Chapter 495: Obtaining the Divine Sword
Gao Xian had no interest in Dongfang Liuyun. Although he might not be a bad person, his talent was mediocre and he had no value in training.
The two met by chance, and he took the Nine Yang Seal, but also saved Dongfang Liuyun's life. It can be said that there is no debt.
As for the Lin family's affairs, although he did not get the Red Emperor's Lihuo Jiuyang Sword, he also found out the whereabouts of the sword, so it was not a wasted trip.
Gao Xian never thought about taking revenge for Dongfang Liuyun, he just had this excuse to make it easier for him to take action.
Well, this is his bottom line as a human being. Maybe it is not high, but it is a real bottom line.
Therefore, Gao Xian did not need Dongfang Liuyun to do him a favor.
When Dongfang Liuyun saw Gao Xian didn't say anything, he kowtowed hurriedly and vigorously. After he kowtowed nine times in a row, he looked up again and found that the man in white had disappeared.
He was extremely disappointed. His chance encounter with this strange man completely changed his fate. Once the Lin family's ancestor died, how could other families tolerate the Lin family occupying Shuangmu City? The Lin family would definitely be doomed.
Maybe the other party didn't take it to heart, but he remembered this great favor. The whole clan was wiped out, but he was able to survive, meet a strange man who saved his life, and even took the opportunity to kill the ancestor of the Lin family. This proved that he had good luck!
Dongfang Liuyun secretly made up his mind that he must practice hard. When he achieves something in the future, he will find a chance to repay the man in white. In addition, he will also let the man know that he is not a useless person...
Gao Xian had no idea of Dongfang Liuyun's little thoughts. He simply dealt with the body of the Lin family ancestor and counted the magic weapons and spirit stones on him.
The magic tools and other items combined are worth three to five million low-grade spirit stones. This person also has more than a hundred high-grade spirit stones.
This time I made a small profit.
All the way from Mingzhou to Yunzhou, Taiyuan Shenxiang was alone. Although he didn't look easy to mess with, there were always people who didn't believe in him.
Gao Xian had killed countless blind villains in the past ten years. Even so, all the money he earned was not as much as what he earned today.
A cultivator who has reached the Jindan level would never go around being a bandit. Firstly, it is too inefficient, and secondly, it is too low-end and too hard.
Jindan can occupy a certain place anyway. Not to mention founding a sect, it is more than enough for him to be a patriarch behind closed doors. Just like Lin Pingyang, he lives a very comfortable life.
Gao Xian chose a direction and headed straight for Changle City, which is the center of Changle County.
The Lin family said they would sell the sword to Tianbao Tower, but there was no way they would sell it to Tianbao Tower in Shuanglin City. Only Changle City could sell the Red Emperor Lihuo Jiuyang Sword at a high price.
According to the Lin family, they knew that this sword should be a fourth-level spiritual sword. It was difficult to exert its power in the hand, but it would easily attract the covetousness of Yuanying powerhouses.
So, they made up their minds to sell the sword in exchange for a large number of spirit stones and magic weapons.
Gao Xian felt that the Lin family ancestor was quite smart. Many birds in the bush are worth a bird in the hand. Especially at this time, when no one knew what would happen tomorrow, it was not a good thing to hold a powerful sword that could not exert its power.
The several times he had inquired about information in Tianbao Tower were mainly about the affairs of that sect. How could he directly ask about the Red Emperor's Lihuo Jiuyang Sword?
Yunzhou doesn't seem to care about Tianhua Sect, but he still has to be on guard. Who knows who is the boss behind Tianbao Tower?
However, he had asked about high-level fire swords, and all the swords he had seen had their origins, and they seemed to have nothing to do with the Scarlet Emperor's Lihuo Jiuyang Sword.
Large chambers of commerce like Tianbaolou and Wanbaolou are actually divided into small shops according to regions, and the information communication between them is not very smooth.
This is completely different from Taobao and JD.com in his previous life, where he could see all the products when he opened the webpage.
Moreover, the Da Tianbao Tower in Changle City will not share the list of high-level magical weapons and swords with the affiliated Xiao Tianbao Towers in various places, because there is absolutely no need for this.
People in small places can't afford high-level magic tools. People who can afford high-level magic tools will naturally go to Changle City. There is no reason to go to Tianbao Tower in a small town to buy things.
It is not safe to transport high-level magic weapons over long distances, and they require the care of experts, which is very troublesome.
Gao Xian was afraid that someone had bought the Red Emperor's Lihuo Nine Yang Sword. Without the Nine Yang Seal, no one could refine the sword. He was mainly afraid that the person would run away. The world is so vast, where can he find someone?
There were flying ships traveling between the cities, but they were too slow. Gao Xian activated the Xuanhuang Divine Light, and even if it flew at half speed, it was still ten times the speed of an ordinary flying ship.
Even so, it took him more than a month to reach Changle City.
After coming to Yunzhou for so long, it was the first time for Gao Xian to enter the center of a county. The main reason was that the strong men of the spirit transformation were too strong. He could fight against the Yuanying Zhenjun now, but he couldn't play any tricks in front of the spirit transformation Taoist.
Changle City is located in a huge basin in the center of the mountains. With the surrounding mountains gathering, spiritual energy naturally gathers in Changle City, making the spiritual energy here extremely abundant.
There is nothing much to say about Changle City itself. It is a very regular large city. Various buildings are arranged in an orderly manner within the high city walls. Most of them are low-rise bungalows, and the streets are bustling and lively.
There is a huge square outside the south gate of the city, where all kinds of flying ships take off and land. Most of the cultivators who fly from far away also land outside the south gate and enter Changle City through the south gate.
Gao Xian had already changed into a black robe, and the white robe transformed by the Baidi Qiankun Transformation Sword was too conspicuous.
As a foreigner, he paid one hundred spirit stones when entering the city and was given a small bronze identity card, allowing him to stay in Changle City for three months.
After arriving in the city, Gao Xian walked around the main street and took a look at the location of Tianbao Tower.
Tianbao Tower is very grand, with seven floors high, and occupies a large area on its own. The surrounding restaurants and inns all belong to Tianbao Tower, making it a bustling commercial center.
Gao Xian stayed in the restaurant. He was not in a hurry to see the sword, but wandered around Changle City for two days. He mainly went to teahouses, taverns and Baolian Building to get familiar with the local customs and experience the local beauties. The most important thing was to get all kinds of information.
Where there are many people and many gossips, there are secrets everywhere. It depends on whether you can understand them. The customs of a place cannot be hidden.
Just like when you go to a train station in another city, a woman will ask you to go to a hotel after you get off the train, saying there are beauties there, and she will do it without any scruples. This proves that the security in this place is not very good.
It seems that the atmosphere is open, but it proves that the collusion between the black and the white here is complicated. Ordinary people had better be careful.
Gao Xian stayed in Changle City for two days, and was ripped off several times in Baolian Tower and the tavern. He was alone, and his words and actions showed that he was a cultivator from another place, which could not be hidden from the sharp-eyed waiters and maids.
In addition, Gao Xian did not try to hide his identity as an outsider. This group of people knew that he was a Jindan Zhenren, and they were not polite when it came to cheating him. This shows the atmosphere here!
If he bought the Scarlet Emperor's Lihuo Nine Yang Sword, it would be difficult for him to leave Changle City safely.
Gao Xian was not afraid, but just wanted to prepare for a rainy day. He had to make some preparations in advance. Well, it would be fine if Yuanying Zhenjun chased him, but if a few Jindan dared to chase him, he would not be polite.
When they arrived at Tianbao Tower, Gao Xian revealed his Jindan identity and went directly to the fourth floor, saying that he wanted a high-level fire sword. The middle-aged man who accompanied him politely took out a few picture albums.
Looking through the album, Gao Xian found the Nine Sun Sword, which was marked as being forged from the essence of underground molten gold and containing the fire of the nine heavenly suns, hence the name Nine Sun Sword. A fourth-order, low-grade spiritual sword.
Price: 40,000 high-quality spirit stones.
Gao Xian also breathed a sigh of relief. The person in charge of the appraisal had made a mistake and failed to see the true grade of the sword. Of course, if the true grade of the sword was seen, the sword would not be sold.
A sword of the divine sword level would cost dozens of times more even if it were to be sold.
Gao Xian asked, "Can I see this sword?"
The middle-aged man saw that Gao Xian was interested in buying, so he couldn't help but smile: "Please wait a moment, sir."
After a long while, two guards brought the sword box to the room. The middle-aged man chanted a spell to remove the seal on the sword box, and then opened it.
A blood-red four-foot-long sword was placed inside, without a scabbard, with a straight blade and a simple and ancient shape. There were nine rings on the hilt.
Gao Xian didn't need to try, he immediately determined that this was the Red Emperor's Lihuo Jiuyang Sword. Because this sword had been randomly refined many times, it was covered with layers of residual spiritual marks.
He slowly picked up the long sword and flicked the blade. The blade was filled with blood-like fire and emitted a fiery sword aura...
“Nice sword.”
Gao Xian admired it for a while, then slowly put the sword into the sword box. Of course, he could disappear with the sword, but that was not his way of doing things.
People can lower their bottom line appropriately, but they cannot have no bottom line.
The same is true for practicing Taoism. Try your best to pursue power, but keep your original heart and nature. Otherwise, your original heart and nature will be eroded by power, and you will completely lose yourself.
Please...collect 6...9...books...!
This is not a metaphor. The powerful magic in this world can completely change a person, his temperament and his soul. Gao Xian wants to live forever and enjoy life, but only if he enjoys it himself and not another personality with his body and name.
"How much cheaper can this sword be?" Gao Xian asked.
The middle-aged man looked embarrassed and said, "I can't make the decision on this matter. I'll go ask."
The middle-aged man left, taking the sword box with him. Gao Xian didn't care. When he touched the sword just now, he had left his sword mark. Within the range of his spiritual consciousness, the sword could not fly.
There were two guards on the opposite side, serving him and actually watching him.
Gao Xian silently activated the Flower Mirror, and a green light shone deep in his eyes. The two guards were behind him, so it was impossible for them to see the change in his eyes.
Well, even standing in front of him, I couldn't tell anything. They were too low level.
The flower-appraising mirror locked onto the middle-aged man, and saw him talking to a man who looked like a shopkeeper in the quiet room. The quiet room was protected by a magic circle that could block prying eyes, but it could not block the flower-appraising mirror.
"Where does that person come from?"
"I checked. It's an external golden elixir. I don't know which family it comes from."
"No matter which family he belongs to, he looks quite wealthy. It's too late today. Call Huang Yujun tomorrow to stage a show and compete with him for the sword. If you stir up trouble again, you can at least earn an extra 10,000 or 20,000 high-quality spirit stones. Then we can split the profit 20:80, wouldn't that be wonderful..."
The middle-aged man and the shopkeeper smiled at each other, both very proud and happy. The money earned by Tianbaolou belongs to Tianbaolou, and the money earned by them is theirs, the difference between the two is too big.
If it doesn't work out, then they won't lose anything.
Although Gao Xian couldn't hear the sound, he could guess about 60% of the answer by looking at the two people's mouth shapes and facial expressions. He sighed in his heart that he was indeed a swindler.
After another half day, the middle-aged man came back. He said apologetically, "Master, I'm sorry. Master Huang also likes this sword. He is collecting spirit stones. I didn't know about it either."
The middle-aged man said, "According to the rules of this building, the highest bidder wins. Tomorrow, you can compete with the other party. If you spend an extra 10,000 or 20,000 high-quality spirit stones, you can always get the sword..."
Gao Xian said calmly: "Okay, I'll come again tomorrow."
The next morning, Gao Xian went to the fourth floor again, to the same room. This time the shopkeeper was there, and there was also a man in blue, who looked very young and handsome. He was holding a broken jade fan and was quite graceful.
The middle-aged man introduced the other party's identity, who was none other than Huang Yujun, the True Man Huang.
The sword case was taken out again and placed on the table.
Huang Yujun said proudly: "Daoyou, I must get this sword. I will add 5,000 high-grade spirit stones."
"Fifty thousand high-quality spirit stones." Gao Xian followed suit and made an offer.
Huang Yujun hesitated for a moment, then cautiously added another 3,000 high-grade spirit stones. He was also afraid that the price was too high and would scare the other party away.
Gao Xian was not in a hurry to raise the price. He looked at Huang Yujun and said, "Daoyou, raise the price with me. Do you have so many spirit stones?"
Huang Yujun shook the white jade folding fan in his hand disdainfully, "See? The Yin-Yang Mysterious Light Fan in my hand is worth ten top-grade spirit stones. Are you afraid that I don't have money?"
The white jade folding fan is about a foot long, and the fan surface is woven with thousand-year-old white jade silk. Yin is written on one side with cloud patterns, and Yang is written on the other side. The two large characters are very majestic and charming. It looks different.
In fact, this fourth-grade top-grade spiritual weapon belonged to Tianbao Tower, and the shopkeeper lent it to Huang Yujun for show, in order to put pressure on Gao Xian.
The middle-aged man used his spiritual sense to send a message to Gao Xian: "This man's fan is a treasure, he will not sell it for money. Don't be afraid, fellow Taoist, add another 18,000 high-quality spirit stones and you will definitely be able to get this sword..."
Gao Xian nodded: "The Bipolar Mysterious Light Fan is a good thing. Thank you for the gift."
Huang Yujun and the others heard something was wrong, and their first reaction was shock. How could Gao Xian dare to do it? Isn't this courting death?
Before they could figure it out, a platinum sword light shone out with a clear sword whistle. Huang Yujun and the shopkeeper both mobilized their inner Qi and used magic weapons to resist, but the platinum sword light easily cut off their inner Qi and severed their necks.
The two Jindan Zhenren were killed by Gao Xian as soon as they met.
The middle-aged man who was in charge of entertaining Gao Xian was at the foundation-building stage. He stared with wide eyes as he watched the two heads rolling down, with blood splattering all over his face and body.
The middle-aged man was horrified and his mind was in a mess. He had no idea how it turned out like this.
Gao Xian looked at the middle-aged man and sighed softly: "Can't you just do business properly? You have to do these tricks. I hate you, a bunch of profiteers..."
The middle-aged man stammered, "This is Changle City, this is Changle City..."
"idiot."
Gao Xian was too lazy to say anything else. He killed the middle-aged man with one sword. Then he swept his long sleeves and collected the Scarlet Emperor's Lihuo Jiuyang Sword, the bodies of everyone, and their magical weapons. He then used the cleaning technique to get rid of the bloodstains, and then he instantly returned to the Qingyun cottage billions of miles away.
The magic circle in the room was shining brightly, and after about a cup of tea, a Yuanying Zhenjun appeared in the room out of thin air.
He looked around the room, with a puzzled look in his eyes...
(End of this chapter)