As a refiner, Li Yao attached great importance to the Orb Patrollers, too, because helping them repair and refine magical equipment was a great source of income for him. He could earn a lot of contribution points without any risk.
He had cracked a piece of magical equipment of the demon clan on Mystic Glacier. His reputation had spread out. If he could build a good relationship with other Orb Patrollers, he believed that someone would soon come to him for repair and refine magical equipment.
Many strong refiners had a lot of Cultivators under their command. That was how the relationship between the refiners and the maintenance of magical equipment developed.
Hong Tong and the rest of the Orb Patrollers found a lot of old acquaintances. They talked to each other enthusiastically and agreed that three or four Star Teams should be sent to carry out some difficult missions together.
Very soon, the lights in the hall dimmed down. A lot of ivory, translucent crystals were floating in the air, emitting bright but not dazzling brilliance. They illuminated the surroundings like a spring morning.
Almost a hundred booths rose up from the ground around the hall.
There were also a lot of large plants, minerals, fossils, and scraps of magical equipment that were too inconvenient to be displayed. They were displayed in front of everyone through 3D projections. If anyone was interested, they could study them in the warehouse below the exhibition center.
"How is it? It's an eye-opener, isn't it?"
'Dummy 'Ba Weiqi jabbed Li Yao with his elbow and grinned.
"Indeed. This is incredible!"
Li Yao's eyes were beaming. He was like a wolf that had been starved for three days and had seen a roasted fat lamb. He had forgotten everything else.
All the exhibits in the secret treasure exchange meeting in Empyreal Star City were the first-hand secret treasures excavated by the Star Teams. Not only were the exhibits ten times larger than those that Li Yao had seen in Serpent City, the quality of the exhibits was much higher, too.
Although Li Yao couldn't recognize the backgrounds and features of most of the secret treasures, the intense spiritual waves emitted from the secret treasures were like surging tides that he couldn't ignore.
As a refiner, it was natural that he would be fascinated by such a scene. He couldn't help himself.
Li Yao took a deep breath. His eyes glittering, he studied every exhibit carefully.
Although he couldn't recognize 99% of the exhibits, the 1% that he did recognize were priceless. They were priceless treasures that were rarely seen in the Tian Yuan Realm.
"This is the egg of a Gold-Spirit Ice Python. After it was invaded by the Phantom Silk Poisonous Wasps, they injected the Phantom Silk Threads that contained the hatchlings of the Golden Spirit Ice Python and nurtured it with the nutrients in the egg. Once it breaks out of its shell, it will turn into a 'Golden Silk Venomous Bee' and possess the characteristics of two spirit beasts at the same time. It is the king of the insect type spirit beasts! "
"Although this egg has been buried underground for thousands of years and its life force has long been cut off, if it is carefully cultivated, there is still a 1% chance that it can be cultivated into a Golden Silk Poisonous Bee! Even if it doesn't work, we can still extract more than a dozen tiny components from the egg and mix them into magical equipment, which can also unleash part of the power of the 'Gold Silk Venomous Bee'!
"I can even use this egg. I'm going to refine a batch of bee-shaped puppet beasts. If they're used for scouting and harassing attacks, they can greatly improve the individual combat ability of soldiers! "
Li Yao's heart beat like a drum.
Of course, it was not his specialty to activate the vitality inside the egg. But it was his specialty to grind and extract the tiny components inside the egg and refine them into magical equipment!
In the second floor of the Heavenly Refining Tower, there were more than ten classics that described how to refine magical equipment with the eggs and bones of spirit beasts!
Looking at the price, Li Yao almost laughed out loud. Such a precious secret treasure. Such a precious treasure was only selling for eight hundred contribution points!
It appeared that, except for the Gold-Spirit Ice Python egg that he saw in the 'World's Edge Atlas' on the second floor of the Heavenly Refining Tower, nobody else knew anything about such a treasure. Or maybe, even if they knew the origin of the egg, they were unable to extract and refine it. That was why the price was so ridiculously low.
This was the charm of the Secret Treasure Exchange.
In this place, knowledge was money!
In the eyes of those who did not know the value of the items, such items were just garbage. But in the eyes of those who did know, they were real treasures!
When the Cultivators were studying the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, they would not be disturbed. Since they didn't like to be disturbed, several crystal processors were installed around every booth. The light beams displayed the process of the discovery of the secret treasure and the preliminary judgment of the experts.
If they were interested in the item, they could trade it directly through the crystal processors.
Li Yao quickly typed on the virtual rune keyboard and did a quick search. The foreign egg had been excavated from a secret realm called the Realm of Ultimate Frost.
The Domain of Ultimate Frost was the home base of the Gold-Spirit Ice Python. The Orb Patrollers went there to hunt an Ice Python King. While they were hunting, they discovered the egg by accident.
It further proved Li Yao's judgment.
Without any hesitation, he bought the egg immediately. As the contribution points in his account were deducted, a line of translucent words appeared on the egg: 'Li Yao, Team Blue Bronze!'
Then, the egg slowly descended from the booth.
After the Secret Treasure Exchange was over, Li Yao would pack up all the secret treasures that he had purchased. He was not in a hurry.
The egg of the Gold-Spirit Ice Python that he had bought at a low price was far beyond Li Yao's expectation. He was in a good mood. Walking in the garden, he saw Ding Ling Dong standing in front of a giant stone slab. She was tempted, but hesitant.
Several other Cultivators were also pointing at the slate and whispering to each other.
Li Yao stepped forward and observed. The stone slab was more than ten meters long and wide. It was made of more than ten stone slabs. Thousands of interconnected gullies could be seen on the slab.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes. He saw uneven patterns at the bottom of the gullies, which looked like two extremely long bones and dozens of claw marks.
They were the fossils of two dragons.
The two dragons had been entangled with each other for thousands of years. Their flesh and blood had been reduced to dust, leaving only broken bones behind. But they were still emitting tremendous energy.
When Li Yao closed his eyes, he seemed to see a primeval world where volcanoes were erupting, the earth was cracking, and the two dragons were roaring and fighting each other.
"Hiss!"
Li Yao was fascinated by the scene. Suddenly, one of the dragons lunged at him and scratched his face. He shuddered and stepped back. Although he was out of the illusionary world, he was still in a trance and couldn't regain himself for a long time.
What tremendous mental strength! What a marvelous fossil!
The two Flood Dragons were dozens of meters long. On the fossil, there were only a few scales and a few claws. If the entire fossil was gathered together, the energy contained in it would be enough to kill a low-level Cultivator directly.
"You want to buy the fossil?"
Li Yao found it strange. Ding Ling Dong was the purest battle-type Cultivator. Since when was she so interested in fossils?
"Yes."
Ding Lingdang gazed at the dragon fossil passionately and couldn't move her eyes away. She mumbled, "I don't know why, but I was completely attracted by this fossil the moment I arrived here. It's like I've really seen two dragons fighting each other and the sky and earth collapsing. I seem to have understood something all of a sudden!"
"You know that my main Cultivation art right now is' Nine-colored Fire '. But the form of the outburst of my spiritual energy has always been that of a dragon! If I buy the fossil and study the spirit of the two primeval beasts day and night, it will be of great help to my spiritual energy condensation. My combat ability will be greatly improved, too! "
"That explains a lot."
Li Yao nodded. Studying the spirit of the primeval era with the primeval beasts in the fossil was a very sophisticated training technique. He didn't expect that Ding Ling Dong had grasped such an incredible technique after only a few months of training.
"Then, what are you hesitating for? You couldn't walk away the moment you saw the fossil, which means that you are destined to meet it. Just buy it!"
Ding Ling Dong was somewhat embarrassed. She stuck out her tongue and said in a low voice, "Isn't it too expensive?"
Different from the egg of the Gold Spirit Ice Boa that Li Yao had picked up earlier, the fossil was obvious. Anyone with eyes could tell that it was a fossil of a dragon from a long time ago. However, few Cultivators could understand the spirit of the fossil. Therefore, it was much more expensive, costing nine thousand contribution points.
Ding Ling Dong had joined Occult Orbs Fellowship only a few months earlier than Li Yao. With her extravagant personality, it was impossible for her to have much savings. She had only earned around ten thousand contribution points from the trip to Mystic Glacier. She was hesitant to spend all of them.
Li Yao was amused.
"The price is not a problem. You have me, don't you? Just buy it. There are still a lot of dragon bones inside the fossil. After you understand the spirit of the fossil, you can dig them out and refine them for me. You can use them for two purposes.
Shopping was a girl's nature. Although Ding Ling Dong was a human-shaped tyrannosaurus rex, she was still delighted by Li Yao's generosity. Even her eyes when she looked at Li Yao were much gentler.
Hardly had Li Yao bought the fossil when a middle-aged man who was tall, slim, with unusually long arms and a feminine face hurried over. Seeing that the fossil was slowly descending from the booth, he was dazed for a moment. Then he smiled bitterly.
After some small talk, Li Yao learned that the man was an elder of 'Heavenly Serpent Sect', a rather famous combat sect in the southwest of the Federation.
Many Cultivation arts of the Heavenly Serpent Sect required the disciples to understand the combat of dragons. Therefore, when they heard that such a fossil was going to be displayed in the secret treasure exchange, they hurried over but were still one step too late.
Ding Ling Dong was crazy about martial arts. Her spiritual energy was in the form of a dragon. Therefore, she had been coveting the Heavenly Serpent Sect for a long time. It was just that she hadn't found a way to make friends with them.
After a long talk with the elder of the Heavenly Serpent Sect, the two parties reached a mutually satisfactory agreement.
Ding Ling Dong would open the fossil for three days every month so that the disciples of the Heavenly Serpent Sect could come and observe it.
In exchange, the Heavenly Serpent Sect would offer some secret training techniques for Ding Ling Dong to study.
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