Chapter 62 – Pre-ordered Aqua Python Blood
Chapter 62 – Reserving Aqua Python Blood
“There’s no time to lose, why don’t you take me to your good friend’s home now, Fellow Daoist Wu?”
Lu Xuan put down the wine cup in his hand and looked at cultivator Wu with anticipation in his eyes.
“I don’t know if he’s at home right now …… but with such urgency, Fellow Daoist Lu should have something important to do, so I’ll take you on a trip.”
Seeing Lu Xuan like this, and having more spare time of his own, cultivator Wu led Lu Xuan out the door and headed to the snake catching cultivator’s home.
After walking for about two moments, the two came to a green and black stone house.
The stone house was quite spacious in size, only to feel a chilly feeling as they approached.
Lu Xuan, along with the cultivator surnamed Wu, stepped into the stone house, and his skin was stimulated by the coldness, and he couldn’t help but give birth to dense goosebumps.
As soon as he entered, a turquoise python drilled out, stopping not far from the two of them, hissing and spitting snake letters.
“Little Green, come back, it’s Uncle Wu.”
A slightly childish voice came from inside the stone house, and then, the voice transformed into a hissing whisper as the turquoise python in front of Lu Xuan’s two men transformed into a green light and returned the same way.
A thirteen or fourteen year old teenager stepped out from inside, and the python instantly burrowed into the teenager’s sleeve.
Although the python was huge, from the outside, it was impossible to tell that there was a python hidden in the teenager’s skinny body, as if the two had fused into one.
Only then did Lu Xuan see what the young man looked like, his body was thin, his face was pale, his eyes narrowed into two slits, his lips were extremely thin, and when he grinned towards the Wu cultivator, he revealed slightly sharp teeth inside.
“Uncle Wu, my father went out, it’s just me and grandpa at home.”
“I know, I came over today for something else.”
Cultivator Wu introduced Lu Xuan and the teenager, Lu Xuan thus learned that the teenager’s name was Yu Jie, the grandparents and grandchildren lived together, and his father had been out for long years, hunting snake demonic beasts for a living.
“Grandpa is raising baby snakes in the backyard!”
The teenager Yu Jie looked at Lu Xuan curiously, and very knowingly walked into the backyard, calling his grandfather out.
“Uncle Yu Tong, this is my neighbor, a Spirit Plant Master, named Lu Xuan.”
“Fellow Daoist Lu, this old man is my best friend’s father, Senior Yu Tong.”
Lu Xuan saluted in greeting.
The two of them followed the old man into the house and took a seat, the teenager Yu Jie came in with three cups of hot tea, and then sat obediently in the corner, not saying a word, and looking curiously at Lu Xuan from time to time.
The eyes made Lu Xuan feel extremely strange, as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake, only that he did not feel any malice, only pure curiosity.
Seeing Lu Xuan looking back at himself, he shyly lowered his head.
“Uncle Yu Tong, Senior Brother Yu is out, right?”
“Yes, went out to the wilderness, when he comes back, you remember to come over and get the fresh snake bones and snake guts.”
The old man said slowly.
“That one doesn’t need to rush, this time over, it’s this neighboring cultivator of mine, who has something to come over to inquire about uncle.”
Cultivator Wu made his intentions clear.
“I’ve heard that uncle you’ve been hunting snakes for generations for a living, and that you have a unique secret technique in hunting snake demonic beasts.”
“I am inquiring about how the blood of the snake demons that are hunted and killed are usually disposed of?”
“Snake demonic beast blood?”
“This use isn’t really widespread, only when one encounters a cultivator with special needs, or if the blood of the captured snake beast has a certain value, will they bring back the snake blood.”
Lu Xuan nodded his head. The old man continued.
“Since blood needs to be kept as fresh as possible and cannot be stored for long periods of time, it is not brought back very often.”
“It’s usually used as a material for alchemists to refine certain special pills, or occasionally, there will be cultivators who need the blood of snake-type demonic beasts to cultivate their gong methods.”
“What is the usual grade of the snake demon hunted? Can the number of hunts be guaranteed for a long time?”
“Most of them are of no grade with first grade snake demonic beasts, there are also second grade snake demonic beasts. As for the quantity, you don’t have to worry about that, we have mastered several demonic snake habitats in the wilderness, where there are more snake beasts off the beaten path.”
Lu Xuan nodded his head at the words and put his heart down.
“It’s like this, I need a long term ration of snake blood, preferably above first grade, second grade is even better.”
As for the third grade, there was no need to even think about it, a third grade snake demon was already equivalent to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, even if one was found in the wilderness, that snake catcher at the sixth level of Qi Practicing would only end up delivering food.
“Second grade snake demonic beast, let me think about it, there is one called Aqua Python, its blood is red with green color, it can be used to refine some kind of antidote elixir, what do you think?”
Yu Tong pondered for a while and said to Lu Xuan.
“As long as it can be provided for a long period of time, then there is no problem.”
The Jiao Vine would produce abnormalities after being watered with snake blood, and Lu Xuan estimated that if he used some kind of snake blood that contained characteristics to cultivate it for a long period of time, in addition to promoting the rapid growth of the Jiao Vine, it might bring about unexpected changes.
“It’s still possible to provide it for a long period of time, it’s just that the amount won’t be particularly large, after all, the number of Second Grade Aqua Pythons isn’t that large, and it’s a bit difficult to deal with.”
“I wonder how much the price is?”
Lu Xuan asked curiously.
“Ten spirit stones a catty, what do you think?” The old man asked tentatively.
Lu Xuan almost couldn’t control his expression, the vial of Twin-winged Golden Scaled Snake Blood that he had gotten from the Ten Thousand Treasures Building a while ago had cost him a full seven Spirit Stones.
Although the price had gone up slightly because it was pre-ordered, but seven spirit stones to buy a bottle of less than a kilogram of first-grade snake blood, and ten spirit stones to buy a kilogram of second-grade Snake Demon Snake Blood, which one was more cost-effective was clear at a glance.
“It’s still the middleman who earns hard ah ……”
He couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, the snake blood material itself was extremely low in value, but after this hand of Wan Bao Lou, the price went up by an unknown amount.
Buying raw materials directly from the producer, the Yu Family here, was going to save many spirit stones than buying from other channels, not to mention, the second-grade snake blood could be steadily supplied to himself, which made Lu Xuan, who loved to cut prices at once, rare and generous.
“Okay, that’s fine.”
He directly nodded his head in agreement.
Next to him, Yu Tong as well as the teenager Yu Jie couldn’t help but have a satisfied smile on their faces as well.
In the past, when hunting snake demonic beasts, if it wasn’t a cultivator’s specific request, the snake blood brought back usually couldn’t be sold at a good price, and often fell into a stagnant situation, and had to be dumped in the end, with only the first or second grade being able to be sold at some price.
Second grade Aqua Python snake blood ten spirit stones a catty, to earn a lot more than before, hunting the second grade snake demon brings that little risk in front of the spirit stone benefit, it is nothing.
Plus the second grade Aqua Python itself precious snake skin, snake bone, snake gall, snake venom ……
Yu Tong, who was originally dying, wanted to return to the top and experience the feeling of hunting a second grade snake demon again.
The two sides made a simple contract, the Yu family didn’t have second grade Aqua Python snake blood right now, Lu Xuan left five spirit stones as a deposit, and when Yu Jie’s father came back and delivered the Aqua Python snake blood, he would pay the remaining spirit stones.
Before leaving, the old man Yu Tong also deliberately took out a classless demon snake from the inner courtyard, killing it now and holding a full bottle of snake blood, saying that Lu Xuan should bring it back.
Lu Xuan had to take this bottle of snake blood, saying that he wanted to take it back with him.
(End of chapter)