Supreme Star Card Master

Chapter 942: Chapter 737: Self-Established

Perhaps it’s due to its location in the Western Desert, but teahouses are quite common here.

At this moment, in the southeastern corner of Zhao Yue City, inside a teahouse with a distant view of the sea.

Su Yuan greeted, ”Have a seat, everyone.”

”Yes!” Xiong Chunyang and Li Su both obediently sat down.

These past days, Li Su discovered that as long as they were not enemies, Su Yuan seemed to be quite easy to get along with?

Ruan Ruan leaped off Su Yuan’s shoulder, transformed a small hand, and pulled out a large bottle of iced cola, pouring it directly into its mouth.

”Ah! Slurp slurp!”

Ruan Ruan’s eyes lit up, rubbed its belly, and its whole body rippled comfortably.

All these years, Ruan Ruan still loved iced cola as always.

To provide Ruan Ruan with fresh cola, Antonios even specifically grew vanilla, cinnamon, and other ingredients used to make cola, along with a refrigerated warehouse designated just for storing these colas, spoiling it beyond measure...

The three of them drank their tea casually; the Dragon Flame Tea of the Western Desert is also a local specialty. After drinking it, there’s a touch of warmth that stirs the heart.

While drinking tea and resting, they also listened to the locals in the teahouse chatting about some trivial matters related to the coast.

Su Yuan had done such things quite often.

Today, seeming to have pretty good luck, Su Yuan captured some useful information from two people who had just sat down outside, within half an hour.

”Brother Bo, it’s said that the Storm Alliance seems to be heavily purchasing Detoxification Pills again!” a young man with a sallow complexion whispered.

A middle-aged man in his thirties sitting opposite smirked, ”Heh, that new island discovered by the Storm Alliance is teeming with poisonous creatures, even Shining Star Level couldn’t withstand them.

From what I know, the Storm Alliance has lost quite a few people, just yesterday alone, seventeen died, and over forty people are lying down unable to recover!

To quickly exploit that island, they need a large number of Detoxification Pills.”

”It’s actually that serious? No wonder!” The sallow young man smacked his lips, then his eyes flicked, ”Now that the Storm Alliance is purchasing like this, the price of Detoxification Pills has increased sixfold! Brother Bo, why don’t we think of a way to bring in some Detoxification Pills from outside?”

The middle-aged man snorted, ”Donkey, what are you thinking? Not only is it risky for us to go outside, but even if we safely return, it will take a month or two!

Moreover, there are already outside gangs sending Detoxification Pills this way, by the time we get there, even if the price of Detoxification Pills remains high, it certainly won’t be as much as now, and we won’t earn as many Star Stones as now.”

The sallow young man sighed, ”Yes, I originally thought it could be a great business opportunity.”

...

”Storm Alliance, Detoxification Pills...”

In the booth, upon hearing the two outside, Su Yuan pondered for a moment and signaled to Xiong Chunyang.

Xiong Chunyang immediately understood, got up from the booth, walked over, and gave a pat on that middle-aged man’s shoulder.

”Hmm... Who’s that!”

Being merely Silver Stage, the man was nearly knocked over by Xiong Chunyang’s sudden pat!

The middle-aged man was about to burst into a tirade, but when he turned his head and saw Xiong Chunyang’s massive and intimidating figure, he chickened out a bit.

”Wh-who are you, what do you want?”

Xiong Chunyang grinned, ”Hey, you two don’t be afraid, I just came from the central region to this coastal area. I just overheard you talking about the Storm Alliance and that island, and I’m curious, what’s up with that?”

Although the middle-aged man was a little scared of Xiong Chunyang, he had a simmering anger in his heart and didn’t really want to deal with him.

However, the thin-faced young man, looking at Xiong Chunyang’s fierce appearance, awkwardly spoke up.

”This... brother, here’s the thing: a month ago, the Storm Alliance discovered a new island in the sea, filled with lots of precious materials.

But unexpectedly, almost all the insects and beasts on that island are poisonous, like the Fire Poison Mosquito, Golden Needle Bee, White Flower Python...

The people from the Storm Alliance who went to that island were almost all poisoned, some exhausted, some ulcerated, and others died as a result!

So, the Storm Alliance has been purchasing a large amount of Detoxification Pills recently.”

Detoxification Pills refer to the ”Universal Detoxification Pill.”

This elixir is very common and can resist many kinds of common poisons.

In terms of grade, there are Level One to Fourth Level, the higher the grade, the stronger the Detoxification Pill’s efficacy, and usually, the broader its applicability.

”Is that so... hey, thanks for the info!”

Xiong Chunyang grinned, didn’t say much further, thanked them, and turned to leave immediately.

As for leaving a tip... that might instead get them remembered and bring unnecessary trouble.

Xiong Chunyang returned to the booth, ”Boss, I’ve found out!”

Su Yuan nodded, ”Mm, I heard it all. It seems the Storm Alliance does indeed need a lot of Detoxification Pills.”

Xiong Chunyang glanced at Li Su beside him, then turned to Su Yuan and asked, ”Boss, what’s our next move?”

Xiong Chunyang naturally knew Su Yuan’s purpose in coming to the Western Desert: to support forces to manage the Western Desert, to avoid unnecessary trouble for Great Flame during the calamity.

But that’s entirely an open-ended task; if it were Xiong Chunyang, even with Burning Sun Level cultivation, he wouldn’t know where to start...

Are we supposed to wipe out all the forces in the Western Desert?

That would be useless; like the spring breeze bringing fresh growth, others and other forces would just flow in to take over the Western Desert’s territory again.

Having reached the coastal area of the Western Desert now, Xiong Chunyang still had no clue what Su Yuan planned to do.

Su Yuan smiled and said, ”Let’s start with the Detoxification Pill.”

”Detoxification Pill...” Xiong Chunyang looked puzzled. Could it be that Su Yuan plans to speculate the Detoxification Pill?

If I had known this earlier, I would have stocked some when coming from the central region!

But Xiong Chunyang still didn’t know that Su Yuan himself was already an Alchemy Master...

Su Yuan gave it some thought and already had a few ideas.

Suddenly, Su Yuan looked up at Li Su: ”Li Su, since you’ve crossed the Western Desert and arrived at the coast, as agreed, you can leave now.”

Hearing this, Li Su was pleasantly surprised: ”Boss Su, re...really?”

”Of course.” Su Yuan directly called, ”Ruan Ruan.”

”Puuji!”

Ruan Ruan on the table immediately came to Li Su, transformed into a flowing water hand, and landed on his chest.

Accompanied by waves of devouring power, the Abyss Demon Seed planted before was quickly extracted.

Li Su felt the shackles within the Star Sea disappear and couldn’t help but feel overjoyed. He got up quickly to bow: ”Thank you! Thank you, Lord Su!”

”Do as you please, we’re leaving now.” Su Yuan didn’t continue drinking tea, got up immediately to leave, ”Remember, don’t reveal anything about me, or else...”

Li Su, terrified in his heart, quickly said: ”Rest assured, sir, I absolutely won’t dare!”

”Good~”

After Su Yuan left with Xiong Chunyang, Li Su gradually regained his senses and hurried downstairs, watching the backs of Su Yuan and Xiong Chunyang gradually disappear at the end of the street.

He should have felt happy regaining freedom, yet inexplicably, Li Su felt a mix of regret and loss.

Having cultivated to the Full Moon Level, now at over eighty years old, he’s almost exhausted all his potential.

To break through to the Burning Sun, even if there’s the slightest chance, it would be one in ten thousand, extremely slim.

His former dull and ordinary days in the Western Desert, these days following this Boss Su, seemed rather interesting, and his horizons expanded quite a bit...

In a daze, Su Yuan and Xiong Chunyang had already vanished from sight.

”Sigh...”

Li Su sighed, glanced one more time, then shook his head a bit dazedly and turned to leave...

Su Yuan, along with Xiong Chunyang, wandered around this city named Zhao Yue, gathering information.

Su Yuan looked quite young and was clearly an outsider, and several malicious-looking groups seemed to want to target him along the way.

Yet when a group with a Gold Level leader blocked Su Yuan, only to be knocked down and unable to rise by Xiong Chunyang, the others immediately gave up the idea...

Undeniably, the Western Desert was indeed quite chaotic, especially for newcomers; unless one had Shining Star Level cultivation, it was best not to go out.

Currently, the Western Desert is poised for development, and if these issues aren’t resolved, they will greatly affect the influx of other talents.

However, the Storm Alliance and several major Sea Gang forces only cared for their own interests, used to their freedom, and seemed unaware of these issues.

Watching these scenes, Su Yuan became more certain of his thoughts.

”Heart Clearing Grass, Detoxification Grass, Detoxification Fruit...”

Besides understanding the local situation of the coastal city, Su Yuan also bought a large amount of materials.

These materials are exactly what’s needed to concoct the Detoxification Pill.

Although the demand for the Detoxification Pill soared, causing its price to skyrocket, the prices of these alchemy materials weren’t much higher.

Because where poisons appear, often there’s something to detoxify them.

On that island, Heart Clearing Grass and Detoxification Grass, such spiritual herbs, were quite abundant.

And in such coastal areas of the Western Desert, talents like Alchemists and Artifact Refiners were extremely scarce.

The Western Desert is originally a remote area, and the coast is further on the edge of the continent, so ordinary alchemists and artifact refiners wouldn’t come to such underdeveloped places.

Therefore, these alchemic materials had little chance of truly being converted into elixirs.

After wandering around for half a day, Su Yuan and Xiong Chunyang casually found a place in the city to stay for now.

After that, Su Yuan entered the Qingming Realm, took out the Azure Dragon Elixir Furnace, and began refining the Detoxification Pill...

The Storm Alliance had a Burning Sun expert and many Radiant Moon and Shining Star experts.

From Su Yuan’s investigations over these days, the Storm Alliance was among the top five among the various Sea Gangs.

But relying on just one Sea Gang to attract more experts and further engage with first-class forces like the Fire God Alliance...

Not to mention how long it would take, given the Sea Gang’s strength and quality, this is almost impossible!

Su Yuan choosing the Sea Gang isn’t about supporting the Sea Gang...

It’s about establishing a force of his own!

Establishing a force by starting from absorbing and merging the coastal Sea Gangs, gradually moving east, and then controlling the entire situation in the Western Desert!

As for the name of this force...

”Let’s call it ’Qingming’,” Su Yuan murmured softly.