Immortal Venerable of the Beast Race
Chapter 103 - 103 76 Profound Yin Marketplace_3

103: 76 Profound Yin Marketplace_3 103: 76 Profound Yin Marketplace_3 The shelves were stocked with artifact-refining materials, assorted but not refined.

The shopkeeper, named Liu Shi, was actually an outer spy for the Spirit Control Sect, responsible for gathering intelligence, and had lived in the Profound Yin Marketplace for most of his life.

Shen Long didn’t reveal his identity to Liu Shi; he had just arrived at the Profound Yin Marketplace, unfamiliar with its conditions, and planned to observe for a while longer.

He walked into Liu’s Grocery Store, and Liu Shi came over quickly, respectfully saying, “Welcome to my store, esteemed senior, may I ask what service I can provide for you?”

“I’m just looking around.”

Shen Long picked up a piece of golden ore, examined it carefully for a while, then put down the golden ore and picked up a piece of black ore.

After looking over all the ores on the shelf and finding no bargains, he shook his head and walked away.

Liu Shi was completely baffled but said nothing.

After making a round in the marketplace, Shen Long only found three spies; two others were unaccounted for, not knowing if they had encountered an accident or were out on an errand.

More than two hours later, Shen Long arrived at a secluded courtyard with green-tiled roofs, the signboard bearing the name “Qingtang Courtyard” in three large characters, which he had rented.

The courtyard wasn’t large, holding a two-story green loft and a green stone pavilion, with the name “Qingtang Pavilion” written on the plaques.

Shen Long entered the Qingtang Pavilion and came to a secret chamber, where he saw a small array in the lower left corner.

He took out a green command token, poured mana into it, and a green light flew out, merging into the array.

The array shook slightly, and a green light screen appeared, covering the entire Qingtang Courtyard.

Shen Long slapped the Spirit Beast Bag at his waist, and over three hundred Gold Ants flew out, with the Ant Queen having advanced to the late stage of the first rank.

Shen Long took out three millstone-sized black ores and threw them on the ground for them to gnaw on.

The Gold Ants climbed onto the ores and began nibbling.

Before long, they had consumed the three pieces of ore.

Shen Long put them away in the Spirt Control Tower, leaving them on the first floor.

Shen Long sat cross-legged, flicked his sleeves, and a red cauldron flew out, with three legs and two ears, and the body engraved with a Fire Crow.

The Scarlet Crow Cauldron, a mid-grade Alchemy Furnace.

Shen Long had purchased it from a marketplace he passed by.

It was specially used for alchemy.

High-grade Alchemy Furnaces were quite precious and not so easily purchased; besides, his current identity was that of a Loose Cultivator, and using a high-grade Alchemy Furnace would be too conspicuous.

Shen Long closed his eyes and sat in meditation to refresh his spirit.

An hour later, Shen Long opened his eyes and exhaled a turbid breath.

Shen Long took out Alchemy Materials and began alchemizing.

After advancing to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could use Innate True Fire for Alchemy.

Core Formation Cultivators have Pill Fire, and Nascent Soul Cultivators have Infant Flame.

For Alchemists, possession of a Spirit Flame would greatly improve the efficiency and success rate of alchemy, but Spirit Flames were very rare and happened upon only by chance.

Shen Long blew out a stream of scarlet flames, which landed at the base of the Scarlet Crow Cauldron.

Under the smelting of the Innate True Fire, the Fire Crow pattern on the surface of the cauldron emitted a faint red glow.

He lifted the lid of the cauldron and began throwing ingredients inside one after another, refining Spirit Feeding Pills.

After a while, a faint fragrance of medicine wafted out from the cauldron.

Shen Long concentrated fully, his Divine Sense closely monitoring the situation inside the Scarlet Crow Cauldron.

Under the high temperature, the Spiritual Medicine turned into a pool of liquid and, under the control of Shen Long’s Divine Sense, this liquid began to condense into a solid mass.

A month later, Shen Long stepped out of the secret chamber with a faint smile on his face, having refined a good number of Spirit Feeding Pills, which he could now afford to supply liberally for Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects to consume.

Leaving Qingtang Courtyard, Shen Long strolled through the streets, casually looking around.

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, he appeared at a vast Azure Stone Plaza, where there were many stalls with a wide variety of items on display.

Shen Long walked and observed his surroundings, suddenly picking up his pace and arriving at a small stall.

The stall owner was a woman in her forties wearing a light blue dress, and she had arranged various Monster Beasts Materials on her stall.

Shen Long squatted down, pointing at a black sack-like object, and asked, “Taoist friend, what is this?”

“That’s the poison sac of an early stage second-rank Gold-Winged Black Flame Scorpion.

If you like it, it’s two hundred Spirit Stones,”

said the woman in the light blue dress.

“Don’t you have a Demon Core?”

Shen Long inquired.

“The Demon Core has been sold.

What remains is the poison sac, which is excellent for refining poison pills,”

said the woman in the light blue dress.

Shen Long took out two hundred Spirit Stones and bought the poison sac.

“Oh, Taoist Friend Shen, what a coincidence!”

A loud male voice rang out.

Shen Long turned his head to see Lin Guang and Su Nan approaching him.

“Taoist Friend Lin, you two know each other?”

The woman in the light blue dress looked somewhat surprised, as it was apparent from her words that she knew Lin Guang.

Lin Guang smiled and nodded, saying, “We’ve met once before.

I didn’t expect to run into Taoist Friend Shen here.”

“What a coincidence!

Taoist Friend Lin, Madam Lin.”

Shen Long greeted them with a smile.

“We live in the Purple Bamboo Courtyard.

If Taoist Friend Shen is free, you can come and visit us, and we can make friends,”

said Lin Guang earnestly.

“Certainly,”

agreed Shen Long, then he put away the poison sac and continued to stroll around.

He purchased some first-rank ores for feeding the Gold Ant and also bought some poisonous herbs for nurturing his Iron Tail Scorpion.

After leaving the Azure Stone Plaza, Shen Long came to the entrance of a nine-story green pavilion with three large characters “Hundred Herbs Pavilion” inscribed on the signboard.

Shen Long entered, and after a good half an hour, he came out of the Hundred Herbs Pavilion with a batch of Fire Attribute Spiritual Medicines in his Storage Bag.

He visited several Spirit Medicine Shops and bought various Fire Attribute Spiritual Medicines and Spirit Fruit Cores in batches.

While passing by Liu’s Grocery Store, he saw Liu Shi talking to a pear blossom-aged young lady in a white dress with a melon-seed face and cherry lips, although she was only at the seventh level of Qi Refinement.

Shen Long merely glanced and didn’t pay further attention.

Returning to the Qingtang Courtyard, Shen Long entered a secret chamber, accessed the Spirt Control Tower, and made his way to the second floor.

He approached a towering red mountain, took out several red fruit cores, and dug small pits, tossing the cores in, spacing each pit two zhang apart.

These were the fruit cores of the Red Moon Peach, having a growth cycle of up to ten years.

Shen Long was planting Red Moon Peaches primarily to have an additional source of income.

After burying all the fruit cores, he cast the Cloud Gathering Rainfall Technique to water them.

Then, he took out the Formation Flag and Disk, laid down a first-rank Formation, and erected a stone stele at the foot of the mountain inscribed with the words “Red Moon Peak”.

Shen Long fed a Spirit Feeding Pill to the Fire Rock Beast, exited the Spirt Control Tower, and sat down cross-legged.

He took out a vial of Monster Beasts Essence Blood and began to cultivate quietly, reciting the incantation.

He planned to enter seclusion for a while to complete the first three levels of the “Nine Revolutions Transforming Flood Dragon Technique” before anything else.

As for his tasks, they could wait for another day.

As the saying goes, the general’s orders are not always followed when he is away.