The Great Wild God - Chapter 86

Chapter 86 Huayang Square
The center of Azure Water City is the Dragon Binding Mountain in the northern city. Outside the Dragon Binding Mountain, there are several small hills in the city, which are occupied by the various prefectures and large sects.

The Su Wu Commandant’s Manor occupied the Elephant Mountain in the northern city. Although it was only three to four hundred meters tall, the shape of the mountain was like a wild elephant lying on its back. After hundreds of years of operation, the mountain was engraved with countless profound talisman formations. The spiritual energy gathered there was no weaker than that of the other eight manors.

Disciple Academy, Guest Qing Academy, Su Qi Camp, and other large and small buildings attached to Su Wu Wei’s Manor were distributed along the foothills of Elephant Mountain.

Most of the guest ministers either had important matters to attend to or stayed in their residences to concentrate on their cultivation. In the guest ministers’ courtyard at the southern foot of the Elephant Mountain, apart from the deacons who had duties, there were only a few servants wandering around in the large courtyard. It was quite deserted.

Apart from the guests from the Academy, there were only forty to fifty guests recruited from other sources by the Su Wu Commandant’s Manor.

These forty to fifty people either came from a wealthy family, or were truly wandering from Yunzhou to Canglan, borrowing the big tree of the Su Clan to stay as strong loose cultivators. There were not a few experts in the Reincarnation Realm, and the vast majority of the others had the strength of peak True Yang Realm ninth layer.

Occasionally, there would be people with low cultivation who would also possess exceptional skills that could be used by the Su Clan and the Su Martial Commandant’s Manor.

Chen Xun was only at the seventh level of the Azure Yang Realm, and he was so young, so he directly entered the guest courtyard and carefully examined the history of the Su Wu Commandant’s Manor. It seemed like it was also unique.

However, the matter of the introductory ceremony had already caused a ruckus in Azure Water City, and everyone in the Su Wu Commandant’s Mansion knew Chen Xun.

Ge Yi brought Chen Xun in and said that it was Master Thirteen’s instructions. The deacon who handled the affairs had a calm expression as he helped Chen Xun complete all the formalities.

The two guest robes were both black, embroidered with the logo of Commandant Su Wu’s mansion, and one to three golden ribbons were embroidered on the sleeves, indicating the status of low-level, intermediate-level, and high-level guest ministers.

The Guest Qing Seal was similar to the Iron Trial Token. After the blood sacrifice, Chen Xun sensed that apart from his soul aura, there seemed to be an extremely weak aura within the Guest Qing Seal’s light cocoon. He thought to himself, Perhaps this was a secret technique that the Su Clan had mastered the Guest Qing.

“Everyone usually specializes in cultivation and rarely appears. Many people don’t know each other, so in the Guest Council, everyone recognizes seals and doesn’t recognize people.” The deacon in charge of registering and naturalizing, surnamed Jin, solemnly warned Chen Xun, “If the Guest Council seals are lost or robbed, you must return to the Martial Lieutenant Su’s Manor in time to have your true body re-examined.” Otherwise, any pills or magical artifacts that others borrow from the warehouse will have to be counted on your head. “Furthermore, the guest lord of the Su Wu Commandant’s Mansion has a very famous reputation. Taking this guest lord’s seal to the city square and borrowing over a thousand talismans worth of medicinal pills is not difficult …”

“Thank you for reminding me, Master Jin.” Chen Xun thanked him.

Rogue cultivators had extremely limited cultivation resources. After becoming guest ministers, they would receive only five Origin Gathering Pills per month. If they wanted to obtain more, they could take on missions from time to time and obtain rewards from the guest ministries.

Some tasks were arduous and dangerous. Even if a rogue cultivator could gather a group of people, it would be extremely difficult to complete them. However, they could borrow some pills, profound weapons, precious armor, and magical artifacts from the warehouse. They could only return them after completing the tasks.

This was one of the benefits of being a guest minister of the various prefectures.

Chen Xun had a deep understanding of this. The Vajra Profound Armor and Frost Sword, these two unfashionable talismans, had more than doubled his strength.

However, Chen Xun was more concerned about where the Guest Council could exchange cultivation resources.

“This catalogue records all the resources that can be exchanged for rewards after completing the assignment.” Deacon Jin took out a thick pile of books and placed them on a long table made of golden nanmu wood, letting Chen Xun flip through them. “Of course, if you have any extra magic tools or pills, you can also exchange them for them …”

Chen Xun listened to Deacon Jin’s introduction and flipped through the book. As a guest, he saw that the resources he could obtain from the Su Clan were truly dazzling. There were Profound Armament Treasure Armor, various Profound Magic Artifacts, medicinal pills, pill recipes, and Profound Arts Secret Arts …

Apart from pumping 20% of the water, the Su Wu Commandant’s Mansion had no other disadvantages.

In comparison, the pills that replenished Qi and blood were the cheapest.

One Origin Gathering Pill only counted as one talisman coin.

Looking at the mission assigned by the Guest Qing Court, participating in an ordinary caravan escort, one month’s worth of talisman money could be exchanged for around ten to twenty Origin Gathering Pills, which could almost satisfy the daily consumption of late True Yang Realm cultivation.

The more late Chen Xun reached, the greater the consumption of the soul sea abnormality formed from the six-armed Giant Demon Blood. At this moment, he was cultivating and tempering his body without intermittent intervals. He needed two to three Essence Gathering Pills a day, almost three to four times as many as other cultivators of the same cultivation realm.

After advancing to the eighth and ninth stages of the True Yang Realm, Chen Xun estimated that if he continued to absorb the divine essence of Qi and Blood and temper his physical body, his consumption would very likely turn into a bottomless pit.

Apart from medicinal pills, ordinary armor was also relatively cheap.

Scales, Black Sheath Blades, Heavy Sharp Spear, Tie Tai Bow, worth ten, twenty talisman coins.

The value of the Nine Elements Nourishing Orifice Pill and some low-grade talisman artifacts suddenly increased.

The Nine Orifices Nourishing Pill was priceless.

Common profound weapons like the Frost Saber cost about two hundred talismans.

The Profound Armor that was carved with two layers of Diamond Profound Talismans was slightly more valuable.

However, what was truly expensive was the pill recipes and profound arts.

The Great Roc Secret Fist and the Fierce Frost Saber Technique all required hundreds of talisman coins, and the [Finger Profound Chapter] and other True Yang Qi Refining Basic Cultivation Techniques required a reward of 1,000 to 2,000 talisman coins to be exchanged.

The Nine Origin Nourishing Orifice Pill’s pill recipe was a secret that was not passed down, and a basic pill recipe like the Origin Gathering Pill was also priced at 1,000 to 2,000 talismans, causing Chen Xun to have a glimpse of it.

However, he also knew that wandering cultivators were reluctant to pay such a high price to exchange for pill recipes. The main reason was that cultivating normally consumed a lot of energy, making it extremely difficult for them to save so many resources.

However, for large clans, clans, and sects, the daily consumption of so many disciples was astonishing. It would be much more cost-effective to change a pill formula ruthlessly and refine low-grade pills by oneself than to hand over the medicinal herbs to the Su clan to refine.

“There are also many sects and clans in the city. The larger clans have merchant stores, warehouses, and trading goods in the city. If you want to obtain some basic cultivation techniques and pill recipes, you can go to Huayang Workshop to take a look. It should be much more cost-effective there.” Seeing Chen Xun pick up the silk book, Ge Dissident’s eyes lit up. He was afraid that he didn’t know what was going on inside, so he kindly reminded Chen Xun.

Hearing Ge Yi’s words, Chen Xun thought the same. There was no shortage of basic pill recipes and cultivation techniques among the major clans. There should be many who were willing to take out their own pill recipes and exchange them for some resources with other forces.

Low-level pill recipes, cultivation techniques are in large supply, so the price is naturally cheaper than the Guest Qing Institute.

However, apart from the Su Clan, there were very few other clans in Azure Water City that could provide profound weapons, precious armor, talismans, magical artifacts, and high-grade pill formulas and profound arts that could only be forged by experts above the Reincarnation Realm.

This was also the place where the Su Clan and Azure Water College were the most fatal temptations to the major clans.

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It was still early when they came out of the courtyard.

If Chen Xun wanted to set up his own portal, he would no longer interfere in the matter of the alliance of the nine races.

He asked one of Ge Yi’s subordinates to send his two sets of guest robes back, while he asked the way to Huayang Square to see if there was anything he needed.

Chen Xun thought that Huayang Square was just a place for rogue cultivators to trade cultivation resources. However, when he walked into the market, he saw that the stone streets were filled with stacked courtyards, carriages and horses were like dragons, and pedestrians were rubbing against each other. It was really lively.

Apart from selling medicinal pills, herbs, magic tools, and armor, the hundreds of shops were also filled with spiritual tea, spirit wine, clothes, and boots that xiuzhe used in their daily lives.

Apart from that, there were also quite a few rogue cultivators who set up stalls along the streets to sell goods.

Chen Xun was like Granny Liu who walked into the Grand View Garden, walking along the street, looking at the goods in the shop across the hall, feeling intoxicated.

However, a jar of Fish Yang Wine brewed using a low-grade spirit herb secret technique cost more than ten talismans. Apart from four Nine Yuan Orifice Nourishing Pills, Chen Xun only had the fifty Black Python Pills that Grandpa Zong had given him yesterday. He was truly shy.

He rushed over to see if there were any low-level magic books suitable for him to cultivate.

His Soul Sea Alien Phase was formed from the six-armed Giant Demon Blood. He didn’t know when he would be able to advance to the eighth level of Marrow Cleansing, so it would be difficult for his Qi and blood to be purified in a short period of time.

After Chen Xun cultivated the Fierce Frost Saber Technique and completely fused the Profound Frost Qi into his saber momentum, his strength had reached a bottleneck, and it would be difficult for him to break through in a short period of time.

Chen Xun wanted to cultivate both magic and talisman techniques so that he could have more methods to use when fighting against the enemy.

Huayang Workshop naturally didn’t lack low-level spell cultivation techniques. It was just a book that recorded twelve low-level spells. It actually cost three hundred talismans, which far exceeded Chen Xun’s endurance.

Chen Xun didn’t dare to enter a shop that was especially dignified. Chen Xun had run through several dilapidated families in succession, but he still couldn’t find any magic books that he could afford.

Chen Xun walked into a shop called Immortal Retention House and flipped through a low-level spell book. He was pleasantly surprised to see that there was actually a record of Wind Imperial Arts inside.

In the past, he had been able to travel thousands of kilometers in the wilderness, but it was purely relying on brute force and consumed a great deal of blood energy.

Two months ago, in the White Wolf River area, in order to escape the pursuit of Lou Shiyi and the Meng brothers, he even consumed a Nine Yuan Orifice Nourishing Pill to replenish his qi and blood. Thinking about it, his heart trembled with pain.

Although the Wind Imperial Technique was a low-level spell, it could borrow wind momentum to move quickly. Even if one cultivated it successfully, they could travel thousands of miles everyday. The amount of Qi and blood they consumed could be replenished by only two to three Yuan Gathering Pills. It was truly the best choice for them to travel at home and escape.

However, apart from the Wind Riding Technique, there were also four low-level spells recorded in this book. The price was a hundred talismans, which exceeded Chen Xun’s endurance.

Chen Xun hesitated for a while before asking the shopkeeper at the counter,

“Just this Wind Riding Technique, can you open it and sell it?”

The shopkeeper behind the counter was skinny and in his forties, his triangular eyes narrowed into a slit.

When he saw Chen Xun walk into the shop, he was dressed in animal skin clothes, but the saber on his waist looked extraordinary. He thought that when he encountered a big customer from the Wildlands tribe, he would never have thought that he would be a poor man who even wanted to open a low-level magic book to buy it.

When the shopkeeper heard Chen Xun’s words, he wanted to roll his eyes and thought to himself, “Why are all the rogue cultivators so poor now?”

Good professionalism, let the shopkeeper keep a friendly smile:

‘”I’m really sorry. This spell book is also for sale in a shop. You can’t take the initiative to open it and sell it. Why don’t you come over a few days later and let me ask the master’s house for help?”

Hearing the shopkeeper’s tone, which was to invite him out, Chen Xun felt helpless. Who told him to be poor?

Chen Xun wanted to return to his residence. Just as he put the spell book back on the counter, he saw a beautiful figure walk out of the inner room. It was actually Cai’er who was taking care of him while he was in the monastery.