Mortal: Return of apprenticeship? Bug at the beginning

Chapter 102 Buying Demon Pills
Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin came to the square below the "Yunmeng Pavilion".

Yunmeng Pavilion is the huge emerald-like pavilion above Tiandu Street. The square below it is also the most central place in Tiandu Street.

On this square of several acres, there are six pavilions of similar size, which are the Liulian Palaces.

At this time, the square was crowded with people, and many cultivators came in and out of every shop in Liulian Hall.

Jiang Tongyue looked around at the Liulian Palace, Shanhai Pavilion, Yuhuan Residence, Baishui Tower...

Afterwards, Jiang Tongyue took Xin Ruyin and walked towards Shanhai Pavilion without hesitation.

The business of Liulian Temple covers almost every aspect that cultivators need.

Among them, Shanhai Pavilion sells spiritual pets, demon pills, and materials from various demon beasts.

The merchandise sold at Baishui Tower includes medicines of various years, as well as various elixirs needed by cultivators of Qi training and foundation-building.

The goods in Yuhuanju are all kinds of magical instruments...

The hall in the Shanhai Pavilion is not small, about twenty to thirty meters long and wide. But even so, the Shanhai Pavilion is crowded with cultivators, which shows how good the business in the Shanhai Pavilion is.

There are rows of shelves carved from white jade all around, on which are placed various monster materials. There are a lot of them, as many as hundreds of them.

However, Jiang Tongyue lost interest after just one glance.

Many of the monster materials in this hall are basically materials from first and second level monsters, which are not even worth his attention.

Fortunately, a sharp-eyed guy in blue walked towards Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin with a smile on his face.

"Seniors, do you need materials for spirit pets or monsters? The monster materials on this floor are definitely not up to your standards. How about going to the second floor and asking the shopkeeper to take out the materials you need?"

The guy in blue bowed deeply to the two of them, then asked Jiang Tongyue very cleverly.

"Okay, lead the way last year."

Jiang Tongyue nodded and motioned for the other party to lead the way.

Upon hearing this, the guy in blue turned around with a look of joy on his face and led the way.

Led by the blue-clothed waiter, Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin came to the second floor of Shanhai Pavilion from the stairs on the right side of the first-floor lobby.

The man in blue bowed and turned away.

Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin sat on chairs on the second floor of Shanhai Pavilion. Not long after, two maids came in and poured tea for Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin.

"Hello... this senior, hello to this fellow Taoist. It is truly an honor for our Shanhai Pavilion that you have visited us! I am Qin An, the shopkeeper of Shanhai Pavilion. I don't know what you need, but I will do my best to find it for you."

After a while, a middle-aged fat man with a rather plump figure walked in. When he saw Jiang Tongyue, he was obviously surprised.

After all, even in the Chaos Star Sea, a Jindan cultivator is a genuine high-level cultivator.

"I heard that Shanhai Pavilion is second only to the four major business alliances, so I came here to see it. I need a large number of demon beast inner cores now. The higher the level, the better. I wonder if Shanhai Pavilion has demon beast inner cores?"

After Jiang Tongyue took a sip of tea, she slowly spoke to the fat man in front of her.

After hearing that Jiang Tongyue needed a large amount of demon beast inner cores, the shopkeeper of Shanhai Pavilion immediately showed joy on his face.

This is a huge business!
Therefore, Qin An couldn't help but pat his chest and said confidently: "Demon beast inner elixir? Senior, you have come to the right place. In Kuixing Island, my Liulian Palace is the most powerful and can definitely meet your needs."

"In that case, please trouble Shopkeeper Qin to bring me the demon beast inner elixir I need. Don't worry, the thing I have the most is spirit stones!"

Hearing this, Jiang Tongyue immediately spoke with a smile on her face, her tone full of strong confidence.

Qin An did not hesitate. He stood up, bowed, and turned to leave the living room on the second floor.

This time, Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin waited in Shanhai Pavilion for two hours before Qin An returned.

This time, in addition to Qin An, there was also a middle-aged man with an ordinary face, and this middle-aged man was also a Jindan cultivator.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. It's difficult for me to mobilize so many demon beasts' inner cores in a short period of time, so I informed Elder Miao of the Sixth Palace."

As soon as he came in, Qin An apologized to Jiang Tongyue with an apologetic look on his face.

"My name is Miao Qing. Nice to meet you, fellow Taoist. All the demon beast inner cores you need are in this storage bag. Please have a look."

At this time, Elder Miao looked kindly at Jiang Tongyue's luggage, and then handed her a storage bag.

Jiang Tongyue took the storage bag, probed his spiritual sense into the storage bag to check, and was immediately shocked.

In this storage bag, there are actually thirty level five demon beast inner cores, ten level six demon beast inner cores, and even one level seven demon beast inner core.

It seems that Liuliandian has taken out all his family assets this time.

In fact, it was almost as Jiang Tongyue expected. After Qin An reported that Jiang Tongyue needed a large amount of monster inner cores, the owner of Liulian Palace took out all the monster inner cores accumulated in Liulian Palace.

After all, if this transaction is successful, Liulian Palace will be able to gain a lot of benefits.

"Yes, I want all these monster inner cores. Daoist friend, please name a price."

Jiang Tongyue placed the storage bag filled with monster cores on the table and looked at Elder Miao beside him, his tone full of unquestionable confidence.

"Haha...Fellow Daoist Jiang is really arrogant. How about this, since you need it, then you can just give me 200,000 spirit stones for these monster inner cores."

Seeing Jiang Tongyue buy these spirit stones without changing his expression, a trace of shock flashed in Elder Miao's eyes. Then he smiled heartily and said to Jiang Tongyue.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tongyue nodded calmly.

In the Chaos Star Sea, the price of an inner elixir of a level five demon beast starts at one thousand spirit stones.

Moreover, some rare demon beasts' demon cores are even more expensive.

The demon core of a sixth-level demon beast is worth tens of thousands of spirit stones.

If a foundation-building cultivator could obtain the inner elixir of a sixth-level demon beast, he would be able to live a very carefree life.

The demon core of a seventh-level demon beast is worth about tens of thousands of spirit stones in the Chaos Star Sea.

But in Tiannan, the price of a level 7 demon pill is almost doubled. In the original novel, after Han Li broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, he participated in a trade fair among Nascent Soul stages.

Among them, Han Li used a seventh-level demon beast's inner core to trade for a three-thousand-year-old red essence ganoderma, and that red essence ganoderma was worth 100,000 spirit stones.

Of course, if that three thousand year old Red Jingzhi were sold in the Chaos Star Sea, it could be sold for at least hundreds of thousands of spirit stones.

After all, there are countless monsters and beasts in the Chaos Star Sea, but various spiritual medicines that are more than a thousand years old are pitifully rare.

If Jiang Tongyue could buy all of this batch of monster inner cores, even if he took them back to Tiannan to sell them, he could easily sell them for a sky-high price of 400,000 spirit stones.

And if Jiang Tongyue rewards it to several disciples and returns higher quality monster inner cores, then just that level seven monster inner core alone can return to Jiang Tongyue a monster inner core of at least level nine.

A ninth-level demon beast's inner core is worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones!

Just one pill can completely pay off your investment.

Not to mention, these thirty level five monster inner cores can all be returned to Jiang Tongyue's level eight monster inner cores.

It can be said that this batch of monster inner cores can bring Jiang Tongyue at least hundreds of times the return, so he naturally does not care about these few spirit stones.

After paying with spirit stones, Jiang Tongyue put the batch of monster inner cores into the storage bag.

Afterwards, Jiang Tongyue took Xin Ruyin and left Shanhai Pavilion.

Elder Miao of the Sixth Palace looked at Jiang Tongyue's departing back with an inexplicable look on his face and flickering eyes.

Jiang Tongyue doesn't care about these things. With his current cultivation level, he can be invincible even if he meets a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Besides, this is not the Kingdom of Yue, so there is naturally no need for him to hide it like he would in the Kingdom of Yue.

After obtaining the demon pill, Jiang Tongyue asked Xin Ruyin to return to the inn first, while he purchased some precious jades from some shops in Tiandu Street and then went to Xiaohuan Island.

In Xiaohuan Island, there is an opportunity that cannot be missed, and that is the gold-eating insect ranked twelfth on the list of strange insects.

This gold-eating insect is extremely ferocious. Han Li in the original novel earned the title of insect demon because of the power of the gold-eating insect.

Jiang Tongyue naturally would not miss the gold-eating bugs in Xiaohuan Island.

In order to prevent accidents, Jiang Tongyue did not go directly to Xiaohuan Island, but went around in circles, took out Heguang Tongchen, concealed his figure and breath, and then rushed to Xiaohuan Island.

After arriving at Xiaohuan Island, Jiang Tongyue entered the spiritual vein area on Xiaohuan Island called "Xiaohuan Mountain".

Those Qi-cultivating and foundation-building monks before opened up their cave dwellings on this small mountain. However, they did not hold on for too long and directly paid the spirit stones for the competition in exchange for a place with spiritual veins.

Afterwards, Jiang Tongyue took out the Great Reversal Five Elements Formation+ and covered the only spiritual vein on Xiaohuan Island.

However, he did not use the transformation function of the Great Reversal Five Elements Array, but maintained his original appearance for a long time.

In this way, even if a cultivator does not get close to this spiritual vein, he will not be able to discover the abnormality here.

Afterwards, Jiang Tongyue came to the higher mountain among the Xiaohuan Mountains and spent some time to build a simple stone house.

After opening up the stone house, Jiang Tongyue took out some precious jades and renovated the stone house.

Gold-eating bugs love to share rare insects, are good at swallowing metals and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, are extremely ferocious, and are immune to water and fire. They like to live in groups on spheres, and jade and wooden objects can trap these gold-eating bugs.

Moreover, the gold-eating insects and the strange spider insects restrain each other.

It is precisely because Han Li carried a pair of white jade spiders with him that the gold-eating insects under the Xiaohuan Mountain have never appeared.

If Han Li had not left Xiaohuan Island for several years because he killed a Jindan cultivator from the Liulian Palace, the gold-eating insects under the ground of Xiaohuan Island would not have come out to devour Han Li's ancient insect eggs.

Therefore, Jiang Tongyue used the precious jade to transform this stone house just to prevent the gold-eating insects from escaping.

After renovating the stone house, Jiang Tongyue also set up some restrictions to prevent those strange insects from escaping.

After doing all this, Jiang Tongyue picked and chose from the storage bag, selected some strange insects that were not on the strange insect list, and placed them in this stone house to fish for the group of gold-eating insects.

Now, Jiang Tongyue just needs to wait for the group of gold-eating bugs to take the bait.

After making sufficient preparations, Jiang Tongyue left Xiaohuan Island and used Heguangtongchen to hide his figure until he was close to Kuixing City, at which time he revealed his figure.

After returning to the inn where they were staying in Kuixing City, Jiang Tongyue and Xin Ruyin checked out of the room and left Kuixing City.

It would take quite a while for the gold-eating bugs on Xiaohuan Island to take the bait. Jiang Tongyue could take this opportunity to go to Tianxing Island and get another chance.

In the original novel, Han Li obtained the Tianlei Bamboo, one of the three sacred trees in the world of immortal cultivation, from the Miaoyin Sect on Tianxing Island.

Now, Han Li has gone into seclusion a hundred years in advance to achieve the Jindan stage. As his master, Jiang Tongyue should naturally find the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo for Han Li to use to refine magic weapons in advance.

Moreover, Jiang Tongyue was also very much looking forward to seeing what level of treasures the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, one of the three sacred trees in the world of immortal cultivation, would return after the system's fifty-fold return.

The Tianlei Bamboo has not yet fallen into the hands of the Miaoyin Sect, but is still in the hands of an unknown sect.

However, this is not a problem for Jiang Tongyue. He can ask the Miaoyin Sect, which is good at collecting intelligence, to find some information about the Tianlei Bamboo for him.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tongyue took Xin Ruyin and left Kuixing Island, and headed towards Tianxing Island according to the map of Chaos Star Sea purchased from Kuixing City.

The distance between Kuixing Island and Tianxing Island is very far. Even if Jiang Tongyue is a Jindan cultivator, it will take several months to get from Kuixing Island to Tianxing Island.

However, what Jiang Tongyue has the most right now is time.

On the seventh day after Jiang Tongyue left Kuixing Island, Jiang Tongyue, who was originally running fast, suddenly stopped, sneered, and said in a cold voice: "Everyone, you have been following me for such a long time, why don't you show up and see me?"

When Jiang Tongyue left Kuixing Island, he realized that four people were following him secretly, and all of these followers were Jindan cultivators.

However, Jiang Tongyue was very confident in his own abilities, so he naturally did not get rid of the follower.

As soon as Jiang Tongyue finished speaking, several rays of light flashed in the void, and then four figures appeared in different directions and surrounded him in the middle.

The monk who was secretly following Jiang Tongyue showed up.

(End of this chapter)