The darker the color of aquamarine, the more valuable it is. Before the Age of the Magic Spirits, a gem appraisal agency gave the top-quality aquamarine a special color name, called "Santa Maria" color.
Just like the spinel Jedi, aquamarine that reaches a certain color standard can be called Santa Maria Aquamarine.
The colors of Santa Maria Aquamarine and London Blue Topaz are somewhat similar, but the color of London Blue Topaz is processed, so the color standards are the same and there is no color difference.
Santa Maria Aquamarine is different. Even if it is the same Santa Maria color, the color can be dark or light. As long as the color meets a certain standard, it can be called Santa Maria color.
This Santa Maria aquamarine is obviously darker in color than most Santa Maria aquamarines and is closer to London Blue Topaz.
The old man was good at business and had good ideas, but his professional level was obviously lacking.
I don’t know where he got this batch of topaz from, but there was actually a aquamarine like this one mixed in.
"The color of this aquamarine is too dark. It's not an exaggeration to say it's a super Santa Maria color. This is the first time I've seen such a deep blue. I couldn't recognize it at the time, and I almost ruined your business." The young man looked at it for a while, returned the Santa Maria aquamarine to Li Xiu, and said with a smile: "If the old man knew that I exchanged a super Santa Maria aquamarine of more than ten carats for a one-carat spinel rough stone, I guess he would be so angry that he would vomit blood. This is what evil pays off."
After a pause, the young man looked at Li Xiu and asked in confusion: "Why are you telling me this? If this matter gets out, it will not do you any good and may even cause you trouble."
"If I don't tell you this, will you still care about it next time you encounter the same thing?" Li Xiu asked the young man with a smile.
"This..." The young man was not sure whether he would care about it again.
"Although I'm not a good person, I don't want to disappoint good people. In this era, there are too few people like you, and I don't want one less." Li Zheng said seriously.
The young man was deeply touched after hearing this, and even felt that he had met you too late. He said excitedly: "It is my luck to meet you today. In the past, everyone around me told me that this era is an era where the strong are respected and interests are paramount, and I should consider my own interests more. But I don’t think so. I want to change this era. Sometimes even I doubt whether I am too naive and childish. Meeting you today makes me feel that my persistence is not wrong, and I should do something for this era..."
Chu Jun became more and more excited as he spoke, wishing he could share the grievances he had suffered in the past and his ideals and ambitions with the person in front of him.
Li Xiu listened carefully and he felt that Chu Jun was a very interesting person.
"By the way, I still don't know your name?" Chu Jun talked for a long time before realizing that he still didn't know the name of the person in front of him.
"Li Xiu." Li Xiu replied.
"Li Xiu, why did you come to Chongshan City?" Chu Jun asked again.
"I originally wanted to participate in the trial, but was eliminated due to my poor physical fitness." Li Xiu said with a smile.
"This is easy. If you really want to participate in the trial, I can arrange it for you." Chu Jun said immediately.
"Do I need to spend money?" Li Xiu is very concerned about the issue of money now.
"No need, just leave this matter to me. Just leave me your number and I will notify you when I have made the arrangements." Chu Jun was very enthusiastic.
Li Xiu thought about it and left his number to Chu Jun. He did admire this young man. Regardless of whether Chu Jun could accomplish this task or not, it would be nice to make friends with him.
The two chatted for a while, and then the old man who was setting up the stall came in with a rag and sat down at the table next to them.
"Hey, are you two still here?" The old man saw them and greeted them with a smile.
Li Xiu smiled and nodded. Although Chu Jun knew that the old man had suffered a great loss, he still did not look at him in a good mood. He did not even look at the old man and continued to drink his tea.
The old man didn't say anything else. He ordered a pot of tea, then drank the tea while humming a tune. He crossed his legs and tapped his leg with one hand. He looked very uncomfortable.
"Let's go and continue our chat somewhere else." Chu Jun frowned slightly, stood up and said to Li Xiu.
"Let's do it another day. It's getting late today and I want to go back and rest." Li Xiu looked at the sky and decided to go back.
Li Xiu paid the bill and the two were about to leave when they saw a middle-aged man running into the tea shop in a hurry. He almost bumped into Li Xiu, and ran into the tea shop without saying sorry. After he ran into the tea shop, he looked around and when he saw the old man, he immediately ran over.
"Dad, where is the batch of topas I gave you this morning?" The middle-aged man rushed to the old man and asked anxiously.
"Here, what's wrong?" The old man patted his waist bag and asked puzzledly.
"Let me see." The old man's son couldn't wait. Without waiting for the old man to do anything, he reached out and opened the bag on the old man's waist, and took out the plastic bags containing gems from it.
He quickly looked through the bags one by one, found the pack of London Blue Topaz, looked at it over and over again, and finally poured all the topaz onto the table and picked them up one by one.
"Son, what are you looking for?" The old man became more and more puzzled.
"There's a teardrop-shaped blue topaz in here?" the middle-aged man asked anxiously as he rummaged around.
"It's the teardrop-shaped blue topaz, I just sold it. What's the matter? Is there any problem?" The old man's heart skipped a beat, and his good mood disappeared in an instant.
"Sold!" The middle-aged man stiffened for a moment, and mechanically turned his head to look at the old man, his eyes bloodshot, and asked tremblingly: "When was it sold, and who did you sell it to?"
"Just now, sold to..." The old man turned his head to look at the table where Li Xiu and Chu Jun had just sat, but he did not see them. The two had already paid the bill and left.
"The two young men were still here just now, why did they leave? What happened?" the old man muttered.
The middle-aged man ignored the old man and rushed out, but he could not see Li Xiu and Chu Jun anywhere. The long street was full of people. He had just seen them briefly just now. Even if Li Xiu stood in front of him now, he probably would not recognize him.
"Son, what's going on? It's just a topaz, why are you so excited?" The old man also chased out. When he saw his son's look, he realized that something was wrong.
"What topaz? That's aquamarine, Santa Maria color aquamarine. The people of Third Master knew nothing, so they dug out a batch of crystals and topazes from an old city destroyed by evil spirits. Who knew that there were a few teardrop-cut aquamarines mixed in. Those idiots knew nothing and thought they were topazes so they mixed them all together. Later, when they were selling them, a knowledgeable buyer saw it and recognized it as aquamarine. There were five teardrop-cut blue aquamarines in total, and two of them were Santa Maria color. When I went to pick up the goods before, I remember I took a teardrop-shaped one, and it was the darkest one in color..." The middle-aged man became more and more anxious.
The old man was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.
“That’s not topaz…it’s aquamarine…Santa Maria aquamarine…” The old man took out the spinel he had just exchanged and caressed like a treasure, threw it directly to the ground, and said angrily with grief and anger: “Damn it, I have been hunting geese all my life, but I was pecked in the eyes by two little sparrows…”
After Li Xiu and Chu Jun separated, they returned to the hotel where they were staying.
The light in Ximen Guan's room was still on, but the door was closed, so I didn't know whether he was asleep or not.
Returning to his room, Li Xiu took out the super Santa Maria aquamarine and admired it in his palm.
Each cut surface is as smooth as a mirror. Under the light, each cut surface glows with blue light, like a drop of deep blue ice.
The deep blue seems to calm one's soul if one looks at it for a long time.
Li Xiu took out a needle, pricked his finger, and dripped a drop of blood onto the Super Santa Maria Aquamarine.
He knew that his blood was somewhat special, and that it might be related to the young demon that had died in his body.
It takes others a long time to complete the magic gem of the blood contract, but he only needs one drop of blood to complete it.
Although Li Xiu was still somewhat worried about whether the young demon spirit was dead or not, things had already come to this point and worrying was useless. It would be better to make good use of the current convenience.
After the blood was absorbed by the aquamarine, the aquamarine quickly changed from solid to liquid, as if it came alive, and flowed onto Li Xiu's fingers, slowly solidifying into a dark blue gem ring.
After the jewel ring was completely formed, Li Xiu thought about it, and the jewel ring flew out of his hand and turned into a dark blue, crystal clear jellyfish-like demon spirit in front of him.
The evil spirit danced in the air as if swimming in the water, its transparent body emitting a faint blue fluorescence, which was strange and beautiful.
Ice Soul Siren (evolvable): E-level monster (flowing color), can summon E-level monster Ice Soul Siren.
"Is it just a Flowing Color Demon Spirit? It seems that the Radiant Demon Spirit is indeed very rare." Li Xiu had long expected that the quality of the Ice Soul Sea Monster Demon Spirit could not be too high, so he was not too disappointed.
Although the Ice Soul Siren is only of Flowing Color quality, it also has its advantages.
Ordinary aquamarine is cheaper than spinel. If you upgrade the level of Ice Spirit Siren, the cost is lower than that of Jedi Knight, which is also an advantage.
Li Xiu was already considering whether to sell some of the magic cores he had on hand in exchange for some aquamarines to upgrade the level of the Ice Soul Siren.
If you have an S-level demon spirit by your side, no matter how poor its quality is, it is a combat force that cannot be ignored.
However, Li Xiu did not have many magic cores on him, so Ah Fei returned his portion of magic cores to him. These days, Li Xiu had been wearing some of the magic cores on his body, and some magic cores would disappear every day.
Li Xiu could feel that his physical fitness had improved, but the extent of the improvement was not high. Compared to the energy of those magic cores, the speed at which Li Xiu's physical fitness improved was simply not typical.
This made Li Xiu somewhat suspicious. The young demon spirit might not have been killed, and most of the energy of the magic core was embezzled by the young demon spirit.
"Li Xiu, it's done. Come directly to the back door of the City Lord's Mansion at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and I will take you to participate in the trial." Chu Jun sent a message.
"Got it. I'll be there on time at 8 o'clock." After Li Xiu replied to the message, he began to study the information he could find.
Currently, there are more than tens of thousands of Trial Gates discovered around the world, but the number of Trial Gates truly developed by humans is less than one-tenth.
Most of the time, no one can come out alive after entering the trial gate, or very few people can come out.
The trial gates that are being developed now are all filled with lives lost by major forces.
However, as the physical fitness of the trial participants increases, I believe that the speed of exploring the trial gate will become faster and faster, and there will be more and more real trial participants.
However, since only the big forces have the ability to explore the Gate of Trials, it is not difficult to imagine that it will still be difficult for ordinary people to become true trial-takers in the future, and most of the true trial-takers will still be controlled by the rulers.
Li Xiu is now studying the Gate of Trials, just wanting to find a place that can allow him to quickly complete the trials, improve his physical fitness first, and then become a true trial-taker.
After much research, Li Xiu discovered that what he lacked was not the Trial Gate, but money.
Each time the trial door is opened, at least ten gems are required. Generally speaking, the weight of the gems required is over one carat.
The better the quality of the gem and the heavier it is, the wider the trial door will open and the longer it will take.
For gems of poor quality, their energy will be consumed before the door is even opened.
These had no effect on Li Xiu. He just wanted to take part in the trial alone, and he just needed the door to be opened wide enough for him to enter.
But even so, at least ten gems are needed at a time. If they are gems like topaz, ten of them will not cost much money. But if they are replaced with gems like ruby and diamond, the price is not low.
What's more, according to Li Xiu's own experience and inference, different trial gates still have an impact on becoming a true trial-taker.
For example, the Blood Pattern Revolver in the Haitian Trial Field is obviously more advanced than the Fire Lotus Sword, and the Fire Lotus Sword is of shining quality. The quality of the Blood Pattern Revolver should be higher, but Li Xiu is not sure whether it can reach the glorious level.
If you want to become a true trial-taker, you must have a symbiotic contract, and the symbiotic contract cannot be replaced, so Li Xiu feels that his first contract must be the top-level glorious contract.
But how can we determine which trial field will produce the Glorious Contract? This is beyond Li Xiu's knowledge. Theoretically speaking, the more precious the gems used, the higher the level of the Contract that will appear in that trial field.
According to this theory, it is impossible to save money. Unless Li Xiu is willing to find a symbiotic contract at random, he can only spend a lot of money to go to those expensive trial gates.
Another question is why the Fire Lotus Sword did not become his symbiotic bond, which also made Li Xiu a little confused.
He thought about it and felt that there were two possibilities.
One possibility is that the young demon in his body is causing trouble, preventing the Fire Lotus Sword from becoming his symbiotic bond.
After all, the contract can hurt the demon spirit, so it is normal that the young demon spirit does not want Li Xiu's contract to succeed.
Another possibility is that it is because of the blood-marked revolver. This possibility is something Li Xiu thought of after thinking about it for a long time.
When Li Xiu used the blood-marked revolver to fire, his strength did not reach the standard of the contract, so the blood-marked revolver would not resonate with him, let alone become his symbiotic contract.
But at that time, Li Xiu's blood was stained on the blood-marked revolver, which made Li Xiu feel a lot easier when he fired the gun, but he still couldn't pick up the blood-marked revolver.
According to the knowledge Li Xiu obtained from Kunsha and Shachu, blood is of no use in reaching an agreement with Qi before picking up Qi.
In Sha Chu's words, even if all the blood in his body was drained and Qi was soaked in the blood, it would be impossible for Qi to have any reaction.
The strange thing is that Li Xiu's blood did cause some reaction in the blood-patterned revolver, but the contract was not successful.
Li Xiu suspected that this was related to the young demon spirit in his body. Regardless of whether the young demon spirit was dead or not, it had changed Li Xiu's physique, making Li Xiu a little different from normal humans.
This can be seen from the fact that the evil spirit crawled onto Li Xiu, but Li Xiu was not hurt.
Maybe Xie mistook Li Xiu for an evil spirit and wanted to parasitize in his body, so it crawled onto him.
So Li Xiu was wondering, maybe it was because his blood was special. Although he did not complete the contract with the Blood Pattern Revolver, he had established a certain connection, which affected the other contracts and Li Xiu's completion of the agreement, so the Fire Lotus Sword failed to become Li Xiu's symbiotic contract.
Of these two possibilities, Li Xiu is more inclined to the latter. After all, Li Xiu doesn't even know whether the young demon spirit is alive or not, so he can't find it at all. Even if he has a symbiotic contract, he can't kill the young demon spirit.
If it is the latter, then Li Xiu has only two options if he wants to become a true trial-taker.
One way is to return to the Haitian Trial Field, complete the contract with the Blood-Marked Revolver, and make the Blood-Marked Revolver his symbiotic contract.
Another way is to find a contract that is stronger than the Blood-Marked Revolver. As long as that contract is not affected by the Blood-Marked Revolver, it will naturally be able to successfully complete the contract and become Li Xiu's symbiotic contract.
The Haitian Trial Field is the territory of Changshengtian, and there are also unknown terrifying demons. Who knows what will happen if the parents of the young demon see Li Xiu.
A young demon is so strange and terrifying, it is hard to imagine how terrifying its parents are.
If he wants to go to the Haitian Trial Field, he must be fully prepared. Before that, Li Xiu can only find another way out.
After much research, Li Xiu felt that the known trial field that was most likely to have high-quality contracts and was easier to enter was the "Purgatory Gate Trial Field" controlled by Red Sand City.