Chapter 49: The Odd One Out
Chapter 49 – A Curious Goods
He Zhenghao was uncertain, not knowing why Li Fan reacted in such a way.
Fortunately, He Zheng Hao didn’t think too much about it, but looked at Li Fan with a smile and said, “There is no need to be nervous. I just want to ask, I don’t know if little friend has any interest in this island township?”
“Of course, not this Liuli Island, but the Tai’an Island to the west of Liuli Island.”
“The Tai’an Island town guard has a good relationship with me, and now he is encountering a bottleneck in his cultivation and wants to go out to look for opportunities.”
“Nay, with his duties, he is not allowed to leave on his own. So he asked me if there are any suitable people to recommend.”
“Coincidentally, I met you.”
He Zhenghao explained.
“To guard an island, at the very least, you need Foundation Establishment stage cultivation. I’m only just at the early stage of Qi Refining, can I also be this town guard?” Li Fan was a little surprised when he heard this.
The islands of the Cong Yun Sea, as long as there were specialties of a certain value in the surrounding area, there would be Immortal Cultivators guarding them.
A short period of ten years and a long period of a hundred years would be required to guard the islands.
Since they need to stay on the island all the time and can’t leave easily, the restrictions are quite large, so the pay is not expensive.
Depending on the size and scale of the island, the amount of contribution that can be obtained each year ranges from a few hundred to a thousand.
Therefore, the job of guarding the island is really a meat and potatoes, without a certain relationship simply can not do.
And those rich islands’ guarding careers are even more so, they are often booked long before the last one leaves.
“Naturally, it’s not a serious town guard position, but my good friend has issued a commission to you, and you’re just temporarily taking over the town guard position for him. Besides, Tai’an Island is not a big island, there is an island protection array in place, and the Qi Refining Stage cultivators are enough to take care of it for a period of time. Little friend don’t need to worry.”
“And as the introducer, I will naturally share a certain amount of remuneration.” He Zhenghao enthusiastically explained to Li Fan.
“During the period of acting as the town guard, how long can I leave for at most?” Li Fan asked again.
“The Island Protector Formation usually operates every five days, if something goes out, it is best to return within five days. It is not advisable to go out more than three times in a year.”
Thinking that Li Fan was afraid of delaying his cultivation, He Zhenghao added, “Every year, after receiving the contribution, you can go to the Tianxuan Mirror to exchange for five days of auxiliary cultivation time. These five days can often be worth an unusual half year of hard cultivation.”
Li Fan knew it was a good thing and immediately responded.
“But it’s still necessary to wait until I return to Ten Thousand Immortal Island to hand in my mission first.”
“This is natural. You go first, little friend, and I’ll look for you on Tai’an Island after a few days when preparations are made on that side of the island.”
Li Fan then bid farewell to He Zheng Hao and returned to Ten Thousand Immortal Island.
There was no need to travel to the Pill Hall, just deliver the glazed beads in the Tianxuan Mirror.
After a few moments, the Pill Hall checked and received twenty-three glazed beads.
Due to the good and bad color of these glazed beads, Li Fan was finally paid 21 points of contribution.
Current total contribution: 26 points.
“Too little, only enough for two days of cultivation.” Li Fan shook his head.
Taking out the gold, silver and the Stopping Remnant Tablet from his storage ring, Li Fan asked to exchange his contribution points.
A few moments later, the Tian Xuan Mirror transmitted the results.
“A batch of gold and silver: it can be converted into 235 contribution points.”
“Heaven and earth wonders: stopping the remnants of the tablet. Quality: flawed. Can be converted into 1,968 contribution points.”
Li Fan opened the exchange menu of the Heavenly Xuan Mirror and looked for Heaven and Earth Wonders.
It was found that an intact Heaven and Earth Wonders would require a minimum of 4000 points .
The recovery price of the Tianxuan Mirror was directly discounted.
It was too black!
Even though it was a bit flawed, it wasn’t so bad that the price was directly halved.
Li Fan’s face twitched, but after thinking about it, he still chose to redeem it.
The Heavenly Xuan Mirror did not provide an anonymous trading function, so if you wanted to trade with another cultivator, you had to reveal your true identity.
However, as a cultivator who had just stepped into the Qi Refining Stage, he would certainly attract a lot of attention if he rashly took out this Foundation Establishment Wonder.
It was likely to bring some unnecessary trouble. If he chose to trade directly with Tian Xuan Mirror, he wouldn’t be so worried.
The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was so large that there were countless cultivators with strange encounters.
Although it might be extremely rare for a Qi Refining cultivator to harbor a Foundation Establishment Wonder in this Sea of Clouds, it wouldn’t be a big deal when looking at the entire Immortal Cultivation World.
“Confirm redemption.”
The gold, silver and stopping remnants of the monument slowly disappeared while Li Fan’s contribution came to 2,229 points.
Having gotten rich in one go, Li Fan did not directly choose to go on a spending spree, but first asked out his worries to Tian Xuan Mirror.
“Will there be any calamities occurring in the Cong Yun Seas recently?”
Li Fan told Tian Xuan Mirror all the unusual things that Zhang Haobo had told him back then.
Tian Xuan Mirror fell into silence.
Only after a long time did it reply.
“Please don’t worry cultivator, these are normal heaven and earth abnormalities. Upon projection, there will be no major calamities coming in the next ten years.”
Since Tian Xuan Mirror had said so, Li Fan put his heart down.
Afterward, he thought about it and searched for information about the glazed dan.
Liuli Dan, auxiliary elixir, universal from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment Stage.
After taking it, the heart is like glaze, clear and transparent.
It can obtain an effect similar to the “Spirit Enlightenment”, increasing the comprehension of techniques and the speed of cultivation.
And the effect can be added to the auxiliary cultivation of the Heavenly Xuan Mirror.
Since the vast majority of cultivators in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance were always on the move, accumulating contribution points, their cultivation time was precious.
So the glazed pills that could increase the efficiency of cultivation became even more precious.
The Liuli Dan was very sought after amongst Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators, with the price of one fluctuating back and forth between five and six contribution points.
Li Fan looked at it, while the current price was 6 points a piece.
“The glazed fish is almost extinct due to unknown reasons, the price of the glazed dan must be going up.” Li Fan pondered, so he spent 2,100 contribution points and purchased 350 glazed dan at once at the Tian Xuan Mirror.
Only then did he explain to Tian Xuan Mirror about the near-disappearance of the Liuli Island’s Liuli Fish School.
The Heavenly Xuan Mirror was silent for a while, only emitting the slightest fluctuation.
After a while, Li Fan received a payment of 1 contribution point.
This was the Tian Xuan Mirror having confirmed the authenticity of the message.
That’s right, providing news to the Tian Xuan Mirror was also rewarded with contribution points.
The higher the value of the news, the more the reward received would be.
By common sense, the news provided by Li Fan was definitely worth more than just 1 point of contribution.
It was probably because Li Fan’s hoarding behavior was a bit egregious in Tian Xuan Mirror’s eyes, so he was only given 1 point of payment.
Li Fan did not think so either.
With this operation, his purpose had already been achieved.
Firstly, it proved that the Heavenly Xuan Mirror did not know what happened after he left the Ten Thousand Immortal Islands. That is, as long as he left the Ten Thousand Immortal Island, he would not have to worry about the prying eyes of the Heavenly Xuan Mirror.
Secondly, it proved that the Heavenly Xuan Mirror did have its own will. This could be seen from the fact that he had only given 1 point of contribution to use to disgust Li Fan.
Thirdly, it was natural to take this good opportunity to make a good profit.
The market’s reaction was still quite swift.
The price of the Glazed Dan suddenly soared in a short period of time, skyrocketing from 6 points a piece to 9 points a piece.
(End of chapter)