Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

Disciples from the four top-tier factions—the Divine Fist Sect, the Myriad Poisons Sect, the Vast Righteousness Academy, and the Golden Radiance Palace—have come to Yuehai County to excavate a treasure. This treasure is the tomb of a half-step Earthly Venerable Realm expert, the Blood Blade Venerable. Each of the four factions possesses a key, and the tomb requires the combined keys of all four to open. To train their younger disciples, the four factions have sent their disciples in teams.

The information indicated by the copper bowl was seen.

Gu Chen was taken aback.

A treasure of a half-step Earthly Venerable Realm expert.

His eyes lit up.

What a wonderful thing!

I wonder if he'll have a chance to get involved.

If he could get his hands on it, the resources inside would allow him to break through to an unknown level.

This matter deserves careful planning.

The next day.

Gu Chen approached Cheng Mengling and said, "Recently, a group of disciples from the top-tier Haoran Academy have arrived in Jiuwan City. Have someone secretly keep an eye on their movements, and let me know if they do anything unusual."

"Yes." Cheng Mengling turned and went to carry out the order.

Haoran Academy is one of the Seven Palaces.

Gu Chen instructed her to send someone to keep an eye on the disciples of Haoran Academy, and she did so.

I didn't ask why.

Now the Cheng family has completely become Gu Chen's subordinate force.

They should be aware of the importance of having subordinate forces.

If Gu Chen asks her to do something, she should just have someone do it and not ask any other questions.

After Cheng Mengling left.

Gu Chen left the mansion.

Head to Blackrock Prefecture.

Gu Chen was preparing to go to Black Rock Prefecture to sell the Gathering Essence Pill and Great Condensation Pill that Luo Tianxing had given him last night.

He had originally planned to sell it to the Cheng family.

But considering that the Cheng family has now become his subordinate force, if he sells it to the Cheng family, it will be easy for outsiders to find out that he did not actually take those two pills to cultivate.

It is easy to arouse suspicion from others.

It would be better if he changed his identity and sold it secretly himself.

As Gu Chen left Jiuwan City.

Among the Tianwan Gang in Jiuwan City.

A group of disciples from Haoran Academy swaggered in.

Several members of the Tianwan gang tried to stop them, but were kicked several meters away and knocked unconscious on the spot.

Then none of the gang members dared to stop them.

We arrived at the main hall of the Tianwan Gang.

The arrogant disciple of Haoran Academy went to sit in the seat of the Tianwan Gang leader and said to the angry Tianwan Gang members around him, "Go and have your gang leader come to see me. In less than a quarter of an hour, we will tear down your lousy gang."

The members of the Tianwan gang around the area dared not speak out against their anger.

The only option was to go and invite their leader.

soon.

The leader of the Tianwan Gang, along with his two deputy leaders and four senior members, all arrived in a menacing manner.

Upon arriving at the living room, they saw that the people causing trouble in their gang's territory were a group of disciples from the Haoran Academy.

He immediately wilted.

Haoran Academy, one of the Seven Palaces.

Its ranking is even above the Eighth Faction.

Such a top-tier power is something their small Tianwan Gang simply cannot afford to offend.

Zhong Qian, the leader of the Tianwan Gang, immediately turned to the disciples of Haoran Academy and said ingratiatingly, "Distinguished gentlemen, what brings you to my humble Tianwan Gang?"

Seeing the sycophantic attitude of the Tianwan Gang leader, Su Lin, the leading disciple of Haoran Academy, snorted coldly and said, "We need your Tianwan Gang to do something for us. If you do it well, there will be a reward; if you don't, your Tianwan Gang will have no reason to exist anymore."

Upon hearing this...

Zhong Qian was startled and quickly asked, "What do you all want us to do? As long as it is within our power, we will do it without hesitation or slackness."

"Gather all your gang members, bring shovels and other digging tools. We need you to help excavate an ancient tomb," Su Lin said. "During the excavation, you'd better keep your mouths shut. If you leak the news about the tomb excavation, I will hold you accountable."

"Excavate an ancient tomb." Zhong Qian was startled upon hearing this and hurriedly replied, "Yes, yes, I understand. I will gather the gang members immediately to do this for you all."

"Okay." Su Lin nodded and said, "Go and gather the men and tools. We'll take you to the location of the ancient tomb."

That ancient tomb of the Venerable One.

It is hidden in the mountains of Xiling.

According to the descriptions of the treasure maps obtained by the four families.

A mountain needs to be dug up to find the entrance to the cemetery.

This is a big project.

Without outsourcing, relying on their own strength, it's hard to say when they'll be able to dig through this mountain.

Besides, they are scholars, upright and honest, how could they do such dirty and tiring work as digging?

At this point, we need to find some manual laborers.

The Tianwan Gang in Jiuwan City is not strong overall; it doesn't even have a fourth-level expert in the Innate Realm.

Fortunately, there were many people, numbering in the thousands.

They are usually escorted at the dry dock.

Taking them to dig up graves is just right.

soon.

Su Lin and a group of Haoran Academy disciples, along with a large number of Tianwan Gang members and digging tools, headed towards the location of the tomb treasure recorded on the treasure map.

Meanwhile, in Huangshi City, the disciples of the Divine Fist Sect also found a small, third-rate gang in the city to help them dig up the grave.

Although the Divine Fist Sect practices martial arts and possesses considerable strength, they would naturally disdain doing work like digging.

This kind of thing, of course, should be done by some third-rate, lowly forces.

In their presence, these third-rate, lowly forces had no say whatsoever; if they dared not come to help, they would die.

The disciples of Jin Yao Palace also found a third-rate aristocratic family in Yunyan City and gathered manpower for them to dig up the grave.

The Venerable One's tomb is located in the Xiling Mountains outside Xiling City.

It is closest to Xiling City, where the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect is based.

At this time, the disciples of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect had already invited a third-rate force from Xiling City to help them begin digging the tomb.

The forces brought in by the other three families.

They didn't arrive here until the afternoon.

The four major powers recruited several thousand people from four third-rate forces.

Although the mountains that press down on this cemetery in the Xiling Mountains are very tall.

But so many people are digging day and night.

It will take no more than half a month to dig it open and reveal the entrance to the cemetery.

The disciples of the four major powers stayed in the Xiling Mountains to supervise the construction and did not leave.

Everything will be decided once these four third-rate forces they've recruited have dug up the grave.

At this time.

On Gu Chen's side.

He also arrived at Black Rock Mansion.

They arrived at Medicine King Pavilion, an organization that buys and sells spiritual herbs and high-grade materials.

Gu Chen cut to the chase and asked, "Do you accept Great Condensation Pills and Gathering Cycle Pills here?"

This is the Medicine King Pavilion.

The power behind it is the Medicine King Hall, one of the Six Halls.

The Six Palaces are ranked above the Seven Palaces.

It is a power with a half-step terrestrial immortal in charge, second only to the five transcendent families.

The Medicine King Hall is dedicated to the cultivation and refining of medicinal herbs.

Generally, only prefecture-level cities have their own branches that handle the acquisition and sale of medicinal herbs.

The shopkeeper of the Medicine King Pavilion was surprised to find that Gu Chen had come to sell two Rank 7 pills: the Minor Breakthrough Pill Gathering Pill and the Rank 7 Top-Tier Pill Great Condensation Pill.

The Gathering Cyclone Pill allows a seventh-grade True Essence Realm expert to quickly condense a True Essence Cyclone and break through the barrier of a minor realm.

It rarely circulates outside the local area.

It's worth 30,000 taels of silver, but usually, when you find one, someone will be willing to pay a premium for it.

One Great Condensing Essence Pill is equivalent to ten Condensing Essence Pills. Absorbing this Great Condensing Essence Pill during cultivation can save a lot of time in refining and cultivating. The market price is around ten thousand taels of silver per pill.

"Sir, we buy both of these kinds of pills. How many do you have, and at what price do you plan to sell them?" the shopkeeper asked Gu Chen.

His current cultivation level is at the early stage of the True Essence Realm.

If the price is right, he plans to buy it for Gu Chen himself.

Use it to break through your own limitations.

"I have one of each of these two types of pills," Gu Chen said. "As for the price, let's say 45,000 taels of silver for the Gathering Essence Pill and 15,000 taels of silver for the Great Condensation Essence Pill."

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper frowned slightly and said, "Sir, you're too kind. Although the Gathering Spin Pill is a minor breakthrough pill of the seventh rank, many top forces have the method to refine it. It's just that the pills won't flow out to the outside world."

"My Medicine King Hall has this kind of pill. Normally, it is sold at a maximum price of 5,000 taels of silver above the market price, and at most 30,000 taels when sold to our inner disciples."

"You want to sell one to us for 45,000 taels of silver? That's too much of a premium. The same goes for the Great Condensation Pill. Although it can reduce the cultivation time of True Essence Realm experts..."

"But if you sell a single Great Qi Condensation Pill at three times the price, others can buy thirty Qi Condensation Pills for the same price, so no one will be willing to buy it."

"Alright then." The shopkeeper looked at Gu Chen: "I will purchase the Gathering Essence Pill for 34,000 taels of silver, and the Great Condensation Essence Pill for 11,000 taels of silver. What do you think?"

"Thirty-four thousand taels for the Gathering Essence Pill, and eleven thousand taels for the Great Condensation Essence Pill." Gu Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Alright."

Gu Chen took out the two pills.

The shopkeeper accepted the pill with a smile and said, "Don't worry, sir. The price I'm giving you is absolutely the highest among all the medicinal herb purchasing agencies in the entire Black Rock Prefecture. If you go to other agencies, you can only get a maximum of 33,000 taels of silver for a single Gathering Essence Pill, and a maximum of around 10,800 taels for a Great Condensation Essence Pill."

He wasn't lying.

He gave Gu Chen over a thousand taels of silver to buy it so that he could break through his own limits.

Otherwise, if the purchase price stipulated by the Medicine King Pavilion were used, Gu Chen would only receive the silver he mentioned later.