I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 606: Chapter 391: Huangquan Road_2

Only a moment later, Zhou Shengqing’s figure appeared before everyone’s eyes.

The two elders of the Divine Wood Sect place far more importance on Ghost Cultivators than Chen Mobai had expected.

“Tell me about your fight with the Ghost Cultivator,” Zhou Shengqing commanded, holding the broken Hundred Ghosts Soul Refining Flag. Chen Mobai selectively left out some details, claiming he had used his Rank-3 Magic Artifact, Sword Sha, and his Thunder Method. After several rounds of intense fighting, he had reduced the Ghost Cultivator to ashes with his Pure Yang True Fire.

“As I thought, those damned ghosts haven’t been wiped out yet.”

After hearing Chen Mobai’s account, Zhou Shengqing coldly offered his opinion. Noticing Chen Mobai’s confusion, Zhou Shengqing began to explain some old affairs from their time in the Five Elements Sect.

“Our master, Hun Yuan, did not have much life left, but he could have lived another hundred years if he had died of natural causes. However, he encountered a mysterious Netherworld Path. Confident in his skill, he attempted to unravel the mysteries of reincarnation by challenging this path between life and death, only to return heavily injured. He clung to life for a few more years before he died.”

“Before he died, he told us that the Netherworld Path had been occupied by a group of Ghost Cultivators. If not for the extraordinary nature of the Primordial Dao Fruit, he might not have been able to return alive. Fortunately, those powerful Ghost Cultivators couldn’t come to the human world, they could only exist in the area saturated with Huangquan Yin Qi.”

“But just the act of charging through the Netherworld Path punctured the barrier between the Underworld and the world of the living, allowing some Ghost Cultivators to come out with special methods. Before he died, our master directed us to exterminate quite a few Ghost Cultivators, then used his last breath to seal the Netherworld Path.”

“My eldest senior brother died in that battle. After that, I disagreed with my junior behalf on him becoming the Sect Leader, so I collaborated with Mo, another senior brother, and we split from the Five Elements Sect.”

Zhou Shengqing revealed a rare nostalgic look as he spoke. From that point on, his memories weren’t so beautiful.

Fu Huakun, who was also a disciple of Five Elements Sect at that time, had participated in the battle against the Netherworld Path Ghost Cultivators with Fu Zongjue, so he knew something about it.

“Could the Ghost Cultivator have come from the Netherworld Path?”

Chen Mobai was somewhat surprised after listening to Zhou Shengqing’s account. If even the Elder Hun Yuan could have died from it, then the few Core Formation cultivators in the Eastern Wilderness would be in grave danger.

“It’s very likely. However, the Spirit Talisman left by Elder Hun Yuan that can sense the Netherworld Path is in the hands of the Five Elements Sect, and I don’t know what the status of the seal is now.”

Amid Zhou Shengqing’s sigh, he shook the Hundred Ghosts Soul Refining Flag in his hand. Pure spiritual power poured in, and in an instant faint images of dismembered fierce ghosts appeared on the surface of the flag, as if they wanted to break free.

However, because there wasn’t the correct method to cultivate and the Ghost Dao magical instrument was damaged, they didn’t manage to summon the ghosts inside the flag.

“We’ll need someone to fix this, but I don’t know if it can be repaired.”

Fu Zongjue said after observing the scene. Ghost Dao magical instruments are different from other magical instruments, and regular Instrument Masters would be powerless.

“Chen, this magical instrument might reveal something about the Netherworld Path. I’ll keep it for now. You don’t mind, do you?”

Zhou Shengqing said to Chen Mobai, who quickly shook his head, indicating that it was the best if the elder found the flag golden. If it fell into his hands, he reckoned it would just collect dust in a corner.

“After all, it’s your spoils of war. Also, you did a great service to the sect by removing a major threat in our territory. I’ll give you a permit, you can go to the Reward Virtue Hall and collect fifty thousand spirit stones.”

Chen Mobai’s face lit up at Zhou Shengqing’s next words.

He hadn’t expected to receive so many spirit stones for being ambushed, and he was already thinking about whether he could arrange a few more ambushes.

After leaving the Shenmu Hall, Chen Mobai went straight to the Reward Virtue Hall.

Zhou Shengqing’s permit allowed Luo Xue’er to immediately transfer the spirit stones to Chen Mobai.

“Sister Luo, fifty thousand spirit stones is way too much. Can I switch them to intermediate-grade or even top-grade spirit stones?”

Chen Mobai asked this when he received the spirit stones, thinking that his Formless Puppet would probably consume one top-grade spirit stone every month if it wanted to cultivate the Pure Yang Purple Qi.

“Chen, based on our relationship, changing the spirit stones to intermediate-grade is not a problem. But, I genuinely can’t do anything about the top-grade spirit stones, they are all in the hands of the elders.”

Luo Xue’er, aware that Chen Mobai is young, explained to him.

“Oh, why is that? Are top-grade spirit stones more valuable?”

“That’s correct. When one reaches the realm of cultivation as the two old ancestors, the spiritual objects they wish to purchase or exchange are traditionally traded using high-grade spirit stones. For example, rank-3 spirit rice, rank-3 magic artifacts, elixirs and so on. Furthermore, in the Eastern Wilderness, our Divine Wood Sect is willing to pay a 10% premium to exchange for high-grade spirit stones.”

This implies that 11,000 lower-grade spirit stones are needed to exchange for one high-grade spirit stone.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai asked for more details about this exchange.

“The exchange for high-grade spirit stones by our Divine Wood Sect is relatively restrained, as we have our own spirit stone mine and are able to mine some every year from the core veins.”

“However, loose cultivator families and second-rate sects are willing to pay a high price to purchase the Foundation Building Pills from the big business groups. A single high-grade spirit stone going through their hands for exchange may require a premium of more than 10%.”

“But there’s no choice as if one wishes to participate in the auction for Foundation Building Pills in the Eastern Yi Territory, it is required by all large business groups to use high-grade spirit stones. A few years ago, the Bai family from Snow Peak took advantage of the high demand for Tea Pills, accumulated some high-grade spirit stones, and successfully bid for a Foundation Building Pill from the Xuan Xiao Big Business Group. Nowadays, all big families are following suit and have begun hoarding high-grade spirit stones.”

Having heard Luo Xue’er’s introduction, Chen Mobai thought of the moment at the White Moon Market when Bai Dingxian brought out a high-grade spirit stone to forcibly activate the defense formation, and his face showed a look of realization.

After leaving the Reward Virtue Hall, he returned to his own Xiao Nanshan.

Zhuo Ming found it odd that only Chen Mobai came back, but she dared not ask about it.

“Wen Bo and the others are helping the teacher to rent store fronts in various markets in Jian Country. You should sort out the inventory of spiritual wine, spirit rice, and talisman paper.”

Chen Mobai didn’t want Zhuo Ming to worry, so he left these words and began to sort out what he had acquired this time at the top of the mountain.

First of all, there was the storage bag of the ghost cultivator who was said to have formed a Golden Core. It was a dull gray bag that was completely unremarkable.

Then Chen Mobai encountered the same situation as when he obtained his first storage bag.

He couldn’t open it!

It seemed that this ghost cultivator did not lie, he might have been a Golden Core cultivator in his lifetime whose realm of divine consciousness was higher than Chen Mobai’s.

However, the current Chen Mobai had gained much more insight than when he was just starting his Qi cultivation. While studying at the Dance Tool Dao Academy in recent years, he had learned many ways to open this storage bag even when his realm of divine consciousness was inferior.

The simplest way was to use a talisman known as “Space Talisman” from the immortal sect.

The reason why he knew the talisman was because Wu Shangru had used it once when transferring the talisman paper and ink machines from the Flying Sky Talisman Factory to Chen Mobai.

Because these machines were custom-made and needed a key with Wu Shangru’s divine consciousness fluctuations to start, after the factory was transferred, the “Space Talisman” was used to reformat the machines and the key, and match them with Chen Mobai’s.

What was erased in this process was the traces of divine consciousness frequency.

Chen Mobai wanted to buy one to directly unlock the storage bag, but because the Space Talisman had extraordinary functions, only registered merchants at the immortal sect’s law enforcement branch could sell it, and the purpose and reasons needed to be stated when purchasing.

After thinking about it, Chen Mobai decided to learn it himself in order to avoid exposure.

After all, he is now a rank-2 talisman maker, and the storage bag was in his hands, so there was no rush.

Fortunately, aside from the storage bag of this ghost cultivator, the realms of divine consciousness of Yuan Hongyuan and the other four were inferior to Chen Mobai’s, so he quickly integrated them easily.

First, Chen Mobai emptied the storage bags of the Tang siblings and found out that Tang Da’s storage bag was empty. However, Tang’s younger sister’s bag contained quite a number of items.

Opening his Void Spirit Eye, Chen Mobai quickly found his targets.

A piece of Soul Nourishing Wood.

And an Immortal Peach Fruit.

With a smile on his face, Chen Mobai then emptied Hong Xu’s storage bag; spirit stones clattered down and piled up into a small mountain next to him, along with more than a dozen different cultivation doctrine books.

The two pill recipes had been bought out by Star Heaven Big Business Group, so Chen Mobai didn’t find them in the bag.

Finally, Chen Mobai emptied Yuan Hongyuan’s storage bag.