A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 118 This sucker, let him be the sucker.

Enter the cave.

This is actually an independent mountain peak.

It splits off from the main peak of the sacred mountain, rising over two hundred feet high.

Between this mountain peak and the main peak lies a lake stretching for several miles, as well as two valleys shrouded in mist year-round.

After Han Li stepped into the cave dwelling area he had rented, he spread his hands, and a set of array plates and array flags appeared.

This is naturally an inverted Five Elements Formation.

However, it's not a 70% version, but a 10% version.

Offering something too good is actually not good.

Moreover, he only rented the cave to facilitate the cultivation of his spirit beasts and to house Qu Hun and Mo Jiao Xiao Liu. He did not intend to form his core here for the time being.

Xiao Liu cannot be kept by your side for long periods of time.

Once he goes to the outer sea, the aura of the dragon will attract the attention of the dragon clan. If the dragon clan accidentally discovers that he has made a contract with the black dragon Xiao Liu and is treating Xiao Liu as a spirit beast, then he will be in big trouble.

Regardless of whether Xiao Liu was born in the Chaotic Star Sea, in the Chaotic Star Sea, dragons are not allowed to be contracted and enslaved as spirit beasts or pets by human cultivators.

Otherwise, the Jiaolong clan will launch an attack.

Even the Star Palace only used the corpses of a few high-level dragons to build a war chariot.

Therefore, temporarily placing Xiao Liu in the Holy Mountain of Tianxing City is a good choice.

A complete set of the Inverted Five Elements Array would be enough to isolate Xiao Liu's aura.

This century-old cave dwelling not only has a main hall, master bedroom, and secondary bedrooms, but also an alchemy room, study, and weapon-making room, as well as a medicinal herb field that has already been cultivated.

However, the medicinal field was completely bare, with nothing left behind by the previous cave master.

Han Li thought for a moment, then transplanted the roots of some forbidden herbs into several spiritual fields rich in spiritual energy.

The goal is not for everyone to survive, nor is perfection required.

He made a fortune from just one or two tenths of the newly sprouted new shoots.

After making simple arrangements for his cave dwelling, Han Li used his escape light to travel alone to the nearby Tianxing City district.

He needs to purchase many things.

Upon entering a pharmacy, Han Li purchased several dozen inexpensive pill formulas with a few spirit stones.

In Tiannan, elixirs are priceless treasures.

In the Chaotic Star Sea, various pill formulas that utilize demon cores and spiritual herbs are like cheap, readily available items, practically worthless.

For example, there are at least forty or fifty different formulas for the Foundation Building Pill in each pharmacy.

They've become commonplace.

Moreover, here, materials from level three or four demonic beasts used to refine rare top-tier magic artifacts or even supreme-grade magic artifacts can be easily obtained for only a few dozen to a couple hundred spirit stones. Such materials are in greater supply than demand in Tianxing City and even throughout the entire Chaotic Star Sea.

Like various pill formulas, materials from low- to mid-level demonic beasts are readily available.

The only thing worth spirit stones is the demon core of a high-level demon beast.

One or two thousand spirit stones per stone.

Slightly less valuable are the spiritual materials from high-level demonic beasts that can be used to refine magical artifacts.

Materials for a level 5 demon beast can usually be obtained for five or six hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Its main selling point is high quality at a low price.

In Tiannan, materials from level two, three, or four monsters could be auctioned off.

In the Chaotic Star Sea, these are just ordinary junk items displayed in shop showcases to satisfy Qi Refining and early Foundation Establishment cultivators. The truly exquisite items are top-grade magical artifacts crafted from materials forging materials from high-level demonic beasts.

Items that can be auctioned at even slightly high-end auctions must be high-level demon cores.

The demon cores of ordinary level-five demonic beasts are not even worth mentioning here.

It must be a level 5 demon core with a special bloodline, or the inner core of a level 6 or 7 demon beast.

This is one of the main reasons why the Core Formation and Nascent Soul stages in the Chaotic Star Sea are generally slightly stronger than those in the Southern Heavenly Realm.

For example, Wei Wuyai, one of the three great cultivators of Tiannan, and Master Zhiyang.

One was overjoyed because of the scales of the level 8 venomous dragon.

Another thing caught my eye was the turtle shell left behind by an 8th-level turtle demon during its transformation tribulation.

Those two are powerful cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage.

Compare the four powerful Yuan Hou (primordial) beings of the Chaotic Star Sea.

No one would be tempted by materials from a mere level eight transformed demon beast, and they might not even look at level nine materials.

If the three Yuanhou from Tiannan were sent to the Chaotic Star Sea to fight the four Yuanhou from there, the three from Tiannan would definitely suffer a crushing defeat. They might even be defeated head-on by Liudao Jisheng and Ling Xiaofeng, leaving not even bone fragments behind.

Tiannan: The land is vast, but the resources are not abundant; there are only many spiritual stones and people.

The small city of Jiayuan has a population of over three million.

The Yue Kingdom had at least ten such large cities, and the entire Tiannan region had at least two or three thousand. And there were likely more.

Small towns with populations ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands are scattered throughout the south of the country, with their total number reaching hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Let's look at the chaotic sea of ​​stars again.

Chaotic Star Sea: Although the sea area is vast and the resources of monsters are countless, the proportion of cultivators is also quite considerable.

Unfortunately, the land is small, the living space for ordinary people is small, and the total population is very small.

Take Kui Xing Island, one of the twenty-four outer star islands, for example. Although it is two or three hundred miles long, its population may not be five million.

This is the reason why the Chaotic Star Sea Human Race has been unable to develop over tens of thousands of years.

"If I were the master of the Star Palace, I would definitely try every means to reclaim land from the sea and create more space suitable for mortals to live in. Or, I would make good use of the ancient teleportation array to allow more mortals to live and work in peace on the continent, and to allow more cultivators who want to climb the ranks to come to this chaotic star sea to explore and hone their skills."

Han Li thought to himself.

The fact that the Star Palace has never been able to unify the chaotic Star Sea is also due to the indecisiveness of its rulers in many aspects.
He wouldn't dare say how high his vision was, but he would never close the country off from the world.

Of course. It's also possible that being the Lord of the Star Palace isn't so easy.

There are limitations and other unknown aspects that he is unaware of.

Perhaps closing the country off from the world would be more beneficial for the survival of the Star Palace?

"Shopkeeper, do you have any pills that can enhance the magical power of those in the Core Formation stage?"

Han Li asked casually.

The middle-aged shopkeeper, upon hearing this, politely smiled apologetically.

"Senior, pills effective against Core Formation stage experts are highly sought after; they're usually snapped up as soon as they appear. If you need pills to help improve your Core Formation cultivation, you should visit the various auction houses in the Holy City more often. Or perhaps you could bid on a demon core and then refine it yourself..."

An auction house?

That's right.

Han Li nodded slightly.

His idea is also very simple.

That means bidding and hoarding cultivation resources for the Core Formation stage decades in advance, so that once the main body enters the Core Formation stage, there will be no need to rush around for pills to increase cultivation level for a short period of time.

Hunting monsters in the open sea?

He doesn't need it.

He has over 30,000 mid-grade spirit stones and hundreds of thousands of low-grade spirit stones in his high-grade storage bag, so why would he take that risk?

He bought some useful pill formulas and three Foundation Establishment Pills, and then went to the shop next door to buy a few high-quality magic artifacts that looked quite nice. The total cost was only one or two thousand spirit stones. This level of spending was not unusual for someone at the Pseudo-Core Formation stage.

Turn around.

He also visited an auction house in the area.

I noticed the auction for high-level demon cores.

Upon seeing the auction list, I immediately perked up.

Without waiting for the auction to begin, he returned to his cave dwelling, bringing with him his Sha Dan clone.

Talk about it.

The auction houses in Tianxing City operate in such a casual manner, unlike the broken rules in Tiannan where you have to close down and wait for the auction to end before you can leave.

Here.

Regardless of what you bid on, and whether you actually won the bid or not, you can leave the auction house immediately after paying the money and receiving the goods.

They can even turn back at any time, join the bidding midway, and so on.

Perhaps this is what auction houses should be like.

of course.

Only Tianxing City is like this.

Such a positive atmosphere exists only in Tianxing City, where the Star Palace is based, and only in the auction houses within the city.

Sure enough, when he re-entered the auction house, the demon beast core he wanted hadn't even been officially auctioned yet. He could come and go as he pleased, with no one stopping him.

"... "

Half an hour later.

Han Li, wearing a Thousand Illusion Sect cultivator's mask to conceal his face, arrived with his Sha Dan clone.

The mask worn by the Thousand Illusions Sect is strikingly similar to the veil Gan Rushuang wore before entering the Crimson Forbidden Land. Furthermore, like the veil worn by Zi Ling in the original timeline, both serve the purpose of concealing the face.

Since it doesn't conceal one's cultivation level or physical form, and is merely a magical artifact, it doesn't attract much attention.

Moreover, in the cultivation world, there are many cultivators who don't want to show their faces. In this auction house where thousands of people have gathered, at least a hundred people are wearing various masks and veils.

Especially those who are plain-looking.

"The inner core of a level-five crested dragon, starting bid 4,000 spirit stones. Each bid must increase by at least 100 spirit stones..."

At the auction, the auctioneer displayed the inner core of a high-level demon beast within a halo, vividly enticing the cultivators present to bid.

"A starting bid of only four thousand spirit stones?"

Inside a private room, Han Li's eyes shone brightly.

In his view, this was simply a windfall.

He got a freebie for free.

But from a nearby private room came a mocking voice:
"It's just a level 5 crested dragon's inner core, yet the starting bid is a whopping four thousand spirit stones? Why doesn't the April Merchant Guild just rob it?"

Han Li: "..."

So, I was the one who got the short end of the stick?
Ok.

He'll take the fall for this kind of sucker:
"Four thousand one hundred spirit stones."

The clone of the Demonic Core spoke.

next door:"…"

Is this guy an idiot?
Could this be a plant hired by the April Chamber of Commerce?
Damn it, it's these bastards who are driving up prices, which is why the price of demon cores in Xinghai has been generally high recently.

Ten or twenty years ago, this kind of demon core would have sold for a maximum of three thousand five hundred spirit stones.

"Four thousand one hundred spirit stones once... twice... three times! Sold!"

"Congratulations to this senior for successfully bidding on a rare level-five crested dragon inner core!"

The auctioneer laughed excitedly, creating a lively atmosphere.

However, at the auction, a group of cultivators remained unmoved.

They looked at the private room where Han Li and his Sha Dan clone were, their expressions like they were looking at a landlord's foolish son.

　On the Chaotic Star Sea side, disregarding the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light, the situation is: Ling Xiaofeng > Six Paths Extreme Saint > Wan Sangu > Wen Qing.

　　The three great cultivators of Tiannan are on the same level as Wan Sangu and Wen Qing, but weaker than Liu Dao Jisheng and Ling Xiaofeng.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)