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Chapter 387 - 71: Fire Dragon of the Southern Sea [Seeking monthly votes!] _1

Chapter 387: Chapter 71: Fire Dragon of the Southern Sea [Seeking monthly votes!] _1

There was once a time when Lin Bei’s cultivation level was on par with Chu Liang, even slightly better.

Later, he had some fortuitous encounters and managed to catch up for a while, but he was eventually left behind by Chu Liang. After all, relying solely on opportunities for cultivation was not sustainable.

What Chu Liang relied on, on the other hand, was consistent fortune...

This time, Lin Bei came over because he was finally ready to advance to the Fourth Realm with his Golden Core.

According to the process, he needed to first refine an external elixir, and he planned to cultivate a top-grade God Thunder Shao Yang Golden Pill. Given his noble and energetic aura, it was not surprising that he chose to cultivate this pill.

Just as Chu Liang did before, Lin Bei also needed a piece of heavenly material and earthly treasure that was associated with the yang element.

"I found some information in the Treasure Medicine Hall. I need someone to accompany me," Lin Bei said.

When Chu Liang was refining his external elixir, Lin Bei had given him a great deal of help. Thus, it was only logical for Chu Liang to help him now.

However...

Chu Liang still voiced his confusion, "Why don’t you just buy it?"

"Buy?" Lin Bei was momentarily startled.

The two men looked at each other, and in each other’s eyes, they saw a huge generation gap.

Not only Lin Bei, but in the consciousness of normal cultivators, purchasing would never be the first option when they had the clue to acquire cultivation resources.

First and foremost, the biggest reason was that they could not afford it.

For heavenly materials and earthly treasures to be sold on the market, it would usually be under circumstances where some cultivators obtained it by sheer luck and found themselves unable to make use of it. It is heavily a seller’s market where the price depends solely on how much the seller wants for it.

Each of them was staggeringly expensive.

Just like Marquis Ding Shan in Southern Border City who had reached the Sixth Realm entirely by purchasing resources. He was barely able to afford it through the wealth from his entire manor and some shady businesses.

Normal cultivators in the Fourth or Fifth Realm could not possibly possess such wealth.

Therefore, they had to take the risk of finding the materials themselves. If they couldn’t find it, they would have to wait.

Secondly, the process of searching for resources was also a form of cultivation.

For instance, the core disciples of large immortal sects could potentially be fully supplied by their sects. However, the sects would not do such a thing. They would hope that the disciples could cultivate themselves in the process of searching for heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

There were many things beyond cultivation that a cultivator needed to grasp on their own.

However,

For Chu Liang, the time he saved could be put into more meaningful tasks, and better improve his cultivation, such as farming the Lantern Monster, farming the Black Fur Ball, farming the Wine Jar Demon... This kind of cultivation was not that important to him.

And as for the price...

If a problem can be solved with money, is it still considered a problem?

During his trip to Taotie City, Chu Liang conveniently bought a Top Grade Green Jade Bodhi Branch.

While he himself hadn’t reached the Fifth Stage yet, the Five Elements Puppet had already stabilized the first secret treasure of the Heavenly Black Gold Bone. The Flashy Doll was ready to open the second secret treasure at any time. When he saw a piece of wood element treasure for sale, Chu Liang didn’t hesitate to buy it and feed it to the Five Elements Puppet back at his place.

Once the Five Elements Puppet opens the second secret treasure, the Flashy Doll will emit both white and green light, and will be able to channel both Geng Metal and Jia Wood Qi into Chu Liang at the same time.

The cost came out to an auspicious number — 8800 Vermilion Bird Coins.

For a rare spirit plant like this, it would cost 2000 or 10000, it doesn’t really matter. If you see it, just buy it.

The last bonus from the massive issuance of Shu Mountain Sword Coins was to buy the Demon-Subduing Pestle. After that, the value of Shu Mountain Sword Coins plummeted. Now, one Sword Coin can’t exchange for one Vermilion Bird Coin anymore, but only eight Black Tortoise Coins.

Meaning this Green Jade Bodhi Branch would cost over ten thousand sword coins in Shu Mountain.

But when Chu Liang was paying for it, it was as if he was buying a head of cabbage, casual and nonchalant. This earned him the great respect and disbelief of the steward and servants in the shop.

Just like the look in Lin Bei’s eyes right now.

Lin Bei shook his head after a moment, "You’ve changed. When we first met, you couldn’t even spare a Sword Coin for a token, you had to borrow mine."

"Didn’t we save the money so we can spend it now?" Chu Liang laughed.

"No wonder you always have us working so hard..." Lin Bei said.

"Surely, you were very happy when we divided the money after a hard day’s work," Chu Liang countered.

"True," Lin Bei laughed.

Being the right-hand man in Chu Liang’s team, his role wasn’t just doing menial tasks, but also sharing a certain percentage of profits. Thus, he wasn’t exactly poor.

But buying a rare heavenly material and earthly treasure solely with money is definitely going to be cost-prohibitive.

After considering, Chu Liang said, "Since you already have a clue, I’ll go with you. Save when you can. However, I have to attend the celebration of the Four Seas Whale Guild in three days, we must return before then."

He also wanted to go out and practice his Jia Wood Qi.

"Don’t worry, we’ll be back in time," Lin Bei reassured with a smile.

After a pause, he added, "So you’re going to attend the Whale Guild’s celebration. No wonder Eldest Senior Brother is rushing his cultivation, saying that he wants to breakthrough to the second tier of the Five Elements Realm within three days."

Senior Brother Xu is about to break through again?

Upon hearing this news, Chu Liang definitely felt happy for him. After all, there was no competition between them now, all the progress made was for the betterment of the Shu Mountain Sect’s strength.

The second tier of the Five Elements Realm, huh.

What a coincidence.

My Flashy Doll has just broken through to this level.

...

The Southern Sea Islands, surrounded by endless emerald waves.

Legend says that after the collapse of the Ancient Dragon Nest, the Dragon Race moved to the Abyss of the Tamed Dragon. The Abyss of the Tamed Dragon, an abyss beneath the sea, is vast and profound, and since the Dragon Race generally likes water, the Abyss of the Tamed Dragon makes for a good nest.

But not all dragons are the same.

There is one Fire Dragon who couldn’t stand living in the Abyss of the Tamed Dragon and chose to migrate alone.

Well, that’s understandable.

But dragons that cause earthquakes wherever they go, especially fire dragons that leave scorched earth in their wake, are not allowed to live on the Nine States Continent.

The Fire Dragon came to the Southern Sea which is full of thousands of islands. There are many vast islands, each the size of a country.

It finally found its home here. For many years, it has not only sired countless fire dragon descendants but even gave birth to several Pure Blood Dragons.

And thus, the Southern Sea Fire Dragon Race was born.

Among pure-blooded dragons, fire dragons are a very unusual existence. Even its body fluid flows in the form of flames. In the dwelling place of the fire dragons in the Southern Sea, over time, spiritual plants are often grown that have been soaked and nurtured by these flames.

This fiery spirit fruit, which grows in a dragon’s habitat, contains dragon spirituality and even resembles the shape of a dragon, is referred to as...

The Flowing Flame Fruit.

And the heavenly material and earthly treasure Lin Bei had his eyes on was just such a Flowing Flame Fruit on an island in the South Sea.

Shu Mountain is located in the southwest and is not far from the Southern Sea. It took them less than half a day to fly to the Southern Sea. Lin Bei looked at the map in his hand again, found a direction, flew for about an hour, and finally saw the island drawn on the map.

This is a large volcanic island, in the center of the island is a crater that looks like a lake, currently quiet and dark. But once you get close, you can still feel the dangerous atmosphere within.

In the eyes of the disciples of Shu Mountain, it was like a hot pot that had its ingredients but no soup yet.

"The growing period of the Flowing Flame Fruit shows that it’s not the active period of the Fire Dragon. The dragon itself is likely not here, and even if it is, it should be in deep sleep at the bottom of the volcano. As long as we don’t stir up too much trouble, we shouldn’t disturb it."

Upon landing, Lin Bei muttered, while sneaking towards the target.

Just now, the two of them had already located the Flowing Flame Fruit using their divine sense. It was on a high burning tree at the base of the volcano.

A tree covered in flames, with no leaves or flowers, as if the flames on it were its blossoms. Sure enough, in one of the fires, there was a fruit glowing with golden light, the size of a fist and full of spiritual energy.

Around the fire tree, there was a patch of grass, each blade of grass was a jumping flame.

The two landed just outside this patch of grass.

"There are quite a few living creatures on this island, walking around normally shouldn’t be a problem, why are you so scared?" Chu Liang laughed as he looked at Lin Bei’s timid demeanor.

"Even if I know it won’t wake up, being so close to something that could turn a person into ashes in one breath is still quite scary." Lin Bei replied in a low voice.

"I’m used to it..." Chu Liang said thoughtfully.

Lin Bei dared not answer.

"To harvest the Flowing Flame Fruit, one must first use cold Frost Qi to extinguish the flame on top. We can’t use water, as the Flowing Flame Fruit will dissolve upon contact. Also, don’t touch it directly, but cut off its branch and use an Ice Jade Box to catch it." Lin Bei again recited the harvesting process he knew by heart.

"Also, watch out for the Treasure Demon Guard." Chu Liang reminded him.

"This place is totally barren, where’s there any monster?" Lin Bei laughed, preparing to start picking.

Chu Liang looked around and indeed found nothing.

So he pointed his finger like a sword, drew a rune from the air, and in an instant, dozens of cold ice runes were fired, and a wave of Cold Frost Spirit Qi rushed forward, extinguishing the fire grass and fire sprouts on the fire tree.

In the blink of an eye, a thin frost layer formed.

"We must pick it quickly before the frost thaws." Lin Bei muttered to himself, flew to the bottom of the tree, and took out a box made of ice jade.

Just this little box alone cost a pretty penny.

The Flowing Flame Fruit, frozen by frost, looked like a soft-boiled egg with a very thin shell, and something seemed to be flowing inside. Without the surrounding flames, was the Flowing Flame Fruit originally a liquid?

Surprised, he was left with no time to think but quickly cut off the branch of the Flowing Flame Fruit with a pair of scissors.

Thud.

The fist-sized Flowing Flame Fruit fell into the Ice Jade Box, and Lin Bei’s face flashed with joy. He was about to put the box away and return when suddenly, everything turned dark.

"Be careful!" Chu Liang shouted a warning from behind.

Then a resounding cry came from above them: "Caaw-"