NOVEL NEXT Ch. 100
Chapter 100: Transaction
After finishing his meal and chatting with his mother about the shop’s situation, Chen Beiwu took out his phone, logged into the Ten Thousand Spirits app backend, and confirmed that the payment for the Yellow-Tailed Dendrobium had been successfully settled.
‘Good, more Spirit Yuan again!’
Seeing the account balance, Chen Beiwu’s eyes lit up slightly, and he opened the marketplace to search for Frost-Jade Queen Bee Honey.
To ensure fast delivery, after comparing a few options, he decisively chose a local trade within the county.
After all, the Frost-Jade Queen Bee Honey he purchased needed to be submitted to the sect’s Alchemy Hall. If the honey was of poor quality, he would not be able to explain himself, let alone earn sect contribution points.
Inspecting the goods on the spot could guarantee the honey’s quality and prevent dishonest merchants from selling inferior products under false names, swapping out genuine queen bee honey with other high-quality honey.
‘The Spirit-Nourishing Pill worked well last time. I can buy more this time.’ Chen Beiwu opened the Immortal Alliance official website’s order history and spent one thousand Spirit Yuan to purchase ten bottles.
Then, he clicked on the cultivation method category to help Iron Egg choose a cultivation method.
【Crimson Nightmare True Extreme Art】
【Southern Land Departure Fire True Scripture】
【Disaster-Hound Flame-Devouring Secret Record】
【Great Sun Glazed World-Cleansing Calamity Flame Record】
Looking at these profound and obscure top-tier fire-element cultivation methods, Chen Beiwu hesitated.
Although Iron Egg was gifted and had spirituality comparable to Qi Refining cultivators, he was ultimately an Exotic Beast and could hardly comprehend the true essence of human cultivation methods.
Instead of selecting these top fire-element methods, it was better to choose a canine-specific beast cultivation method more suited for Iron Egg.
‘Forget it. These methods are strong indeed, but too difficult to cultivate. I’ll leave them in the cart as backups for now.’
Chen Beiwu filtered for canine beast cultivation methods, carefully went through the list, and finally picked two relatively suitable ones for Iron Egg.
One was called 【Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking】.
The other was called 【Infernal Prison Fire-Fiend Scripture】.
The former was an Earth-Grade method suitable for canine Spirit Beasts.
Its practitioners could feed on fire, swallowing the rising qi of the Great Sun to nourish their three meridians, nurturing a Scorching Sun Fire Seed, with cultivation capped at the Third Realm Beast General.
The latter was a Heaven-Grade incomplete method suitable for beasts.
Its practitioners needed to temper their bodies with subterranean fire fiend qi, shedding their old body four times to forge a Fire-Fiend Calamity Body, condensing Undying Blood and Undying Aura, thereby achieving the Fourth Realm Beast King.
“Iron Egg.”
As soon as Chen Beiwu spoke, a figure immediately dashed downstairs from the cultivation room.
“You choose the method yourself.” Chen Beiwu opened the introductions one by one, giving Iron Egg the final say.
The earlier ones were fine, but when Iron Egg saw the conditions for cultivating the Infernal Prison Fire-Fiend Scripture, his eyes bulged wide.
“Woof!”
“Woof!”
“Woof!”
Iron Egg shook his head wildly.
The Infernal Prison Fire-Fiend Scripture was practically a self-mutilation method.
Entering required body-tempering with a First-Tier fire vein; to advance to Second Realm Lesser Beast, one needed a Second-Tier subterranean vein; to reach Third Realm Beast General, one needed a Third-Tier ground fire fiend vein.
It was no exaggeration to say that every body-tempering in this method was a baptism of survival through desperation. One misstep, and he would end up as dog meat stew.
“Woof!” Iron Egg looked at Chen Beiwu with a pitiful expression.
Chen Beiwu cleared his throat and explained, “You can choose based on your own preference. If you don’t like these, we can keep looking.”
Hearing this, Madam Huang Xiaoling turned her head to glance at Iron Egg, curiosity flashing in her eyes.
For ordinary parents, buying cultivation methods for an Exotic Beast would seem like a pure waste of Spirit Yuan. But she did not think so.
Without Iron Egg, her husband would not have survived long ago.
Compared to that, how many Spirit Yuan was a foundation-building cultivation method worth?
“Woof!”
After hesitating for a moment, Iron Egg finally extended his paw and chose the one that felt right to him: 【Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking】.
“Are you sure this is the one?”
As soon as Chen Beiwu asked, Iron Egg blinked repeatedly, visibly torn.
After a long while, he finally made up his mind and nodded.
“Then I’ll place the order.” With that, Chen Beiwu clicked checkout.
The Earth-Grade fire-element method Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking was divided into three stages. Purchasing only the introductory stage cost just three hundred Spirit Yuan, much cheaper than the Infernal Prison Fire-Fiend Scripture.
After buying the method, Chen Beiwu continued to browse the water-element arts section.
Since Golden Egg had the Sea-Absorbing talent, allowing him to swallow cultivation jade slips and grasp their meaning, perhaps he could also learn arts by swallowing jade slips, saving Chen Beiwu the trouble of teaching.
A First-Tier peerless Exotic Art 【Scale-Blade Escape】, priced at three hundred Spirit Yuan, could turn scales into blades, unleashing a silent strike with tremendous penetrating power in an instant.
A First-Tier peerless Exotic Art 【Water-Hiding Flow】, priced at one hundred fifty Spirit Yuan, allowed merging into water currents, concealing aura, and greatly increasing underwater speed.
A First-Tier superior Exotic Art 【Water-Splitting Stab】, priced at forty Spirit Yuan, condensed water into a stabbing spike that exploded upon impact, causing multiple bursts of damage.
Buying all three arts, Chen Beiwu then spent another one thousand two hundred Spirit Yuan on two books.
One was titled 【Ten True Explanations of the Talisman Dao】, and the other 【Six Spirits of Formations】.
Despite their grand names, these were actually textbooks recording basic knowledge of talismans and formations.
The first recorded the drawing methods of ten types of Second-Tier talismans, while the second contained the inscribing techniques of six Second-Tier formations and the corresponding layout knowledge.
“Buzz!”
At that moment, a notification sounded from his phone.
“3 p.m., Beast Taming Training Hall, Lingnan Tea Path on-site transaction.”
Seeing the message from the Natural Beekeeping Farm, Chen Beiwu’s heart stirred.
As long as one was willing to pay, the Beast Taming Training Hall offered all sorts of opponents to spar against.
Before finalizing the honey transaction, it was the perfect chance to temper Golden Egg’s lack of battle will, laying the foundation for gaining real combat experience in the Southern Wastes later.
So, after checking the time, Chen Beiwu left early for the Beast Taming Training Hall in Yuan-Kong County.
As soon as he entered the spacious hall, a beautiful female cultivator’s eyes lit up, and she quickly stepped forward to ask, “Fellow Daoist, do you have a membership card?”
“No.” Chen Beiwu replied.
The sparring prices in the training hall were exorbitant, far beyond what ordinary cultivators could afford. Usually, only second-generation cultivators could patronize it.
This was also Chen Beiwu’s first time entering the hall.
“If you don’t have a card, the rate is thirty Spirit Yuan per hour. With a card, it’s twenty Spirit Yuan per hour. Would you like to register for a card first? It’s more cost-effective that way.” The female cultivator smiled sweetly.
‘No wonder it’s so empty here.’ Chen Beiwu thought.
Thirty Spirit Yuan per hour was equivalent to two months of hard labor wages for a Sixth-Level Qi Refining cultivator.
“No need, just one hour first.” Chen Beiwu shook his head. He had no plans to come often, so there was no point in getting a card.
“Right now, for just two hundred Spirit Yuan, you can get the card and enjoy the discount.” The female cultivator continued her pitch. “If you don’t have enough Spirit Yuan on you, we have a quick credit channel. It only takes two minutes to borrow two hundred Spirit Yuan, with a maximum loan of one thousand Spirit Yuan.”
“I already said no.” Chen Beiwu gave her a cold glance.
Immortal Loan was easy to borrow, but repaying it was a nightmare.