probably that Yun Yang also dispatched agents to infiltrate the Boundless Abyssal Trench, staging the entire drama; Yun Yang and Yan Buji are seasoned actors."

"Regarding the use of sequence iron, Yan Buji plans to later travel to the Boundless Abyssal Trench to ask the Heavenly Demon King."

"And the crucial information on the Primordial Day Qi, Yan Buji finally got his hands on it."

"The forging of the Heaven Origin Great Pill, according to the Heavenly Demon King, requires a strand of Primordial Celestial Qi plus eight varieties of celestial Qi."

"The difficulty is that Primordial Celestial Qi is a Spiritual Material from the Wild Age; finding it in this era is almost impossible."

"This kind of consumable is used in minuscule amounts; there's essentially no scenario where it can be refined."

"However, the intelligence Yun Yang supplied shows that the Primordial Day Qi is surprisingly still present in a trench within the Dongxing Sea Region."

"Although the rumor is not very reliable, Yun Yang also mentioned that the Wing Race has some of the Primordial Day Qi, but the price they ask is beyond Yan Buji's acceptance."

"The other eight Qi are easy; the Wing Race can help gather them, and later trades can be replaced with sequence iron. However, the Primordial Day Qi must be obtained beforehand."

"With that thought, Yan Buji sprang into action."