Starry Sky Professional Directory 58
Chapter 58: The Might of Golden Core Condensation (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
“Secret Realm? What’s a Secret Realm?”
Fang Xing became interested, knowing this was the result of his previous “nosy” behavior.
“Secret Realm? Friend, you don’t even know what a Secret Realm is?” Ding Hongxiu looked at Fang Xing curiously.
“Well… this friend clearly dedicates himself to martial arts, never concerning himself with external affairs, hence his current achievements. But what about Secret Realms? For low-level cultivators like us, Secret Realms are only legends. It’s normal for you not to know…”
Ding Bushan put away his wine gourd, watching Fang Xing search the corpses, yet said with a serious expression.
“Please enlighten me.”
Fang Xing stood up and asked sincerely.
“A Secret Realm, so to speak, is a small world created by high-level cultivators… usually hidden in the void, even if you pass by it a thousand times, you might not discover it. It only appears at specific times or with special artifacts and secret techniques…”
Ding Bushan sighed, “It’s said that some Secret Realms only have a few houses, while others are incredibly vast, and may even house ferocious beasts… For low-level cultivators like us, a Secret Realm is a great opportunity. If one can obtain powerful cultivation methods, treasures, or even pills from predecessors, improving one’s cultivation by leaps and bounds is nothing unusual…”
“I see, so how did this Secret Realm appear?” Fang Xing curiously asked.
“About two months ago, rumors suddenly spread through the market, saying that a mid-stage Qi Condensation cultivator had a conflict with the Black Tiger Gang over a Secret Realm in the Five Scorpion Valley… That Secret Realm contained great opportunities, and that cultivator even broke through his bottleneck because of it, advancing to the peak of Qi Condensation…”
Ding Bushan said, his wine-stained nose seeming even redder from envy.
‘Peak Qi Condensation? This is clearly fabricated… Fine, a normal phenomenon in the process of rumor transmission…’
Fang Xing secretly rolled his eyes: “Then what?”
“Such rumors appear several times a month in the market. We usually don’t take them seriously. Unexpectedly, Qingxuan Sect’s Foundation Establishment elder immediately dispatched a flying boat, only then did I realize this time might be real… The market immediately went into chaos, many cultivators frantically rushed to Five Scorpion Valley, and many battles reportedly broke out, killing many experts, it was a horrible sight…”
Ding Bushan shook his head and said, “In the end, Qingxuan Sect naturally occupied Five Scorpion Valley, driving out all the independent cultivators, wanting to monopolize the Secret Realm… But within a few days, it’s said that there was a problem when opening the entrance to the Secret Realm, resulting in heavy casualties for Qingxuan Sect, even two flying boats were destroyed…”
“It was that tragic?” Fang Xing continued to act.
“Yes…” Ding Bushan showed a gleeful expression: “The reason for this is said to be that the Black Tiger Gang concealed some key secrets to opening the Secret Realm… How could Qingxuan Sect accept this loss? That Foundation Establishment elder returned and went after the Black Tiger Gang, preparing to annihilate them… But at this time, the leader of the Black Tiger Gang suddenly appeared. It turned out that this leader had been secretly cultivating in seclusion, and had silently reached Foundation Establishment. Our Qinglinfang City now has another Foundation Establishment cultivator, making it a three-way standoff…”
“Despite this, Qingxuan Sect is still a Golden Core sect, suppressing the Black Tiger Gang and the Zheng family… They also notified the sect, bringing many core disciples to explore the Secret Realm. It is said that their harvest was plentiful, with Foundation Establishment opportunities, powerful cultivation methods, and fragmentary magic treasures…”
Ding Bushan said: “Recently, the upper sect, for some unknown reason, announced that the Secret Realm is open to us independent cultivators, so many cultivators are preparing to try their luck… I, old fool, got greedy and wanted to take my granddaughter to try my luck, and that’s how I ran into the Black Extinguishing Three Tigers…”
“Open to independent cultivators?”
Fang Xing stroked his chin: “If there are benefits, why open it to us? This is clearly a ploy to find cannon fodder and scapegoats! It seems that Secret Realm is indeed dangerous!”
“Yes…”
Ding Bushan had already thought of this, but firstly, the allure of profit is tempting, and secondly, independent cultivators always risk their lives for opportunities.
Therefore, the danger this time could be considered self-inflicted.
Fang Xing began to count his spoils of war, whether it was the two tigers’ copper hammer magical instruments, or the three tigers’ fan, he put them all into his bag.
“The three tiger’s ‘Gentle Breeze Fan’ is a low-grade magical instrument, not worth many Star Coins, but the two tigers’ pair of copper hammers is a set of mid-grade magical instruments, and top-quality mid-grade ones at that…”
Ding Hongxiu softly spoke, appraising Fang Xing’s loot: “The most valuable are the gauntlets on the big tiger’s hands, definitely high-grade magical instruments, unfortunately only suitable for body cultivators… As for that white bone banner, it’s a demonic instrument, although its power is immense, it’s best not to reveal it normally…”
“Unfortunately, there’s no body cultivation method from the big tiger…”
Fang Xing sighed.
Storage bags are rare, and cultivators can’t carry many things when they go out.
Fortunately, these three were bandit cultivators, always on the move, so their money bags were quite substantial.
Besides the magical instruments, they contributed hundreds of low-grade Spirit Stones.
As for cultivation methods?
Naturally, they wouldn’t carry them around.
“Even body cultivation methods require spiritual roots to practice…”
Ding Hongxiu softly added.
“Hongxiu!” Ding Bushan glared fiercely at his granddaughter, his old face smiling ingratiatingly: “Hongxiu is young and doesn’t understand, please don’t mind, friend!”
“It’s alright.”
Fang Xing waved his hand, seeming hesitant to speak.
Indeed! He was not a cultivator; he had no magical power or spiritual sense to do many things.
But this grandparent and grandchild pair were right here!
Fang Xing could completely give them his most valuable loot – the storage bag – and let them take out the treasures within!
However, this had many difficulties, the first being concealing hidden items!
However, it could be inspected by multiple low-level cultivators to prevent hiding things.
More importantly… the storage bag was too precious, enough to be a reason for murder.
Fang Xing felt that even if he confessed, Ding Bushan wouldn’t believe a word, and would only try to save his own life!
Plus, he ultimately had no spiritual sense, so he couldn’t see what was in the storage bag.
If Chen Yi’s storage bag contained high-level talismans or powerful treasures, and then Ding Bushan took them out to use against him, that would be a disaster!
This wasn’t impossible!
After all, Chen Yi was one of the first discoverers of that Secret Realm, possibly having obtained great benefits, and would certainly have stored some life-saving items!
Thinking this way, he felt quite dejected.
‘Forget it, even if there are treasures in the storage bag, they’re likely only usable by cultivators… I can’t use them anyway…’
Fang Xing waved his hand: “In that case, let’s part ways here, until we meet again…”
As soon as he finished speaking, he was already gone, like a white cloud, swiftly disappearing.
“Sigh, he’s a true expert.”
Seeing this scene, Ding Bushan sighed involuntarily.
“Grandpa, you said earlier that he…”
Ding Hongxiu wanted to say something, but Ding Bushan immediately covered her mouth, and then the grandfather and granddaughter walked in silence, returning to Qinglinfang City.
Only after entering the shantytown did Ding Bushan breathe a sigh of relief: “We don’t know if he’s gone far yet, and you talk nonsense, do you want to kill your grandfather?!”
“It was you who looked down on him before, and always compared him to others!” Ding Hongxiu snorted.
She had wanted to say this to her somewhat snobbish grandfather for a long time.
“Cough… that’s all in the past. I didn’t know he was so powerful.” Ding Bushan sighed: “The world is chaotic now. Compared to that handsome young master who often comes to buy Spirit Rice, this kind of strong man is more suitable for you…”
Ding Hongxiu rolled her eyes.
The grandfather and granddaughter bickered as they walked into the city.
The place was still as lively as usual, with people coming and going, not at all depressed by the opening of the Secret Realm. Instead, there were more new faces.
Many independent cultivators died in the Secret Realm, but even more outside cultivators came, bringing their own food and paying high boat fares, to try their luck!
Even among the many independent cultivators, there were occasionally one or two young men and women in blue robes.
Their robes were the same light blue color, with the Qingxuan Sect’s markings, their cultivation realms were high, obviously disciples of Qingxuan Sect.
‘This broken place is still unbearable…’
Old Master Ding Bushan felt a toothache as he looked at all this.
At this moment, the array in the sky suddenly opened, and a stream of light rushed into the city at an astonishing speed.
Along with the stream of light came a terrifying aura!
In the city, many Qi Condensation cultivators’ legs went weak, almost collapsing to the ground.
“What… what happened?”
Ding Hongxiu grabbed her grandfather’s arm, on the verge of tears.
If she had known the city was so dangerous, she wouldn’t have come back.
“It’s Golden Core… a Golden Core cultivator!”
Ding Bushan’s voice was hoarse, staring at an old woman with white hair in the air.
This Golden Core cultivator from Qingxuan Sect was a woman, with silver hair and a peach-like complexion, her deep spiritual power like the ocean.
“Greetings, Supreme Elder!”
Many Qingxuan Sect disciples bowed, and several streams of light flew out from the peak of Qinglin Mountain and the Zheng family’s ancestral home, transforming into several spirited Foundation Establishment cultivators, bowing in mid-air.
“The Black Tiger Gang has committed a heinous crime, their leader has been killed… You all should take warning!”
The silver-haired old woman with a peach-like complexion spoke in a hoarse voice, taking out a corpse from her storage bag and hanging it on the city’s archway, it was clearly the Black Tiger Gang’s leader who had already reached Foundation Establishment!
His eyes were wide open, he had died unwillingly…
“It’s really the Black Tiger Gang’s leader?”
“Hiss… this is a Foundation Establishment cultivator!”
“So what if he’s a Foundation Establishment cultivator? A Golden Core cultivator’s anger can kill millions and cause rivers of blood…”
“Sigh… it’s a pity that Jiang Heihu had just reached Foundation Establishment, full of vigor, yet he met such an end…”
“The power of a Golden Core cultivator is truly heaven-defying. I heard that the Black Tiger Gang leader had fled… they still managed to capture him…”
Seeing this scene, many Qi Condensation cultivators were shocked!
The Qingxuan Sect’s Supreme Elder personally took action to annihilate the Black Tiger Gang, undoubtedly a warning to everyone present!
This was not killing a chicken to warn the monkey, but killing a monkey to warn the chicken!
After the Golden Core cultivator left, the atmosphere in the city became strangely fervent.
“Bad!”
Ding Bushan’s old face turned pale: “What kind of opportunity is there in that Secret Realm? Even a Golden Core cultivator condescended to come here… The water is too deep, we can’t handle it…”
Thinking that he had been going to sign up to explore, Ding Bushan almost wanted to slap himself…
(End of Chapter)
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