Chapter 2169: Chapter 1554: Thrift (Part 2)

"Then, honored customer, you can receive a crystal card with a limit of one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals for free, and when the time comes you can pay directly with the crystal card." Jia Hong spoke up in time, offering a reasonable suggestion.

"Alright."

After a series of procedures, Qingxuan smoothly obtained a purple crystal card with "100,000" written on it.

But what they didn’t know was that at the very instant they used this stash of Spirit Crystals stored by Li Zhirui, deep within the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, a high-grade Great Ability suddenly opened his eyes.

"Who used these Spirit Crystals?"

In just an instant, he knew what had happened.

"That junior’s clansman? No, it should be said his companion, accidentally entered the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall."

But he did not intervene, nor did he issue any particular instructions, since the one he had his eye on was only Li Zhirui himself, and had little to do with his origins.

...

Qingxuan then followed Jia Hong out of the Money Shop and began strolling around inside the merchant district, searching for Methods and Spiritual Objects that could benefit his clan.

The first was one of the purposes of his entry into The Void for this training trip: the Life Star Absorption Secret Technique, worth five thousand Spirit Crystals.

Besides this, after some selection, he also spent thirty thousand Spirit Crystals to purchase a batch of Spirit Enhanced Fruit Spirit Seeds, three seeds in total.

The use of the Spirit Enhanced Fruit was to increase a Cultivator’s Spiritual Root Purity, which was equivalent to increasing a Cultivator’s aptitude and reducing his clansmen’s cultivation difficulty.

Afterward, Qingxuan spent another forty thousand Spirit Crystals to purchase a single Nine-colored Spirit Jade Mushroom, which could be used to enhance the clan’s Spirit Beasts’ bloodlines.

In the end, he spent ten thousand Spirit Crystals to obtain a lump of Essence of Spiritual Vein, which could help a Spirit Vein of Earth Immortal Rank advance as soon as possible.

From the Spiritual Objects he purchased, it could be seen that his main focus was still on promoting the development of the clan.

With the remaining ten-plus thousand Spirit Crystals, Qingxuan planned to browse the stalls and see if he could buy Spiritual Objects useful for the clan’s development.

The Spiritual Objects on the ground stalls were dazzling and all-encompassing; there were incredibly precious Profound Immortal Rank Spiritual Objects, as well as some mere Loose Immortal Grade trinkets.

Whether you could purchase problem-free Spiritual Objects at a reasonable price all depended on your own eyesight.

Very soon, Qingxuan stopped in front of one of the stalls. On a piece of white cloth no more than three feet wide, all sorts of items were densely laid out: there were classics, Spiritual Objects, Magic Artifacts, and even some very rare things.

"How much is this gemstone?"

He sensed a special power from within it that should be of considerable help to himself.

"For only five thousand Spirit Crystals, Fellow Daoist can take this ring that might contain the aura of another world."

"What? Five thousand Spirit Crystals?!"

It wasn’t that Qingxuan was making a fuss or lacked experience; you had to know, this price was on par with the Life Star Absorption Secret Technique!

Yet the gap between the two was enormous.

Especially since that gem could only be used by himself; others simply couldn’t use it, and even he himself wasn’t very sure whether what he felt in his heart was real.

"Too expensive. It’s just a Heavenly Immortal Rank Spiritual Object with no special effect; it’s absolutely not worth five thousand Spirit Crystals."

Qingxuan directly slashed the price and stated his own terms: "Three hundred Spirit Crystals. If you agree, then we’ll make the trade."

"Deal!"

To his surprise, the stall owner agreed on the spot and stuffed the Ruby into Qingxuan’s arms, looking as if he was afraid Qingxuan might regret it.

"Damn, I still overpaid!"

This time, even though he had successfully obtained a Spiritual Object helpful to his own cultivation, he wasn’t happy about it, because he had still been cheated by the other party.

It could be considered an especially memorable lesson for an outsider like him; he would definitely be even more careful and cautious from now on.

The only consolation was that he hadn’t spent many Spirit Crystals this time.

During his subsequent wandering, Qingxuan became even more careful and cautious. Even when he encountered Spiritual Objects that stirred his heart, he only went up to look, without asking the price, and with no intention of buying.

As he was walking aimlessly down the street like this, his Spirit Sense suddenly stirred, as if it had "seen" some item nearby.

His gaze immediately began searching all around, wanting to know what exactly it was that could trigger his Spirit Sense.

When his eyes fell on a book that looked extremely tattered, Qingxuan couldn’t help but frown.

Could something like this really contain the content he needed?

Thinking so, he still walked toward that stall.

Naturally, Qingxuan wouldn’t directly expose the item he wanted from the start, because there was no way he could search for Spiritual Objects out of thin air; that would only bring trouble upon himself. So he could only disguise it a bit, borrowing them to search for Spiritual Objects, and hide the one he needed among them.

In the end, after spending a few hundred Spirit Crystals, Qingxuan successfully obtained that tattered book as well as a fairly decent Spiritual Object.

No matter what secret was hidden within that book, just that Spiritual Object alone meant he wouldn’t lose too much.

He then split his attention in two, flipping through the ancient text while continuing to stroll through the Commerce Association.

Before long, with the reminder of his Spirit Sense, Qingxuan quickly discovered the secret within.

"So that’s how it is..."

He swiftly organized the contents and, after reading, couldn’t help letting out a sigh of emotion.

Within this ancient text, there was actually a very special Secret Technique, called the Secret Method of Blood Birth of All Things.

Its general content was to strengthen one’s bloodline by absorbing Spiritual Objects connected to one’s own bloodline.

For a being like Qingxuan, who was originally born as a Spirit Beast, this was an absolutely precious Secret Technique, and it wasn’t limited to Spirit Beasts alone; the human race could also use it. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

After all, there were many high-grade bloodlines within the human race as well; it was just that under normal circumstances, few humans would tap into this aspect of their power.

Once he realized how precious this Secret Technique was, Qingxuan stopped wandering around and began to think about his next move.

"Perhaps I should send these Spiritual Objects back to the clan first, and then enter The Void again to begin my true training journey..."

He was now carrying too many precious Spiritual Objects and Methods, and most of them did not actually belong to him, but to the clan.

If some accident occurred and the Spiritual Objects were lost, that would be a real problem!

So it was better to return to the Primal Spirit Realm first and unload this heavy burden from himself.

Having made up his mind, Qingxuan lifted his foot and walked toward the main entrance, preparing to leave the Chaos Commerce.

As a minor Heavenly Immortal Cultivator, he was not conspicuous. Coupled with the Commerce Association’s special mechanisms, under normal circumstances he would not be targeted.

Thus, he left the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall very smoothly.

At the same time, Qingxuan was pleasantly surprised to find that, via that random Teleportation Array, he had actually arrived in a stretch of Chaos not too far from the Primal Spirit Realm!

He would only need a little over a hundred years to return to the Primal Spirit Realm.

You had to know, Qingxuan had already been in The Void for several thousand years and was an unknown distance from the Primal Spirit Realm. According to his previous estimates, he would have had to spend several hundred years on the road alone.

Yet now, the Teleportation Array of the Chaos Commerce had given him a helping hand, saving him a great deal of time.

Most importantly, it reduced the many dangers he might encounter along the way, allowing Qingxuan to return to the Primal Spirit Realm faster and more safely.

As for whether this was purely a coincidence or intentional, he didn’t think too much about it—or rather, he didn’t think in that direction at all.

...

The flower splits into two blooms, each telling its own story.

Unlike Qingxuan, who was about to return to the Primal Spirit Realm, Li Zhirui still had to continue wandering in The Void.

That wording wasn’t quite right either, because after severing cause and effect with the Primal Spirit Realm and obtaining the Chaos God Demon Dao Body, the Void Chaos was actually the place that had "nurtured" him.

So he was, in fact, strolling around in his own "home," even though this "home" was enormous and unsafe.

Ever since that time he accidentally obtained two Spiritual Objects in a Chaotic Storm, these past years Li Zhirui had had no further gains at all!