novelraw Chapter 197
Chapter 197
Because of the factor of the Idle Slot.
Wang Yu was more accustomed to using the power of spell techniques, since perfected-level spell techniques were stronger than magic tools and could even derive different variations.
They were suitable for almost any situation, while magic tools that could significantly increase Wang Yu’s combat strength were very rare. The ones he used were all spoils of war.
Moreover, the number of magic tools that had been destroyed in his hands was beyond counting.
At present, there were two magic treasures he had not yet obtained.
The first was a coffin prepared for the Lunar Yin Fiend Corpse, a low-grade auxiliary magic treasure, priced at one hundred eighty thousand spirit stones, being transferred from Golden Toad City. It would arrive in Jade Spirit City within about three months.
The second was a custom-made pill furnace, its grade still unclear. It used that piece of Meteoric Cold Iron and a third-rank Cold Moon Pearl. The missing materials would be supplied by Golden Abundance Tower’s side, after which the total cost would be calculated.
The upfront price just to invite a master craftsman was one hundred thousand spirit stones. It was expected to be completed within five years, and that was only because he borrowed Master Ye’s connections and went through Jin Miaoshan’s channel.
Once acquired, his hard strength would not increase too much, but his soft power would definitely improve in quality.
Aside from these, he was also purchasing a third-rank ice-attribute serpent monster core. News was expected within half a year. His development could truly be called thriving.Currently in his hands were third-rank spirit materials: Living Soul Blood Gold, Earth Core Spirit Milk, Thousand-Year Ice Marrow Jade, Golden Qi Root, and a half-piece of Dragon Blood Essence.
He also had two third-rank yin-attribute materials acquired earlier: Netherworld Spirit Iron and Soul-Dead Stone, making a total of seven kinds.
Among them, four were materials he had prepared in advance for his own life-bound magic treasure. Although he had not yet seen the refinement methods, he would eventually choose between the yin and ice attributes.
Preparing ahead of time would never be wrong. As for his remaining spirit stones, because of the treasure exchange conference and various expenditures, his funds had greatly decreased, leaving only about two million.
At present.
Two Golden Cores had been gained, worth at least one million low-grade spirit stones each. Normally, core formation spirit items alone were priced this way. A Core Formation cultivator should be worth even more, but it could not be calculated that simply.
At this time, it was already the third day since Wang Yu returned to Jade Spirit City. The copied inheritance texts from Qingyang’s side had also been delivered.
With two Core Formation enemies eliminated, Wang Yu’s fame soared. True Personage Qingyang openly declared his official employment in Jade Spirit City Lord’s Mansion, taking the position of First Offering.
But he still remained Deputy Sect Master of the Ink-Water Sect. He also transferred a group of disciples to the City Lord’s Mansion at his command. They were loyal subordinates cultivated over the years, only about a dozen people.
This attitude enraged the Sect Master of the Ink-Water Sect, who in anger canceled Qingyang’s Core Formation celebration. City Lord Wang naturally took over, preparing to host a celebration in the palace where the Fragrance Gathering would be held.
Unexpectedly, more people attended than the Ink-Water Sect had planned for.
There were Qingyang’s friends as well as Jade Spirit’s allies.
On the surface, it was done perfectly, giving tremendous face. The Core Formation celebration lasted seven days, with banquets open to the whole city.
Wang Yu then reviewed the inheritance gains.
Two third-rank fundamental cultivation methods, relatively ordinary. But the attached spell techniques and magic tool refinement methods were not bad. There were also three life-bound magic treasure refinement plans.
The Crimson Chain Sword, the Five-Fire Ring, and the Soaring Flame Cauldron.
They had some value, though Wang Yu would never switch to fire-path cultivation. Still, some of the fire-control secret arts were indeed useful to him.
As for divine ability inheritances, both Three-pellet Flame Spit and Fire Dragon Burning Heaven were from the Fire Demon Sect. He could use them, but of course there were no inheritance jade slips.
Apart from enriching the City Lord Mansion’s Scripture Repository, they were barely useful.
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In the blink of an eye, three months later.
“Congratulations, City Lord Wang.”
“Master Ye, why such formality. Please, come in quickly.”
Ye Qing entered the City Lord Mansion smiling, but without lingering. He handed Wang Yu the item and prepared to leave.
He said.
“The magic treasure ordered by the City Lord has arrived from Golden Toad City. The shipping fee is ten thousand spirit stones.”
Wang Yu did not care about such a small amount. Efficiency and safety mattered most.
Golden Toad City was within the territory of the Nether Mountain Sect, established outside the Heavenly Pool Cave Heaven. It was the headquarters of Golden Abundance Tower, similar in function to Treasure Heaven City.
Heavenly Pool Cave Heaven was the ancestral land of the Jin Clan, one of the greatest cultivation holy lands under heaven. Stretching from south to north, spanning half of Crimson Kite, it would take Wang Yu one to two years to fly there himself.
Since his requirements for the magic treasure were numerous and complicated, only the Main Building there, which gathered all treasures of this world, could provide stock. They had delivered it across ten thousand miles.
The treasure Ye Qing brought was the coffin prepared for the Demonic Fiend Corpse, with an attached jade slip explaining its functions.
[Lunar Yin Corpse-Nurturing Coffin, a third-rank low-grade magic treasure, refined in his early years by the demonic rogue cultivator Evil Fiend True Lord. It possesses the effects of nurturing fiendish energy, refining corpses, changing size at will, and attracting lunar yin fiend energy.]
Lunar Yin fiend energy was special, but it was not only the Taiyin Nether Eyes that could draw it. Wang Yu naturally knew this, otherwise he would not have made such a request.
However, the effect of the Lunar Yin Corpse-Nurturing Coffin was not as efficient as his own body’s direct channeling. Its true use lay in nurturing fiendish energy and refining corpses.
For example, the refining of Wang Yu’s Fiend Corpse took him several years, but now that it is placed into the Corpse-Nurturing Coffin, in less than a year it will be completed.
It is equivalent to a corpse path cultivator’s pill furnace.
The nurturing effect is even more mysterious. It can raise a single strand of baleful qi into a hundred strands, including Moon Fiend Qi.
This allows some rare fiend qi to continuously expand in scale. Whether it is for nurturing corpses or cultivating corpse path divine abilities, it is a top tier treasure, with boundless auxiliary effect.
It is absolutely worth over a hundred thousand spirit stones, and Wang Yu remembered the title of True Lord Evil Fiend.
In terms of size adjustment, the largest can reach a hundred meters, while the smallest can shrink to the size of a fingernail, a section of thread in length, and it can still hold a hundred zombies inside, making it very convenient to carry.
After some effort refining the magic treasure, Wang Yu shrank it to the smallest size and hung it on the hairpin that bound his hair.
After this matter concluded, the Jade Spirit City region completely regained its calm. The number of teams entering the Eastern Extreme Capital ruins decreased drastically, and the number of Core Formation cultivators also plummeted.
Perhaps because in previous years the killing had been too fierce and too many had died, at this moment the Eastern Extreme Capital ruins even gave people a feeling of desolation.
However.
In secret, squads belonging to the City Lord’s Mansion were constantly exploring the outer perimeter of the ruins, continuously compiling and passing intelligence to Wang Yu.
Indeed, during this calm interval before the next wave of fervor arose, Wang Yu planned to go inside. In the last expedition, ninety percent of the deaths were caused by human hands.
As for dangers inherent to the ruins themselves, they were clearly recorded, such as Six-Eyed Corpse Infants, Tempting Blood Vines, Corpse Fiends, Corpse Ghouls, and so forth.
In terms of mechanisms, restrictions, and formations, the intelligence was more abundant than ever before, gathered together from all sides.
Although the two most valuable Spirit Transformation inheritances were already taken, the Eastern Extreme Capital still held great value. At this time, entering was the best opportunity.
When the cultivators of Cloud Ridge Prefecture recovered, this place would once again become one of the most popular exploration sites, and it would not be so convenient. Wang Yu did not tell anyone about this matter.
City Lord’s Mansion prison.
The figure of Clan Head Guan grew thinner by the day. Once a plump man, he had almost wasted away to a bamboo pole, still lying here. Usually only the sisters Guan Yingdong and Guan Yingxue would come to see him.
Even the Guan Clan seemed to have forgotten this former clan head.
“Brother Guan, you poor wretch, not even ten years have passed and most people already forgot you. How pitiful, how lamentable.
“Today Wang shall give you a swift end.”
At first, Wang Yu did think of ways to save him, such as the Clear Heart Mantra, or forcibly controlling him with the Demon-Controlling Sound, but all failed.
If this continued, at most within half a year he would be drained of all life essence by those strange shackles and die. These Bloody Shackles were definitely an evil treasure.
When Wang Yu came into contact with them, he was also extremely cautious.
His divine sense filled the boundary of his Niwan Palace, and the Heavenly Soul Qi secret art began to circulate.
With a flick of his finger, a strand of ice sword energy suddenly pierced through Clan Head Guan’s heart. His curled body trembled, and the crimson faded from his eyes.
In those bloodshot eyes, the emotions were very complex. At the final moment of death, he regained clarity, and a weak mosquito-like voice sounded.
“Tha… thank you…”
“You are welcome.”
He sent guards to inform the Guan sisters to collect the corpse, while Wang Yu wrapped the Bloody Shackles with his cold True Essence and returned to his residence.
This thing was clearly related to the two inheritances of Rakshasa and Asura.
If he entered the Eastern Extreme Capital ruins, he would definitely take a look at the Jingzhou Town Evil Prison. The core inheritance had already been taken, and the place was likely destroyed. The dangers there had also mostly been triggered.
If there were any residual benefits, they would be enough for him to reap.
He would just look along the way.
His first target was the [Artisan Institute] that the ancestor of the Ink-Water Sect had once explored. It was extremely close to the imperial city. The locals did not understand the imperial system, but he did.
The two worlds could not be compared as one, but from the intelligence he knew, the feudal dynasty structure he was familiar with was highly referential.
Directly copying was impossible, but thinking with similar logic could help him greatly.
Such archaeological activity was like this.
Half excavation, half conjecture, mainly relying on guesswork. Since he had made his decision, Wang Yu hurried to prepare all kinds of items. The main things were those useful for escaping, which could not be neglected.
Just as he had everything ready and could depart at any time, Tower Master Ye sent him another message.
It said that a third-rank ice-element demon core had arrived, currently being transferred from the Northern Broken Boundary Mountains branch tower to Jade Spirit, to arrive within a month.
In addition, the search for spiritual medicines he had commissioned years ago also had results. It was a rather rare herb, aimed at divine sense.
He once obtained a soul-nourishing pill recipe called [Soul Essence Pill], which was an ancient pill formula accompanying the Ancient Soul Art. One of the main ingredients was extremely difficult to find in this era.
Therefore, he had issued a purchase request to Golden Abundance Tower, asking them to search, with no problem paying a premium.
The item had already arrived in Jade Spirit, but only a single stalk.
To learn more information, he would need to personally contact Jin Miaoshan.
“What other scheme is she plotting now.”
Wang Yu thought for a moment, then still decided to first explore the outer area of the Eastern Extreme Capital. He would not go too deep, mainly wanting to find the manacles corresponding to the shackles.