A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 119

Chapter 118 This sucker, let him be the sucker.

. Entering the cave.

This was actually an independent mountain peak,

branching off from the main peak of the Holy Mountain, over two hundred zhang high.

Between this mountain and the main peak lay a lake stretching for several miles, and two valleys perpetually shrouded in mist.

After Han Li stepped into the cave he had rented, he spread his hand, and a set of array plates and flags appeared.

It was naturally the Inverted Five Elements Array.

However, it wasn’t the 70% version, but only the 10% version.

Using the best version would be counterproductive.

Moreover, he rented the cave only to facilitate the cultivation of his spirit beasts and to house Qu Hun and Mo Jiao Xiao Liu; he didn’t plan to form his core here for the time being.

Xiao Liu couldn’t be kept with him for long.

Once they went to the outer sea, the aura of the dragons would attract the attention of the dragon clan. If the dragon clan accidentally discovered that he had contracted with Mo Jiao Xiao Liu and treated it as a spirit beast, then he would be in big trouble.

Regardless of whether Xiao Liu was born in the Chaotic Star Sea, in the Chaotic Star Sea, dragons are not allowed to be contracted and enslaved as spirit beasts or pets by human cultivators.

Otherwise, the dragon race will cause trouble.

Even the Star Palace only used the corpses of a few high-level dragons to build a war chariot.

Therefore, temporarily placing Xiao Liu in the Sacred Mountain of Tianxing City is a good choice.

A 10% complete Reversed Five Elements Array is enough to isolate Xiao Liu’s aura.

This century-old cave dwelling not only has a main hall, master bedroom, and secondary bedrooms, but also an alchemy room, study, weapon forging room, etc., as well as a medicinal field that has already been cultivated.

However, the medicinal field is completely barren, with nothing left by the previous cave dwelling owner.

Han Li thought for a moment, and then transplanted the roots of some forbidden spiritual herbs into several spiritual fields rich in spiritual energy. He

didn’t expect them all to survive, nor did he need them to be perfect.

As long as one or two percent of them sprouted new shoots, he would make a huge profit.

After quickly arranging his cave dwelling, Han Li used his escape light to travel alone to the nearby Tianxing City market area.

He needed to buy many things.

Entering a pharmacy, Han Li bought several dozen inexpensive pill formulas for a few spirit stones.

In Tiannan, pill formulas were priceless treasures.

But in the Chaotic Star Sea, various pill formulas using demon cores and spirit herbs were like cheap street vendor goods, readily available and worthless.

For example, each pharmacy had at least forty or fifty different formulas for Foundation Establishment Pills.

They were commonplace.

Moreover, here, materials from level three or four demon beasts used to refine rare top-grade magic weapons or even supreme-grade magic weapons could be easily obtained for only a few dozen to a couple hundred spirit stones. Such materials were in oversupply in Tianxing City and throughout the entire Chaotic Star Sea.

Like various pill formulas, materials from low- to mid-grade demon beasts were also readily available.

The only things worth spirit stones were the demon cores of high-grade demon beasts, costing

one or two thousand spirit stones each.

Slightly less valuable are the spiritual materials from high-level demonic beasts that can be used to refine magical artifacts.

Materials from level five demonic beasts can usually be obtained for five or six hundred low-grade spirit stones per batch. The main selling point is high quality

at a low price.

In Tiannan, materials from level two, three, or four demonic beasts would be auctioned off.

But in the Chaotic Star Sea, they’re just ordinary shops displaying junk to sell to Qi Refining and early Foundation Establishment cultivators. The truly valuable items are top -grade magical artifacts crafted from materials from high-level demonic beasts.

Items that can be auctioned at even slightly prestigious auctions must be high-level demonic cores.

Ordinary level five demonic beast cores are not considered valuable here.

Only level five demonic cores with special bloodlines, or inner cores from level six or seven demonic beasts, are acceptable.

This is one of the main reasons why the Core Formation and Nascent Soul stages in the Chaotic Star Sea are generally stronger than those in Tiannan.

For example, Wei Wuyai and Zhiyang Shangren, two of the three great cultivators of Tiannan.

One was overjoyed by the scales of the level 8 poisonous dragon.

The other’s eyes lit up at the tortoise shell left behind by the level 8 tortoise demon after its transformation tribulation.

Those two were powerful cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage.

Compared to the four powerful Nascent Soul cultivators of the Chaotic Star Sea,

none of them would be tempted by materials from a mere level 8 transformed demon beast, let alone level 9 ones.

If the three Nascent Soul cultivators of Tiannan were sent to the Chaotic Star Sea to fight the four Nascent Soul cultivators one-on-one, the three from Tiannan would definitely suffer a defeat. They might even be defeated head-on by the Six Paths Supreme Saint and Ling Xiaofeng, leaving not even bone fragments behind.

Tiannan: vast land, not abundant in resources, but rich in spirit stones and people.

The mere Jiayuan City has more than three million people.

And there are at least ten such large cities in Yue Kingdom, and at least two or three thousand in the entire Tiannan. And there are many more.

Small cities with populations ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands are scattered throughout Tiannan, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Now let’s

look at the Chaotic Star Sea.

The Chaotic Star Sea, though vast and teeming with countless demonic beasts and a considerable proportion of cultivators

, is small in size. The living space for mortals is limited, resulting in a very small total population.

Take Kui Xing Island, one of the twenty-four outer star islands, for example. Despite being only two or three hundred miles wide, its population is likely less than five million.

This is the reason why the human race in the Chaotic Star Sea has failed to develop over tens of thousands of years.

“If I were the master of the Star Palace, I would certainly find ways to reclaim land from the sea, creating more space suitable for mortals to live in. Or perhaps, I could utilize the ancient teleportation array to allow more mortals to live peacefully on the mainland, and attract more cultivators aspiring to climb the ranks to the Chaotic Star Sea for trials and tribulations,”

Han Li thought to himself.

The Star Palace’s failure to unify the Chaotic Star Sea is undoubtedly due to the indecisiveness of its rulers throughout history.

He dared not claim his vision was exceptionally high, but he would certainly not close the country off.

Of course.

Perhaps being the Lord of the Star Palace isn’t so easy.

There are unknown limitations and other unseen aspects.

Perhaps isolation would be more beneficial for the Star Palace’s survival?

“Shopkeeper, do you have any pills that can enhance the power of a Core Formation cultivator?”

Han Li asked casually.

The middle-aged shopkeeper, upon being asked, smiled politely:

“Senior, pills effective against Core Formation experts are highly sought after. They’re usually pre-ordered as soon as they appear. If you need pills to help enhance your Core Formation cultivation, you’ll have to visit the various auction houses in the Holy City. Or you could bid on demon cores and then refine them yourself…”

Auction houses?

That makes sense.

Han Li nodded slightly.

His idea was simple.

He would bid on and stockpile Core Formation cultivation resources decades in advance, so that once his main body entered the Core Formation stage, he wouldn’t have to frantically search for pills to enhance his cultivation for a short period.

Hunting demons in the outer sea?

He didn’t need that.

He had over 30,000 mid-grade spirit stones and hundreds of thousands of low-grade spirit stones in his high-level storage bag, so why take the risk?

He bought some useful pill formulas and three Foundation Establishment Pills, and then went to the shop next door to buy a few decent-looking rare and top-grade magic artifacts. The total amount of spirit stones he spent was only one or two thousand. This level of spending was nothing unusual for someone at the Pseudo-Core Formation stage like him.

Turning his head,

he went to an auction house in this area.

He saw the auction for high-grade demon cores.

Upon seeing the auction list, he immediately perked up.

Without waiting for the auction to start, he returned to his cave and brought his Demon Core clone.

Speaking of which

, the auction houses in Tianxing City do business in such a casual way, unlike the broken rule in Tiannan where you have to close the doors and wait for the auction to end before you can leave.

Here,

no matter what you bid on, no matter whether you actually won the bid or not, you can pay and receive the goods and leave the auction house immediately.

You can even turn back at any time, join the auction midway, and so on.

Perhaps this is what an auction house should be like.

Of course.

Only in Tianxing City is it like this.

Such a good atmosphere exists only in Tianxing City, where the Star Palace is rooted, and only in the auction houses within the city.

Sure enough, when he entered that auction house again, the demon beast inner core he wanted had not yet been officially auctioned. And he could come and go as he pleased, without anyone stopping him.

“…”

Half an hour later.

Han Li, wearing a Thousand Illusion Sect cultivator’s mask to conceal his face, arrived with his Fiend Core clone.

The Thousand Illusion Sect mask was similar in function to the veil Gan Rushuang wore before entering the Blood Forbidden Land. And like the veil worn by Zi Ling in the original trajectory, it was all for the purpose of concealing the face.

Since it did not conceal cultivation level or figure, and was only a magic weapon, it was not so eye-catching.

Moreover, in the cultivation world, there are many cultivators who do not want others to see their faces. In this auction house where thousands of people gathered, at least a hundred people wore various masks and veils.

Especially those with ordinary appearances.

“A level-five crested dragon’s inner core, starting bid four thousand spirit stones. Each bid must be at least one hundred spirit stones higher…”

At the auction, the auctioneer displayed a high-level demon beast’s inner core within a circle of light, vividly enticing the cultivators present to bid.

“Only four thousand spirit stones as the starting bid?”

In a private room, Han Li’s eyes lit up.

In his view, this was practically a windfall.

He was getting a free bargain!

But from a nearby private room, a mocking voice rang out:

“Just a level-five crested dragon’s inner core, and the starting bid is a whopping four thousand spirit stones? Why doesn’t the April Merchant Guild just rob them?”

Han Li: “…”

So, he was the sucker himself?

Fine.

He’d take the sucker role:

“Four thousand one hundred spirit stones,”

his Demon Core clone spoke.

Next door: “…”

Is this guy an idiot?

Could he be a shill hired by the April Merchant Guild?

Damn it, it’s these bastards who are driving up prices, causing the demon core prices in the Star Sea to be generally high lately.

Ten or twenty years ago, this kind of demon core would have fetched a maximum of 3,500 spirit stones.

“4,100 spirit stones once… twice… three times! Sold!”

“Congratulations to this senior for winning a precious level-five rooster-crested dragon inner core!”

The auctioneer excitedly stirred the atmosphere.

However, a group of cultivators in the auction hall remained unmoved.

They looked at the private room where Han Li and his demon core clone were, their expressions like those of someone looking at a rich man’s foolish son.

On the Chaotic Star Sea side, excluding the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light, the order was: Ling Xiaofeng > Six Paths Extreme Saint > Wan Sangu > Wen Qing.

The three great cultivators of Tiannan were on par with Wan Sangu and Wen Qing, weaker than Six Paths Extreme Saint and Ling Xiaofeng.

(End of Chapter)