Chapter 504

"From now on, let's still use medium-grade Spiritual Stones for conversion." Yan Buji thought for a moment; upon reaching Nascent Soul stage, exchanging low-grade Spiritual Stones becomes troublesome, and most Nascent Soul Cultivators around also use medium-grade Spiritual Stones as their main currency.

Otherwise, if there are too many low-grade Spiritual Stones, storage bags won't be enough to hold them, so one still has to exchange them for medium-grade Spiritual Stones with those major powers to conduct trade and circulation.

Calculating it, ten million low-grade Spiritual Stones equal only one hundred thousand medium-grade Spiritual Stones.

However, Yan Buji's current reserves should be enough for him to cultivate to late Golden Core stage; it's just uncertain whether he can actually achieve it.

These resources were all painstakingly accumulated by Yan Buji bit by bit. But honestly, killing and looting is still the fastest way. He himself, in order to maintain a stable environment, hasn't done much killing and looting lately, yet he didn't expect there to be clueless individuals insisting on targeting him.

Just like that, they passed a period of stability; when the six-month limit arrived, everyone hurried nonstop toward the exit.

Before coming, everyone also knew that although it was said there were six months, in fact the Sun and Moon Palace didn't require them to leave within six months; they could stay as long as they wanted.

This six-month period is the time the Sun and Moon Palace takes to lift the seal on the anomalous region; after six months, Void Refinement stage cultivators can enter this place.

Xiao Ran and Ling Yan were just about to leave when Xiao Ran suddenly sensed something was off.

"Ling Yan, let's not go out now!"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Xiao Ran frowned: "There's a place I'm concerned about; if we go out now, we might not be able to come back later. Earlier, moving alone while with them was inconvenient, but now they're all leaving, so let's go check it out."

Ling Yan found it a bit strange but didn't think much: "Alright, I'll listen to you."

"Mm."

Xiao Ran and Ling Yan slipped away quietly, while Yan Buji had not yet noticed.

He also didn't expect that Xiao Ran and the other would dare to remain in the anomalous region; at this moment he urgently wishes to leave quickly, then change his appearance and find a place to cultivate for a while, and incidentally figure out how to kill them.

As a result, when they walked out of the anomalous region, before everyone could go their separate ways, a group of Void Refinement cultivators suddenly surrounded them.

"Halt! Everyone, hand over your Storage Accumulation Devices!"

Everyone froze, looking at them: "What does the Sun and Moon Palace mean? What are you trying to do?"

"What are you doing? The treasures inside the anomalous region are the property of the Sun and Moon Palace; do you think you can just take them? Be sensible and hand over your Storage Accumulation Devices, and we'll spare your lives!"

As soon as those words were spoken, everyone instantly became angry!

"What a Sun and Moon Palace! You rely on your power to dare do such a thing?"

"Did you really lure us in here just to kill us?"

"Everyone, even if we hand over the Storage Accumulation Devices, the Sun and Moon Palace won't let us leave safely; we might as well fight!"

"Fight!!"

"Ridiculous, kill them!!"

Seeing the Void Refinement cultivator emanating a powerful aura as he charged to kill, Wu Qian instantly turned pale with fright, looking at Yan Buji: "Brother Xu, we....."

Yan Buji saw that things were amiss and shielded everyone in front of him.

"Sorry, Brother Wu, when disaster strikes we each fly for ourselves; if you trust me, after handing over your storage bag, just flee to the left without stopping along the way."

Yan Buji tried it, then suddenly summoned the Five-Colored Heaven Gate, rushed into it, and vanished without a trace.

Wu Qian widened his eyes, seeing a Void Refinement cultivator charging to kill him; he immediately knelt down, erased the mark on his Storage Accumulation Device, threw it down, and shouted: "Senior, spare my life!"

"Smart kid, you know what's up; what about that guy beside you?"

Wu Qian gritted his teeth, countless thoughts flashing through his mind; he knew this group of Void Refinement cultivators might really kill to silence witnesses, but recalling Yan Buji's warning, he turned and fled madly to the left.

"This kid...." the Void Refinement cultivator still wanted to act, but someone nearby came over, furrowed brows, and said: "Forget about that kid; don't you remember our plan?"

"Indeed, that kid is clever!" the Void Refinement cultivator picked up the storage bag from the ground, opened it, and said: "Not bad."

"Hurry up, the Sun and Moon Palace over there should have reacted by now."

Wu Qian fled madly; along the way he encountered no obstruction at all, and smoothly left the Sun and Moon Palace.

After escaping, Wu Qian swallowed, breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "How dare the Sun and Moon Palace do this? Aren't they afraid of ruining their sect's reputation?"

No.

If those Void Refinement cultivators aren't from the Sun and Moon Palace.....

It's a premeditated ambush!

Wu Qian instantly broke out in a sweat, recalling Yan Buji's warning before his disappearance: "Brother Xu.... did you already sense this earlier?"

Regardless, although Wu Qian suffered heavy losses, he at least managed to leave the Sun and Moon Palace alive, and hurriedly returned to the Heavenly Spirit Realm.

Meanwhile, the other Nascent Soul Cultivators who reacted a bit slower weren't so fortunate; in the end, only a few Nascent Soul Cultivators escaped, and they began to denounce the Sun and Moon Palace's disgraceful conduct everywhere.

Some say the Sun and Moon Palace resorted to foul play over the treasures in the anomalous region, while others claim the Sun and Moon Palace didn't want to reward those who brought back the Sect Master's seal, so they simply killed them all.

For a moment, the entire Dongxing Sea Region was thrown into turmoil!

One month passed.

Yan Buji's head broke the sea surface; seeing no living things around, he then slowly rose to mid-air.

"These powers' methods of struggling for authority and profit are really direct."

Yan Buji smiled; it's obvious the Sun and Moon Palace couldn't possibly do such self-destructive wall-building, and anyone with a bit of sense knows this matter probably has nothing to do with the Sun and Moon Palace at all.

And Yan Buji had such speculation because, when he left the anomalous region and returned to the Sun and Moon Palace, he sensed the closure of the Sun and Moon Palace's grand formation, which allowed him to activate the Heaven Gate Law.

Such an obvious anomaly clearly indicates that those who carried out the ambush deliberately let a few survivors leave the Sun and Moon Palace to ensure there were living witnesses.

Therefore, power struggles sometimes don't require overly sophisticated methods.

The Sun and Moon Palace is already in decline, and even its internal members don't know how many traitors there are; after this incident, outsiders' perception of the Sun and Moon Palace will sink to the lowest, which is also an excellent means of effectively striking at its prestige.

It's estimated that not long from now, the entire Dongxing Sea Region will undergo a major transformation.

"From the initial beast tide, then the later Treasure Vault theft, up to now's anomalous region exploration—everything is interconnected; the two sides' strengths are not on the same level, and unless the Sun and Moon Palace goes all-out war with them, it has no chance of turning the tables."

The enemies the Sun and Moon Palace faces are probably not just those major powers and cultivation clans; although the Dongxing Sea Region has abundant resources, it cannot support that many high-level cultivators, and having developed to this point, it's likely reached the stage of redistributing the cake.

What a pity.

He hadn't anticipated this situation earlier; otherwise, choosing to join a faction rather than hiding to cultivate would have also brought him considerable benefits.

However, Yan Buji firmly believes that strength is the foundation of cultivation; without this strength, he probably wouldn't have made it to today.

Still too weak; once my magic power reaches Nascent Soul, both martial arts and the Dao will have stepped onto the immortal path, and I should then be qualified to maneuver among these great powers.

Yan Buji gave a faint smile and flew toward the boundless sea.