Chapter 68 Chapter 68 The Fifth Wish
Following the formula provided by System 05, they searched for the ingredients needed to refine the Spiritual Fluid. He Shile's injuries were slowly recovering. Although he had lost his combat ability, he knew talismans and could use them in battle. With the protection of System 05 and Chen Mu, he wasn't facing any unsolvable problems.
But He Shile was a master at proactively stirring up trouble. No matter what, he always had to get involved. To put it nicely, he was chivalrous, to put it bluntly, he was looking for trouble. Once, when they passed a village, the villagers reported that a powerful wolf had been breaking into the village lately, stealing chickens and killing dogs, and even attacking villagers. So He Shile offered to help them eliminate the wolf demon. The wolf demon wasn't very powerful, just intelligent and adept at hiding, which was why the villagers had no way of dealing with it. He Shile used a talisman to defeat the wolf demon and also provided the villagers with talismans that could be used without spiritual power. These items were expensive, but He Shile gave them without hesitation.
Then System 05 discovered that He Shile was very wealthy, his mustard seed bag containing an almost endless supply of spirit stones. He Shile later explained that, although his family was a branch, their management skills were excellent, resulting in higher profits than the main branch in recent years. He didn't elaborate, but System 05, after reviewing He Shile's memories, discovered that he had a lot to do with the branch family's wealth.
Any problem that can be solved with spirit stones is not a problem. Even many materials that Chen Mu had to risk his life and death to obtain can now be bought by He Shile with money.
They needed the inner elixir of a thousand-year-old snake demon. When System 05 was still planning to find the thousand-year-old snake demon, He Shile took out a list with an introduction to the exhibits at the auction, among which was the inner elixir of a snake demon, and it was of top quality.
To prevent He Shilie from learning of their whereabouts, He Shile changed his appearance. After dressing up, he entered the auction. Many people were already seated inside, most of them disciples or protégés sent by powerful beings. These auctions rarely had powerful beings personally attending. They maintained constant spiritual communication with their elders and masters, allowing them to bid on the items they needed.
He Shile was sitting in an inconspicuous position. System 05 took a quick look. It turned out that Chen Mu had come to this auction in the past. After more than a hundred years, there had been no changes at all.
Even the auctioneer who presided over the auction did not change, except that he went from the Jindan stage to the Yuanying stage, the handling fee doubled, and there were some items in the auction that Chen Mu could not recognize.
Soon it was the turn of the Millennium Snake Demon's inner elixir. The auctioneer introduced it expressionlessly, "This is a top-grade Millennium Snake Demon's inner elixir. It was taken from a Millennium Snake Demon that had transformed into a dragon in the South Sea of Xizhou. There is only one of its kind in the world. The starting price is 10,000 top-grade spirit stones."
System 05 and Chen Mu took a deep breath at the same time.
They looked at each other in their sea of consciousness. How to say it, even though Chen Mu finally cultivated to the fusion stage, killed the ancestor Hongde and became the number one in the world of cultivation, he still did not own more than 10,000 high-grade spirit stones.
He Shile bid decisively, "Fifteen thousand high-grade spirit stones."
Soon someone raised the price: "Eighteen thousand high-grade spirit stones."
"Twenty thousand."
"Twenty-five thousand."
"Thirty thousand."
"Thirty-five thousand."
There were quite a few people bidding for it. This inner elixir had many uses, so the competition was fierce. However, that was about the value of one inner elixir.
He Shile continued, "Fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones."
System 05: "Are you trying to scare others off with this price?"
The two of them muttered in their sea of consciousness. The auction hall was silent for a moment, and then someone said, "Fifty-one thousand."
He Shile: "Sixty thousand."
"Sixty-one thousand."
"Seventy thousand."
"Seventy thousand."
This was far more than the price of a single inner elixir, and could even buy out a small sect. Only one competitor remained in the arena, and one could faintly hear his nervous and hurried tone.
System 05 said, "He's trying to raise the price with you."
He Shile smiled slightly, and at this moment he actually relaxed. He noticed the other party's eyes looking at him, sat back, crossed his hands, and did not bid for a long time.
The auctioneer held up the hammer and said, "Anyone else want to bid? 71,000 high-grade spirit stones for one bid, 71,000 for two bids, 71,000 for three bids..."
"Seventy-two thousand."
He Shile raised his hand after catching the last syllable of the auctioneer's words.
This time the man didn't bid again. He took a deep breath and slumped in his chair.
"Really..." System 05 clicked his tongue. Chen Mu sighed, "Kids these days are really scary."
He Shile was happy to receive the 72,000 high-grade spirit stones and the thousand-year-old snake demon's inner elixir. After achieving his goal, he didn't even look at the rest of the auction and simply stood up and left.
"Senior, have you been to this auction before?" He Shile heard their previous conversation.
Chen Mu said slowly: "Yes, but we didn't come here to take pictures."
That happened when Chen Mu was about fifteen. Sword cultivators were often poor, with few ways to make money but many places to spend it. He taught himself alchemy and often made pills to sell. Once, he accidentally created a very rare elixir and sent it to an auction, where it fetched several thousand high-grade spirit stones, but he quickly spent all of it.
System 05 rarely, or almost never, provides financial assistance to the host. Although a person's sudden increase in wealth will not bring about much change to the world, this is a very strict rule.
Some hosts are good at making money, but Chen Mu is obviously not that kind of person, so System 05 often sighed because of the empty mustard bag. Chen Mu was more open-minded. He only cared about the sword in his hand, and everything else was dispensable.
He Shile: "...we?" This "we" refers to the seniors and whom?
Chen Mu changed the subject: "Seventy-two thousand high-grade spirit stones for one inner elixir is still too expensive."
He Shile smiled shyly: "As long as I can get something, there's no need to waste time on problems that can be solved with money."
That person was obviously trying to raise the price with He Shile. When it came to the last 71,000, he had already regretted it. So when He Shile raised the price again at the last moment, he just felt lucky and didn't dare to take the risk again.
If He Shile had not paused for a long time in the middle, who knows how much the price would have been raised. This kind of thing often happens at auctions. He Shile's way of handling it was very smart and rational.
However, no matter what, Chen Mu thought, this price is not as good as if we go find a thousand-year-old snake demon to fight ourselves.
System 05 whispered in his ear, "I used to think the world of cultivation was very cruel, but I didn't expect it to be so gentle to the rich."
The world of cultivation that Chen Mu and He Shile faced was completely different.
But there are still some problems that cannot be solved with money. They also need a material called Qingyan Crystal. The Qingyan Crystal is located inside a mountain. There is a monster in the mountain. There is Qingyan Crystal mine in the cave where the monster is lurking. He Shile needs to defeat the monster to get the Qingyan Crystal.
The demonic beast was called the Black Flower Bird. It was enormous, with cyan feathers. The patterns on its body shifted in color as it flapped its wings, capable of confusing its enemies. The Black Flower Bird's cultivation level was equivalent to that of a human at the Nascent Soul stage, and its animal instincts made it particularly adept at combat. Ordinary Nascent Souls were no match for it.
He Shile made some preparations and set out to search for the black-flowered bird. The mountain was sparsely populated, filled with the scent of vegetation and thick fog. He Shile trudged along the muddy ground, his foot deep and his foot shallow. Tangled branches littered the landscape, and the lush canopy blocked out the sunlight. From the shadows, it felt as if countless eyes were staring at him.
System 05 asked: "How do you plan to defeat the Black Flower Bird?"
With He Shile's current strength, he was definitely no match for the Xuanhua Bird. When Chen Mu challenged the Xuanhua Bird, he wasn't even at the Golden Core stage yet, and he wore the Xuanhua Bird down to exhaustion, relying on his life. With System 05's repair card, he wouldn't die, but the pain wouldn't disappear, it would only accumulate. By the time Chen Mu obtained the Blue Flame Crystal, the Xuanhua Bird had already avoided him.
Compared to Chen Mu, He Shile didn't rely that much on System 05. He could do many things on his own with his money. He Shile said, "The help you've provided me is more than enough."
"I've looked up some information and found that the black-flowered bird loves to drink morning dew." He Shile said, "I happen to have some rare morning dew. I can use it to lure it out of its cave."
He Shile's methods were clearly much softer. Chen Mu was stunned by what he said, wondering why he hadn't thought of this method before. System 05 saw through his thoughts and gave him a look: Even if you did, where would you get the precious morning dew?
This precious morning dew is not the dew collected in the morning, but the dew condensed on a specific spiritual herb at a specific place and time, and then refined through a complex process. It is an extremely rare material in itself.
He Shile placed morning dew in various locations to lure the black-flowered bird away from the cave. The cave was perched on a cliff face, hundreds of feet above the ground, offering numerous ways to reach it. After He Shile finished arranging the dew, he looked up from below and saw the black-flowered bird hovering just outside the cave. It was enormous, its wingspan reaching ten meters. The wind whipped up by its flapping wings formed vortices in the air, and the patterns on its back were dizzying.
System 05 asked, "Do you think this is still the same black-flowered bird?"
Chen Mu also made the same gesture of building a canopy with his hands in his sea of consciousness, but he was actually using his spiritual sense to see: "Probably its offspring..."
The black-flowered bird has a long lifespan and only lays one egg at a time. When they last came, the black-flowered bird already had children. This one looked quite young, and the patterns on its body were even more colorful and eye-catching.
He Shile made preparations, hiding himself first, and then released the fragrance of morning dew. The black flower bird was quickly attracted. It circled in the air for a while, and then flew towards the place where the morning dew was placed.
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