Chapter 394: The Sea Tribe’s Profligate Merchant Gets the Clam Pearl

As spring passed and autumn came, many copied jade slips of Zhixiu appeared in the cities of Kunyang Region, Dalin Region and other places. The increasing number of jade slips also brought more monks into contact with Zhixu.

The mountains and forests at the junction of the three realms of Kunyang have now become the Spiritual Plant Mountains in the eyes of low-level monks.

As the name suggests, in this mountainous area within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, there are first-, second-, and occasionally third-level spiritual plants popping up everywhere, attracting more and more monks to hunt for treasures.

Even if you don't follow the path of plant cultivation, the spiritual machines in low-level spiritual plants are more energetic than those in spiritual stones, and they can be used for cultivation to some extent.

Such a situation has also attracted some fourth-order Nascent Soul monks to frequently enter the Spiritual Plant Mountains to see if they can find fourth-order spiritual plants or something.

At the foot of an inconspicuous hill on the edge of the Lingzhi Mountains, there is a dilapidated cave.

The spiritual prison was surrounded by extremely blazing spiritual light. Shen Lian, sitting cross-legged in the center of the cave, was like a huge fireball, exuding a warm aura.

Vaguely, three round balls of fire could be detected on the top of his head and on both sides of his shoulders.

This is a state in which the essence, energy, and spirit are gathered to their peak and perfection.

At this moment, as long as Shen Lian is willing, he can trigger the Divine Tribulation.

After a moment, the three balls of fire on his body were introduced into the body, and Shen Lian's figure disappeared into the cave and entered the meteorite cave.

This God-given benefit, which extends within a 3,600-mile radius, has been transformed into many parts by him.

Medicine garden, treasury, alchemy room, utensil room, fu pavilion, spirit beast garden, etc.

In a corner of the Spirit Beast Garden, in an area of ​​more than ten miles restricted by the formation, two groups of spirit insects were rooted in two directions, colliding and fighting between the groups.

The reproduction speed of bone moths is much slower than that of black horned ants, and their talent and strength are stronger than that of black horned ants. Just relying on their bloodline background, they are still able to overwhelm the black horned ants in this confrontation.

Under the harmony of Dahei, black horned ants are born continuously.

During the confrontation between the two groups, some black horned ants and bone moths came together under the special estrus elixir. Unfortunately, there was no rain and no new life was born.

"Master, give me some medicine and I will give it myself."

Shen Lian checked the situation in the training garden and was not in a hurry. If the bone moth could be tamed successfully, it would be of great use even if he advanced to become a god, or even after he broke through the realm of refining the void in the future.

It is not that easy to mix races with such a strange spiritual pet.

"We'll try to catch some other types of spiritual insect groups."

Anyway, they are all hybrids. There is no difference between two bloodlines or dozens or hundreds of bloodlines mixed together.

No ethnic group in the world of immortality dares to say that their bloodline is pure. No one knows what their ancestors who are quite aesthetically critical have done in the past.

After comforting Dahei, Shen Lian left the cave.

After restraining the aura he had left behind in the Lingzhi Mountains, he began to quietly travel to several regions in the southwest of Yueling Continent, and along the way, he distributed the copied cultivation methods in various cities and fairy cities.

And in the mountains and forests, a batch of low-level spiritual plants were planted, and they also entered the medicinal gardens and spiritual plant gardens of some small forces, helping these small forces cultivate spiritual plants.

It is not yet time for the ferry to arrive, so the one hundred and eight forces on Yueling Continent are still apparently stable.

But here is the Moon Spirit Continent, where monks from all over the world gather together. Different races and different forces, there are always ruthless ones, and the killings can be said to have never stopped for a day.

Shen Lian didn't pay attention to these. He quietly passed through areas and fairy cities, selecting targets one by one and letting them turn into cultivators.

…

In the blink of an eye, ten years later.

To the southeast of Yuelingxiu Immortal Realm.

"We've set sail, fellow Taoists, sit tight."

Relying on the edge of a giant island outside the mainland, a huge whale-like ship flew across the sky. With a slight tremor, the void in all directions was shattered, and the ripples formed slapped the defensive formations on the giant island.

This giant whale-shaped ship should be called the Flying City. It is more than three hundred miles in size. What is strange is that above the whale's head, there is a huge nine-story black tower that is thousands of feet in size.

The black tower is surrounded by purple lines, exuding a strong sense of oppression.

The giant ship flew across the sky, like a small continent moving, and crashed into the vast starry sky.

"The starry sky outside the territory is becoming more and more dangerous. I think that as a great monk in the late Yuanying stage, I can only use giant ships to travel between the major realms of immortality."

In a shared cave, three figures sat cross-legged and sighed.

"Who says it isn't? It's getting harder and harder to cross the void."

…

In another cave.

Shen Lian leaned on the chair and squinted his eyes.

He spent more than ten years traveling through the 108 regions of Yueling Continent, but in the end he failed to obtain the Old Clam Pearl.

Right now, there is only one way to find clam beads, and that is to go to the Hailing Cultivation Immortal Realm, which is the territory of the Hai Clan's cultivation, and some of the water tribe's ethnic groups are also close to the Hai Clan.

Therefore, Shen Lian was ready to go to the Hailingxiu Immortal World to try his luck.

Of course, another important reason is that he will break through to the realm of gods next, and the world of Yueling Cultivation Immortal is not a good place to overcome the tribulation.

He also has to choose a location for his next tribulation.

Seeing that his energy and energy are getting fuller and fuller, there is no point in consuming it any more, so it is better to refine the Haisheng Mingyue Pill as soon as possible and advance to become a god.

Once he advances to the God Transformation stage, the bottleneck that is currently blocking his combat power will be completely broken, and his combat power will be raised again.

If he wanted to try to seize the body again, he could just capture some old God Transformation masters of the same level and force them to do it.

Maybe he couldn't win the heart of his fellow Taoists by forcing them, but at least he could quench his thirst.

There are independent caves on the giant ship, each of which is not big, only a hundred feet in radius, and is equipped with a small alchemy room and a refining room.

Shen Lian naturally doesn't like these things, he is interested in this giant ship that spans the void.

This giant ship belongs to the Tongtian Pavilion, a super power in the world of immortal cultivation, which is as famous as the Exiled Immortal Tower and the Ascension Tower. There are traces of this family behind the scenes of the Eighteen Core Continents.

The grade of the giant ship has reached the fifth grade, especially the black tower, the flashing spiritual ban has reached the fifth grade lower grade.

If you want to go from the Yueling Continent to the Hailing Immortal Cultivation World, you have to pass through seven other immortal cultivation worlds on the way, and this giant ship will stop at every immortal cultivation world.

Half a year later.

"Fellow Daoists, there is a thunder waterfall ahead, please prepare for defense."

Inside the cave, Shen Lian, who was busy refining the Fuyao Wood, was awakened by a sudden voice.

He did not use his divine thoughts, but directly opened the cave door and looked out.

He saw a thunder light like a sky curtain gathered at the end of the void in front of the giant ship, blocking the path in front of the giant ship. The overwhelming thunder light seemed to pour down from the nine layers of Yuantian.

In the thunder light, various thunder beasts appeared, roaring and screaming.

The crackling thunder light soon poured onto the giant ship, and the three hundred miles of the giant ship suddenly became a swaying boat.

A colorful spiritual light formed above the giant ship, wrapping the giant ship in an oval egg.

"The celestial phenomena I encountered in the outer void of Tiannan before were still weaker than this."

At this moment, the giant ship was traveling in the sea of ​​thunder. The cultivators on the ship tried their best to restrain their breath and shrink their necks like quails.

"Oh my God, if this continues, even Yuanyings like us can't leave our respective cultivation continents."

"It's really getting harder and harder. A Yuanying crossing the void was killed by a celestial phenomenon. I didn't dare to imagine that this kind of thing was true before."

...

The wailing of the cultivators did not weaken the thunder in the slightest. After this thunder waterfall chased the giant ship and struck it for three months, an old voice sounded on the spirit ship.

"Fellow Taoists, in view of the lack of defense resources for the spirit ship, please donate generously. Each person in the early stage of Yuanying will donate 300 high-quality spirit stones, and in the middle stage of Yuanying, 1,000..."

This was the first time that Shen Lian encountered a price increase during the boat ride, and he was also amused.

He didn't take the lead, but took out 1,000 spirit stones and handed them to the cultivators who came to the cave to collect spirit stones.

Although he didn't know how many spiritual stones the defensive spirit formation consumed, based on his many years of experience in alchemy, the monks of Tongtian Pavilion on the giant ship definitely did not lose out.

It's just that this work was done too roughly. The correct way should be to cooperate with the Yuanying Great Perfection monks on the giant ship.

Let the Great Perfection monks take the lead and donate 100,000 or 80,000 first, and then rank the monks on the spirit ship from high to low according to their strength.

Finally, the spiritual stones of the Great Perfection monks were returned in full, and the spiritual stones of other monks were divided into 30% and 70%.

The giant ship traveled back and forth, and every trip could harvest a crop of leeks, which was a sure way to get rich.

In short, the defensive formation with spiritual stones became bright again, allowing everyone to see that their spiritual stones were not wasted.

After more than half a month of traveling, the giant ship finally rushed out of the range of the thunder waterfall.

…

“Fellow Daoists, the Blood-Bone Quicksand Region is in crisis, and the restrictions on the spirit ship consume too much. In view of the lack of defensive resources for the spirit ship, please donate generously. Each person in the early stage of the Nascent Soul can donate 300 high-quality spirit stones, and each person in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul can donate 1,000...”

Two years later.

Shen Lian was awakened from silence by the sound of donations again.

Now he understood why other people's work was rough, and it seemed that they simply disdained to use their brains.

How could you ask for convenience and speed just by opening your mouth like this.

You asked for food while standing.

What can you do to me?

Damn.

At this moment, the giant ship was surrounded by a piece of blood-red gravel. The boundless pulling force dragged the spirit ship into the sand pit, and it felt like it was about to be swallowed by the quicksand.

Fortunately, the Sea Spirit Cultivation Realm was about to arrive.

Unlike the marginal cultivation realms, the distance between the cultivation realms in the middle area was not that large. Even if the cultivators in the early stage of the Nascent Soul flew at full speed, it would only take two or three months between the realms.

However, there are too many crises in the void now, which affects the communication between each other, and the cultivators dare not make any boundaries without authorization.

…

In the vast void.

An endless expanse of water covers the void. From a distance, you can see part of the water surface, as if it was cut horizontally, showing a cross-section to the void.

Inside the cross-section, swimming fish, water plants, mud, sand, and reefs are clearly visible.

Below the surging water surface is an undulating seabed, which supports the boundless water on it.

Above the above, there are islands formed by mountains above the water surface.

We have arrived at the Sea Spirit Cultivation World.

This can be said to be the base camp of the sea clan in the entire cultivation world. The deep sea is forbidden for cultivators of other races to force their way in. Most of the foreign cultivators stay on the islands on the edge of the cultivation world to buy spiritual objects unique to the sea clan.

It is not surprising that Shen Lian came here.

Sea Spirit Island.

The place where the sea clan communicates with the outside world.

The sea clan is the only one in power here, and the sea clan royal court is respected. The sea clans in other cultivation worlds also worship the sea clan royal court here.

As soon as he got off the giant ship, he was blocked by two sea clans at the Nascent Soul level with silver scales, and they gave him a small scale.

"You can only stay for one month. If you don't leave for one month, you will bear the consequences!"

"Except for Hailing Island, you will be killed if you enter other places without permission."

The two sea clans at the Nascent Soul level looked up and down at the old cultivator pretending to be the Merit Clone, and their expressions did not meet the respect of higher-level cultivators at all.

The Merit Clone did not care about the two small sea clans. Not to mention a month, even three days would not be enough. As long as he could buy the clam pearls, he could leave immediately.

If he hadn't gained nothing in Yueling Continent, he wouldn't have come to Hailing Cultivation World so tiredly.

After all, the reputation of Hailing Cultivation World is not very good.

Not only are there cultivators doing no-cost business around the Sea Spirit Cultivation World, but even the Sea Clan themselves are shameless.

The shamelessness of the Sea Clan is reflected in the monopoly of resources. Relying on their special Sea Clan spiritual objects, they are almost writing "No beating or scolding of foreign shoppers" on the door.

Of course, this scene not only exists in the Sea Clan, but also in some other races in the Cultivation World that have rare spiritual objects.

Especially now that resources are scarce, this situation has been exacerbated.

Having spiritual stones is nothing, and having special resource channels is the boss.

The Sea Spirit Island is thousands of miles in radius, and there are not many cultivators traveling on the island. Among them, there are many Chamber of Commerce cultivators under the banner of various parties.

The Merit Clone went straight to a silver building on the island.

"Daoyou, what do you want?"

As soon as Shen Lian entered, he met a human cultivator head-on. This cultivator was in the early stage of the Nascent Soul, but there was a slave mark on his forehead.

"Is this your first time to Hailing Island? I am Wu Jiang, the pet of the Sea Clan's Royal Court Master Mo Guo, and I am the steward of Hailing Pavilion."

Wu Jiang did not feel any remorse because he was a slave, and led Shen Lian into a loft.

The talent of human cultivators is not outstanding among all the races in the universe, but the cunning of the human race is very famous among all the races.

Therefore, in many chambers of commerce established by different races, some pets are trained as stewards. Of course, they are just stewards, and the senior management are all cultivators of their own race.

"I wonder what spiritual object Fellow Daoist Hei wants?"

After leading Shen Lian to take a seat, Wu Jiang asked someone to serve spiritual tea.

"Clam pearls."

Shen Lian used the alias Heichi, and was not polite, nor did he want to rescue cultivators of the same race.

"Fourth-grade high-quality spiritual objects."

"Yes."

Wu Jiang nodded, and then changed the subject, saying: "Fourth-grade high-quality spiritual objects are already at the top of the cultivation world, and they will not be easily sold in my Hailing Pavilion."

Shen Lian had thought of this a long time ago.

Before coming, he had inquired about the rumors of the sea clan and was prepared for the idea of ​​bloodletting.

"What conditions are required?"

"You need to become a high-quality honored guest of my Hailing Pavilion. You only need to buy spiritual objects worth one million high-quality spiritual stones in my Hailing Pavilion to upgrade to a high-quality honored guest."

Wu Jiang spoke softly. The sale of fourth-grade medium and high-quality spiritual objects was no longer something he could decide. These things were placed in the sea clan's royal court and were also used to exchange for important spiritual objects.

But there are exceptions to everything. Occasionally, a few high-level Nascent Soul cultivators came to buy. You can't always push customers away when you open the door for business.

So, all the additional conditions came into being.

After hearing the request, the Merit Clone wanted to roll his eyes at Wu Jiang.

You have to know that he killed the farmer spirit master and so many people of the same level, and the high-grade spirit stones he got were only more than 600,000.

Now if he wants to buy clam pearls, he needs to spend one million here now.

It's really possible.

"What about the fourth-level middle-grade clam pearls?"

"You just need to become a middle-grade honored guest. You can upgrade to a middle-grade honored guest by purchasing 300,000 high-grade spirit stones in my Hailing Pavilion."

Wu Jiang spoke softly. Foreign cultivators came thousands of miles to the sea clan's territory to buy clam pearls. Even with the sea clan's stupid brains, they can understand that this is an urgent need.

Clam pearls are the essence of water, with a warm breath and abundant essence. They are generally used to make pills, or to heal wounds or even preserve the body.

It's not that they can't be used for cultivation, but it's mainly because using clam pearls to cultivate is not cost-effective and too wasteful.

The more anxious others are, the more you have to swing the sickle.

Wu Jiang was already familiar with this kind of thing. He had already formed a custom with those foreign chambers of commerce. He was not as easy to take advantage of as the black Daoist in front of him.

"Daoyou can buy the fourth-grade low-grade clam pearls. There are no additional conditions. As long as you have spirit stones, you can buy it."

Wu Jiang said while observing the changes on the face of the Merit Clone, ready to make a decision.

"How many spirit stones are there for a fourth-grade medium-grade clam pearl?"

"Depending on the quality of the clam pearl, it is between 50,000 and 150,000 high-grade spirit stones."

Hearing this, the Merit Clone frowned slightly. This price was a bit expensive.

"Daoyou, where are there clam pearls outside at this time? They are all clam pearls from the sea."

"We are from the treasure pavilion. Can we still cheat you with raw melon beads?"

Seeing that the Merit Clone did not reply, Wu Jiang continued, "Daoyou, we have many channels in the Hailing Pavilion. In addition to spirit stones, we can also use spirit treasures, spirit pills, minerals, etc. to settle accounts."

"Use medium-grade spirit stones to settle accounts."

Wu Jiang smiled and said, "Fellow Taoist, considering that we are all human beings, it is not easy to find a sea spirit to cultivate in the immortal world. Thirty percent of the spiritual items paid for are middle-grade spiritual stones. How can we be of the same race?" "

As he spoke, Wu Jiang stretched out three fingers to make a famous sign.

In fact, it is the mainstream for fourth-level spiritual objects to use mid-grade spiritual stones to pay bills. In front of top-level Yuanying and the ancestors of the gods, high-grade spiritual stones circulate more.

But who wants to meet a member of the same race today?

His master had an extraordinary status in the imperial court, otherwise he would not be able to serve his master as a steward in Hailing Pavilion.

But he is not the only spiritual pet under the master's command. Without achievements, how would he get his status?

Besides, the business here is respected by the Hai Clan. After leaving this attic, other managers of Hai Ling Pavilion cannot accept this business.

"Look at the clam beads first."

The merit clone didn't pay attention to Wu Jiang's little moves. How could he not guess this little thought.

A profiteer.

What a great pet.

"Fellow Taoist, wait a moment."

After burning the incense, Wu Jiang came back with a big shell in his hand.

After the scallop was opened, a crystal clear clam bead the size of a fist, with an interior that looked like a pool of sea water, was placed in front of the merit clone.

The water gleaming from inside the clam bead forms a hazy halo of water around it.

The merit clone picked up the clam beads and sensed them bit by bit.

The quality of clam beads comes from the water-based essence inside. We should first look at the fourth-order mid-grade clam beads to see if we can extract higher-quality essence from the fourth-order high-grade ones.

After some inspections, Shen Lian felt confident.

With his ability, he can completely purify the water essence in the clam beads and synthesize the essence energy that is not weaker than the fourth-order high-grade clam beads.

Buying a fourth-grade high-grade clam bead brings too many equivalents, which is too eye-catching.

"I want three."

Putting the clam beads back into the scallop, the merit clone began to take out the spiritual objects.

He has a lot of blood elixirs, which are enough to pay the bills.

"Fellow Taoist, are you still a blood alchemist?"

Seeing Shen Lian take out so many blood elixirs, Wu Jiang's eyes lit up.

In the box in front of him, the Blood Spirit Pills ranged from the fourth-order low-grade to the fourth-order high-grade, exuding a strong smell of blood.

"Um."

The merit clone breathed out from its nostrils and pushed out the Blood Spirit Pill.

While stroking the Blood Spirit Pill, Wu Jiang looked happy and said, "Fellow Taoist, this transaction is 10% off. This is my maximum authority."

"In addition, the previous resource quota worth 300,000 high-grade spiritual stones can also open up the trading authority for fourth-level spiritual objects to fellow Taoists."

As he spoke, Wu Jiang smiled and said, "Don't be surprised, fellow Taoist, I'm just a handyman. The pavilion stipulates that only when the transaction amount reaches the value of 300,000 high-grade spiritual stones, can the fourth-level mid-grade spiritual objects belonging to the Hai Clan be released. sales authority.”

I have to say that Haizu’s bundle sales are very smooth.

With that said, Wu Jiang took out a jade scale and handed it to Shen Lian.

"Fellow Taoist, please take a look. This is a spiritual object sold by Hailing Pavilion, and there are related requirements."

After the merit clone's spiritual thoughts submerged into the jade scales, his eyes were immediately opened.

First, the Sea Clan's spiritual objects are indeed very rare, and the other is that behind these rare spiritual objects, there are many various purchase conditions attached.

For example, if you want to buy one of the spiritual objects called the fourth-level low-grade sea ribbon, you also need to purchase a batch of third-level spiritual objects.

Almost anything that is somewhat rare and of good quality will be sold in bundles.

"The fourth-grade mid-grade sea spirit coral jade...needs to purchase three pieces of sea meteorite crystals of the same grade."

"The fourth-grade mid-grade moon essence clam bead requires the purchase of five pieces of marine meteorite crystals of the same grade."

…

Ore such as sea meteorite crystal cannot be used to refine weapons. Its main function is to pave the ground for water-attribute monks to gather water spiritual energy.

In one sentence, this thing is tasteless and it would be a pity to throw it away.

"Fellow Taoist, these are the rules on the surface. Since you are a blood alchemist, we can discuss everything easily."

"Rules, aren't they all for outsiders to see?"

Wu Jiang smiled and called out the door, "Come here, serve some good tea."

"Fellow Taoist, let's take a seat."

ps: There is an update today.