Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 150 Reselling Summoning Soil

Meteor Island, a black market island hundreds of miles away, is where Fang Jingxuan, with Tuoyuan, returned once again.

Fang Jingxuan left Tuo Yuan outside and went inside himself.

Now that Tuoyuan is growing bigger and bigger, the previous spirit-controlling bag is no longer suitable. He came this time to spend money, and his main purpose is to replace Tuoyuan with a larger spirit-controlling bag.

Fang Jingxuan searched the black market for a long time but couldn't find a storage bag with a capacity of about thirteen or fourteen zhang. The largest one on the black market was only seven or eight zhang in size.

After all, spirit beasts as large as Tuoyuan are rare, so very few spirit control bags are made to match them.

Having no other option, Fang Jingxuan had to meet with a manager in the black market and express his needs in this regard.

"Guest, there are two solutions to your problem: one is quick but expensive; the other is slower but requires fewer spirit stones."

Inside the secret chamber, Fang Jingxuan was draped in a ghostly cloak, concealing his entire body, while the cultivator opposite him was dressed in the same manner.

The secret room was small, about seven or eight square meters. There was a table in front of the two people, and that was all that was left.

"Please tell me in detail so I can make a decision."

Fang Jingxuan gestured for the other party to continue, and after the other party gave an explanation, Fang Jingxuan fell into deep thought.

The black market manager offered two solutions. One was to transfer the goods: Fang Jingxuan would pay a deposit, and he would transfer the spirit-controlling bags that met Fang Jingxuan's needs from other black markets.

This process is expected to take place within three months, but the price will be much higher. A spirit-controlling bag that is fifteen feet in size will cost more than four thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Because it involves transferring goods, the associated costs must be added, so the total cost is close to five thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Upon hearing the price, Fang Jingxuan was shocked. The eight-zhang-sized spirit-controlling bag he had bought before had only cost 1,300.

This fifteen-zhang-sized spirit-controlling bag costs around four thousand, and with the premium, it's five thousand low-grade spirit pills—that's far too expensive.

Fang Jingxuan thought it wouldn't work to buy something this big, since Tuoyuan's size wasn't at its peak yet.

Its size can still grow. If Tuoyuan's cultivation reaches the ninth level of Qi Refining, it will probably be over six zhang tall.

If the spirit-controlling bag is too small, it will be uncomfortable for Tuoyuan to stay in. Rather than finding one that is about ten feet long, it is better to find one that is the right size from the start. This way, even if Tuoyuan reaches the Qi Refining Perfection stage and his size reaches six feet, he will still be able to stay in it more comfortably.

With that thought in mind, Fang Jingxuan made his decision: he would choose one that was fifteen zhang in size.

Another option is for Fang Jingxuan to provide the materials, and for the black market to find a suitable craftsman to customize a spirit-controlling bag.

This method costs fewer spirit stones, only three thousand four or five hundred, and takes about two years.

Furthermore, if Fang Jingxuan finds even better spatial attribute materials, the spirit-controlling bag he refines could have an even larger capacity.

Fang Jingxuan thought about his plans for the next few years. After assassinating Chen Heichan, he should settle down on Black Toad Island for a few years, so he had enough time.

"I choose the second option. Please have the weapon-refining master refine it for me."

"Alright, please pay a deposit of one thousand first. I'll have the craftsman reserve some time for you. The main materials for crafting the Spirit Control Bag must be delivered within two years, otherwise, this deposit of one thousand low-grade spirit stones will not be refunded."

Immediately, Fang Jingxuan paid 1,000 low-grade spirit stones. Looking at the amount spent on his token, it had become 4,800, still 5,200 short of the 10,000 standard.

Alright, I need to keep spending, so I'll go buy some pills and see if I can resell them to increase my spending limit. After leaving the secret room, Fang Jingxuan began searching for valuable pills and spiritual materials. He was thinking that after buying them here, he could resell them to increase the spending limit on this token.

However, after careful investigation, Fang Jingxuan discovered that those highly sought-after pills were also available on the black market, but there were purchase limits.

After all, good pills are in high demand and even command a premium price, so Fang Jingxuan couldn't buy them even if he wanted to.

Those pills that have no purchase limit are sold at a higher price than outside, so if you were to use them to farm pills, it would be a completely unprofitable business.

Pills like the Breakthrough Pill have to go through auctions, command high premiums, have narrow uses, are difficult to sell, and there's a risk of them becoming unsellable.

The ritual implements are cheaper than outside, but they are tainted with heavy karma and are not easy to sell.

At this time, Fang Jingxuan was planning to establish Black Toad Island and did not want any unforeseen complications.

After much deliberation, Fang Jingxuan, unwilling to give up, actually found a spiritual material he could work with: a first-grade superior-quality Demon Summoning Soil.

On a small island near Meteor Island, there is a mysterious magnetic field beneath it, which sometimes attracts several large sea beasts to come and become their final resting place.

Just like the formation of Guanyin Island, over countless years of natural accumulation, this Demon-Summoning Soil has become a mineral-like resource.

The composition of this demon-summoning soil is very complex, consisting of many types of bone and many fragments of soul.

It also contains heavy soil and stagnant water, making it a kind of spiritual material that resembles mud.

This Demon-Summoning Soil is only of the first-grade superior quality because the bone and soul fragments used in this spiritual material are composed of sea beasts, thus its quality cannot reach the second grade.

If all of these were made from the bones and soul fragments of cultivators, their grade would definitely reach the upper-middle level of the second tier. Just a small handful could sell for thousands of low-grade spirit stones.

The main function of the Summoning Soil is to serve as a medium for demonic cultivators to summon demons, acting as both an offering and an additive to tear apart the boundary barrier.

Fang Jingxuan simply didn't understand how to cultivate demonic arts, nor did he need to summon demonic creatures, but this soil was excellent soil for some spiritual plant practitioners.

Some yin-attribute spiritual plants are particularly fond of this kind of soil. Fang Jingxuan thought that if he sold it to spiritual plant growers who needed it, he could make a fortune.

To verify his hypothesis, Fang Jingxuan spent a thousand low-grade spirit stones to buy Ten Directions of Demon-Summoning Soil, intending to take it to Guixu Market to inquire about its price.

Spirit stones are hard to come by, so it's better to spend them little by little.

After leaving the black market, Fang Jingxuan summoned Tuoyuan and placed ten locust wood boxes on its back.

This locust wood box contains a portion of Demon-Summoning Soil. Even if ten of them were stacked together, they would only occupy a small area on Tuoyuan's back.

Looking at Tuoyuan's broad back, Fang Jingxuan thought to himself, if this soil sells well, then it wouldn't be a problem for me to haul a hundred boxes at a time.

Including this expense, it would only take another 4,200 low-grade spirit stones to hire a mastermind to devise a plan to intercept and kill Chen Heichan.

However, how much would it cost to hire a black hand to do the job, and how much difference would there be in spirit stones between trapping someone and doing it yourself?

With these matters in mind, Fang Jingxuan led Tuoyuan and quickly headed towards the location of Guixufang.

(End of this chapter)