Chapter 75 Purple Scale Armor
After everyone had introduced themselves, Xuan Ye said.
"This trip to the ancient battlefield is full of dangers. Before we set off, I hope everyone can be honest and tell us what their goals are. If everyone's goals do not conflict, it would be the best. If there are conflicts, then we may have to form a new team."
Xuan Ye meant that if the five people had no conflict of interest, they could naturally go hand in hand. If the treasures they were looking for were the same and the number of treasures was limited, conflicts would definitely occur.
Obviously, Xuan Ye had a lot of experience in team exploration. He acted very cautiously and wanted to avoid conflicts as much as possible.
Xuan Ye added, "To show my sincerity, I'll say it first. I went to the underground cave of the ancient battlefield for the snake scale fruit."
Snake scale fruit is a spiritual fruit with a skin like snake scales. When taken for the first time, it has the effect of helping cultivators in the Qi training period break through the bottleneck, but taking it again has no effect.
Xuan Ye went deep into the ancient battlefield for the snake scale fruit. It seems that he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation and may have been stuck in this bottleneck for a long time.
Xuan Ye continued, "There are quite a few snake scale fruits in the underground caves. If any fellow Taoist needs them, you can cooperate with me to get the fruits, and then we will share the snake scale fruits equally."
The underground caves in the ancient battlefield are connected in all directions, with many forks.
Their team is just a temporary team, and they don't have to risk their lives for the sake of others' goals. After arriving at the underground caves, if everyone's goals are inconsistent, they may go their separate ways at any time.
This is also why Song Wen wants to find someone to team up with. There are too many forks in the underground caves, and it is dark and there is no reference. If there is no one familiar with the terrain to lead the way, it is easy to get lost in the intricate caves with only a simple map from the black market.
The place where the snake scale fruit grows must be guarded by a large number of snake monsters, and it is not easy to pick the snake scale fruit.
Therefore, Xuan Ye hopes that after arriving at the underground caves, someone will go with him to get the snake scale fruit and share the risk.
Niu Ding said in a muffled voice, "I am only here to retrieve my elder brother's body. According to the survivors who traveled with my elder brother, my elder brother died not far from the snake cave. Xuan Ye, we can travel together then."
Xuan Ye's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Okay."
Song Wen looked at Niu Ding with some surprise. If what he said was true, he was a person he could make friends with.
He was willing to risk his life to retrieve his elder brother's body, so he should not be a treacherous and evil person.
I just don't know how true or false his words are. Is he really here to retrieve his elder brother's body, or for some treasure on the body?
"I am here for the empty cicada wood."
Song Wen stated the purpose of this trip without any concealment. The main reason was that there was no need to cover it up. Many people knew that there was the empty cicada wood in the underground cave of the ancient battlefield.
Xuan Ye took over the conversation and said.
"The Kongchan wood is deep in the cave, and it's quite dangerous. I'm afraid it's hard to get."
Song Wen nodded and said, "Thank you for your reminder."
At this time, Lao Chun said.
"The purpose of my sister and I's trip is to get a Forsythia suspensa. My master, that is, my sister's father, has been poisoned by the copper corpse, and he urgently needs Forsythia suspensa to detoxify."
The copper corpse is a zombie comparable to a cultivator in the foundation-building stage.
Hearing this, Xuan Ye looked a little hesitant, "The Forsythia suspensa grows deeper than the Kongchan wood, and it's too dangerous. Even if the five of us go together, I'm afraid it will be difficult to arrive safely."
Xuan Ye's words clearly meant that the place where Forsythia suspensa grows is too dangerous, and you brothers and sisters should go there by yourselves when the time comes, and don't think about asking others to help.
Zi Yi, who had never spoken, said in a cold voice, "If any fellow Taoist is willing to help, I am willing to pay 500 spirit stones per person as a reward, regardless of whether it succeeds or not. If it succeeds, I will add another 500 spirit stones."
As soon as this was said, the other people looked at him sideways.
Not counting Lao Chun, there are three people here. If they are all willing to go, Zi Yi will have to pay 1500 spirit stones. If they succeed in obtaining Lian Qiao Huang, they will have to pay a total of 3000 spirit stones.
3000 spirit stones are enough to buy a Lian Qiao Huang.
Perhaps he understood the doubts of the three people, and Zi Yi explained.
"My father is very poisoned and urgently needs to take Lian Qiao Huang. There is no Lian Qiao Huang for sale in the market for the time being, so we have to take the risk to go."
After hearing this, the three nodded in agreement.
Especially Song Wen, he was in a similar situation.
He did not lack spirit stones to buy Kong Chan Mu. If there was enough time, he could post a task in the black market and buy Kong Chan Mu at a high price.
There must be a brave man under a big reward.
However, time waits for no one, so he had to choose to take the risk.
Just because Zi Yi revealed that she had a lot of spiritual stones on her, wasn't she afraid that someone would have bad intentions and kill people on the way? Or did she rely on something and was not afraid of the other three? Or maybe she didn't have enough spiritual stones on her at all, and was just trying to trick the three into taking risks for her.
"Since everyone's goals are different and do not conflict with each other, let's hurry up and set off immediately."
Zi Yi stared at Song Wen with her beautiful eyes, urging him to get on the road as soon as possible.
Among the few people, only Song Wen had a flying boat. If they wanted to set off, they naturally had to get Song Wen's consent.
Song Wen's cultivation was at the bottom among the few people. They agreed to Song Wen joining their team because they were attracted by Song Wen's flying boat.
With a flying boat, the time of traveling and the risk of crossing the ancient battlefield can be greatly shortened.
Song Wen, who had been preparing for this trip for many days, nodded.
"I can set off at any time."
Song Wen knew that this trip to the ancient battlefield was extremely risky. Not only was the ancient battlefield itself full of dangers, but there were also many robbers who killed people and robbed treasures in the ancient battlefield, including several people in the team who might turn against him at any time.
For this reason, he spent spirit stones like water to buy various life-saving items.
After all, the greatest tragedy of a person is that the person is gone, but the spirit stones have not been spent.
He wore a soft armor of the upper-grade magic weapon level. For this rare close-fitting defense magic weapon, Song Wen spent a full 1,800 spirit stones. This price can almost buy two or three attack magic weapons of the same level.
Song Wen's current magic power is still weak, not enough to activate this soft armor for a long time, but when facing a crisis, he can still barely activate it for a short time.
Moreover, this soft armor called "Purple Scale Armor" is different from the ghost head shield. The ghost head shield can only exert its defensive power when the spiritual power is activated. Even if the purple scale armor is not activated by spiritual power, it has a certain defensive power.
In addition, he also bought five first-class defensive talismans, the ‘Vajra Talisman’.
With his ‘experienced’ stage of cultivating the ‘Ten Thousand Poisons Mixed Body’ and the strong body of cultivating the ‘Corpse King Blood Refining Technique’, he was confident that he could safely take on the full force of a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi training.
In terms of attack, he bought a mid-grade magic weapon, the Soul-Breaking Cone.
The mother-and-child poison needles were also infected with the highly toxic ‘Fire Burning the Sky’.
Under the full cultivation of the past two months, the number of black-bellied beetle Gu has grown to more than 60. In order to feed such a large number of black-bellied beetle Gu, he has to consume nearly 100 spirit stones every day.
What disappointed him a little was that in the past year or so, the beetle Gu has not produced any new mutant individuals, and has not been able to evolve into a stronger beetle Gu.
But there are nine beetle Gu, which have slowly grown to the strength of the fifth level of Qi training after more than a year of cultivation.