Cultivation Kill

The two teleported three times in a row and arrived at the 998 Arena City, next to the self-service teleportation machine.

Shi Yuan stopped an old man passing by, threw him a spirit stone, and asked him to randomly shuffle the numbers on it after the two of them teleported.

"No problem." The old man hugged the spirit stone, afraid that Shi Yuan would take it back.

Shen Zige and Shi Yuan threw the spirit stones into the teleportation machine, and two beams of light enveloped them, teleporting them away.

The old man didn't want to break his promise, so he went up and scrambled the teleportation distance number before leaving.

The two appeared in the abandoned cabin. The surrounding environment was dark and damp. Under the moonlight, mold could be seen crawling all over the broken wooden planks. Most of the wooden table was submerged in water. There was a hole about the height of a person on the right side of the ship. Looking out of the hole, the sky was filled with the glow of the sunset.

"Where is this?"

Shen Zige asked, as icy water seeped into his shoes, and half of his pants were already soaked.

"I don't know, I just randomly set the distance," Shi Yuan said. "It's more than 7,000 miles from the teleportation point, it seems like we've left the Bamboo Kingdom's territory."

Shen Zige recalled the map she had seen and asked:

"Which direction?"

Shi Yuan: "Northwest".

"We are within Uzbekistan."

Shen Zige said, "It should be between Xizhou and Laozhou."

“There are no city teleportation arrays in the Kingdom of U,” Shi Yuan said. “Both Star Realm Company and Starry Sky Company want to open branches in the Kingdom of U, but the Kingdom of U’s council of elders has not agreed.”

“Even Star Realm has its setbacks,” Shen Zige said. “I thought they were invincible.”

“After all, Starry Sky Company’s strength is no less than that of Star Realm Company,” Shi Yuan said. “Wu Kingdom is a place where humans and demons live together. The strongest sect is the Great Yuan Sect. The patriarch of the Great Yuan Sect is the Grand Elder of the Wu Kingdom Elders’ Council. His strength is about the same as the heads of the two companies sent to Wenxing. So we can refuse them.”

“Even if the Grand Elder of the Ukrainian Kingdom refuses the two companies, they wouldn’t dare to offend the people of the two companies too much. After all, the two companies could easily send down even more powerful executives and wipe out the Ukrainian Kingdom with ease,” Shi Yuan added. “Asking for assistance from higher-ups would make them seem incompetent, so the heads of the companies will not do so unless they are in dire straits.”

As they walked and talked, the water gurgling beneath their feet, Shen Zige noticed that the two-masted sailboat was moored on the shore, half of it tilted into the water.

"Does this world even have cannonballs?" Shen Zige asked, looking at the holes in the ship's hull.

"No, it was probably caused by an explosion resulting from the fusion of the five elements' spiritual power by cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage," Shi Yuan concluded after observation and analysis.

"The fusion of the five elements?" Shen Zige asked rhetorically.

"Wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, water generates wood, the five elements generate each other in an endless cycle." Shi Yuan explained, "After reaching the foundation stage, one's divine sense greatly increases, allowing one to control the five elements' spells to fuse in the same proportion during attacks, causing extremely powerful explosive damage."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zige understood and instantly cast five spells. The spells merged in a mutually reinforcing order, forming a colorful sphere.

"Is this the fusion spell of the five elements generating each other?"

Shen Zige controlled the fusion ball and flew it toward the abandoned two-masted sailboat next to her.

boom--

A deafening explosion erupted, flames splattered and water sprayed everywhere. The magical light of metal, wood, and earth elements pierced through the ship like sharp blades, leaving it riddled with holes as if a giant hedgehog had rolled over it.

"Your spells are more powerful than those of an average Foundation Establishment cultivator!"

Shi Yuan seemed unable to believe his eyes, "I thought I was improving quickly, but I didn't expect you to be even faster. We're both at the late stage of Spirit Condensation, but I'm no match for you now!"

“We’re both at the late stage of Spirit Condensation, but you’re at the seventh level and I’m at the tenth level of Spirit Condensation at the Great Perfection,” Shen Zige said. “There’s still a gap. You’ll have to work twice as hard to catch up.”

The spiritual power of his thirty-six real acupoints and thirty-six illusory acupoints is exchanged, so the power of his normal spells is twice that of cultivators of the same realm. In addition, his divine sense is close to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and he also has perfect mind control, so that the process of mutual generation and fusion of the five elements does not deplete the power of the spells. The explosive power is naturally far greater than that of ordinary early stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Shi Yuan was unaware that Foundation Establishment cultivators without the Mind Control Technique would lose about 70% of their divine sense by relying solely on vague perception and the fusion of the Five Elements, leaving only 30% of their spell power. In contrast, Shen Zige's spell power was close to 100%, a difference of 3.3 times!

In the distance, a small village is nestled among the mountains and forests. At this moment, wisps of smoke rise from the chimneys of many houses, and children play and frolic in front of the houses, waiting for dinner.

"Let's find lodging in the village tonight and set off again tomorrow." Shen Zige looked away.

“Okay, let’s calculate the spirit stones and split them evenly before we set off.” Shi Yuan said, pouring out a large pile of spirit stones and spirit tickets from his storage bag, almost drowning Shen Zige. “I’ll put out eighteen tickets, some for 60,000 and some for 50,000, for a total of 1,010,000.”

Shen Zige also poured the spirit stones and spirit tickets from her storage ring onto the riverbank.

Two piles of sacred stones appeared on the riverbank, resembling two artificial mountains.

"The total value of the spirit stones and spirit tickets is 1.03 million, which is 20,000 more than yours."

"A total of two million four hundred thousand, one million two hundred thousand per person," Shi Yuan said. "Do you want spirit stones or spirit tickets?"

“Spirit stones, of course,” Shen Zige replied immediately.

Although spirit stones are not very convenient for large-scale commercial transactions, they can be used directly for cultivation. If you happen to fall into a dangerous place, you can absorb spirit stones to save your life.

"Then you keep the spirit stones safe, and I'll collect the spirit tickets." Shi Yuan said, immediately picking up the spirit tickets one by one.

Shen Zige used his divine sense to store the spirit stones into his storage ring, but unfortunately there were only 700,000 spirit stones. He had to use spirit tickets to store the remaining 320,000.

With nearly half of the storage ring occupied by spirit stones, Shen Zige was delighted. It was still faster to make money with Shi Yuan. He could take revenge and make money at the same time. He was now a millionaire with millions of spirit stones!

If he were still running his shop, he would earn a little over a thousand spirit stones a year. It would take him seven or eight hundred years of running his shop without eating or drinking to earn more than a million spirit stones!

It all feels like a dream!

Shi Yuan smiled broadly: "Who told them to have loopholes in their business? After all, the cultivation world is like our ancient times, with many opportunities to make money. I even saw a time traveler opening a department store, which contained their inventions such as glasses, soap, telescopes, and pulleys."

“It’s easy for time travelers to make money using their knowledge,” Shen Zige said. “But they overlook one thing: this is a world of cultivation, where the strong prey on the weak. The nobles or big shots in the city can easily find a reason to swallow up their shops after they’ve made their money.”

“That’s right. Star Realm Company won’t allow you to register your business with them unless you reach a certain scale,” Shi Yuan said. “Your store is only able to register with Star Realm Company because it belongs to Jingyuan Group.”

"With so many spirit stones from the Wuding Merchant Alliance, we'll never have to worry about spirit stones again," Shen Zige said.

"That's about the cost of two high-grade spiritual artifacts," Shi Yuan said. "We'll run out of them sooner or later, so we need to use these spirit stones wisely to improve our cultivation level."

After tidying up, the two headed towards the village in the distance.

The sun sets, and night falls.