My Master Breaks Through Only at the Last Moment

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Chapter 206: Exchange for Demon Spirits Shop

In the underground space, the tool puppet carrying Grape’s clone emerged from the demon race’s teleportation formation.

Xu Fan finally got the spirit stones he had been longing for.

“The total value is 30.42 billion spirit stones. After I refine the Spiritual Sword precious artifact satellite, I can also upgrade the sect’s protective mountain formation and spirit pearls,” Xu Fan said happily.

If that dark snake comes after I refine the Spiritual Sword precious artifact satellite, it would be a big catch.

“Cut these mid-grade spirit stone ores and send them over to Pang Fu.”

“Recently, he’s facing a significant shortage of spirit stones, and many businesses in the market have been snatched up by other merchant associations,” Xu Fan explained.

“Understood,” Grape responded.

Xu Fan then took one-tenth of the spirit stones from the space ring for emergencies.

After finishing all this, Xu Fan entered a secret chamber.

Inside the chamber was a mysterious formation, currently deciphering the dark snake’s empty bones, which was the space ring used by the demon race.

“Grape, how much longer until the deciphering is complete?”

He had high hopes for what was inside those empty bones.

Once Xu Fan saw the dark snake’s precious artifact, he knew its worth was considerable; it might even contain what he needed most.

“If only it would yield high-quality spirit ores with time attributes.”

Since Xu Fan advanced to the Golden Core Stage, he had been looking for new spirit ores to upgrade the time chamber.

The current time chamber could no longer accommodate the powerful time acceleration of Golden Core Xu Fan.

To continue time acceleration, he had to find spirit ores with time attributes to reforge the time chamber.

At that moment, Xu Fan suddenly remembered the Chen Iron giant rod sent by Ning Dao.

That Chen Iron giant rod could be used to forge three Spiritual Swords. Xu Fan originally intended to give one to Ning Dao, one to his disciple Xiangchi, and keep one for himself.

“Should I use a Spiritual Sword to help out my good brother?” Xu Fan pondered, stroking his chin.

“Would using a precious artifact be too over the top?”

“Forget it; I’ll save the Spiritual Sword until I reach the Nascent Soul stage. I can’t give too much too soon,” Xu Fan decided.

Just then, Grape said, “It is expected to take another three hours to complete the deciphering.”

Hearing Grape’s words, Xu Fan immediately instructed Grape to connect with the demon realm and began the underground exploration game.

“It’s a pity that we let that dark snake’s Spirit Companion slip away. Otherwise, we might have found out what that giant beast was all about,” Xu Fan said while exploring the underground space.

Eight thousand meters beneath the Wan Chong Mountain Range, a team of ten type-three excavator puppets was quickly digging and exploring.

The type-three excavator puppet was crafted from purple demon iron and was twice as fast as the original type-one excavator puppet.

“I wonder if there will be any surprises today,” Xu Fan said expectantly.

With the Underground Base of the demon race’s Wan Chong Mountain Range completed, Grape had already relocated the underground production base to ten thousand meters below, with an exploration area covering one-tenth of the underground space.

“Grape, how is the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan doing now?” Xu Fan asked, curious about the few idle moves he had made there, wondering if they would bring him any surprises.

“The Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan is still the same. However, with the precious artifact brought back by piece number one, their clan’s power has improved quite a bit,” Grape replied.

"But without high-end fighting strength, they still can’t avoid being bullied by higher-level demon races."

"As for the plan to relocate the entire Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan to the Wan Chong Mountain Range, it will probably take nearly a hundred years to succeed."

Listening to Grape’s report, Xu Fan said, "A hundred years is fine; it adds to the sense of anticipation."

"By the way, how’s the spirit pill production line I asked you to set up?" Xu Fan asked again.

"The production line for spirit pills that assist the demon race in cultivation has been successfully established, covering levels from Qi Refinement to Nascent Soul Stage."

"It’s currently in production, but the sect’s treasury won’t be able to sustain it for long."

"To keep it running, we’d need to authorize the demon race’s exchange spirit shop plan," Grape replied.

While controlling the type-three excavator puppets, Xu Fan frowned and said, "It’s still too early to start that. Let’s focus on supporting the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan first."

"That way, it’s safer. For now, we’ll just maintain the exchange spirit shop for the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan," Xu Fan added.

“Understood.”

…………………………….

Recently, the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan had been thriving, and a Nascent Soul Stage Thick-Shell Honey Badger approached the Leader of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger Clan.

“Leader, here are the spirit pills and demon artifacts from this batch,” the Nascent Soul Stage Thick-Shell Honey Badger said, handing over an empty bone to the Leader of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger Clan.

“Hmm, not bad. These are all high-quality spirit pills.”

“And the Iron Claws are also top-notch.”

“Ping Yitou, the clan won’t forget your contributions,” the Leader of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger Clan said.

Looking at Ping Yitou, the Leader of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger Clan recalled an incident from a few months ago.

Back then, a young Nascent Soul Stage member of the clan had approached him, claiming to have joined the exchange spirit shop. It said it could gather spirit herbs and spirit ores from the clan’s territory at prices lower than those of the demon race’s merchant association.

With a “let’s try it” attitude, after one transaction, this young member became a rising star in the clan.

Countless rare spirit pills and demon artifacts were exchanged using the clan’s resources.

“Leader, I, Ping Yitou, will always be a loyal soldier of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan. Contributing to our race is my duty,” Ping Yitou said firmly.

“Alright. You’ve worked hard traveling to the Wan Chong Mountain Range. Go rest now; there will be more important tasks for you in the future,” the Leader of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger Clan replied.

“Understood.”

After Ping Yitou left, the Leader of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger Clan looked at the empty bone in his hand and muttered, “What kind of force is this exchange spirit shop?”

“What’s their goal?”

There’s no such thing as free love or hate. He didn’t believe it was possible to exchange common resources for rare spirit herbs and demon artifacts without some ulterior motive.

Meanwhile, Ping Yitou returned to his cave. Soon after, the dozen or so Thick-Shell Honey Badger puppets controlled by Xu Fan gathered once more.

“I’ve received the master’s latest orders: we’re to investigate the demon forces around the Wan Chong Mountain Range.”

“We’re also to identify nearby spirit ore and spirit herb resources, collect samples, and bring them back to the base,” Ping Yitou relayed Xu Fan’s instructions.

Ping Yitou projected a light curtain map showing a small section of the Wan Chong Mountain Range’s outer area, divided into ten zones.

“I’ll take Zone One. The rest of you, pick the zones you’re most familiar with.”

As soon as Ping Yitou finished speaking, the other Thick-Shell Honey Badgers quickly claimed the remaining zones.

“This is a long-term mission. The master said not to rush; our safety comes first,” Ping Yitou added, pulling out ten empty bones filled with high-quality spirit pills crafted from demon race inner cores and various demon artifacts.

“These are cultivation resources and demon artifacts provided by the master. Everyone, make good use of them. Strive to advance to the Transformation God Void Refinement Stage as soon as possible. In the future, you’ll help the master manage the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan,” Ping Yitou said, distributing the empty bones to the Thick-Shell Honey Badgers, one for each.

“We won’t let the master down,” the other Thick-Shell Honey Badgers said in unison.

Deep underground in the Wan Chong Mountain Range, Xu Fan was exploring. Through the perspective of the Precious Artifact Satellite above the base, he observed the territory of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan.

“Seems like this idle move wasn’t a mistake.”

“Maybe it’ll bring me a pleasant surprise later,” Xu Fan said, continuing his underground exploration game.

Three hours later, Xu Fan reluctantly handed control of the type-three excavators back to Grape.

“Another day without any finds. Maybe I’ve used up all my luck lately,” Xu Fan said gloomily.

At that moment, Grape’s voice chimed in.

“Master, the dark snake’s empty bones have been deciphered.”

“Good,”

Xu Fan stood up and walked into the rune formation for deciphering. He picked up the empty bones and began examining them.

“Demon race spirit pills—useless.”

“Demon artifacts—not worth modifying.”

“Demon race techniques—I’ll take a look at these later.”

“Hmm, what’s this piece of demon jade for?”