Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 171 Tuoyuan's Promotion (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Inside a secret room in the black market surrounding Meteor Island in the South China Sea.

Fang Jingxuan was discussing various spiritual materials with the appraisers dispatched by the opposing Black Hand.

After a long while, the appraiser looked utterly dejected.

He simply couldn't stand Fang Jingxuan's endless rummaging through his storage bag for spiritual materials.

"Hold on for now, fellow Daoist. Can you tell me the truth? How many spiritual materials in your storage bag still need to be appraised?"

Fang Jingxuan roughly sensed it, and then looked at the spiritual materials whose specific grade, function, and price had already been identified. He said:
"There are probably still about two hundred pieces left."

The appraiser opposite him was stunned for a moment, then silently got up, walked outside, and never came back in.

A moment later, a cloaked cultivator entered and said irritably:

"I suggest that you purchase your own appraisal technique, or even a supernatural power or a spirit beast. Anyway, our appraisal master has already said that he will no longer accept your orders."

Fang Jingxuan hadn't expected it to unfold this way. He felt he hadn't done anything out of line; he had only asked the other party to appraise over a hundred spiritual materials. Why was the other party refusing?
However, the other party's words also reminded Fang Jingxuan that he couldn't bring back all the spiritual items he acquired in the future and have others appraise them for him.

In the cultivation world, there are countless spiritual objects. Some of them are so strange that if you don't understand them and use them rashly, you may bring about your own death.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan asked the other party if they had any good suggestions.

"Regarding identification, we have several methods, including a quick one, such as this one, which involves gouging out one of the customer's eyes and then implanting a new identification eyeball. This eyeball is taken from a cultivator with identification supernatural abilities and comes with identification supernatural abilities."

Another option is to raise a spirit pet with innate appraisal skills. We sell the [Blue-eyed Macaw Parrot], the [Listening-to-Moro Elephant], and the [Golden-eyed Fire-eyed Penholder Monkey].

Of course, each of these three mythical beasts has its own advantages and disadvantages. Among them, the [King Kong Blue-Eyed Parrot] is talkative, greedy, aggressive, stubborn, and has a tendency to be misanthropic, but it has a very long lifespan and can live for 180 years.

Both the Diting Moro Elephant and the Golden-Eyed Fire-Eyed Penholder Monkey have short lifespans, only about fifteen years. The Diting Moro Elephant requires specific food; it only eats a type of nectar from Nanlin Temple and is relatively difficult to care for.

The golden-eyed, fiery-eyed monkey is not picky about food, but it is timid by nature and can easily die suddenly if frightened.

The other party said a lot, but Fang Jingxuan thought it over and over and still couldn't make up his mind to get a new spirit pet.

At this crucial time of my foundation building, I should postpone the matter of taking time to raise spirit beasts until after I have achieved foundation building.

Of course, the biggest reason is that Fang Jingxuan was not satisfied with any of these three spirit beasts.

With Tuoyuan and Liugu already in his possession, Fang Jingxuan currently has no interest in other low-level spirit beasts. It would be wiser for him to wait until he has established his foundation before slowly selecting a spirit beast similar to Liugu.

In the end, the people behind the scenes managed to help Fang Jingxuan identify all the items.

The three spiritual materials that Fang Jingxuan had placed high hopes on did not disappoint him.

Among them, the snake scale is a mid-grade second-tier spiritual material, which can be used as the main material for making second-tier protective magic artifacts.

However, Fang Jingxuan did not need the protective magic artifact at the moment. He looked at Tuoyuan, and then made a tough decision to grind it into powder and feed it all to Tuoyuan.

The other half of the tortoise shell was similar, but of even higher quality. It was originally a high-grade second-tier spirit tortoise, left behind after failing to break through to the third tier due to a tribulation. Later, it was discovered by a cultivator and used for divination. After several divinations, the spiritual energy within the tortoise shell was completely worn away, leaving only this empty shell.

But what Fang Jingxuan valued was its material itself, so he ground it up like the snake scales, mixed it into the rice, and fed it to Tuoyuan.

The last item, the multicolored drop of blood sealed inside amber, was identified as originating from a fourth-tier spirit beast called the [Exquisite Dream Mirage Dragon].

Although it was only a single drop, it was priceless. The manager of the Black Hand offered Fang Jingxuan two thousand mid-grade spirit stones, which was worth a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, Fang Jingxuan refused without hesitation. Spirit stones were easy to earn, but this spiritual item was only a single drop.

Moreover, he now felt that he was no longer short of spirit stones; the gifts from the Ning family had made him extremely wealthy.

This wealth, which should have been shared by everyone, was all snatched away by Fang Jingxuan. Even if the profits were distributed in the end, Fang Jingxuan wouldn't get the lion's share, because with that Foundation Establishment cultivator present, he would definitely take more than 70%.

Fang Jingxuan estimated that, excluding the three high-grade spiritual materials, all the items in the Ning family's warehouse could fetch five thousand mid-grade spirit stones if sold.

The Black Hand members felt it was a pity that Fang Jingxuan refused, but they did not threaten him. On the contrary, they kindly reminded him to use the drop of spiritual blood as soon as possible.

Therefore, Fang Jingxuan did not go out. Instead, he fed all the snake scales and tortoise shells to Tuoyuan within the Black Hand's territory to increase the potential of his bloodline.

A month later, Tuoyuan's bloodline power increased significantly. Fang Jingxuan checked on him every day and witnessed the bloodline value in his body increase from less than one hundred to more than 1,700.

Of those, the snake scale provided about 500 points, and the remaining 1,200 points were all provided by the half of the tortoise shell.

During this period, Fang Jingxuan also entrusted most of the spiritual materials that he could not use himself to the managers of the black market to sell on consignment.

Now, a month has passed, and after deducting the consignment commission, Fang Jingxuan has also gained more than four thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

On this day, when Fang Jingxuan observed that the number of bloodline points in Tuoyuan's body was no longer increasing, he realized that the effect of the tortoise shell had been completely exhausted.

With so many bloodline points, Fang Jingxuan took out the drop of five-colored blood from the fourth-tier spirit beast, the [Exquisite Dream Mirage Dragon], and sent it into Tuoyuan's mouth.

The moment the five-colored blood entered its mouth, the enormous Tuoyuan, after merely glancing at Fang Jingxuan, involuntarily fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing this, Fang Jingxuan placed Tuoyuan in a large spirit-gathering water array that he had prepared beforehand. He then sat cross-legged in front of the array and began to silently protect Tuoyuan.

Five days later, Fang Jingxuan, who was quietly circulating his energy, discovered in his sea of ​​consciousness that the place originating from the Soul Contract of Tuoyuan was undergoing a subtle change.

The previously blurry mark of Tuoyuan became increasingly clear until it became almost identical to the mark left by Liu Gu beside him, at which point the change stopped.

The next instant, a powerful heartbeat resounded throughout the secret chamber.

At this moment, Tuoyuan slowly opened his eyes. Accompanied by a flash of colorful light, Tuoyuan's body began to shrink automatically.

(End of this chapter)