Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 428

[Chapter 427 Three Treasures (Congratulations to the Silver Alliance)]

Fang Xi carefully looked at the old man’s stall and found that most of it contained some strange bamboo tubes, gold and jade boxes.

There was a sound similar to the chirping of insects coming faintly from the bamboo tube.

Gu cultivation is different from insect cultivation. Insect cultivation can only be regarded as a small branch of the art of taming beasts. It is good at cultivating and driving various spiritual insects.

However, Gu practitioners use secret methods to refine various kinds of “Gu”, which are said to have all kinds of incredible uses.

According to Fang Xi’s understanding, insect cultivators are considered masters of breeding, while poison cultivators have reached the level of biochemical transformation.

“I’m not busy… Can you tell me what kind of poison you have in your stall?”

Fang Xi became interested and started chatting with the old Gu cultivator.

“These Gu insects come in many different types depending on the secret method… but they can generally be divided into four categories based on their grade – Heaven, Earth, Black and Yellow!”

The old Gu cultivator smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and spoke eloquently, “Most Gu cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage can only sacrifice and refine ‘Yellow’ grade Gu worms, which can also replace the functions of some minor spells, such as the ‘Wind Controlling Gu’, which can control the wind after being refined. The casting speed is even faster than those who pinch their fingers and chant spells… Those who can sacrifice and refine ‘Xuan’ grade spiritual Gu are already the elites among Gu cultivators. As for the Earth grade Gu worm? I have only seen it once… And the ‘Heaven’ grade Gu worm is probably rarer than the old monster of the Nascent Soul stage. It is said that its power can rival that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.”

“I see……”

Fang Xi looked around the stalls briefly, but had no interest in the low-level “Sleepy Gu” and “Golden Toad Gu”.

Instead, he picked up a book called “Essentials of Gu Cultivation” written on bamboo slips, flipped through it, and began to read it with great interest.

This compendium did not contain any secret techniques of Gu cultivation or methods of refining any kind of Gu insects, but it did record the experiences of a certain Gu cultivator, which greatly broadened his horizons.

“The way of Gu cultivation is to let the strong prey on the weak… Hide different insects in the altar of the magic instrument, and use secret methods to cultivate them, so that they can devour each other. The winner is the ‘Gu’!”

“There are tens of millions of Gu insects, but the strongest one is the ‘Golden Silkworm Gu’!”

“If this Gu worm is cultivated to the ‘Earth’ level, it can be upgraded to the Hundred Poisons Gu, and then used as the raw material for Gu cultivation magic weapons. Whether it is the ‘Hundred Poisons God Banner’ or the ‘Golden Silkworm Sword’… they all have their own unique uses and should be top-level magic weapons.”

“It is rumored that the Heaven-level Gu worm has even greater magical powers. If it has already been refined into a life-defining Gu worm and has telepathic connection, it can even be used as a carrier for cultivators to practice the second Nascent Soul secret technique…”

Fang Xi was very satisfied with what he saw. He threw down a few medium-grade spirit stones, bought the book, and continued shopping.

“Who said that immortal cultivators can’t pick up leaks…”

“Now that I am in Tianwei City, there are bargains everywhere… Just buy a few spiritual herbs and spiritual tools… and you can at least double the profit when you return to the Southern Wilds…”

“But is the profit from this as high as that from the Aoba Chamber of Commerce’s treasury? Not at all…”

After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, Fang Xi no longer cared about this small flaw, which was quite regrettable.

His wish to pick up something he had when he was still refining Qi will probably never be realized.

“Huh?”

At this time, he came to a stall selling jade slips and martial arts techniques, and looked at the several rolls of animal skins and fragments in the corner, feeling a little surprised.

Fang Xi picked up a roll of animal skin and saw a very strange symbol written on it in a dark green handwriting.

This should be a written symbol, which he had never seen in any ancient book on the world of immortal cultivation.

But vaguely, it is quite similar to the void rune he comprehended, and there is probably some connection between them.

“Fellow Daoist, do you also like this evil writing?”

The man setting up the stall was a Jindan cultivator in white clothes, holding an ancient book in his hand. He smiled upon seeing this.

“Demon text?”

Fang Xi looked at the dark green characters on the animal skin: “These are actually the characters of the demon race?!”

“That’s right… I like reading and studying ancient Chinese literature. I am also quite interested in this kind of weird literature, but it’s hard to get started…”

The white-robed Jindan cultivator said, “This is because only high-level demon cultivators can carry this kind of demon text, and after fierce battles, most of the spoils are damaged… More importantly, most of the demon cultivation techniques and secrets are inaccessible to us humans, just like the demons are unable to learn many of the human cultivation techniques and secrets… Therefore, no cultivators are interested in studying it. Perhaps, only those Yuanying-stage monsters have so much time and energy to decipher the demon texts one by one…”

Fang Xi looked carefully and found that many of the evil writings he was selling were indeed incomplete.

Some of them even appeared directly on the metal fragments. It was unknown what kind of tripod or defense magic weapon they were…

In the end, he took out a few high-quality spirit stones and bought all the demon writings on the stall.

“This fellow Taoist is truly a fellow Taoist. My name is Zeng Wanshu. I can sell these demonic texts at half price. If you can let me know when you have deciphered one or two of them in the future, I will be very grateful.”

Zeng Wanshu bowed to the ground and said sincerely.

Judging from the way he couldn’t put the book down, he must be a book lover.

“I’ll pay the full price… I like traveling around the world, but I don’t want to owe you a favor…”

Fang Xi laughed, insisted on paying the full price, took the animal skin with the demonic writing and the fragments of the golden tripod, and left in style.

Zeng Wanshu looked at Fang Xi’s back as he left, but he touched his chin thoughtfully, with a shrewd look on his face: “Hehe… I didn’t expect that there are people who want these rubbish, and I even sold them for five high-quality spirit stones. I made a profit… Pretending to be a book lover can really win the favor of many fellow readers.”

He picked up the scroll in his hand and pretended to read it. He then took out a few volumes of demonic books from his storage bag and threw them in the corner of the stall…

…

“Battle Merit List!”

After casually browsing the street stalls, Fang Xi came to the battle merit list.

The first thing I saw was the number one spiritual item for forming infants on the exchange list – the ‘Infant Transformation Pill’!
This pill was made in imitation of the ancient ‘Infant Condensation Pill’, but due to the lack of several key spiritual medicines, its efficacy was only 20% to 30% of the original.

Even so, in the Western Desert immortal cultivation world, it took hundreds of years of combined strength from the eight Nascent Soul sects to barely gather enough materials for one furnace.

Fang Xi looked at the required military merits and curled his lips: “It feels like I need to kill a few transformed demon cultivators to get enough. What a pitfall…”

He looked down and immediately saw some good rewards.

After another round of searching, I found what I wanted in a more conspicuous place:

“The Demon-Slaying Sword, the Ten Thousand Demons Banner, the Demon-Revealing Mirror… these three magical weapons are collectively known as the ‘Three Treasures for Killing Demons’. The method for refining imitations of magical weapons and spiritual weapons is quite cheap. Even if the method for refining the authentic ones is used, it is barely enough to kill a few third-level monsters.”

Fang Xi glanced at the battle merit list again and came to a registration desk.

“Senior, do you want to accept the mission?”

The person in charge of registration was a foundation-building cultivator who always held a magic mirror in his hand. When he saw Fang Xi coming, his expression immediately became more respectful.

“Well, let’s go through the formalities. I need to go out of town to hunt monsters.”

Fang Xi threw out his yellow token.

Most of the independent cultivators don’t like to be restricted on the city walls. Even if they have higher combat achievements, most of them choose to go out of the city alone or form a team to kill monsters.

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“I understand, junior… May I ask your name, senior?”

“Master Mu!”

The foundation-building man quickly registered: “Senior’s token authority has been updated. You can use the teleportation array once to go back and forth to the monster area. Please keep this photo stone as a proof of your military achievement… If it is lost or damaged, the key materials of the monster can also serve as proof.”

Fang Xi nodded to show that he understood, and then came to the other half of the city.

As soon as he entered, he saw teams of law enforcement teams composed of high-level monks flying through the sky.

If one practices the art of spiritual vision, one can even see the various magical lights flashing constantly on the top of the city wall not far away.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, as if they had entered a war zone!
At this time, a group of monks passed by and glanced at Fang Xi.

But the yellow token on his waist emitted a hazy yellow glow, as if confirming his identity.

The team of monks was led by an aloof female monk. After a slight nod, she showed no intention of talking and just passed by them.

Fang Xi followed the map and soon arrived at a heavily guarded hall.

A hidden divine sense swept over him instantly.

“There is an old Yuanying monster in charge, but it is only in the early stage…”

He pretended to know nothing and walked into the hall.

Boom!
Pillars of lightning rose from the sky to the ground, as if supporting the entire palace.

And under the lightning, there are small teleportation arrays.

“Short-distance teleportation array!”

Fang Xi’s eyes lit up slightly. Now he could also set up this formation. He wanted to take a good look at the skills of his colleagues in Ximo.

“Is this fellow Taoist also planning to go out of the city to hunt monsters?”

A rough and sturdy man in the late Jindan stage immediately stepped forward and invited him: “I am You Tianhao, how about forming a team?”

“Sorry, I like to be alone.”

Fang Xi flatly refused, regardless of how ugly the man’s expression was. He came to a teleportation array, showed his token, and stood on it.

“This teleportation is a random one. You will land anywhere in an area. We have already investigated that area and found that the monsters rarely appear there.”

“I wish you a great victory!”

The monk in charge of the transmission congratulated with a solemn expression and cast a spell.

Flashing silver light.

The world changes instantly!

“The discomfort of this short-distance teleportation array is much less than that of the ancient teleportation array.”

Fang Xi looked at the brilliant formation in the sky and the grassland on the ground, thinking secretly.

At this moment, a jackal-like third-level monster was passing by not far away. Its body was as big as a mountain, and flames were wrapped around its body.

Seeing Fang Xi, he immediately pounced on him!
“Does this count as a low frequency of monster appearances?”

Fang Xi was speechless and spurted out a jet of black flame from his mouth.

When the fiery jackal saw that Fang Xi’s magic power fluctuations were only at the stage of forming a pill, it roared wildly and spewed out a stream of red flames from its mouth.

But as the pitch-black flames appeared, the red flames were instantly burned by the black flames.

Then… it followed the connection between the flames and fell on the flaming jackal.

Swish!

The black flames instantly swept over the monster’s body, turning it into a pile of ashes before it could even let out a howl!
(End of this chapter)