Chapter 459 - 212: Jin Family’s Mistaken Encounter with Red Peony and Successfully Attending the Spirit Medicine Banquet (Part 2)
Chapter 459: Chapter 212: Jin Family’s Mistaken Encounter with Red Peony and Successfully Attending the Spirit Medicine Banquet (Part 2)
’Should I go to the Spirit Medicine Banquet or not?’
Xiao Chen finished cultivating in his small courtyard, mulling things over as he rested. ’Someone’s already taken the fall for me, so why not use the Longevity Pill to get in?’
’Or maybe I should play it safe and just use the Immortal Ganoderma Soul Cleansing Pill instead.’
To be honest, since he happened to come across a banquet like this, there were bound to be benefits to attending.
Putting aside making connections, just listening to the discussions of the Nascent Soul True Monarchs and seeing the other Tier Four Spiritual Objects with his own eyes would at least broaden his horizons.
If he was lucky, what he traded for might not necessarily be worse than the Immortal Ganoderma Soul Cleansing Pill.
He might even come across something more suitable for him.
The day before the banquet, Xiao Chen heard an extra piece of good news: True Monarch Mo Mei was planning to add a segment for selling Demon Pills at the Spirit Medicine Banquet.
True Monarch Mo Mei was another one of City Lord Huo’s good friends and usually enjoyed venturing into the Outer Sea.
Or rather, a large portion of Nascent Soul True Monarchs preferred to stay in the Outer Sea, hunting High Tier Demon Beasts while searching for new Secret Realms or Relics.
To them, the Inner Sea was basically regarded as a stable rear base.
They would only return when their sect had important matters to attend to, or when they occasionally wanted to rest for a few days.
Therefore, True Monarch Mo Mei had accumulated quite a few Tier Three Demon Pills and wanted to take this opportunity to sell them.
City Lord Huo, of course, would not object to his friend’s plan.
He even took the initiative to post the news on a public notice in advance, reminding any Cultivators interested in buying to prepare more Spirit Stones.
Depending on the attributes and quality of the Demon Pills, the estimated price would fluctuate between 20,000 and 50,000 Spirit Stones.
This price certainly wasn’t cheap, but it wasn’t exorbitant either—just a standard auction price.
For Xiao Chen, however, it was a pretty good deal.
After all, valuable items like Demon Pills were rarely sold by Cultivators on a normal day, and even then, it was only one or two at a time.
To buy Demon Pills in bulk, one generally had to wait for a large-scale auction.
Furthermore, for Xiao Chen, buying Demon Pills was actually cheaper than buying Spiritual Objects, and the practical cultivation effects were also quite good.
This was especially true now that the Jin Family was still patrolling the seas, making it inconvenient for him to go out and hunt.
He could buy a few Demon Pills to tide him over and avoid delaying his cultivation speed.
As for the Spirit Stones he spent, he would just take them back from the Jin Family’s vaults, doubled, in the future.
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen made up his mind. He would take the Immortal Ganoderma Soul Cleansing Pill and attend the Spirit Medicine Banquet.
The next day, he made a special trip to East City to dispose of some miscellaneous items he no longer needed.
These were mainly miscellaneous things he had on hand, such as a few leftover Top Grade Magical Artifacts, the Blood Jade he had acquired by accident, and the Spiritual Sand he hadn’t used up.
Then he sold off the six Tier Three Jade Talismans as well, at a discount.
This included a complete set of Upper Grade Magical Artifact tea utensils. Things like this had almost no market in the Southern Domain, but in the Eastern Domain, they had an exotic flair and could be sold as gifts.
All these bits and pieces added up, helping him recoup 176,300 Spirit Stones.
This brought the number of low-grade Spirit Stones in Xiao Chen’s possession back up to 700,000.
In addition, he had gradually accumulated 10,500 Middle Grade Spirit Stones, which he could also spend if needed.
’I probably don’t need to sell the Spirit Grass, do I?’
Xiao Chen thought for a moment. ’I’m going to the Outer Sea in May. The Demon Pills there might be a bit cheaper.’
Besides, once he was there, he could hunt them himself.
There was no need to buy too many Demon Pills this time. About ten or so should be enough for him to break through to the Middle Stage of the Golden Core realm.
So, he didn’t sell any more of his Spirit Grass and instead took his usual stroll around the city.
There was no new information from the outside world.
Although the Jin Family had practically cast a dragnet, Red Peony, who had once been ranked fourth on the bounty list, naturally had her own unique skills.
He heard that the two sides had clashed twice more, but each time it was a hit-and-run engagement.
The chase had now moved beyond the Nanlao Sea and into the more chaotic Sea of Space.
That place could almost be considered Red Peony’s home turf, so it was likely even more impossible to catch her now.
Instead, another piece of news from the Jingkong Sea caught Xiao Chen’s attention.
It was said that the Three Great Clans ultimately did not enter into a full-scale conflict with the Golden Dawn Sect.
After one battle, the two sides requested the Five Thunders Temple from the Black Rock Sea and the Celestial Sound Sect from the Cloud Pool Sea to mediate.
They had reached a temporary truce.
According to rumors, the Golden Dawn Sect had clearly suffered a loss, with several Tier Three Spirit Beasts and two Golden Core True Men dead.
But considering the inherent strength of the Three Great Clans and the fact that they had True Monarch of the Treasure Tower backing them...
...the Golden Dawn Sect could only demand some compensation and let the matter rest.
Gasp!
Hearing this, Xiao Chen couldn’t help but draw in a sharp breath. It seemed they were truly difficult to deal with.
Even the Golden Dawn Sect couldn’t handle them. If he wanted to take care of the Three Great Clans, reaching the Great Perfection stage of the Golden Core realm might not be enough. He’d probably have to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.
’But it’s actually not so bad. I can go to the Outer Sea first and stop playing their games in the Inner Sea.’
’Ideally, I’ll break all the way through to the Nascent Soul realm in the Outer Sea, then come back and deal with the Three Great Clans and the Jin Family all at once.’
「Noon, the third day.」
The gates of the City Lord’s Mansion stood wide open. A carpet, embroidered with flying birds and walking beasts and illuminated by bright red lanterns, stretched out from inside the mansion, covering the entire street.
Numerous disciples from Hundred Herbs City, dressed in uniform Magic Robes, were maintaining order starting from the street entrance.
Xiao Chen noticed that the patterns on their Magic Robes had even been changed, clearly a new, custom-made design.