Chapter 72 – Purchasing Spirit Bird Eggs
Chapter 72 – Purchasing Spirit Bird Eggs
“Senior Brother Shen, you’ve advanced to the ninth level of Qi Refining, congratulations!”
A rough man’s voice rang out.
Shen Long turned his head to see that Qin Bao was walking head-on, his clothes stained with a lot of brown blood.
“Senior brother Qin, why are you alone, where is senior brother Li!”
Shen Long asked curiously.
“He went back to rest, we just came back from hunting demonic beasts.”
Qin Bao said.
He used his identity nameplate to receive lunch, sat down, and chatted with Shen Long while eating.
Qin Bao and Li Lei and many other Qi refining cultivators teamed up to hunt demonic beasts, mostly new disciples, the lowest was at the eighth level of Qi refining, as long as they didn’t run into second-order demonic beasts, it wasn’t a big problem.
“Twin-tailed Scorpion! You guys killed a nest of Twin-tailed Scorpions! Can you sell me some Twin-tailed Scorpion carcasses?”
Shen Long asked.
The Twin-tailed Scorpion contained intense poison and was very toxic.
Qin Bao begged for it, Shen Long spent two hundred spirit stones and purchased the corpses of five Early First Order Twin-tailed Scorpions, this price was cheap, if it was a live First Order Twin-tailed Scorpion, it would be more than this price.
After having lunch, Shen Long returned to his residence.
He walked into a secret room, released the Iron Tailed Scorpion, took out the corpse of a Twin Tailed Scorpion, and let the Iron Tailed Scorpion consume it.
The Iron-tailed Scorpion was in the middle of the first stage, and the Twin-tailed Scorpion was only in the early first stage, not enough to poison the Iron-tailed Scorpion.
The Iron Tailed Scorpion was not polite, and in three tries, it ate the corpse of this Iron Tailed Scorpion, it lay on the corner, motionless, seemingly digesting the corpse of the Twin Tailed Scorpion.
Shen Long brought it into the Royal Spirit Tower and let it stay in the Royal Spirit Pool.
He slapped a golden spirit beast pouch on his waist, and more than a hundred gold-eating ants flew out, and the ant queen had advanced to the mid-first stage.
The Gold Eating Ant Queen was not treated as well as the Fire Rock Beast and Iron Tailed Scorpion, and still had Spirit Feeding Pills to take.
Gold Eating Ants are swarming Spirit Insects that win with numbers, the more the number, the higher the rank, and the more powerful they are when they coalesce into their weapon form.
Shen Long took out a millstone-sized piece of Xuan iron ore and threw it on the ground, he went to the Free Trade Valley every once in a while and purchased some metal ores to feed the gold-eating ants.
The gold-eating ants flew to the top of the basaltic iron ore and gnawed on it, in front of them, the hard basaltic iron ore was as fluffy as tofu.
The basalt ore shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye, before long, this basalt ore was eaten up by the gold-eating ants, they flew to Shen Long’s side and flew around Shen Long without stopping.
Shen Long took out a bigger piece of basalt ore, and more than a hundred gold-eating ants quickly ate it, and then they flew back to the spirit beast pouch with satisfaction.
He exited the Royal Spirit Tower, left the residence, and flew to the Performing Arts Peak with his imperial weapon.
Arriving at Performing Martial Peak, Shen Long asked for a practice room with his identity nameplate.
His mouth recited the words up, his right hand green light blossomed, towards the stone monument not far away gently shaking, a five-foot-long green wind blade shot out, accurately struck on the top of the stone monument, a muffled sound was transmitted, and the stone monument had more than a faint chopping mark.
Shen Long face showed joy, this is already the spell great completion, only one step away from the great circle.
Shen Long continued to practice the wind blade art, the casting speed became faster and faster, and the power of the wind blade art also increased a lot.
An hour later, Shen Long walked out of the practice room and watched the fellow disciples fight for a while as he returned to Qing Yun Peak.
He had just returned to his residence when he saw Qian Dafu standing at the entrance of Qingmei courtyard.
“Senior brother Shen, there is news of spirit bird eggs, but the vitality isn’t very strong, I’m afraid they won’t hatch, and the price isn’t cheap.”
Qian Dafu showed a difficult face.
“What spirit bird?”
Shen Long asked.
“Snow Wind Sparrow! Senior Sister Liu has incubated it for more than a year, but it still hasn’t hatched, so she intends to sell it at a price of five hundred spirit stones.”
Qian Dafu said.
“Snow Wind Sparrow!”
Shen Long was a bit moved, the Snow Wind Sparrow was proficient in spells with two attributes of ice and wind, and its flying speed was relatively fast.
“How come it can’t hatch?”
Shen Long asked.
“Senior Sister Liu said that it was stored for too long, she used the Spirit cultivating jade liquid to soak for many hours, and then put more effort to be hatched, the offer is five hundred spirit stones, this price can still be negotiated, you if you are interested, let’s go over there, and you talk to her face to face.”
Qian Dafu said.
Shen Long nodded and said, “Okay! You take me over to Senior Sister Liu’s residence, let’s talk.”
Qian Dafu slapped the spirit beast pouch on his waist, a green light flew out and landed in front of them, it was a huge green colored bird with wings spread out as big as ten feet, lying on the ground.
“A late first stage Wind Chasing Lord!”
Shen Long recognized the origin of the cyan giant bird.
“It was passed down to me from my father, and the flying speed is still very fast.”
Qian Dafu walked onto the back of the Wind Chasing Lord, and Shen Long followed closely behind.
The Wind Chasing Lord’s wings flapped gently, whipping up a gust of wind as it flew towards high altitude.
A tea time later, the wind chasing lord landed in a small valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, inside the valley is a white mist, can’t see the situation inside the valley clearly, outside the valley stands a more than ten feet high green stone monument, engraved with the “flying butterfly valley” three big words.
Qian Dafu sent a transmission note, not long after, the white mist inside the valley rolled and surged, all dispersed, a three-colored parrot flew out, spitting human words: “Fatty Qian, follow me.”
Listening to its words, it was familiar with Qian Dafu.
“I’ve known Senior Sister Liu since we were kids, if you fancy it, just buy it, feel free to kill the price, I’m just introducing you guys to each other, it’s none of my business if it doesn’t hatch.”
Qian Dafu explained, putting away the Wind Chasing Lord.
Shen Long nodded, with the Royal Spirit Pagoda in his hand, he didn’t worry about not being able to hatch, it was just that the price was too high.
They walked into the valley, a manor covering a vast area came into view, green bricks and tiles, both sides of the valley were planted with a large number of green-colored spiritual flowers, a group of silver-winged Amazing Bee was collecting nectar, and the air was filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.
The gate of the manor was open, walking into the manor, pavilions and rockery gardens.
They arrived at a secluded small courtyard, within the courtyard was a green-colored stone pavilion, a green-skirted girl in her early twenties was sitting in the stone pavilion.
The green-skirted girl had curved willow leaf eyebrows and a slender figure.
“Senior Sister Liu, this is Senior Brother Shen Long Shen.”
Qian Dafu introduced.
“I’ve long heard of Senior Brother Shen’s great name, have a seat! Try the osmanthus tea.”
The green-skirted girl greeted Shen Long and Qian Dafu and sat down, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of spirit tea for each of them.
Liu Yao, had a cultivation level of the eighth level of Qi refining.
Shen Long picked up the teacup, could smell a faint floral fragrance, took a sip, the mouth was sweet, a rich floral fragrance bloomed in the mouth.
“Good tea! Senior Sister Liu, can you take out that spirit beast egg for me to take a look?”
Shen Long praised.
Liu Yao nodded and took out a snow-white spirit beast egg and handed it to Shen Long.
Shen Long’s hands placed on top of the spirit beast egg and could feel a chill.
“Senior Sister Liu, where did you get it? How come it failed to hatch even after incubating for more than a year.”
Shen Long asked.
“I purchased it from a loose cultivator in the workshop market, it is indeed a snow wind sparrow’s spirit bird egg, but it has been stored for too long, the vitality is too weak, I soaked it with some Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid, the vitality is stronger, and it failed to hatch, I estimate that by spending more time and soaking it in some more Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid, it should be able to hatch, and if it hatches out, you will be able to have one more helper during the big competition, and break into the Thousand Demon Tower even more Easy.”
Liu Yao slowly said.
“That said, five hundred spirit stones are too expensive, if it takes a year and a half to hatch, it won’t be able to help much by then, it would be better to purchase a Beast Soul Talisman for three hundred spirit stones, how about it?”
Shen Long bargained.
“Snow Wind Sparrow but proficient in the two attributes of ice and wind spells, much more powerful than ordinary spirit birds, four hundred spirit stones, can’t be any less.”
Liu Yao said.
“Three hundred and five at most, I can’t take out more, I still have to purchase the Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid!”
Shen Long said.
Liu Yao pondered for a moment and agreed, she had invested a lot of spirit stones in this spirit fowl egg, it was only right to stop the loss in time, if Shen Long was able to hatch it, it would be Shen Long’s luck.
Shen Long paid the spirit stones and bought this spirit bird egg.
After chatting for most of a quarter of an hour, Shen Long excused himself and left, and Qian Dafu followed.
Back to Qingyun Peak, Shen Long took out twenty spirit stones and handed it to Qian Dafu, saying, “Qian senior brother, thanks a lot, a small token of appreciation, don’t mind the small amount, keep an eye out for Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid for me, it’s best to be able to be cheaper and the quality should be guaranteed.”
His purchase of Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid was just to cover his ears, otherwise Sun Yao’s delay in hatching and his easy hatching would inevitably lead to suspicion.
“Then thanks a lot, Senior Brother Shen, I’ll keep an eye out for you.”
Qian Dafu accepted the twenty spirit stones and promised.
After chatting for a few moments, Shen Long walked towards the Teaching Pavilion.
Arriving at the Teaching Pavilion, Shen Long found an empty seat and sat down, still a dozen Qi refining cultivators were listening to the lecture.
Not long after, Sun Sen walked in and started teaching.
He introduced the rudder of the Royal Spirit Sect and the veins under its control, the Royal Spirit Sect controlled two small spirit stone mines, eighteen second-order veins, and two third-order veins, the Xuan Yang Sect was the strongest, controlling a medium-sized spirit stone mine and seven third-order veins, and that medium-sized spirit stone mine had been mined for many years.
Shen Long and the others would also open their mouths to ask some questions, and Sun Sen would answer them all.
Two hours later, Shen Long and the others walked out of the Teaching Pavilion.
After Shen Long had dinner at the Spiritual Food Pavilion, he returned to Qingmei Courtyard and walked into a secret room.
He entered the Imperial Spirit Tower, and the Iron-tailed Scorpion was lying on its back in the Imperial Spirit Pool, motionless and seemingly listless.
Shen Long carefully examined the Iron-tailed Scorpion, found that it was not in any serious trouble, and put it into the Spirit Beast Pouch.
He put the Spirit Bird Egg into the Imperial Spirit Pool, came to the statue of the Five Light Peacock, placed his hands on top of the statue, and injected mana.
The eyes of the Five Light Peacock lit up, and a blue spiritual light lit up from within the Royal Spirit Pool.
Shen Long’s face also paled as his hands detached from the statue and walked towards the Royal Spirit Pool.
The spirit bird egg shook violently, a few tiny cracks appeared on the surface, the cracks became bigger and bigger, and a white peacock broke out of the shell, it was the snow wind sparrow
It was still very weak, Shen Long easily planted a prohibition, fed it some silver marrow spirit rice, and exited the Imperial Spirit Tower.
Shen Long went to the martial arts peak and practiced the wind blade art.
He allocated more time to practicing the art, reducing the cultivation time, and preparing for the Great Competition now.
Arriving at the Martial Performance Peak, Shen Long walked into a practice room and closed the door.
He recited words under his breath and his right hand blazed with green light, gently shaking it, a five-foot-long green wind blade shot out and struck above the stone tablet, leaving a shallow chopping mark.
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Four months passed quickly, Performing Martial Peak, a certain practicing room.
Shen Long’s right hand raised, a half a foot long giant wind blade shot out, striking the stone monument not far away, leaving a clearly visible chopping mark.
His hands raised, a half a zhang long giant wind blade shot out, successively struck the stone tablet above, emitting “clanging” sound of gold and iron.
Wind Blade Art Great Perfection!
Shen Long’s face showed joy, the heaven’s way rewards hard work, his sweat was not in vain.
There were still more than two years until the Grand Competition, and he could spend time practicing other first-order spells.
Shen Long walked out and left the martial arts peak.
Returning to Qing Yun Peak, he saw Lin Cheng standing at the door.
“Senior Brother Shen, the Silver Marrow Spirit Rice is ready to be harvested, I estimate that the mu yield is six hundred and fifty pounds.”
Lin Cheng said proudly.
From sowing, watering to harvesting, he did it all.
Shen Long opened the barricade and pushed the door and walked in, Lin Cheng followed.
In the spirit field were rice poles more than one person high, and on each pole hung a large number of full, silver-colored rice spikes, and a strong fragrance of rice filled the air.
“Senior Brother Lin, please.”
Shen Long said.
“No trouble, Senior Brother Shen you watch from the side, I’ll harvest the spirit rice.”
Lin Cheng said.
“That’s not necessary, I trust you, you harvest the spirit rice and call me, I’ll go in and read the book.”
Shen Long made a pot of tea for Lin Cheng and walked into Qingmei Pavilion.
He came to a secret room, closed the stone door, and entered the Imperial Spirit Tower. A clear and loud sparrow chirping sound rang out, and a peacock with a snow-white body flew over, which was the Snow Wind Sparrow.
Shen Long blew a whistle, the Snow Wind Peacock’s wings flapped gently, and a dozen foot-long white ice blades shot out, heading straight for Shen Long.
Shen Long’s figure retreated backwards, avoiding the dozen white ice blades, soon, another dozen white ice blades shot out, while the Snow Wind Peacock flew at the same time.
A condensed blue water screen appeared close to the body, protecting Shen Long’s whole body.
A dozen white ice blades successively struck the blue water screen above, the blue water screen rippled, unharmed.
Snow wind sparrow’s sharp claws struck above the blue water curtain, blue water curtain sunken, it opened its mouth and sprayed out a white cold air, struck above the blue water curtain, blue water curtain immediately iced over and turned into white ice curtain.
Snow Wind Sparrow’s sharp claws pressed down, a large number of cracks appeared on the surface of the white ice curtain, Shen Long’s palm slapped towards the storage bag, the Snow Wind Sparrow sensed what was going on, its wings flapped and quickly ascended into the air.
Shen Long nodded with satisfaction and withdrew his palm.
During this period of time, he hadn’t trained the Snow Wind Sparrow against the enemy, and the effect was not bad.
He raised his right hand and lightly tapped it towards the ground, and the Snow Wind Sparrow descended from the sky and landed in front of Shen Long with a cold wind.
Shen Long withdrew the Xuan Shui mask, the Snow Wind Sparrow let out a joyful sparrow chirp and rubbed its head against Shen Long’s pants leg, just like a child pampering his parents.
Shen Long stroked its head, took out a Spirit Feeding Pill and fed it to the Snow Wind Sparrow.
After the Snow Wind Sparrow took the Spirit Feeding Pill, it opened its mouth and let out a joyful bird chirp, flapped its wings and flew towards the high sky, hovering above Shen Long’s head, looking very excited.
Shen Long released the Iron Tailed Scorpion, which had eaten the corpses of five Early First Stage Twin Tailed Scorpions and did not mutate, which was within Shen Long’s expectation.
If it was so easy to mutate, mutated spirit worms would be all over the streets.
He took out the corpse of a Twin-tailed Scorpion, there was a bowl-sized bloody hole on its head, this was a mid-first stage Twin-tailed Scorpion.
Qin Bao and the others went out to hunt demonic beasts every once in a while, and Shen Long purchased poisonous scorpion carcasses from them, as well as Spirit Feeding Pills to feed the Fire Rock Beast, Iron Tailed Scorpion, and Snow Wind Sparrow.
As a result, the spirit stones in Shen Long’s storage bag decreased rapidly, and currently there were still more than 1,700 spirit stones.
Sun Sen and Qian Dafu didn’t have any good job introductions, Shen Long could only rely on himself and occasionally go around the Free Trade Valley in the hope of picking up leaks and earning a little bit of spirit stones.
Iron tailed scorpion quickly ate the corpse of the double tailed scorpion, let out an excited hissing sound, it was very uncomfortable to devour the corpse of the first order early double tailed scorpion in the beginning, and it took most of the month to slow down, and now it doesn’t care anymore, and it enjoys devouring the corpses of the first order poisonous scorpions.
Shen Long took out a black grass, this is twenty years of ink mustard grass, contains poison, iron tail scorpion wants to mutate, in addition to the corpse of the first-order poisonous scorpion, swallowing poisonous grass poison can also increase the chance of mutation.
The iron tail scorpion ate the ink mustard grass and circled around Shen Long.
Shen Long fed it another Spirit Feeding Pill before taking it back into the Spirit Beast Pouch.
He released the Fire Rock Beast and the Gold Eating Ant and fed them before exiting the Royal Spirit Tower.
When he walked out of Qingmei Pavilion, Lin Cheng had already finished harvesting the ears of rice and packed them in seven white rice bags.
“Senior Brother Shen, I weighed it, a total of two thousand seventy-five pounds, a bumper harvest, according to what you said, five rice bags will each contain two hundred pounds, and the rest will be put into two rice bags.”
Lin Cheng pointed at the seven white rice bags and said proudly.
Shen Long took out twenty spirit stones and handed them to Lin Cheng, saying, “These three years have been hard on you, Senior Brother Lin, a little token of appreciation.”
“Senior brother Shen is too kind, we agreed, you instructed Shan’er to practice spells, he has already cultivated the Ice Cone Technique to the great circle, how can I receive your spirit stones.”
Lin Cheng politely refused.
“Just take it if you’re told to, I want to plant spirit peaches instead, I’ll have to trouble you when the time comes, we can go sign the deed and negotiate the reward.”
Shen Long said.
“Once born twice familiar, don’t need to be so troublesome, this matter is on me, you instruct Shan’er to practice spells, I will help you plant spirit peaches.”
Lin Cheng said with a straight face.
“I’ve already promised to instruct Senior Brother Lin in practicing spells before, how about this! I’ll give you five spirit stones every month, and if the yield and quality of the spirit peaches are high, I’ll also have a reward, in a word, if you help me plant the spirit peach trees properly, I won’t treat you poorly.”
Shen Long said, one size does not fit all, he did not want to owe favors for things that could be solved with spirit stones.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng had no opinion and agreed.
After chatting for a few moments, Lin Cheng excused himself and left.
Shen Long took out his transmission disk and contacted Qian Dafu, asking him to come to Qingmei Courtyard.
Not long after, Qian Dafu came over.
“Senior brother Qian, I want you to help me sell two thousand kilograms of silver pith spirit rice, and help me collect some kernels of the Green Moon Peach, I plan to plant spirit peach trees instead.”
Shen Long said, he left more than seven hundred pounds, enough to eat for a long time.
“Want to sell it as soon as possible? Or sell it slowly, get out as soon as possible, the price should be cheaper, if you want a higher price, it will take a long time before you can get out, after all, there are quite a few fellow disciples who are planting silver pith spirit rice.”
Qian Da Fu said.
Shen Long thought about it and said, “Sell it out as soon as possible! I’m in desperate need of spirit stones.”
“On the market, ten pounds of silver pith spirit rice can be sold for three spirit stones, and if you want to sell out quickly, how about one hundred pounds of silver pith spirit rice for twenty-eight spirit stones? The others are also at this price.”
Qian Da Fu said.
If sold at the price of three spirit stones for ten pounds, two thousand pounds of Silver Pith Spirit Rice would be able to get six hundred spirit stones, in this way, it would take a long time to sell, if one hundred pounds of Silver Pith Spirit Rice were sold for twenty-eight spirit stones, it would be able to get five hundred and sixty spirit stones.
Shen Long thought about it and asked, “If it is sold at ten pounds and three spirit stones, how long will it take at the fastest.”
“The fastest would take half a year, there are multiple senior brothers and sisters who entrusted me to help sell the silver pith spirit rice, I gave them an offer of one hundred twenty-eight spirit stones as well, and they all had no problem with it.”
Qian Dafu said.
“Then let’s sell it at this price you said! After it’s done, how much honorarium do you want?”
Shen Long asked.
“I’ll charge others twenty, and if Senior Brother Shen, ten spirit stones will do.”
Qian Dafu said.
Shen Long nodded: “That’s not necessary, I’ll give you twenty spirit stones, it’s what you deserve, by the way, is there any news about the Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid?”
“There is, but the price is more expensive, one hundred spirit stones a bottle, the market is almost this price.”
Qian Dafu said.
“I’ll buy a bottle! The Spirit Bird Eggs haven’t hatched yet, I hope that with this bottle of Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid, I will be able to hatch the Spirit Bird Eggs.”
Shen Long said, taking out a hundred spirit stones and handing them to Qian Dafu.
The Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid would not depreciate in value, and he could disguise himself to sell it in the Free Trade Valley.
“Good, I’ll go contact the seller.”
Qian Dafu agreed, opened the pouches of the five rice bags, inspected the goods in person, and after confirming that there were no problems, he tied the pouches of the rice bags tightly, put them into his storage bag, and bid farewell and left.
Sending Qian Dafu away, Shen Long left Qingmei courtyard, imperial weapon to the Free Trade Valley.
Free Trade Valley was still as lively as usual, Shen Long came to the green stone square where the stalls were set up and walked around.
“Hundred-eyed Golden Cicada! Vitality so weak, you also dare to sell 500 spirit stones?”
“Hmph, if you soak it in Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid, there is still hope for it to hatch.”
“Don’t lie, these insect eggs are no different from dead eggs, you’re actually selling five hundred spirit stones, you’re crazy for spirit stones! If it’s really so easy to hatch, why don’t you buy the Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid and hatch them before selling them?”
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A fierce quarrel came from the front, and there were quite a few Qi Refining cultivators gathered around.
“Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada!”
Shen Long’s heart stirred, the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada was ranked at number 708 on the Heaven and Earth Strange Insects List, it could see through illusions and find formation eyes, and if it wasn’t more difficult to reproduce, its ranking wouldn’t be so low.
Shen Long walked towards the front, it was hard to squeeze in front of a small stall, the stall owner was a tall and thin middle-aged man, with a cultivation of the ninth level of qi refining, there were quite a lot of things on the stall, ores, spirit medicine, spirit wood and so on.
His gaze landed in a green jade box, inside were five golden insect eggs, one of which had a black spot on its surface.
“All make way, Senior Uncle Xu has arrived.”
A loud man’s voice rang out, and the crowd stirred, making way.
Xu Feng walked in front of the stall, and the middle-aged man hurriedly stood up and bowed.
Xu Feng ignored the middle-aged man and squatted down, picking up five insect eggs and examining them carefully.
“Five hundred spirit stones for one worm egg?”
Xu Feng asked.
The middle-aged man nodded, his expression tense.
Xu Feng paid the spirit stones and bought away four bug eggs, leaving one bug egg with black spots.
“Uncle Xu doesn’t lack spirit stones can’t even look at this insect egg, it’s no different from a dead egg, I’ll offer a hundred spirit stones, how about it?”
A green-skirted young woman spoke up.
What if it could hatch! Wouldn’t it be a big profit.
“Don’t even think about it without five hundred spirit stones.”
The middle-aged man balked.
“Thinking about spirit stones is crazy, an almost lifeless worm egg is also selling for such a high price.”
“Only a fool would spend five hundred spirit stones to buy a dead egg, Uncle Xu can’t even look at it, it definitely can’t hatch.”
“That’s right, let him smash his hands! He’s crazy for spirit stones.”
Multiple Qi refining cultivators asked the middle-aged man for a price, the middle-aged man was dying to ask for five hundred spirit stones, none of them were willing to take five hundred spirit stones to buy a worm egg that Xu Feng couldn’t even look at.
Shen Long had an iffy expression on his face, his gaze swept and saw Lin Shan.
Lin Shan’s lips moved slightly a few times, the middle-aged man shook his head straight, and Lin Shan was filled with disappointment.
“Hehe, Senior Brother Shen, you’re also here.”
Lin Shan lightly eeped when he saw Shen Long.
“Come over and take a turn, do you want to buy this insect egg?”
Shen Long casually asked.
“Senior Brother Li’s asking price is too high, I can’t get five hundred spirit stones.”
Lin Shan sighed.
Shen Long nodded and said, “I’m about to go back to Qing Yun Peak, do you want to go back together?”
Lin Shan did not object and left with Shen Long.
On the way back, Shen Long inquired with Lin Shan about the middle-aged man’s origin and learned that this person’s name was Li Xin, and he lived in Green Bamboo Peak.
Li Xin had previously been serving in one of the Royal Spirit Sect’s second-order mines, and had only been transferred back a short while ago, apparently to prepare for the Great Competition.
Returning to Qing Yun Peak, Shen Long was invited by Lin Shan to be a guest at the Green Silkworm Courtyard to instruct Lin Shan on cultivating spells.
After a tea time, Shen Long left the Green Silkworm Courtyard and returned to the Green Plum Courtyard.
A little bit of time passed, and the sky darkened.
At midnight, the night was deep and quiet, a blue-shirted man with ordinary features walked out of the Green Plum Courtyard, it was Shen Long, who had changed his appearance.
He sacrificed a flying magic weapon and left Qing Yun Peak.
After half an hour, Shen Long came to Qingzhu Peak, he followed what Lin Shan said, came to the door of a small blue-tiled courtyard, and sent out a sound transmission note.
After a while, the courtyard door opened and Li Xin walked out.
“This senior brother, looking for me for something?”
Li Xin asked with a frown.
“Senior brother Li, has that Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada’s eggs been sold?”
Shen Long asked.
“No? Don’t even think about it without five hundred spirit stones.”
Li Xin said with some impatience, actually chasing him to his place.
Many Qi Refining cultivators were interested in the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada’s eggs and were unwilling to pay five hundred spirit stones.
Shen Long also did not talk nonsense, took out a green colored storage bag, threw it to Li Xin and said, “This is five hundred spirit stones, where are the insect eggs!”
Li Xin took the storage bag, divine sense swept, face showed joy, took out a golden jade box, handed it to Shen Long.
Shen Long opened the jade box to see that there was a golden bug egg inside, and there was a black spot on the surface of the bug egg.
He carefully examined it and confirmed that it was the insect egg of the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada, and excused himself and left.
Li Xin closed the door to his room and said to himself, “There really are fools, I could hatch it I would have hatched it and sold it.”
He had obtained several Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada eggs from an ancient cultivator’s cave, used up six bottles of Spirit Cultivating Jade Liquid, and took two years, but none of them were able to hatch, especially the one that the other party had bought away, which had weak vitality and was not much different from a dead egg.
(End of chapter)