If she were to sell, she couldn't sell too much at once. Jiang Yue even considered switching to another merchant guild, but after thinking about it, she decided against it. With their methods, if they really wanted to investigate thoroughly, Jiang Yue didn't think she could hide it. There were plenty of ways to find people in the cultivation world. In her excitement, her bottleneck loosened, and Jiang Yue broke through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. After consolidating her cultivation, she went out to a restaurant and had a big meal. Even at the Golden Core stage, she still couldn't give up her appetite.
After returning to her cave, Jiang Yue pondered for a while and realized that she really couldn't sell the metal. Currently, there was no way to turn ore into special metal without the help of 8888. After all, if she really wanted to sell it, Jiang Yue might not be able to keep the refining method. She might have to sell the method along with it, or even sell herself. Even if she sold herself and went to jail without any backing, there would be plenty of people who would want to take out the method. Jiang Yue was already helpless, and what if they killed her in a fit of anger?
Shivering, he put the metal ingot into his spatial storage. He couldn't take it out anytime soon. Even if he figured out a method, the other party wouldn't sell the ore anymore, and his plan to upgrade his spatial storage would also fall through. It would be more harmful than beneficial, so he should just stop this matter.
Once it was confirmed that this method wouldn't work, the only way to make money was through talismans. Jiang Yue took out the third-tier inheritance she had bought and began to go into seclusion. Once she had thoroughly studied the inheritance, she would start trying to make talismans. Third-tier talismans were the ones that would make money. Both Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators liked to buy them. In recent years, Jiang Yue had reduced her cultivation time considerably, focusing all her attention on drawing talismans.
Five years later, he finally mastered the basics of several commonly used talismans. After that, he began to study the third-order weapon crafting inheritance. In the past five years, he also developed an assembly line, but the failure rate of the assembly line products was extremely high, and the quality of the talismans was not high. He could only make a small amount of money.
After using up the talisman paper, Jiang Yue took the newly drawn talismans to the Chamber of Commerce. Because Jiang Yue's production line was too fast, the prices in the entire market were driven down. Countless talisman masters were secretly cursing Jiang Yue. After selling the talismans, she went to check on the ore purchase situation. After expanding the space to 10×10×10, she could no longer purchase ore. When she went to check, there was indeed still no ore.
Jiang Yue routinely glanced at the other bounties. Huh? She found the cultivation technique for the later parts of "Concentration Technique," but the Merchant Guild hadn't contacted her. She took out her contact talisman and saw that the Merchant Guild had contacted her, but she hadn't seen it because she was in seclusion. She quickly found the person in charge of the bounties and asked. The price was the cost of one Golden Core Pill. Jiang Yue asked him to check if she had enough money in her account. The person in charge said she did, so Jiang Yue had him deduct the amount directly.
After returning to her cave, Jiang Yue familiarized herself with the cultivation technique. Since it was a continuation of the same technique, she quickly got the hang of it. After circulating it for several cycles, Jiang Yue felt that her previously blocked spiritual sense was slowly growing, but she was still far from breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Cultivating a technique is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Jiang Yue stopped when she had almost finished her cultivation and then started studying her assembly line talisman drawing. The talismans she was drawing now were all very common ones that many talisman masters outside could draw. Jiang Yue wanted to modify it and mass-produce some more difficult talismans so that they could fetch higher prices. Now, Jiang Yue had driven the prices of these talismans to rock bottom.
After several years of intermittent modifications, Jiang Yue was finally able to draw some rare third-tier talismans. She modified the old production line, because if she continued, those talisman masters would have to hire assassins to kill her. She sent the new talismans to the Chamber of Commerce and asked them to spread the word that ordinary talismans would no longer be sold in large quantities.
The chamber of commerce manager felt it was a pity, as they had taken away a lot of business from their competitors by using Jiang Yue's large quantity of consistently high-quality talismans. The manager tried to persuade Jiang Yue for a long time, but Jiang Yue said irritably, "Your chamber of commerce is so big and powerful, you must not be afraid. Now when I go out to exchange ideas with my competitors, I don't dare to speak, for fear that people will find out my true identity. Now some people are even considering pooling their money to hire an assassin to kill someone."
The manager smiled sheepishly. After handing the newly drawn talisman to the merchant guild, Jiang Yue checked her bounty, but there was still no news. Back in her cave, Jiang Yue thought that relying on the merchant guild to buy her was hopeless. There was a secret realm coming in two years, so she might as well go and take a look. After all, she had come to the cultivation world once, so she should at least visit a secret realm. Now she was capable of protecting herself, and if she couldn't win, she could run away.
After making up her mind, Jiang Yue began to prepare the things she would need for the secret realm. She had talismans, but not high-level ones, so she would need to buy a few for protection. She had a bunch of puppets, and although they weren't very high-level, they were enough for exploration. She also needed to buy some pills. In the past, she had bought pills to improve her cultivation, but now she needed to buy some for detoxification and healing.
After compiling the list, Jiang Yue went to the Chamber of Commerce again, bought the necessary items, and then went into seclusion. Her cultivation level couldn't be improved for the time being, and she had already perfected her escape spells. Now she just needed to practice her defensive and offensive spells more, since she had hardly used them since learning them.
Two years have passed in the blink of an eye. Jiang Yue is now outside the secret realm, surrounded by a dense crowd of people. This secret realm opens only once every hundred years, and countless people have entered it. Therefore, those gathered here are mostly independent cultivators like Jiang Yue. The disciples of the major sects have sent some outer disciples to participate, since the secret realm has been almost completely plundered.
However, Jiang Yue knew that there was still a hidden map that hadn't been opened yet. The protagonist obtained the Five Elements Heavenly Treasures here hundreds of years later, and there were quite a few of them. Jiang Yue didn't know if she could enter the hidden place. If she could, Jiang Yue didn't plan to take them all. She would just take some water and soil to replenish her spiritual root. Otherwise, if things continued like this, the Five Elements Nascent Soul would have nothing to do with her.
With a loud rumble, a mountain peak rose from the seabed, along with a large array. From the outside, the secret realm was shrouded in mist and clouds, making it impossible to see anything clearly. After a while, the entrance to the secret realm was revealed, and the surrounding cultivators rushed to enter.
Jiang Yue looked around. Although many people had gone in, there were even more people waiting outside, all waiting for those inside to come out and kill them for treasure. The scary thing about this mature secret realm was not the people she encountered while exploring it, but the people waiting outside. Now that she had come this far, Jiang Yue couldn't go back. She followed the flow of people into the secret realm.
After a dizzying spin, Jiang Yue found herself inside the secret realm. Before she could even take in her surroundings, a sword light flew towards her. Jiang Yue was fearless; she had known about this kind of person beforehand, which was why she had kept her divine sense scanning active.
With a wave of her hand, Jiang Yue activated a Vajra Talisman, forming a protective shield that shielded her. Upon seeing this, her opponent immediately changed tactics, but Jiang Yue gave him no chance, launching a direct soul attack—a soul attack at the Golden Core Perfection level. The early Golden Core cultivator was caught completely off guard and was instantly killed. Jiang Yue then sheathed her flying sword and the corpse, and without lingering, used an earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escape technique) to escape.
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