Chapter 223
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Chapter 223: Senior, Please Stay
Hearing such discouraging words, Xu Fan looked at the pangolin and frowned, saying, “Are you messing with me?”
The pangolin immediately became fearful, sensing a tearing pain in its soul, and hurriedly replied, “Master, I’m not messing with you.”
“I really don’t know what our ancestors said, but I have a rough guess.”
“The words that made the beast kings of the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan go mad were likely this.”
As the pangolin used a transmitted message to convey a sentence to Xu Fan,
After listening, Xu Fan nodded and said, “This sentence really has a strong impact; good, you pass.”
The pangolin felt the pain in its soul ease within, wiped its sweat, and thought to itself that it was fortunate it had paid special attention to this gossip; otherwise, it would have been hard to get through this trial today.
Xu Fan continued fishing, while the pangolin shared interesting tales it had seen and heard in the Demon Spirit Realm.
“In the most ancient times, your Demon Spirit Realm was ruled by the Dragon Race. Later, for unknown reasons, the Dragon Race collectively migrated away,” Xu Fan asked.
“Yes, those top beast races guess that the Dragon Race must have faced a huge change at that time, leading to the gathering of the Dragon Race back to their Thousand Worlds,” the pangolin explained.
“It seems it was because the Dragon Race encountered a great catastrophe; since then, only a few impure-blooded flood dragons have remained in both the Human Realm and the Demon Spirit Realm,” the pangolin added.
“The Dragon Race’s great catastrophe, interesting.”
At this moment, Xu Fan suddenly reeled in, and a golden big fish was hooked.
“A large yellow croaker, nice, I’m in for a treat today.”
Xu Fan retracted the fishing rod and summoned a tool puppet to carry the big yellow fish as they flew toward the cafeteria at the main peak of Hidden Spirit Island.
He casually gifted the unknown beast caught to the pangolin.
The reason for retracting the fishing line was not just because mealtime was approaching, but because Pang Fu had arrived, bringing hope for the entire sect.
At the main peak dojo, Xu Fan personally served a cup of tea to Pang Fu.
“Grand Elder is too polite,” Pang Fu said.
“Polite? You deserve it. It’s your achievement that so many rare materials from the cultivation world were bought up in such a short time,” Xu Fan replied with a smile.
With Pang Fu’s arrival, it proved that Xu Fan’s current lazy life was about to begin.
Ten space rings were laid out on the table.
“Grand Elder, here are all the spirit ore exotic treasures you wanted.”
“I’ve sorted them by type according to the list.”
“It cost a total of 80 million top-grade spirit stones,” Pang Fu reported.
“You’ve worked hard, and there won’t be such large-scale purchases in the future.”
“I’ve left the spirit stones with the Hidden Spirit Commerce. Feel free to use them,” Xu Fan said.
“That’s fantastic, thank you for your support, Grand Elder,” Pang Fu exclaimed excitedly. Xu Fan gave Pang Fu 100 million top-grade spirit stones, and after spending 80 million, the remaining spirit stones were enough for the Hidden Spirit Commerce to develop for a while.
“The one who should be thanked is me,” Xu Fan smiled.
After chatting with Xu Fan, Pang Fu returned to the Hidden Spirit Commerce.
Watching Pang Fu’s busy figure, Xu Fan sighed, “Being busy and being overweight really don’t have much to do with each other.”
Three days later, Xu Yuexian returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect.
Seeing Xu Yuexian’s bitter expression, Xu Fan smiled and said, “I told you to come back quickly, but you insisted on staying out for a while.”
“Well, it looks like you lost some money,” Xu Fan remarked.
“Master, you don’t even know. My space ring was swapped out! Other than the treasures stored inside my body and the puppet you gifted for protection, everything else is gone.”
“If I hadn’t had savings at the Immortal Jade Bank, I wouldn’t have made it back,” Xu Yuexian said, feeling a bit tearful.
Xu Fan picked up the fake space ring that was swapped out and said with interest, “Not bad, you managed to make such a convincing fake space ring in such a short time.”
“For this alone, losing your space ring isn’t such a loss,” Xu Fan said with a laugh.
“Master, you’re terrible,” Xu Yuexian exclaimed, annoyed at Xu Fan’s teasing attitude.
“Yuexian, use the light shadow technique to project what you saw before and after you lost the space ring.”
“Let me see who stole your ring,” Xu Fan said, not caring too much about Xu Yuexian’s loss.
Avoiding a disaster of bloodlight, it was normal to lose something.
“Master, look! During this time, I remember no one getting close to me at all.”
Xu Yuexian said as she used the light shadow technique to cast a light curtain.
The light curtain moved with Xu Yuexian’s timeline, while Xu Fan watched seriously from the side.
“Stop~” Xu Fan suddenly said.
The image froze on the scene of a common cultivator facing Xu Yuexian.
Xu Yuexian looked at the image and asked with confusion, “Master, is there something wrong with this?”
“Don’t use too much strength. Haven’t I said that details matter?”
“Did you not notice anything?” Xu Fan asked, with a hint of disappointment in his tone.
“I didn’t notice anything,” Xu Yuexian replied helplessly.
At this moment, Xu Fan took over the light curtain projection from Xu Yuexian and fixed the image.
The scene in the light curtain began to enlarge until it focused on a piece of dust.
“This is the memory you projected, and the light curtain you cast was formed based on your memory.”
“Have you ever seen such a perfectly round piece of dust?” Xu Fan pointed at the flawless sphere in the light curtain.
Then, Xu Fan rewound the image by one second and continued to enlarge it.
In this image, there were all sorts of dust, but none were as perfect as the sphere.
“After this moment in the image, your memory must have been affected or forgotten a small part,” Xu Fan said, stroking his chin.
“Since the thieving technique is so impressive, it definitely isn’t the work of an unknown person. You should check with the information organization you have contact with; they probably have the information you want.”
At this time, in a residential house far away in the Fairy City, a Void Refinement stage cultivator who looked like a righteous person was surprised to find many valuable things in Xu Yuexian’s space ring.
“It seems I’ve stirred up some trouble; a Nascent Soul Stage female cultivator’s space ring contains so many good things.”
“Since I’ve stolen it, can she track me through the space ring?” the justice-seeking Void Refinement stage cultivator remarked.
At that moment, Xu Yuexian’s space ring began to emit a bright light, and a foul character rune locked onto the Void Refinement stage male cultivator, transforming into a Formation that quickly covered the Void Refinement stage cultivator, and then vanished without a trace.
“Stealing from my disciple, you’ve got some nerve.”
“From now on, get ready to be infamous for all eternity.”
As the voice finished speaking, a foul odor began to emanate from the Void Refinement stage cultivator.
“Ugh~~~”
“What is that smell? It’s so disgusting!” the Void Refinement stage cultivator said, struggling to hold back his nausea.
He then used several purifying runes on himself, but the foul smell only grew stronger.
“What kind of spell is this? It’s so vile~~~ Ugh~~~” the Void Refinement stage cultivator gagged again.
The stench seemed to seep into the depths of his soul, and even covering his nose didn’t help.
At that moment, Xu Fan, who was comforting Xu Yuexian, sensed something and glanced into the distance.
“Even though you lost your space ring, the thief has already been punished,” Xu Fan said with a smile.
“What kind of punishment?” Xu Yuexian asked curiously.
“Your space rings are from my latest batch of crafting.”
“They’re engraved with your fifth junior brother’s renowned spells. If someone forces open your space ring, the foul odor spell I carved will activate.”
“This foul odor spell will embed itself into their soul, ensuring that as long as their soul exists, the stench will haunt them for life,” Xu Fan said slyly.
“But what if the thief removes the rune with the foul odor spell?” Xu Yuexian asked.
“It’s not that simple. Your master’s modifications are thorough.”
“Even if they remove the rune, the seed of the foul odor spell deep in their soul will sprout again.”
“And when it does, the stench will return,” Xu Fan said with a laugh.
“That’s just too cruel!” Xu Yuexian exclaimed.
“Cruel? They stole your space ring, after all.”
“Maybe fate will bring you together again someday,” Xu Fan said mysteriously.
“Alright, I need to get back to work. If you stay at the sect for half a year, my clone should have your flying treasure ready by then.”
“You can head out again after that.”
With that, Xu Fan waved his hand and disappeared from Xu Yuexian’s sight.
“Half a year! Is Master crafting me a Dao artifact?” Xu Yuexian muttered to herself.
“Don’t get your hopes up. Your senior is busy crafting other Dao artifacts,” Xu Fan’s voice echoed back.
“Fine,” Xu Yuexian pouted.
In the underground space, Xu Fan arrived at the crafting area and met with the first clone.
“Master, you should check on the second clone. He’s been sulking lately and might self-destruct at any moment,” the first clone said while working on the Spiritual Sword.
“He’s just upgrading the sect’s grand formation. What’s there to sulk about?”
“Besides, he’s only halfway through that Anime with Cannon Sister. He wouldn’t self-destruct now,” Xu Fan replied with a laugh.
“Master, you’re really…” the first clone trailed off.
“Not saying anything, I’m off to work. After you finish crafting Yuexian’s precious artifact, come help me,” Xu Fan instructed.
“Understood.”
In the underground artifact crafting room, Xu Fan laid out a vast amount of spirit ore exotic treasures and began the long journey of artifact crafting.
“First, the tasks for Qianling Sect, then the accompanying Dao artifacts for the sect’s grand formation, spirit pearls.”
“Also, Elder Su’s two Dao artifact Celestial Watchers, and the sect’s main cannon, plus……………..”
Xu Fan did a quick calculation and realized that time was running short.
“Forget it, let’s take it slow and go in order. What’s wrong with taking more time?”
With that, Xu Fan threw himself into the grand endeavor of crafting artifacts.
………………………
In the Celestial Sword fairy city, Wang Xiangchi visited the local task guild.
He came here specifically for the Sword Path Scripture Pavilion, which is said to house various swordsmanship techniques and the sword intents left by great swordsmen for comprehension.
However, to enter this Sword Path Scripture Pavilion, one must have Contribution Points from the Celestial Sword fairy city; merely having spirit stones is not enough.
Wang Xiangchi came specifically to earn these Contribution Points.
“Contribute a Spiritual Sword, points depend on the quality of the Spiritual Sword.”
“Contribute ten types of swordsmanship techniques to the Sword Path Scripture Pavilion. Points depend on the quality of the techniques.”
“Be a teacher at the Celestial Sword Academy for three years, and receive one opportunity to enter the Sword Path Scripture Pavilion.”
“Complete the incomplete swordsmanship techniques.”
“Eliminate the beast race in the Celestial Sword fairy city area. Golden Core Stage beast race: 10 points; Nascent Soul Stage beast race: 100 points; Transformation Stage beasts: 1000 points…………”
“Find………..”
Wang Xiangchi glanced at the tasks on the light curtain and felt that only eliminating the beast race in the Celestial Sword fairy city suited him.
Upon seeing that entry into the Sword Path Scripture Pavilion required spending 1000 points for just one day, he noted that to stay indefinitely, one would need to spend 10,000 points.
“For Golden Core Stage beasts: 1000; Nascent Soul Stage beasts: 100; Transformation Stage beasts: 10.”
“If there are a lot of beasts, this task will be easy to complete,” Wang Xiangchi murmured.
Then, Wang Xiangchi left the task hall and casually found a little boy who was only at the Qi Training Stage on the street.
Holding ten spirit stones, Wang Xiangchi smiled at the little boy and said, “Kid, answer my question, and these spirit stones are all yours.”
The little boy merely rolled his eyes at Wang Xiangchi and replied, “Senior, the current rate is 20 spirit stones per question.”
“If the information isn’t accurate, you can come back to me for a refund on the spirit stones.”
The boy spoke skillfully, clearly not his first encounter with such a situation.
“Haha,” Wang Xiangchi chuckled awkwardly and took out 20 spirit stones to hand to the boy.
“I didn’t expect you to be quite professional.”
“Of course! In Celestial Sword fairy city, our information organization has at least 2000 members gathering intel, and they conduct thorough investigations on the information,” the boy said happily as he received the spirit stones.
“I want to gather 10,000 points to enter the Sword Path Scripture Pavilion, but I don’t know how,” Wang Xiangchi inquired.
“That question costs 100 spirit stones,” the boy replied.
Wang Xiangchi quickly took out 100 spirit stones and handed them to the boy.
“The quickest way is to eliminate the beast race in the Celestial Sword fairy city area. What’s your strength, senior?” the boy asked.
“Nascent Soul Stage.”
“Then, senior, this task might not be suitable for you. The beast race in the Celestial Sword fairy city area has started to gather together; whenever encountered, there are hundreds or thousands, and the leader is at least a Transformation Stage beast.”
“Going solo wouldn’t be appropriate,” the boy concluded.
“What other methods are there that are quicker?” Wang Xiangchi pressed.
“Other methods include becoming a teacher at the Celestial Sword Academy.”
“The Celestial Sword Academy holds an annual student competition. If you secure first place in your stage, your teacher will receive a chance to enter the Sword Path Scripture Pavilion once, allowing a stay of one month inside,” the boy explained.
“Is there anything else?”
“Those two are the quickest options. The rest would be to complete small tasks and accumulate slowly.”
“Alright, I understand,” Wang Xiangchi replied, taking out ten spirit stones to reward the little boy.
“This is for you alone,” Wang Xiangchi said with a smile, recalling what his master once told him: sometimes being generous with little boys can lead to unexpected rewards.
This handful of spirit stones was Wang Xiangchi’s generosity; it wasn’t that he didn’t want to give more, but giving too much would only benefit others and not the boy.
After rewarding the little boy, Wang Xiangchi was about to leave.
“Senior, please hold on.”
