Chapter 721

Chapter 721: Walking Sea Pearl

As soon as Fang Lie spoke, everyone present showed admiration in their eyes.

In the world, only Fang Lie had the courage to slap the face of the Zhu Xian and Shi Shen envoy in broad daylight. Even the Sword God, the strongest person in the world, would not dare to act so recklessly.

By showing the Zhu Xian and Shi Shen token, Fang Lie represented the dignity of these two sects. Any humiliation towards him would be an insult to Zhu Xian and Shi Shen, provoking their violent retaliation.

Just like just now, when Qing Feng, who did not reveal the Xuan Sect token, was restrained by the Top Ten Semi-Immortals, he could only feel sorry for himself. But after revealing it, no one dared to harm him, as attacking him would mean attacking the Xuan Sect.

Each Semi-Immortal had their own families and businesses, so no one dared to insult the envoy of Zhu Xian and Shi Shen. Only Fang Lie, as a junior and not representing the Mo Sect, while not caring about the potential retaliation, dared to behave this way.

After driving away this annoying potential competitor, Fang Lie shouted, "Let’s continue!"

Thus, everyone resumed their transactions.

With two excellent examples, the remaining people felt even less restraint and brought out all kinds of precious items.

Unfortunately, there were no more treasures like the previous two. However, the items that did appear were still rare treasures, especially several spirit herbs over ten thousand years old, freshly transplanted and alive.

Every time a little was added during alchemy, it significantly increased the medicinal properties, allowing for quick recovery and continued gathering.

These were like gold mines; every appearance of such a spiritual item triggered an intense clash.

Even with Fang Lie’s wealth, he only secured the best one, while the rest were divided among Immortal Lan Shan and Qing Feng, with other Semi-Immortals having decent gains, though not as robust as these three financially powerful sects.

In addition to purchasing treasures, Fang Lie made a considerable fortune by ensuring safe passage to the Mo Sect.

Every toll paid was comparable to the value of a third rank Seventh-rank treasure. At this special time, people would go to such great lengths just for safe arrival on the continent.

One could say that taking advantage of others’ difficulties, Fang Lie had struck it rich. However, others were also reaping great rewards.

Almost every Semi-Immortal bought at least two items, and each one they acquired had been fiercely contested, increasing their value many times over, delighting the sellers.

Being able to sell high-value items from the Dragon Palace at elevated prices while leaving safely was a tremendous blessing for those smaller sects and scattered cultivators.

In summary, this trading event was a joyous occasion for all; those with money enjoyed spending it freely, while those without prospered tremendously.

After a whole day of commotion, the trading fair came to a successful conclusion, with everyone leaving, those who wanted to depart did, and those who wanted to stay returned to their rooms.

Fang Lie, Mao Mao, and Mo Lanyun also returned to their residence, brewing a cup of tea and beginning to discuss their adventures in the Dragon Palace.

As the senior brother, Fang Lie naturally shared his experiences first. When the two women learned that he had acquired ten dragon corpses and Dragon Soul Grass, they were all extremely excited.

Then, Mao Mao began to speak, looking quite dejected. "Oh dear, my journey in the Dragon Palace was not smooth at all. Walking inside alone, I encountered puppets chasing me, demons chasing me, and even humans chasing me. I barely had any time to search for treasures; I spent my days being chased and doing the chasing. How did I get so unlucky!"

Fang Lie and Mo Lanyun both shared a wry smile upon hearing this. Indeed, a Young Girl at the Qi Sea level, adorned with treasures, walking alone in the Dragon Palace was like a moving treasure vault. How could treasure hunters ignore her?

However, Fang Lie and Mo Lanyun did not believe her bad luck, especially Mo Lanyun, who had trained with Mao Mao alongside Mo Qianxun over the years and understood each other’s strengths well.

So, Mo Lanyun chuckled and asked, "So what was the outcome? How many items did you actually gather?"

"Well, it’s not much!" Mao Mao waved her hand and tossed out a small pile of items, saying, "Just a little bit!"

Fang Lie and Mo Lanyun glanced at the items, rolling their eyes in unison. That pile consisted of various storage treasures, the lowest being Seventh-rank and the highest Eighth-rank, totaling at least forty or fifty!

Calculating with one per person means at least dozens of Human Tribe cultivators met their end at Mao Mao’s hands.

Demons, on the other hand, generally did not possess storage treasures, so their numbers remained unknown for now.

Even so, the value of these items alone was surely immense.

Fang Lie and Mo Lanyun then began to unpack and inspect the items, and soon, the ground was covered with piles of treasures.

Spirit stones and small spirit pearls piled up like mountains in every space treasure. Altogether, there were nearly ten million small spirit pearls.

There was no way around it; anyone who could enter the Dragon Palace had at least the cultivation of a Fire Tribulation Immortal—no one there was short on money!

Additionally, Fang Lie and the others found a total of eight treasures, two of which were Eighth-Rank High-Grade.

One flying sword, in particular, was only palm-sized, glimmering silver and incredibly sharp. Fang Lie didn’t even notice when it cut his palm, showing just how sharp it was.

This sword was forged from the celestial material Taiyi Gold, already at the Peak Eighth-Rank, just one step away from reaching Ninth-Rank. It was also quite famous outside, belonging to East Kunlun. Although it wasn’t one of the legendary ten famous swords from ancient times, it was left behind by an invincible expert from the mortal world thousands of years ago.

Fang Lie estimated that the loss of this item would surely hurt the hearts of people from East Kunlun.

In addition to their own items, there were many gains from this trip to the Dragon Palace. Those who tried to rob Mao Mao ended up losing the treasures they had acquired—how sad and funny!

While most of it wasn’t worth Fang Lie’s attention, there were still some exceptional materials and treasures, especially a Blood Yuan Grass. It could nourish vital energy and was the main material for refining the Ninth-Rank Life-Extension Pill; its value couldn’t even be expressed as priceless!

You should know that, regardless of the time, powerful beings are always in need of lifespan extensions. Any means capable of prolonging their lives, no matter the cost, they would willingly take!

Moreover, they found some demon treasures in one of the space treasures, but there were very few, and they seemed to have been affected by plague poison. Although the toxins had been removed, their essence had still decreased, which would affect the quality of the treasures refined from them.

Fang Lie recognized several materials from Ninth-Rank Great Demons and couldn’t help but sigh, "Junior sister’s plague poison is truly formidable. Even the life bone treasures of Ninth-Rank Great Demons couldn’t withstand it. What a shame! Their quality is reduced by more than half!"

"I can’t help it!" Mao Mao replied helplessly. "All my spells and divine skills contain plague poison. I actually wanted whole bodies, but they were too weak; they started melting after just a little exposure to the poison. These bone treasures were hard-earned for me!"

"Alright, I’m not blaming you at all!" Fang Lie smiled and said. "Actually, your gains have been quite good this time. Although it’s not as much as those lucky guys, you’re still among the best!"

"Not necessarily~" Mao Mao shook her head. "The treasures at the trading fair are clearly not all there. People from sects, like us, won’t reveal their good stuff. At the very least, I’m sure Qing Feng’s gains are greater than mine, and even Senior Sister Lanyun must have done better than me! Not to mention Senior Brother!"

"Eh?" Hearing this, Mo Lanyun immediately asked curiously, "How do you know for sure? Maybe I didn’t earn as much as you?"

"No way! You’re the Guan Yin Water Spiritual Root, surrounded by so much Spiritual Water; it’s like coming home for you! Your strength could even double!" Mao Mao laughed. "Hurry up and tell me what you got!"

"Hehehe, I actually spent these days in closed-door training in one place, so I didn’t get much, just her!" Mo Lanyun said, gently pointing.

In the next moment, a stunning beauty, draped in thin silk and exuding an alluring aura, suddenly appeared before Fang Lie and Mao Mao.

Fang Lie and Mao Mao were first startled, and then they were utterly amazed. Fang Lie couldn’t help but exclaim, "Item spirit?"

Mao Mao covered her small mouth, unable to believe, "Did you really refine and subdue a Ninth-Rank treasure?"

"Hehehe, that’s right! This is the item spirit transformed from the Ninth-Rank Walking Sea Pearl, and I named her Shui Ling!" Mo Lanyun declared proudly. "Come on, this is my senior brother and junior sister; greet them!"

"Hmm~" Shui Ling nodded and said to Fang Lie and Mao Mao, "Nice to meet you both; I look forward to working together in the future!"

Fang Lie and Mao Mao dared not be disrespectful to the intelligent item spirit; they both stood up, very respectfully returning the greeting.

At the same time, Fang Lie said with a smile, "Hello, Shui Ling; from now on, we are all family. If there’s anything you need, just let us know!"

"Okay!" Shui Ling nodded shyly, then flashed away and returned to Mo Lanyun’s body.

Fang Lie then joyfully said, "Junior sister, congratulations! How did you become so amazing?"

Mao Mao added enviously, "I knew it would be like this; in your domain, how could you not benefit?"

"Hehehe~" Mo Lanyun said, looking somewhat smug. "Actually, I didn’t expect this either. As soon as I came out, I felt a call from somewhere, so I went over and found a pearl in a secret room. When I picked it up, I encountered Shui Ling. We hit it off immediately, and she decided to follow me! After that, you all know, it took three months to refine Shui Ling, and I almost missed the time to come out!"

"Shui Ling is a top-grade water treasure. Once it gained intelligence, it wouldn’t want to stay in that broken place, and as the water-element spiritual root, you were naturally her best choice," Fang Lie smiled. "This is your great fortune!"

"Speaking of which, it really is strange~" Mao Mao frowned. "Didn’t they say the Dragon Clan evacuated with the purple crystal? Why did they leave so many treasures behind? Don’t they even value the Divine Bones of the Twelfth-Rank Earth-Immortal and the Inner Core of the Five-Poison Golden Toad, as well as the Ninth-Rank treasure, Walking Sea Pearl? Did they just throw them away?"