Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 42 Dikun Island

Dikun Island was one of the 36 medium-sized islands under the jurisdiction of the True Spirit Sect. The island had a radius of nearly 60 miles. There were a small spiritual vein and a small spiritual mine on the island. Other cultivation resources here were also rich. It was said that more than one Zhenren at the Alchemy stage was resident on the island.

Dikun Island and dozens of small islands under its jurisdiction were in the sea area with relatively rich resources, and it was the nearest to the Xuan Spirit Sect. It was not far from the medium-sized sects such as the Canghai Sect and the Feiyu Sect. Its special geographical location attracted the cultivators who participated in the Grand Competition to gather on it and create a prosperous market here.

Lu Ping walked on the street of the market and looked at the cultivators coming and going around. Because cultivators were not allowed to fly in the market, he often saw cultivators at the Blood Dissolving stage passing by, and he even occasionally met a Zhenren at the Alchemy stage, which was not a surprising thing on Dikun Island.

The market here was much larger than that of True Spirit Academy, and the specifications of various shops in the market were naturally higher.

Lu Ping came to Dikun Island in advance to deal with some things, in case he would reveal some of his secrets when he participated in the auction with the other disciples of the seventh team after three months.

Lu Ping first came to the branch of the Elixirs Selling Pavilion of the True Spirit Sect. As the host here, the stores of the True Spirit Sect naturally occupied the best positions in the market.

After Lu Ping entered the store, a disciple at the middle stage of Blood Refining immediately came up to him and said, "Sir, what can I get for you?"

Lu Ping naturally didn't dare to put on airs here, so he said, "Can you get the person in charge of your store here? I need to have a word with him."

The disciple was a little surprised at Lu Ping's words, but he didn't say anything else, just nodded and walked towards the rear compartment of the pavilion.

After a while, the clerk came out and said, "Sir, the lord of our pavilion would like to see you. Please come with me."

Lu Ping followed the clerk to the rear compartment. An old cultivator at the Blood Dissolving stage was sitting in the room. Lu Ping hurriedly walked up to him and said, "I'm Lu Ping. Nice to see you, Immortal Senior!"

The old cultivator looked at Lu Ping and said with a smile, "You are the disciple of our academy? My surname is Li. I'm one of the directors here. I heard from our clerk that you need to have a word with me?"

Seeing that the clerk had left, Lu Ping said, "Immortal Senior Li, I was lucky to get eight spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs. I'm here to exchange them for blood dissolving elixirs."

Immortal Senior Li didn't take Lu Ping seriously at first, but when he heard this, he looked at Lu Ping and said, "Oh, good, take them out and let me have a look!"

It was very difficult for disciples at the Blood Refining stage to collect these eight spiritual herbs. Without the support from their families, only cultivators who had high cultivation, quick wit, effective means, and good luck could get them. Their sect set up this rule for cultivators at the Blood Dissolving stage, so people who came to exchange their spiritual herbs for blood dissolving elixirs were mostly those people. Then, they would trade the blood dissolving elixirs they got or train the promising disciples in their families with them.

After hearing that, Lu Ping took out six jade boxes from his storage bag and opened them one by one. Among them, there were four spiritual herbs of two kinds, which were put in two same boxes by Lu Ping.

Immortal Senior Li was obviously an expert in distinguishing spiritual herbs. After going through the six jade boxes one by one, he nodded in satisfaction and said, "The eight spiritual herbs still have spiritual strength. They are already ripe and well-preserved, so you can exchange them for blood dissolving elixirs."

Hearing this, Lu Ping was overjoyed, but Immortal Senior Li continued, "But..."

Hearing this, Lu Ping suddenly got nervous.

Immortal Senior Li looked at Lu Ping's nervous look, laughing like a child who had succeeded in his mischief. He said, "Don't worry, young man. I will give you the blood dissolving elixirs you want, but you should know that every blood dissolving elixir is firmly controlled by our sect. Therefore, blood dissolving elixirs will not be directly placed in our Elixirs Selling Pavilion. It needs the person in charge of the Elixirs Selling Pavilion to go back to our sect's Elixirs Refining Pavilion to fetch them."

Lu Ping was relieved and said, "How long will it take?"

Immortal Senior Li pondered for a while and said, "Three days later, I need to return to our sect. When I come back, I can take the blood dissolving elixirs with me."

Three days later, Lu Ping probably had returned to Huangli Island for stationing. Although he could ask for leave, he subconsciously didn't want others to know that he had obtained blood dissolving elixirs, and he didn't want Immortal Senior Liu to keep them for him before he entered the Blood Dissolving stage.

So, Lu Ping could only say helplessly, "In that case, I'll come to get them in three months when the auction is held."

Immortal Senior Li said, "That's a good idea, but there would be many people by then. You need to be careful."

Lu Ping nodded and thanked him. He was going to leave, but thinking of his experience in the Elixirs Selling Pavilion in the market of their academy, he stopped, turned around, and asked Immortal Senior Li, "I also want to buy some high-grade elixirs at the Blood Refining stage. Are they available here?"

Hearing this, Immortal Senior Li was stunned and then said with a smile, "Where did you get the news that we also sell high-grade elixirs at the Blood Refining stage except fine blood elixirs?"

Hearing this, Lu Ping knew they probably had what he needed, so he directly told Immortal Senior Li about his experience in the Elixirs Selling Pavilion of their academy.

With the improvement of his cultivation and the increase of his magic power, even thick blood elixirs could not fully meet Lu Ping's needs at the time. As Lu Ping was worried about poison residue, he had been unwilling to cultivate with two elixirs a day, so he could only try to get elixirs of better quality.

After hearing Lu Ping's story, Immortal Senior Li laughed and said, "Xu Zixian is so interesting. You should know that although we have more elixirs here than the Elixirs Selling Pavilion in the market of our academy, there are more cultivators in the market of Dikun Island. So, if you only want a few elixirs, you'd better forget about it."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ping said with great joy, "How many bottles of muddy blood elixirs can you provide every month?"

After hearing Lu Ping's words, Immortal Senior Li said with wide-opened eyes, "How many bottles? We can't provide bottles of them. At best, we can get you one bottle each month. The premise is that we have to cut off the supply of elixirs to several individual cultivators who only buy three or two elixirs a month."

Lu Ping didn't have time to think much about it, so he quickly got this settled, "Then please give me the elixirs for three months first!"

Lu Ping spent nearly six hundred spiritual stones for three bottles of muddy blood elixirs. After he came out of the Elixirs Selling Pavilion, he asked someone where the auction venue was and headed there.

The auction venue was not too far from the Elixirs Selling Pavilion. It was located in the center of the market and was jointly owned by the True Spirit Sect and Treasure Attic. In this way, Treasure Attic developed its business within the various forces in the northern sea.

In fact, auctions were often held here, but they were for cultivators at different cultivation levels, and their scales were also different.

For example, the large auction for disciples at the Blood Refining stage was only held once a year.

Lu Ping came to the hall of the auction venue, a cultivator at the low stage of Blood Refining came to him and said, "Sir, are you here to participate in the auction or auction things?"

Lu Ping said in surprise, "Is there an auction ongoing?"

The cultivator said, "No, but our auction house often holds auctions of different scales and types. Cultivators who don't know the auction time often come to us to ask about it. It seems that you are going to consign things. Are you going to participate in the auction after three months?"

Lu Ping nodded and said yes.

The cultivator continued, "What kind of things do you want to consign, Sir?"

Lu Ping said, "Magic weapons!"

The cultivator said, "Please come this way. Magic weapons need to be medium-grade at least before they could be consigned for sale in the auction."

Lu Ping said he knew that. He had seven medium-grade magic weapons. He was going to keep the Zhenshan Tower, the Flying Swallow Sword, and a fleeing magic weapon and a Flame Fan that he got from a disciple of the Xuan Spirit Sect yesterday. As for Lin Sheng's flying sword, handkerchief, and flying sword specially used for fleeing, all of them are planned to be auctioned by Lu Ping. In case observant and conscientious people would find that they were not his when Lu Ping used them.