Chapter 276
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Chapter 276: Immortal Jade
At that moment, an angry roar echoed from a small courtyard in Wanyu Fairy City, but it was muffled by the soundproof formation of the courtyard.
Zheng Feng stared at the pile of fake space rings made of spirit iron in front of him, feeling a bit stunned.
"The disguise on this space ring is even better than the ones I make," Zheng Feng muttered in disbelief.
After calming down, Zheng Feng looked at the results of over a year of hard work now reduced to a pile of scrap metal. He didn’t feel too regretful, though. In a battle of experts, if your skills fall short, you can only blame yourself.
He even considered seeking advice from that young man—no, he should call him senior now. After all, cultivators from their lineage were rare, and it wasn’t often they crossed paths.
“I wish I could see that senior again,” Zheng Feng said with a sigh.
Meanwhile, in the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan called Xu Yuexian over.
“I ran into an old acquaintance of yours while I was out. At first, I didn’t notice him, but then he made a move against me.”
“Since we’ve crossed paths, let’s handle this properly.”
Xu Fan handed Xu Yuexian the shrunken Demon Suppressing Star No. 2.
“Take this and sell your old friend out again.”
“Grape will keep you updated on his location in real-time.”
“It seems his price has gone up since he escaped last time. This should help cover some household expenses. The Transformation God-level giant turtle’s nutrition has been falling behind lately,” Xu Fan explained.
At this point, the spirit stones in the Hidden Spirit Sect’s treasury were nearing the warning line. If it weren’t for the occasional dividends from the Demon Spirit Realm and Qianling Sect, they’d probably be in a financial crisis by now.
“Understood,” Xu Yuexian said cheerfully as she took the Demon Suppressing Star No. 2 from Xu Fan and flew off toward Lin Sen Fairy City. She was quite used to this kind of task by now.
“Just four more years to hold on. Those dragon eggs will hatch soon.”
“Once they do, the sect will have six more turtles with Dragon Race bloodlines,” Xu Fan said.
Lately, Xu Fan felt like he was earning a modest salary while raising a gas-guzzling beast, slowly draining his savings.
After dealing with Zheng Feng’s situation, Xu Fan turned his attention to the bag of space rings on the stone table.
“I wonder if there’s anything good in here,” Xu Fan said with a grin. Earlier, he had opened a few space rings and found mostly items belonging to Golden Core and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.
Most of it was useless magical treasures and techniques.
Xu Fan summoned a few puppets from the treasury to help sort through the items in the space rings.
He casually pulled out ten space rings from the bag and started opening them like Blind Boxes.
“Precious artifacts, talismans, array disks, spirit stones—nothing exciting. Next,” Xu Fan muttered.
“Spirit stones, techniques, array disks, puppets—next.”
“Spirit pills, poison pills, and a book on poison techniques. This poison classic might be worth a look.”
Xu Fan set aside the poison classic and let the puppets handle the rest. He casually opened the next space ring.
“Whoa, so many spirit crystals!”
“And Immortal Jade?!”
“Did some immortal disciple lose this when they descended to the mortal realm?” Xu Fan’s face lit up with excitement as he began carefully examining the contents of the space ring.
Inside, he found piles of ten-thousand-year Dark Iron, copper essence, gold essence, ten-thousand-year spirit herbs, and other valuable spirit materials.
Xu Fan looked closely and noticed something was off; these items seemed to be treasures that required time to settle or could only form in special environments.
"Could this be the space ring of that gourd protagonist?" Xu Fan pondered, stroking his chin.
Thinking of this, Xu Fan messaged Wang Xiangchi.
"Was your gourd disciple’s space ring stolen?" Xu Fan asked.
"Feiyu? He didn’t mention that, just asked me if there are any thieves in the cultivation world."
Upon receiving Wang Xiangchi’s reply, Xu Fan confirmed his guess.
At that moment, in a certain fairy city, a wealthy young man decided to stop using space rings.
"I wondered why Zheng Feng’s bounty suddenly increased; it turns out he messed with the protagonist," Xu Fan said with a smile.
Looking at the Immortal Jade in his hand, Xu Fan considered whether to use it to hatch that Dragon Egg.
"Forget it, this amount of Immortal Jade probably isn’t enough; I should use it to nourish the little ones instead." Xu Fan took out more than half of the Immortal Jade and melted it, then shot the mass toward the nine languishing dragons in the Spirit Gathering Formation.
The last time he obtained that Immortal Jade, he got a secret technique from Li Xuandao that could convert Immortal Jade into spiritual energy.
“Roar~~~”
“Roar~~~”
The nine dragons received a high-quality spiritual energy boost, and soon they returned to their peak condition, with the blue water dragon starting to bring forth rain in the sect.
In no time, the entire sect returned to the state it was in before the Transformation God-level giant turtle arrived.
"Grape, how long can this state last?" Xu Fan asked.
"Four months, then it will begin to decline; after six months, it will revert to its original state."
"Only four months? That feels a bit short," Xu Fan frowned, feeling it wasn’t as he had expected.
"Just now, the suction force of the spiritual energy whirlpool on the Transformation God-level giant turtle strengthened again."
"Alright, I understand."
Xu Fan’s tone had a hint of concern, feeling that the speed at which he earned spirit stones was not keeping up.
"Should I go steal that kid’s gourd? I wonder if the heavens will come after me," Xu Fan joked, though he wasn’t foolish enough to entertain that thought seriously.
These protagonists might one day become timeless beings. If you messed with these big shots when they were young, that would be courting death.
Xu Fan remembered reading a novel in his past life about a mindless villain who crossed through time to kill the protagonist when he was young, only to attract the attention of the fully grown protagonist in the end. Without even emerging from the time stream, he was obliterated with a single glare.
"Four months is four months; it’s better than nothing. If worse comes to worst, I’ll sell those two beast race monkey-style Star Ships," Xu Fan said.
Just when Xu Fan was worrying about lacking spirit stones, a thousand Qianling Sect disciples delivered the division of profits from renting Grape’s clone.
"How has Master Qianling been lately?" Xu Fan asked politely.
"Not bad, but when gathering resources in the Extreme Void Domain, he was a bit irritable," a Qianling Sect disciple replied.
"Oh, that’s good." Xu Fan nodded, feeling a bit disappointed that Master Qianling didn’t clash with the beast race, as that meant less profit.
After sending off the Qianling Sect disciple, Xu Fan glanced at the collected resources from the Extreme Void Domain, nodding in agreement; they were stable, without much surprise, just under two thousand small targets.
"Have Pang Fu buy another set of materials for the artifact-level Spirit Gathering Formation. I refuse to believe that four sets of artifact-level Spirit Gathering Formations can’t support this Dragon Egg," Xu Fan gritted his teeth and said.
Originally, the Transformation God-level giant turtle could have spent hundreds of years nurturing and then laid the Dragon Egg, but Xu Fan had it introduce more spiritual energy to Hidden Spirit Island, causing a reaction in the six Dragon Eggs still in development inside.
By the time Xu Fan realized this situation, it was already too late; if he were to stop now, he could only wait patiently for several hundred years.
