Chapter 50: There are Fruits of the Spirit in Tai’an
Chapter 50 – There are Spirit Fruits in Tai’an
The prices of items sold in the Tian Xuan Mirror were not set in stone.
The prices were regulated by the Tianxuan Mirror and were positively correlated with the number of people who purchased the items.
For example, at this moment, once the news that the supply of glazed beads had been cut off and the glazed dan could no longer be refined for a period of time was spread, it immediately caused a portion of the population to go on a buying spree.
Some of them were those who really needed the glazed dan to accelerate their cultivation, but more of them were those like Li Fan, who wanted to hoard and make a big profit.
As a result, the price of the glazed dan rose from 6 points to 9 points in a short period of time.
And this sudden change in price also caught the attention of those who were not yet aware of it.
It was only after some inquiries that they learned of the news that the glazed beads were about to become extinct.
So these people hastened to join the army of snatchers.
The price of the glazed dan was also able to rise again.
It briefly reached a staggering price of 12 points each.
Seeing that it was almost time, Li Fan chose to offload all the glazed dan in his hands.
Naturally, he also sold it directly to Tian Xuan Mirror.
Due to the large number of purchasers, Tian Xuan Mirror’s purchase price was not nearly as much of a discount as the previous purchase of the Stopping Remnant Tablet.
Instead, it was at the “high price” of 10 points a piece.
Li Fan wasn’t greedy either, and quickly sold all 350 glazed dan in his possession.
With 3500 contribution points in his account, together with the 129 points left over from before, Li Fan’s total contribution at this time was already as much as 3629 points!
After Li Fan made his move, the frenzy in the market slowly began to cool down.
The price of 12 points a piece clearly exceeded the value of the Glazed Dan itself.
After all, the effects of the Glazed Dan were not irreplaceable. There were many other elixirs with similar functions. And the reason why the Glazed Dan was very popular was that it was inexpensive.
The momentary explosion in the price of the glazed dan was only because the people in the market had temporarily lost their minds due to the sudden news stimulus.
When the crowd calmed down, Liuli Dan’s also returned to a relatively reasonable and stable price.
8 points of contribution per piece.
At this time, Li Fan bought another 100 Liuli Dan for his own cultivation.
After spending 800 points, 2,829 contribution points remained.
Through this maneuver, Li Fan had increased his contribution by 600 points while whoring out 100 more glazed dan!
600 points of contribution was equivalent to a year’s balance of an ordinary Qi Refining Cultivator who was conscientious and only did tasks with peace of mind.
Not to mention the 100 glazed dan that was equivalent to hard currency.
It’s really a gold belt for killing and setting fires, and no corpses for repairing bridges and roads!
Li Fan sighed.
However, sighing was sighing. Yet it did not affect the speed of consumption of Li Fan, a person with vested interests, in any way.
The Introduction to Formations, The First Explanation of the Dao of Dan, The Basics of Refining Weapons, The Illustrated Guide to the Treasures of the Immortal Cultivation World, and so on, regardless of whether they were useful or not, Li Fan directly bought them first.
Body Protecting Vestments, Hidden Gas Charms, Elementary Composite Formations, Elementary Alchemy Sets, and other commonly used items by cultivators, Li Fan also bought all of them.
The storage ring gradually filled up at the same time, the contribution degree also fell rapidly, down to 346 points.
Li Fan was not at all distressed, after finishing his consumption, he took a Liuli Dan, and then turned on the Auxiliary Cultivation Mode, Li Fan began to cultivate the Small Diffractive Water Decision.
The abundant water attribute aura rushed out, and Li Fan once again experienced what was meant by the cultivation speed of a genius.
The Heavenly Xuan Mirror’s Assisted Cultivation Mode coupled with the effectiveness of the glazed dan allowed Li Fan’s cultivation progress to simply be said to be progressing by leaps and bounds in a single day. In just two days, Li Fan had broken through the early stage of Qi Refining. Next, it took another three days for Li Fan to cultivate the Minor Diffractive Water Decree to the consummation of the middle stage of Qi Refining again.
There was no bottleneck, the water was flowing freely, and he couldn’t get enough of it!
Li Fan was deeply addicted to cultivating in this way, so when the cultivation automatically stopped due to the lack of the Little Diffractive Water Decree’s late stage of Qi Refinement, he felt a complete loss and emptiness.
Luckily, the price of the late-stage Qi Refining portion of the “Small Diffractive Water Decree” worth 600 contribution points calmed Li Fan down a little.
Just as he was pondering whether or not to sell some Liuli Dan in exchange for the next gongfu, he received a request for a visit from He Zhenghao.
Li Fan thought about it and took out the Hidden Qi Talisman he had just bought from his storage ring and put it on his body before letting He Zhenghao in.
As soon as He Zheng Hao saw Li Fan, he said with some excitement, “I’ve already said goodbye on the side of the Tai’an town guard, next I’ll take you to see him and just accept the commission.”
Afterwards, He Zheng Hao took out a spirit talisman and handed it over to Li Fan: “This you are wearing on your body, remember, when we meet later you don’t talk too much, just leave everything to me.”
Li Fan took the spirit talisman and surveyed it, he could not help but have a black face.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Li Fan had just bought an identical one not too long ago, Li Fan wouldn’t have been able to recognize what this was.
This spirit talisman was called the “Song Wei Talisman”, and its effect was the opposite of the Hidden Qi Talisman.
While the Hidden Qi Talisman hides one’s cultivation, the Song Wei Talisman is used to disguise oneself as a cultivator of a certain realm.
He Zhenghao had given this Talisman of Praise to make Li Fan disguise himself as a Foundation Stage cultivator!
As expected, the idea that a Qi Refining Stage cultivator would be enough to defend a side of the island was all a lie to Li Fan.
He Zhenghao had long planned to let Li Fan disguise himself as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and accept the commission of guarding Tai’an Island, thus earning the difference in price!
One must know that the contribution spent on hiring a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator and a Qi Refining Stage cultivator were simply not comparable.
He Zhenghao didn’t notice Li Fan’s face and smiled as he introduced the town guard of Tai’an Island to Li Fan: Zhou Qing’ang.
Li Fan was not in a good position to expose He Zhenghao, and could only reluctantly smile and greet Zhou Qingang.
This person was by no means a deep friendship! Li Fan glanced at the smiling He Zhenghao with his afterglow and secretly spat in his heart.
Zhou Qing’ang looked at Li Fan and was satisfied.
Right away, he issued a directional commission directly to He Zhenghao.
And after He Zhenghao accepted the commission, he turned around and issued the commission to Li Fan.
“Replace Zhou Qingang in guarding Tai’an Island while he is out searching for opportunities. Reward: 800 contribution degrees per year.”
Fortunately, He Zhenghao did not deduct too outrageously. As things stood, Li Fan could only accept this task.
After Zhou Qingang handed over a jade token to He Zhenghao, he couldn’t wait to leave and went to look for his breakthrough opportunity.
As for He Zheng Hao, he was relieved to see this, he turned his hand and handed the token to Li Fan, saying rather solemnly, “This is the town guard order of Tai’an Island, with this item you can manipulate the island protection array, little friend make sure to take care of it and don’t lose it.”
Li Fan accepted the token, and then the two of them passed through the teleportation array together and came to Tai’an Island.
This Tai’an Island’s island protection array was not as grand as Liuli Island’s, with a thousand peaks towering over it. It was just a seemingly prosperous city mold.
What was different was that the residents within the city were all fruits with a bizarre human face.
These fruits are just like real people, working, living, marrying, and having children in this formation-derived city.
They lived out their lives.
“This is the specialty of Tai’an Island, the Tai’an Fruit.” He Zhenghao and Li Fan strolled through the city, pointing at the “crowds” that came and went.
“When these fruit-illusioned people die, it means that the Tai’an Fruit has matured. Taking a ripe Tai’an Fruit can increase the lifespan of an Immortal Cultivator of the Foundation Stage and below by five years.”
“Each person only has an effect the first time they take it.” He Zhenghao said with regret.
(End of chapter)