First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 141: Temporary Market

Seeing Shen Mo effortlessly catching up, Chen Mengze's face showed a hint of surprise. However, she didn't ask much and simply thought that he had learned a sophisticated sword technique.

The two sword auras flew side by side, heading towards the direction of the Ghost Country ruins. The morning glow and the solitary ducks flew together, and the autumn water blended with the sky.

Through the clouds, the majestic mountains, rivers, and streams were all within sight. People's moods also became broad and joyful.

The journey was long. After half an hour of flying on the sword, Chen Mengze couldn't help but speak up. "Yesterday, I went to Jiyun Town to look for elixirs and saw many alchemists on the streets. They said there was a pill gathering. Did you go?"

Speaking while flying on the sword was inconvenient, so she used divine sense to transmit her voice.

So she was also one of the onlookers, Shen Mo thought to himself and replied through divine sense, "I happened to be there and even watched Zhao Lingyin refining pills. It was truly like a fairy farting!"

"A fairy farting..." Chen Mengze subconsciously murmured.

Realizing what she said, a hint of embarrassment appeared on her face, and she said irritably, "If you want to praise someone, just praise them. If her fans hear you, they'll come looking for trouble."

"But she has gained a great reputation in the Pill Domain at such a young age. I think her pill refining skills are extraordinary. She is also the direct disciple of a fourth-grade alchemist. Aren't you also an alchemist? If you could make friends with her..." Chen Mengze said.

Previously, Shen Mo had refined a second-grade Thunder Transformation Pill for Uncle Chen. Therefore, Chen Mengze knew that he had reached at least the level of a first-grade alchemist.

Shen Mo understood her meaning and smiled awkwardly, saying, "Let's forget it. She is the number one genius in the Pill Domain. As a small wild alchemist like me, I can't reach that high."

"Indeed!" Chen Mengze nodded.

Huh? Can't you at least argue a little?

She completely agreed with him. What's going on?

Even if you really think that way, at least express it more tactfully. Being so straightforward, aren't you afraid of hurting my feelings, Shen Mo felt a bit depressed.

"This fellow Lingyin seems to be very interested in an alchemist named Mo Shen," Chen Mengze didn't notice Shen Mo's expression and continued, "I heard people say that Master Mo Shen's pill refining skills are even better than Zhao Lingyin's! The main attraction of the pill gathering was the second-grade Spirit Pill he refined."

"What's even more rare is that this person is so low-key."

"He has gained fame in the Pill Domain, but only one name has been spread. Until now, no one knows his true identity!"

Praise me more, please!

Shen Mo enjoyed the pleasure of being unknown.

As for being low-key, he actually wanted to be high-profile, but he had too many concerns.

A year ago, he knew nothing about alchemy, but now his pill refining skills were comparable to a third-grade alchemist, surpassing the number one genius of the Pill Domain, Zhao Lingyin.

If people found out, wouldn't it immediately expose the "great opportunity" he had?

By then, he would be captured by those powerful Linghai Realm experts or even the Elders of the Pill Domain, dissected into pieces of meat. It would be a miserable end.

Unless he had enough strength to protect himself,

Otherwise, Shen Mo would never take off this disguise!

...

Next to the Ghost Country ruins, there was a temporary market.

It took Shen Mo and Chen Mengze a full eight hours to arrive here.

They could have arrived earlier.

However, they encountered a powerful thunderstorm while flying straight on the bird path.

Unless they were a strong spiritual realm expert or had a thunder spirit body like Lu Ming, it was extremely dangerous to cross the thunderstorm clouds with a flying sword.

So Shen Mo and the others took a detour.

Wearing the special destiny of "Adventure (Ordinary)", Shen Mo also picked up a wild spirit medicine and two monster corpses along the way.

Preliminary judgment indicated that the two second-stage monster beasts were fighting over the spirit medicine.

The battle was too fierce, resulting in both sides being heavily injured and dying, and in the end, Shen Mo benefited from it.

Since Chen Mengze discovered it together with Shen Mo, he couldn't blame her. She just took advantage of her luck and took all the benefits for herself.

Two plus one equals five.

The wild spirit medicine belonged to Chen Mengze, and both monster corpses belonged to Shen Mo.

After cutting off some edible flesh and the most valuable monster materials, Shen Mo used the remaining corpses, including the monster cores, to cultivate the "Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body".

This slightly increased his experience in this body cultivation technique.

In the temporary market, there were a large number of materials related to ghost spirits for sale, which made Shen Mo eager.

The "Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body" not only absorbed the essence of monster beasts, but also refined the souls left behind by ghost spirits after death.

"We don't have many spirit stones left, so let's use them sparingly."

"After entering the Ghost Country ruins, there will be plenty of ghosts and monsters to kill! There's no need to spend spirit stones to buy them."

Shen Mo didn't spend his spirit stones recklessly. With the power of his Soul Refining Banner, it wasn't too difficult for him to kill ghosts below the late Qi Gathering stage. It was unnecessary to waste spirit stones.

If everything went smoothly, his "Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body" should have a significant improvement when he came out of the Ghost Country ruins.

"Senior Sister Chen, there are relics and geomantic maps for sale over there. Let's go take a look."

Whenever a newly appeared relic, tomb complex, or secret realm was discovered, cultivators who entered early would draw maps and mark various information.

Some cultivators didn't gain much during their exploration, but they could make a fortune by selling information after coming out.

"How much are you selling this map information for?"

Chen Mengze walked up to a stall, picked up a jade slip, and scanned it with her divine sense, then asked the stall owner about the price.

There were many stalls nearby selling terrain and information.

However, the cultivators running the stalls had varying levels of cultivation.

Even a mid-Body Tempering stage cultivator dared to openly set up a stall and sell information.

Based on their strength, they probably just wandered around the edge of the ruins and didn't dare to go deeper, so the information they brought out was basically worthless.

"Fifty low-grade spirit stones, the price is firm!"

The stall owner was a thin young man, so thin that he looked like a dried corpse that had just crawled out of a coffin.

But he was at the sixth stage of the Qi Gathering stage, which was the highest cultivation level among the stalls nearby.

Compared to others, his terrain jade slip would be more valuable.

"If the information you provide is not worth fifty spirit stones, don't blame me for causing trouble for you!" Chen Mengze made it clear in advance.

The thin man snorted coldly and didn't reply.

After buying the jade slip and breaking the restrictions on it, Chen Mengze scanned it with her divine sense and handed it to Shen Mo.

"It's not bad, it's worth the price!"

The jade slip not only recorded the general terrain inside the Ghost Country ruins, but also marked about seventy to eighty percent of the areas with words such as safe, dangerous, perilous, and forbidden.

Based on the information collected by the thin man alone, he probably couldn't gather such complete information.

It was most likely pieced together by communicating with others.

Shen Mo spent another ten to thirty spirit stones and bought some geomantic information.

After comparing them one by one, he nodded to Chen Mengze and said, "It's mostly accurate, but we still need to be careful when we enter the ruins."

(End of this chapter)