Chapter 393 - 195: Destroying the Divine Fire Sect: Exchanging for Spiritual Fire
Chapter 393: Chapter 195: Destroying the Divine Fire Sect: Exchanging for Spiritual Fire
"How about I trade this for the Spiritual Fire you have?"
Setting up such a large-scale Defensive Array was incredibly complicated. If he just kept it in his Storage Bag, he would end up selling it anyway.
Besides, with the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers destroyed, they would definitely need a Sect Protection Array when they rebuilt. He might as well use this to settle the payment.
Master Yaohua’s eyes lit up, but then her brow furrowed slightly. "Of course I want this Defense Array."
"It’s just that a Tier Three Grand Array is incredibly valuable. I’m afraid three Spiritual Fires won’t be enough."
"But I’m short on Spiritual Objects right now, and I don’t have anything else suitable to trade."
She did, of course, have a reserve of Tier Three Spiritual Objects, but they were all extremely important. They were crucial for the revival of the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers and could not be used lightly.
"That’s no problem."
Xiao Chen immediately proposed, "You must have Spirit Stones on you, right? You can just use Spirit Stones to make up the difference."
Huh?
Master Yaohua hadn’t even considered using Spirit Stones to make up the difference.
In the Southern Domain, because Tier Three Spiritual Objects were so scarce, trades were always done by barter. Using currency was seen as intentionally taking advantage of the other party.
She quickly explained the reasoning behind this custom.
However, Xiao Chen didn’t care about such customs and said honestly, "Fellow Daoist Yaohua, you’re worrying too much. I was planning on selling this array for Spirit Stones anyway."
Once he said that, Master Yaohua no longer had any misgivings and readily agreed to the trade.
And so, Xiao Chen successfully traded for six Spiritual Fires.
Not long after, everyone dispersed to rest and review the day’s combat experience.
The less one engaged in Magical Combat, the more one had to cherish such precious battle experience.
Xiao Chen was about to leave when he suddenly received a voice transmission from the hitherto silent Shouyuan True Man: "Xiao, please stay behind. I will be waiting for you three hundred li due south of Elemental Magnetic Peak."
Hmm?
’What does he want?’
He wasn’t worried about his safety, so after flying two hundred li to the northwest, he quietly circled back south.
Sure enough, he saw Shouyuan True Man already waiting atop a mountain.
"May I ask why Shou Yuan called me here?"
"Xiao, have you ever considered going to the Eastern Domain?"
"Hmm?"
Xiao Chen blinked. Before he could answer, Shouyuan True Man continued on his own, "I have a story I’d like to tell you."
’He called me over in the middle of the night to tell me a story?’
’I mean, seriously, can’t you just say what you want to say?’
But Xiao Chen still smiled. "I’m listening."
The story was a bit of a cliché.
Three hundred years ago, the Lingyuan Sect produced a once-in-a-millennium prodigy—a Qilin Child.
He shattered all of Hezhou’s cultivation records.
In just twenty-four short years, he formed his Golden Core.
He was only forty years old that year. As the youngest Golden Core True Man in the history of Hezhou, he was brimming with ambition and boundless confidence.
Ignoring the pleas of his sect’s elders, he insisted on going to the Eastern Domain to test himself against the world’s finest.
There, he witnessed incomparably profound Celestial Level Cultivation Techniques, immensely powerful Spiritual Artifacts, and Magic that could span hundreds or even thousands of zhang at a moment’s notice.
He had thought he was standing at the peak of the mountain, only to realize he had just arrived at its base.
His Earth Level heritage, which he had been so proud of, was nothing special in the Eastern Domain. It was even inferior to that of some Loose Cultivators.
On one occasion, he saw a Tribulation Cultivator using his strength to bully the weak and immediately drew his sword to intervene.
But he was mercilessly crushed by his opponent.
If a disciple from a Major Sect hadn’t been passing by, he would have died in the Eastern Domain then and there.
And the Tribulation Cultivator who had nearly killed him was like a paper tiger in front of that true prodigy—utterly defenseless and casually slain with a single strike.
After returning from the Eastern Domain, he took up drinking and never wanted to practice Magic again.
He hated himself. He hated that he had been born in the Southern Domain, destined from birth to be a step behind others. ’What’s the point of cultivating anymore?’
If the Divine Fire Sect hadn’t attacked the gates of his sect, if he hadn’t watched the vibrant faces he saw every day fall one by one before his very eyes...
...he wouldn’t even have drawn his sword. He would have been content to wallow in despair for the rest of his life.
"Xiao, you’ve probably guessed by now. That useless piece of trash... was me."
Shouyuan True Man looked at Xiao Chen. "Thank you. Your appearance helped me realize something in the nick of time. It wasn’t the Southern Domain that was wrong. It was me."
"I can never repay the debt I owe you for helping me find my way."
"All I have is a piece of Micro-Light Cold Jade that I came across by chance in the Eastern Domain. Please, you must accept it."