The blazing sun shone on a long and narrow valley. On the two mountains surrounding the valley grew a strange type of tall plant. It looked like a cactus, but it was gray in color. Under the sun, these plants grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Eight hundred miles away from the valley, there was a quagmire formed by the accumulation of sewage. Countless fragments of robes of unknown colors floated in the quagmire, as well as the rotting corpses of unknown demonic beasts. A foul smell was emitted from the quagmire.
On one side of the valley, there were several cactus-like plants that had grown to a height of over thirty meters. Below them, there was an extremely simple stone house built with mountain rocks. In front of it sat a sickly young man who looked to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He sat cross-legged on a bamboo chair.
In front of this slightly pale young man, whose hands were covered by a long gray leather robe, there were more than thirty cultivators gathered.
"One Qi Recovery Pill costs twenty low-grade spirit stones. Fellow Daoist, your price is a bit too much." At this moment, these thirty cultivators were all cursing angrily. A few of them even spat on the ground.
However, this sickly looking young man seemed to be used to such a scene. After waiting for some people to finish scolding him, he smiled slightly and said, "Everyone, just like the things before the sky broke, the rarer something is, the more precious it is. I think everyone is very clear that within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, there is probably no way to find the Qi Recovery Pill. Right now, this is my price. Perhaps in the entire Profound Sky Continent, there might be other places that have higher prices. "
"But your price is a bit too high. Right now, our Profound Sky Continent's vault of heaven is broken. We cultivators should be supporting each other. How can we take advantage of this opportunity to earn spirit stones?" A middle-aged cultivator still said indignantly.
"If you really think my pills are too expensive, I have another method. As long as you hand over two mid-grade spirit ranked magic treasures and above, I can guarantee to bring you to a safe place." The sickly young man smiled and said, "From what I know, the Immortal Ascension Sect has set up a cultivator settlement less than thirty thousand miles from here. Once we get there, we can go to a large city controlled by another sect. It should be very safe. "
"Two mid-grade spirit ranked magic treasures and above! Fellow Daoist, you're asking for too much! "
"Fellow Daoist, even if we give you two mid-grade spirit-ranked magic treasures, how can you guarantee that you can safely send us to the area controlled by the Immortal Ascension Sect?"
Some of the sickly young men were just about to open their mouths to answer the questions of many people around them when they suddenly tilted their heads slightly and looked towards the sky to their left.
A dozen or so streaks of light suddenly descended from the clouds on the left side of the sky and soon landed in this valley.
Most of the cultivators there were sword cultivators with swords on their backs. All of them exuded a valiant aura. Their leader was a square-faced cultivator in black leather armour. He had a gloomy expression on his face and a dark-green sword on his back.
When this group of sword cultivators landed, the hearts of the thirty or so cultivators trembled. This was because this group of sword cultivators was not weak. This was especially true of the square-faced cultivator who had reached the late stage of the 5th layer of Thought Splitting Stage.
"I didn't think that someone would actually set up a foothold here."
When this group of cultivators landed, their faces were filled with bewilderment.
"Brat, did you leave behind the carvings on the wasteland saying that there are spirit returning pills and healing pills for sale here?" After sweeping his gaze over everyone, the square-faced cultivator arrogantly looked at the sickly young man and said, "Let's go!"
"That's right, the carvings on the wasteland were all left behind by me and my companions." The sickly young man smiled and said, "Did you all come here for spirit returning pills? Twenty low grade spirit stones for one."
"Twenty low grade spirit stones for one? That price is too cheap. "The square-faced cultivator laughed and the ten sword cultivators behind him also began to howl with laughter.
"It seems that you Fellow Daoists aren't here to do business." The sickly young man wasn't angry. Instead, he smiled and said, "If the price is too high, then I have a fair price for you."
"Oh? What fair price?" The square-faced cultivator laughed and looked at the sickly young man.
"Use your life in exchange." The sickly young man indifferently said.
"Use my life in exchange? I think you should give me your life and all of your spirit returning pills!" The square-faced cultivator wildly laughed and the flying sword on his back suddenly turned into a huge black python and twisted towards the sickly young man. The thirty cultivators that were originally there all changed expressions and dodged one after another.
The sickly young man smiled and didn't move in the slightest. All of a sudden, a red brilliance shot out from the simple and crude stone house behind this young man. With a "Ka" sound, the huge black python with raging black flames was suddenly smashed into pieces. The square-faced cultivator's wild laughter suddenly stopped and he looked at his chest in disbelief.
There was a washbasin-sized hole in his chest and his body had nearly been split in two.
Soon after, the square-faced cultivator coughed twice and fell to the ground, no longer making any sound.
"Dang!"
Behind the square-faced cultivator, a green-robed sword cultivator had just summoned his flying sword when his head was struck by a beam of crimson radiance from the crude stone house. The flying sword fell to the ground and the headless corpse swayed before falling to the ground.
For a moment, all of the sword cultivators present were pale. The other cultivators also looked at the small stone room behind the sickly young man with shock.
In the eyes of these cultivators, this sickly young man who was only at the second level of the Split Thought Realm suddenly became terrifying.
"If you sincerely want to do business with me, my companions and I will naturally give a sincere price. If you don't want to do business with us, then you can only be like this person and use your life in exchange." The sickly young man still smiled and pointed at the stone room behind him. "Everyone asked me how I can guarantee your safety. My third brother is the guarantee."
"Brother Liu, what do you think?"
"Why don't we use our magic treasures …"
The ten or so sword cultivators who arrived later were still in a daze, their faces pale. However, the thirty or so cultivators who had gathered here earlier were already tempted, from the cultivator who had yet to show himself in the small stone house. From the power of the two radiances, it was probably at least a great cultivator at the second level of the Jin Dan Realm.
Suddenly, at this moment, the sickly young man who was originally smiling was slightly startled and turned his head.
From the small stone room behind him, a short-haired cultivator suddenly walked out.
This was a tall and steady middle-aged cultivator. His hair was scarlet red, and every strand stood up like burning flames. He wore a dark golden robe, and on his chest, back, and other vital areas, there were several cloud-brocade shaped runes. He wore a pair of scarlet leather boots, and they were also coiled with powerful magic power fluctuations.
Waves of scarlet spirit energy came out from this person's body and condensed into the appearance of a scarlet divine furnace above his head.
The flames rolling above the crimson cauldron were like real flames.
"Third level of the Jin Dan Realm!"
A cultivator recognized this person's cultivation. All the cultivators present immediately sucked in a breath of cold air. This person's cultivation was actually higher than they had imagined. He was actually a great cultivator at the third level of the Jin Dan Realm!
"Third Brother, what's wrong?" When the sickly young man saw this extraordinary short-haired cultivator walk out, he immediately stood up and asked.
This short-haired cultivator did not speak and only looked at the sky in front of him. In a moment, a streak of light appeared in everyone's line of sight and headed here.
Dozens of cultivators rushed over.
Leading them was a green-robed young man and a red-faced large man.
"Senior!"
As if he had just seen the green-robed young man, the short-haired cultivator who walked out of the stone room immediately trembled and his expression changed greatly as he bowed to the green-robed young man from afar.
"Senior?" Seeing this scene, the sickly young man and all the other cultivators present suddenly had a look of shock in their eyes.
This green-robed young man who flew through the air looked very ordinary and there was not much spirit qi on his body.
However, the dozens of cultivators following behind him had a very respectful expression on their faces.
"Were the words engraved all over the wasteland left behind by you? Which sect were you cultivators from before? " The green-robed young man and all the cultivators following him landed. The green-robed young man looked at the Jin Dan Realm cultivator with short red hair and asked.
"We were originally cultivators from Black Wolf. We are a small rogue cultivator organization in Firmament City." The short-haired cultivator was very respectful and bowed as he spoke.
"This place is not safe. With your cultivation, if a powerful demonic beast passes by, you may not be able to escape." The green-robed young man glanced at the red-haired cultivator. "Since you dared to stay here and leisurely left your handwriting everywhere to lure people here to do business, you must have a way to escape safely. What are you relying on?"
"To be honest, we, Black Wolf, have a teleportation formation in this mountain before. It leads to thousands of miles away. After that, we can rush to the area controlled by the Immortal Ascension Sect. It is relatively safe there."
"What, there is a teleportation formation in this mountain?!" When the cultivators heard this, they immediately shouted in their hearts.
"Where is the specific area controlled by the Immortal Ascension Sect?" The green-robed young man asked.
"In that direction." The short-haired cultivator immediately pointed to the west.
This scene was extremely strange. A great cultivator at the third level of the Golden Core Realm was extremely reverent towards a young man who looked ordinary but had an extremely extraordinary bearing. It was simply like an ordinary disciple of a sect meeting their Founding Ancestor.
"The vault of heaven ruptured … Originally, all the hidden talents were revealed. I didn't expect that there would be a great cultivator in the third layer of Jindan Realm in an ordinary loose cultivator organization." The young man in green continued to speak, but he seemed to be talking to himself.
After muttering this sentence to himself, the green-robed young man glanced at the short-haired cultivator and said, "I don't care what you did before. Next, if any cultivators come, try your best to send them to a safe place. Unless there is a powerful demonic beast passing through here and the teleportation formation cannot be maintained, you can leave. As for the benefits, I will give you some benefits. "
"Thank you, senior!"
The short-haired Jin Dan cultivator took a deep breath and immediately bowed as if he was relieved. "This junior will definitely do as you say."
The green-robed young man did not say much. He stretched out his hand and pointed. A storage pouch appeared in front of the Jin Dan cultivator.
"If you want to go to the area controlled by the Immortal Ascension Sect, come with me. If there are no accidents, I can safely send you there." After the green-robed young man pointed at the storage pouch, he said to the cultivators behind him.
"Thank you, senior … If this junior is so bold, is senior's surname Wei?" The short-haired Jin Dan cultivator received the storage pouch. He had a head full of sweat and could not help but ask in a trembling voice.
"Why? Have you seen me somewhere before? Otherwise, just based on my cultivation, you would not know that my surname is Wei. "The green-robed young man's eyebrows slightly moved. He looked at the cultivator and said.
"This junior is fortunate to have seen senior's divine might that day in the Heaven Sword City." The crimson-haired Golden Core cultivator immediately began to tremble upon hearing the azure-robed young man's words, and he respectfully said, "Senior, please accept my offer.
"So that's how it is … Since you know, you will help me to guard this place. If there is someone you can't deal with who comes to make things difficult for you, just report my name. However, if you don't do as I say, you should know the consequences. "The green-robed young man glanced at the cultivator and said.
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