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Chapter 157 Fellow Daoist Xiao is indeed generous!
A group of four people came to the yard.

Qiu Qichen then asked, "Fellow Daoist Xiao, since we have some free time these past two days, a few friends and I are planning to hold an exchange meeting to share what we have."

"The time is set for tonight."

"If you are not busy, why not stay and take a look?"

Xiao Chen agreed and nodded, "No problem. I just happen to have some things I don't need."

"However, I came out with a feeling today. Is there a quiet place here, Fellow Daoist Qiu?"

Of course, this is not the reason. Xiao Chen doesn’t have any insights at all.

He just wanted to study what was going on with that strange spirit bead.

"Of course no problem, come on."

Qiu Qichen immediately called the maid and arranged a good room for Xiao Chen.

Qiu Qichen’s so-called humble abode is actually not simple at all.

Not only is it located in the most central area of ​​the market town, but it is also an entire garden.

There are towers, ponds, rockery, temples, and a ten-acre back garden inside.

There is no other courtyard as large as this in the entire Xianghefang City.

The furnishings in the house are also extremely extraordinary, and the materials and workmanship are impeccable.

Just the bed used for meditation and rest is a mandarin duck thousand-work bed.

"Good guy, it's made by Zemu."

Xiao Chen sat on the edge of the bed and found that the bed was actually made of wood.

If this is not a coincidence, could it be that the other party has prepared instruments with different attributes based on the guests' five elements of spiritual roots?

This is a bit extravagant. I don’t know what the background of this Fellow Daoist Qiu is.

But these things are not important, the key now is the spirit pearl.

Xiao Chen took out the broken spirit bead again. Judging from the marks, it seemed that a crack had been cut by a flying sword.

When magic power was injected into it, a bright white light appeared, indicating that its original grade was extraordinary.

Just looking at it this way, there is nothing unusual.

However, once you use the "Spiritual Eyes to Break Delusion" to observe, you can see a bright red light coming from the cracks.

And the deeper you go into the spirit pearl, the brighter the light becomes, even a little dazzling.

Xiao Chen took a closer look and felt that there seemed to be a blood-red mist inside.

"Hiss, it looks a bit like something from the devil's way."

"But there's no sense of any demonic soldier, nor any residual demonic energy."

"what on earth is it?"

In fact, this is normal. Any demonic weapon that is relatively easy to identify, even if it is a fragment, would have long been controlled by the Lingyuan Sect. How could it be possible for it to be left outside like this?

After all, we are a righteous sect, so we should have some responsibility.

But the problem now is that the spiritual eye really saw the abnormality, and because of the divine veil, there is no need to consider whether this is an illusion.

After Xiao Chen tried to detect it with his spiritual sense but failed, he tried to inject his magic power into the interior of the spirit bead and stuck it directly on it.

Anyway, he has the Divine Veil, so he is not afraid of being poisoned at all.

Who knew that as soon as the red mist touched his magic power, it seemed to have found its target in an instant, and immediately rushed into his dantian along the magic power.

Xiao Chen only felt that his dantian seemed to be pierced by a needle.

He immediately used his spiritual sense to look inward at his Dantian, but he only saw a thin red thread appearing on the spiritual flower that was manifested by his "Spiritual Cultivation Technique".

Ok?
"What's happening here?"

Xiao Chen frowned. The red light in front of him had disappeared, obviously absorbed by him.

It seems that it even affected his own spiritual flowers. After all, the color is wrong.

But the problem is that the divine veil did not work.

"So this isn't a negative state?"

Xiao Chen tried to practice the technique, wanting to feel the difference.

However, nothing unusual was found and everything was the same as before.

"Eh? Could it be that the technique is wrong?"

Xiao Chen thought about it, took out the "Blood Sea Divine Fire Record" that he had seized before from his storage bag, and tried to use the magic fire described in it.

This time it was indeed different. The red line immediately turned into mist again and suddenly shot out from his fingertips along with his magic power.

A ball of blood-red flame suddenly erupted in front of him.

Its power was far beyond Xiao Chen's expectations.

It even caused the jade pendant on his waist to activate automatically, and several water curtains opened up on their own, protecting him tightly like a lotus.

"Fuck!"

Xiao Chen blinked his eyes, and just with that, almost everything in the room was burned to ashes.

Even a water curtain was burned through, and a large amount of white steam was evaporated in the room.

"Is it because of that red line?"

Xiao Chen tried to cast the magic fire again, but this time, he lacked proficiency and did not use blood essence to practice.

He could only barely condense a small cluster of magic fire at his fingertips, which was almost as bright as a candle.

And after flickering for a moment, it went out due to poor circulation of magic power.

This is actually the normal situation. If you use spells that you have not practiced before, of course they will not be very powerful.

"So that wisp of mist amplified the power of the demonic fire by dozens of times?"

Xiao Chen looked at the furniture around him that had turned to ash. "Just a wisp of mist can have such an effect. If I had a whole cloud of it, wouldn't I be invincible?"

Such power is already very close to the red flame glow blessed by his own Yang Fire Seal, and it should definitely not be underestimated.

It is said that the various methods used by the Demon Cult are strange and bizarre, but I don’t know what this special method is.

"It would be best to find out what this is so that we can be prepared for future encounters."

Although Xiao Chen still doesn't know what the strange fog is, he has roughly guessed its source.

Judging from the cracks, this should have been left inside the spirit bead accidentally by a demon cultivator when fighting with a righteous cultivator.

Because of its special secrecy, it was not discovered afterwards and ended up in Xianghefang Market.

Only by finding the source of this blood-colored mist can we figure out what it is.

"I guess it's not easy to find, let's take our time."

Xiao Chen thought about it and realized that since he had not received any relevant warnings, it meant that this method should not have been discovered by his colleagues on the front line.

It can be further inferred that this should be just an immature method of the Divine Fire Cult, and it is very likely that it has only been used on a small scale in a certain area.

It could even be a certain demon cultivator, and it is not certain whether an individual has the opportunity.

Otherwise, such a powerful weapon would have been known to everyone long ago.

In this case, tracing the source is not an easy task.

It would be better to wait until he becomes a Demon Slayer and can move freely before searching for clues, which would be more efficient and convenient.

Xiao Chen put away the spirit bead and kept this in mind.

Then he began to refine the storage bag from the street vendor.

Sure enough, although there were still quite a few artifact fragments in the storage bag, there were no fragments of top-grade artifacts, let alone fragments with blood-red mist.
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In addition to the fragments, there are also 723 spirit stones, two top-grade magic shields, a top-grade gambling compass, seven different grades of spirit incense and several books of Xuan-level skills.

Xiao Chen flipped through the pile of martial arts techniques and found a book called "Introduction to Treasure Hunting" and a book called "Eight Common Treasure Hunting Methods".

"He's actually a gambler. No wonder he's so poor."

The so-called "hundred arts of cultivation" is naturally a general term, and does not mean that there are really a hundred kinds of Taoist arts.

But there are definitely more than just four things: elixirs, weapons, talismans and arrays. These four are just the most famous, the most popular, and the ones that the most cultivators study.

Treasure hunting is a skill that many people know about, but is actually a very unpopular skill.

The so-called treasure hunt is actually to use special means to find opportunities lost in the outside world.

In fact, it is somewhat related to fortune-telling, but it is not the same.

Because the requirements to become a fortune teller are extremely high, most cultivators cannot even get started.

But it is much easier to become a treasure hunter, basically everyone can do it.

But of course there are inherent reasons why unpopular things are unpopular.

For treasure hunters, the first hurdle is the high cost.

If you want to find treasure, you need to use various things to find the way, such as incense.

Xiao Chen roughly checked the seven different grades of spiritual incense, and found that four of them were produced by the Xiong family in Hezhou alone.

Although I don't know much about the market situation, I estimate that it will cost at least a thousand spirit stones.

According to the "Eight Common Treasure Hunting Methods", the incense method is to light incense and then follow the guidance of the incense to explore for treasures.

This kind of exploration can take ten days or half a month, so the cost of one exploration is several hundred spirit stones.

The second hurdle is the harvest of exploration.

In theory, treasure hunters are mainly looking for various secret places, relics, and blessed places.

Of course, this kind of talk is just for your listening.

Most of the time, it is already very good for most treasure hunters to pick up a magical weapon left behind by a cultivator and obtain a book of martial arts.

But the problem is that throughout history, there have always been a few people who have been incredibly lucky.

It turned out that they could actually find hidden ruins and get a lot of rewards from them, which stimulated more treasure hunters to follow suit and want to get rich.

All in all, in Xiao Chen's opinion, this thing is not much different from gambling.

It is worth mentioning that it is the huge demand for spiritual incense from these people that causes the price of elixir incense to remain high.

For example, when Xiao Chen spent the New Year at the Chen family, he received the high-quality sandalwood from the Xiong family.

It is still worth one spirit stone each and is in short supply.

The rest of the skills are not very interesting. They are just things that can be packaged and exchanged for spirit stones.

It took Xiao Chen an hour to finish studying the spirit beads and sort out the harvest.

After practicing for a while, it was already the You hour.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, all of you have arrived at the back garden."

Qiu Qichen's voice rang out from outside the room: "If it's convenient for you, fellow Daoist, how about we start our exchange meeting earlier?"

Xiao Chen stood up and opened the door: "Fellow Daoist Qiu, I'm so sorry."

"I just learned a new fire technique and accidentally damaged the furniture in the house." "It's a pity that you were so kind and helped me prepare a Zemu bed. May I know how many spirit stones you need? I will make up for it."

Qiu Qichen looked inside and saw more than just damage.

Apart from the ashes on the ground, there were only four bare walls left.

He quickly scanned the room with his spiritual sense and was immediately shocked.

Even the bed legs made of the second-level spiritual ore, Hanxin Iron, turned into a pool of molten iron and then solidified into a black iron sheet on the ground.

But what surprised Qiu Qichen even more was that even though such a fierce fire broke out in the house, the defensive formation set up in the yard did not react at all.

If he hadn't come and knocked on the door, the owner would have been unaware of it until now.

There are only two possibilities to do this.

Either Xiao Chen has a way to block the formation's monitoring, or prevent the formation from giving an alarm.

This means that the Qiu Mansion is almost defenseless to him.

Either the fire magic used by Xiao Chen was extremely powerful, and he melted the cold iron in just a moment, and just missed the sensing interval of the defensive formation.

This means that his strength is far greater than what he has shown before.

He is almost at the same level as the top few foundation-building cultivators.

No matter which possibility it is, it cannot but make people feel fearful.

Qiu Qichen's pupils shrank slightly, and a hint of solemnity appeared in his eyes.

But a smile appeared on his face: "Haha, what are you talking about, Brother Xiao? They are just some broken furniture."

"I've actually been wanting to throw them away and replace them with new ones for a while, but I haven't had the chance to give the order yet."

"Fellow Daoist Xiao just happened to help me clean them up, saving me the trouble."

what?
Xiao Chen wanted to compensate according to the price, but Qiu Qichen refused to accept anything.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, let's go to the back garden first, so as not to keep the other Daoists waiting anxiously."

Xiao Chen had no choice but to give up, and the two of them went to the back garden together.

Since it was the first month of the lunar year, during the short time of the argument, the last ray of sunset in the sky also fell behind the mountain.

Looking up, I saw dusk all around and the distant mountains were dark blue.

Hundreds of lanterns were already lit in the back garden, and the swaying warm orange light seemed somewhat peaceful.

Many monks who arrived early have already sat down in the three flower-viewing pavilions in the middle.

Qiu Qichen brought Xiao Chen to the pavilion. Seeing that everyone had arrived, he directly proposed: "It is an honor for me, Qiu, that you fellow Taoists are willing to come and participate in this exchange meeting."

"We are all acquaintances, so I won't say any more polite words."

"Let's follow the usual practice and take out the items we brought in turn. It would be best if we could explain their effects. Finally, we can talk about what we would like to exchange for."

"This time, Fellow Daoist Jin will go first and go from east to west."

After saying that, Qiu Qichen also took two steps back and found an empty seat to sit down.

A middle-aged monk wearing a golden Taoist robe and with a fat body stood up.

He first bowed to everyone present, then smiled and took out a flying sword: "My fellow Daoists, I have a pair of top-grade flying swords produced in the Eastern Region."

"It's called the Cang Tao Mother and Child Sword. As the name suggests, there's a child sword hidden within the mother sword."

"This sword is made of golden stone, and is specifically designed to break the protective aura."

As he spoke, he took out the sword, injected a trace of magic power into it, and showed everyone the golden light swimming on its surface.

Then he said, "I want to exchange it for a defensive shield of the same level. If any of you fellow Taoists have a fine shield, you can bring it out and discuss it."

"If the quality is good, I can give you another thousand spirit stones."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen shook his head slightly.

Although the Zang Tao mother-and-child sword is indeed a good item, the value of a defensive weapon is inherently higher than that of an offensive weapon.

What's more, the war is still going on, and all kinds of defensive magic weapons have been consumed greatly, and are almost in short supply.

The price naturally rose as well. Even if one added a thousand spirit stones, it would not be enough to make up for the difference.
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The others had a similar judgment to Xiao Chen's, and no one was willing to exchange a defensive magic weapon for this flying sword.

After waiting for a while and finding that no one spoke, Fellow Daoist Jin consciously returned to his seat.

A female cultivator in a red dress on his left immediately stood up and said, "I brought two hundred kilograms of hundred-forged meteorite this time."

As she spoke, she slapped her storage bag, and immediately a one-foot square, pitch-black iron ingot appeared in her hand.

"Whether it's forging a flying sword or casting a shield, this hundred-forged meteorite iron is a top-quality spiritual material."

"What I want to exchange for is a second-level spiritual object for cultivation, whether it is a gold spiritual object or a five-element spiritual object."

Originally, when Brother Jin saw the Hundred Forged Meteorite Iron, his eyes lit up.

If you can't exchange it for a defensive magic shield, exchanging it for meteorite iron seems to be a good choice.

But when he heard the request of the female cultivator in red skirt, he immediately sighed.

Spiritual objects for cultivation are always scarce treasures. Not to mention that he doesn't have them, even if he does, he would not be willing to exchange them.

Unsurprisingly, this request went unanswered.

The female cultivator in the red dress waited for a while and then retreated with some regret.

However, she is also not in a hurry because the exchange will be a multi-party game that will last for a long time, and many transactions will be concentrated at the end.

Maybe someone has already been tempted, but is still waiting to see if there will be better items more worthy of exchange later.

Therefore, for the first two things, unless they are urgently needed by a certain monk, it is very normal for them to be unpopular.

There will be several more rounds of re-trading opportunities later.

Then everyone took turns taking out the items they brought, all of which were rare and valuable things.

A few items were sold one after another, but most of them were like the previous two types and failed to immediately impress others.

Xiao Chen noticed that the items being exchanged can be divided into two categories:
The first category comes from Hezhou, and most of them are spiritual objects such as hundred-forged meteorite iron, water-refined Qingyang stone, and Xutu Lingsha.

The second category comes from the Eastern Region. In addition to the Zang Tao mother and child swords, there are also special magical tools such as the Breaking Waves Flying Boat and the portable array plate of the Spirit Gathering Array.

At the same time, he also discovered that the words "Huidong Chamber of Commerce" were engraved on the Breaking Waves Flying Boat and the portable formation plate in places where there were no instrument patterns.

It seems that they were all sold from the Eastern Region to Hezhou through the Huidong Chamber of Commerce.

The person holding the portable array plate of the Spirit Gathering Array is a young man in a white robe, and what he wants to exchange for it is a ground-level inheritance.

And the requirements are very broad. Except for the inheritance seized from the Demon Cult, any other kind of inheritance is acceptable.

Xiao Chen immediately became interested when he heard this. He actually had a ground-level sword-fighting inheritance in his hand that he could not use.

This thing came from Wen Shishi, whom I met in Huangfeng Valley.

Since I haven't encountered any good opportunities, and a secret book doesn't take up much space, I kept it and didn't sell it.

Now that he has the Spirit Gathering Array Plate this time, he would be happy to exchange it for use.

After all, there is no need to say much about the importance of spiritual energy to practitioners.

Moreover, even if such things are not used in the future, it is not difficult to sell them again, as there are many people who want them.

Then a few more people passed by.

When it was Xiao Chen's turn, everyone's attention was already focused on him before he could even stand up.

Everyone here is well-informed.

Recently, they have all heard of Xiao Chen's name, and just saw the earth-level inheritance he gave.

At this time, everyone is looking forward to what good things he will come up with.

However, no one expected that Xiao Chen would look at Qiu Qichen first: "Speaking of which, this is my first time attending an exchange meeting."

"I wonder if the rule here is that you can only take one spiritual item at a time, or can you exchange multiple spiritual items at the same time?"

The reason he asked this was because he saw that the monks in front of him only took out one item.

Qiu Qichen complimented him first: "Fellow Daoist Xiao is indeed very generous!"

Then he explained: "It is just for the convenience of the fellow Taoists who come later. We will divide it into several rounds here, and only take out one item for exchange in each round."

"Also, for the first three rounds, duplicate items will not be exchanged."

Xiao Chen nodded and said, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Qiu, for clearing up my confusion. In that case, the item I want to exchange for the first round is the Iron Bone Pill."

"I think you all are familiar with Iron Bone Pills."

"This elixir, improved from the Divine Fire Sect, can strengthen a cultivator's physique when taken alone."

"Taking more than 108 pills cumulatively will grant one bones of steel, greatly increasing the cultivator's physique and boosting resistance to Five Elements spells."

While introducing, Xiao Chen took out the Iron Bone Pill he carried with him.

Upon seeing this, the monks present were stunned for a moment.

Since the Iron Bone Pill can improve combat capabilities, and the recipe was just cracked three months ago, it was not stockpiled in advance.

Therefore, the quantity of this thing is extremely limited now, and Lingyuan Sect can only provide a stable supply to the Xunmei Mountain-Luoyan Mountain front.

There simply isn't much excess production.

But what do they see now?
Xiao Chen actually took out a full one hundred bottles of Iron Bone Pills in one breath. How powerful is his background?
The Lingyuan Sect's Alchemy Hall can't be opened by your own family, right?

Qiu Qichen was even more stunned. He was not on the front line because he was on duty as the inspector of Xianghefang City.

Now, I have only been allocated five bottles of Iron Bones through family operations, and I still need six bottles to obtain Steel Bones.

Xiao Chen actually took out a hundred bottles at once. Is there anyone else in Lingyuan Sect who dares to do this?
He really couldn't figure out which path the other party was taking.
Xiao Chen considerately opened the stopper of a bottle of Iron Bone Pill, letting the fragrance of the pill waft around so that the other cultivators could identify its authenticity.

Then he proposed his own conditions: "Whether it is spiritual liquid or spiritual objects, as long as it is good things that can help with wood element cultivation, you can exchange it."

"The price is negotiable, but I only want the best quality."

This batch of pills has been kept in the storage bag for several months, and there has been no suitable channel to sell them.

Since he came to the exchange meeting today, Xiao Chen thought of using it to exchange for some spiritual objects for his own cultivation.

A Taoist nun with her hair in a bun spoke decisively, "Fellow Daoist Xiao, I have eight ounces of Rongchun Lingsha here. I wonder if I can exchange it for eleven bottles of Tiegu Dan."

Rongchun Lingsha is similar to Yanguang Lingsha and can greatly increase the speed of practicing wood-based spells.

Xiao Chen thought about it and felt that the value of these two things was about the same.

After all, as a cultivator with wood spiritual roots, he doesn't have any second-level wood-related spells at the moment, which is quite strange.

Now that I have Rongchun Lingsha, I can find a wood spell to quickly make up for it.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, I have a bottle of Five-Light Mysterious Water here. How about exchanging it for nine bottles of Iron Bone Pills?"

Another person spoke up. He was a cultivator from the front line of Xunmei Mountain. He had taken two bottles of Iron Bone Pill before, so he only needed nine bottles to achieve bones of steel.

The others also spoke up, vying to take out spiritual objects for exchange.

Soon all the one hundred bottles of Iron Bone Pills were sold out.

Xiao Chen also successfully exchanged for a total of eight top-level wood-type spiritual objects. From then on until he reached the great perfection of foundation building, he would no longer have to worry about spiritual objects.

(End of this chapter)