novel-bin Chapter 180 Wrong News
Chapter 180 Wrong News
After leaving the outer market of Qingxuan Sect, Shi Chen immediately rushed to the fairy city near the Luantao Sea on Yuanling Continent. The first place he went to was the Youhai Fairy City he had already visited.
Youhai Fairy City has the largest dock for cross-sea flying boats. Compared with other seaside fairy cities, it is easier to receive news and spiritual objects from other continents.
At the auction house, Shi Chen and the manager made their request, leaving behind 10,000 low-grade spirit stones. The deadline was ten years. As long as there was a commission to auction the recipe for the God-Casting Pill, Huang Qi of the Qingxuan Sect would be notified.
For the auction house, one thousand low-grade spirit stones a year is just a drop in the bucket. However, as the manager of the auction house, he also accepts his own income. If there is news about an auction, he just passes on the information.
Then we arrived at the Commission Hall, which was the place where commissions were posted and accepted. Many cultivators who were traveling outside would come here to post and commission tasks. If you met one, you could earn commissions. Most of them were independent cultivators, but there were also quite a few disciples from sects. It could be said that the completion rate of commissions here could reach 90%.
The commission is three thousand low-grade spirit stones, and the reward is for the whereabouts of the recipe for the God-Forging Pill that is lost outside the sect. As long as it is proven to be valid, you can receive different amounts of spirit stones depending on the situation, up to three thousand.
Shi Chen left 30,000 low-grade spirit stones as a reward for valid information on this bounty.
The person to whom the intelligence was notified was still Huang Qi of Qingxuan Sect.
There are many immortal cities along the sea in Yuanling Continent. There are thirteen immortal cities on the shores of Luantao Sea. It takes three months to walk through the immortal cities along the entire coastline. There are also many immortal cities with common teleportation arrays in the middle, which saves half the time.
From north to south, Shi Chen had already spent 600,000 low-grade spirit stones when he came out of the fairy city on the southernmost side of the Chaotic Sea. If he were an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, it would be equivalent to his entire wealth and resources.
For Shi Chen, obtaining spirit stones was easy. A few Infant Transformation Pills could easily fetch tens or even hundreds of millions of spirit stones at auction, while a Gold Yuan Pill would fetch a starting price of over 50,000.
By mastering a skill, you can achieve financial freedom, which is what Shi Chen is doing now.
What he lacked were the advanced elixirs and spiritual objects that had been suppressed and controlled by the sects and aristocratic families.
All that can be done has been done, and all that remains is to wait for news.
While waiting for news, Shi Chen also traveled around the Yuanling Continent. Every time he arrived at a fairy city, he would go to the auction to inquire about the auction items, and go to the secret building to buy various information about the fairy city's territory, specifically about the divine pills and spiritual objects and medicines for advancing to the god stage.
Five years passed quickly, and Shi Chen spent his time searching for spiritual objects and medicines and gathering information.
He found two spiritual objects, only one of which could assist in his advancement to the God Transformation stage, and could only increase the chance by half.
There were quite a lot of spiritual medicines. Shi Chen did not pick many of them below level three because they were not valuable. He did not care about the dozens of spirit stones. He would only stop to pick special spiritual medicines.
Shi Chen has been to most of the immortal cities in Yuanling Continent. The spiritual objects he found were not satisfactory. Compared to Shi Chen who was constantly traveling, it was not worth it.
The spiritual item that increases the chance of being promoted to the God Transformation Realm by half a level is worth 600,000 to 800,000 low-grade spiritual stones at the auction. Shi Chen spent nearly one million low-grade spiritual stones in five years.
It has been seven years since he left the Beast Skin Cave. Calculating the time, he still has two more years to search out of the ten-year deadline. The spirit stones he has spent are about two million. All of these spirit stones can be auctioned for a low-grade God-Forging Pill.
Shi Chen was promoted to the God Transformation Realm, and the lower-grade God-Forging Pill was not what he needed. He had to ensure that he could be promoted to the God Transformation Realm. According to his previous promotion experience, without the best-grade promotion pill, he would be struck to death by the thunder.
In the past two years, Shi Chen has been traveling in the fairy city outside the territory of Qingming Mountain, inquiring about the news of spiritual objects, entering the dangerous peaks under the jurisdiction of Qingming Mountain, picking spiritual herbs, and searching for spiritual objects.
The dangerous peaks of Qingming Mountain are guarded by monster beasts in the fusion stage. Generally, few human cultivators can enter the range of a hundred miles within the dangerous peaks. The cultivation level of monster beasts within a hundred miles of the dangerous peaks is relatively high, and monster beasts in the God Transformation stage and Nascent Soul stage often appear to patrol the territory of the dangerous peaks.
Shi Chen has already entered the dangerous peak within a hundred miles, and through the art of physiognomy, he has transformed himself into a demon beast in the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage.
He got a piece of news in the tavern in the fairy city, that there was a sixth-grade spiritual medicine in a mountain spring fifty or sixty miles away from the twelfth dangerous peak. The cultivator who sold the news only said that he had caught a glimpse of it while fleeing, and it should be the purple-flowered phoenix-leaf lotus.
Shi Chen had no interest in this magical medicine, but the place where it grew was very attractive to Shi Chen.
Purple Flowered Phoenix Leaf Lotus, a sixth-rank spiritual medicine, can be used as the main ingredient in alchemy to restore spiritual consciousness during the fusion period, and can also be refined into an elixir to nourish spiritual consciousness for use during the transformation period.
What Shi Chen was concerned about was the place where it grew, a place with abundant water spiritual energy. If there were patches of purple-flowered phoenix-leaf lotus next to a branch of the water spiritual vein, Shi Chen could be sure that there would be a water spiritual vein in that area.
It was very close to the dangerous peak, but it was worth the risk. Even if a Fusion Stage demon beast emerged, he would be able to escape. Obtaining the Water Spiritual Vein would accelerate his cultivation.
One thousand low-grade spirit stones only bought part of the information. The general direction was about fifty or sixty miles away from the dangerous peak, by a lake, with three low mountains nearby.
The price of the purple-flowered phoenix-leaf lotus is 10,000 low-grade spirit stones. The information fee of 1,000 low-grade spirit stones is indeed a bit expensive, but Shi Chen doesn't mind. What he cares about is how many people buy this information.
He was the third person to buy from him.
Regardless of whether the two people who bought the news before him went to look for it, he would rush to look for it as soon as possible.
The round trip time is about one month, and the search takes a lot of time. Then you have to rush back to Qingxuan Sect. The agreed time is only more than two years. You have to fly back slowly in the flying boat by yourself, which takes a year. You have to reserve enough time to reach Qingxuan Sect.
Along the way, he captured more than a dozen Jindan monsters as his subordinates. Shi Chen led a group of monsters towards the dangerous peak. When they reached the target dangerous peak about fifty or sixty miles away, Shi Chen camped on a small hillside.
Every day he dispatched his monsters to patrol the area within thirty miles, and recorded and described the environment, terrain, and topography clearly.
There was no similar place within a radius of thirty miles, so the patrol range was expanded to fifty miles.
In ten days, the monsters under his command turned the map of the nearby mountains and islands within a radius of fifty miles into a large sand table, clearly marking where the mountains, trees, rivers, and lakes were.
Within a radius of fifty miles, there are three large lakes, two rivers, five streams, and eleven pools.
Since it is an aquatic elixir, it must grow where there is water, so Shi Chen focused on checking places with water.
Fifteen days passed, and he had been to every lake and pool, and had carefully searched everywhere in the lake, but he found no trace of the purple-flowered phoenix leaf lotus.
We also went upstream along the rivers and streams, but found nothing.
Shi Chen suspected that there must be something wrong with the sales information. The direction and distance described were correct. There was no such place within a radius of fifty miles. The lake was surrounded by three low mountains.