God Weird Fairy

Chapter 355: Jade Heart Earthworm

Nan Yi suspected that the reason why Qingyu Palace planted so many spiritual plants without concealment and allowed the cultivators who entered the Qingyu Blessed Land to easily see them was to lure the jealous cultivators to break into the formation, and then kill them directly and take away the cultivators' personal belongings.

He withdrew his gaze and looked towards the pavilion.

The pavilion is called the Welcoming and Sending-Off Pavilion, and is where the "Limited Yin and Yang Formation" of the Qingyu Blessed Land is set up.

There was a Taoist boy meditating in the pavilion. After Nan Yi and the others entered the blessed land, the Taoist boy finished his practice, stood up to greet them, and respectfully asked: "Fellow Taoists, where do you want to go? Please tell me your identity so that I can contact you."

"The Minister of Personnel of Dali, my disciple Du Heng, wants to go to the blessed land of Junshan."

"Nan Yi, Wuxiang's disciple, will go to Junshan together."

"Han County's independent cultivators Guo Lai, Yan Qingyun, and Qiu Changsheng, are heading to Junshan together."

Nan Yi and his companions followed Du Heng and reported their identities.

The Taoist boy took note and took out the Lingxi Butterfly to contact Junshan Blessed Land.

Although there are teleportation formations connecting the paradise, you can't just teleport there whenever you want - you have to prevent other sects from launching direct raids via the teleportation formations.

Both parties need to agree on the time and number of people, and activate the teleportation formation "Liang Yi Xiang Jiao Ling Xi Array" at the same time to successfully carry out the teleportation.

The way they communicate with each other is through the Lingxi butterfly acting as a messenger.

This kind of small monster, which is equivalent to the mobile phone in the previous life, is specially raised and sold by monks from other sects. Nan Yi saw it and thought that if he met someone selling Lingxi butterflies, he could buy one.

The Taoist boy sent the Lingxi butterfly away, and it took a cup of tea to get a reply.

However, the time agreed upon to activate the teleportation array is usually not urgent, so the Taoist boy sent the Lingxi Butterfly away and said to several people without waiting for a reply:

"If there are no problems, the formation can be activated in half an hour. If you don't have anything important to do, you can rest in the pavilion and wait."

If you are a Xuan-level cultivator who wants to borrow the passage, there may be someone to receive you and invite you into the Qingyu Palace to have a cup of tea.

But Nan Yi and his companions were only Yellow Rank cultivators, mingling in the outer sects of the mortal world and not walking in the real world of cultivation.

Even Du Heng's official position as the Minister of Personnel was not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Xuan-level cultivators.

Therefore, they could not go anywhere else in the Qingyu Blessed Land except to the vicinity of the Welcoming and Sending-off Pavilion.

Nan Yi simply said, “Since there is still half an hour left, why don’t we go to Wanghai Mountain Range for a walk, and then go back to the blessed land to wait when the time is almost up.”

"All is fine. Please feel free to do as you please." The Taoist boy said seriously, "But if you want to wander around the forest outside, you need to pay half of the deposit first, five silver coins per person."

There is no concept of distance between spiritual realms.

No matter where you go to, the charge for using the teleportation formation is ten silver coins per person.

If Nan Yi and his companions were waiting in the pavilion, they would usually collect ten silver coins when they were about to be teleported, and would not ask for half of the deposit in advance.

But since Nan Yi and the others are going to go out first, the Taoist boy will ask for a deposit in advance to prevent Nan Yi and the others from going back on their word and not coming to deliver on time.

After paying the deposit, they returned from the Qingyu Paradise to the village that looked like a horse farm.

Nan Yi said, "Although the blessed land is vast, the pavilion is quite cramped. Since there is still half an hour left, instead of waiting in vain, why not pick some herbs in the forest?"

The three source warriors naturally agreed immediately; Du Heng also nodded in agreement.

It is impossible to find spiritual herbs and plants without going deep into the dense forest and only around the village. However, Nanyi's "Longevity Gourd" has a planting space, and even ordinary herbs can be transplanted in.

Under the cleansing of the breath of immortality, ordinary herbs, regardless of their habits, can thrive in the gourd space as long as the growing conditions are not particularly harsh.

Moreover, with the blessing of the breath of immortality, although it is impossible to become a yellow-level spiritual herb, its medicinal properties and potency are still superior to ordinary herbs.

This is also the reason why Nan Yi was able to successfully refine the "Jiuzhuan Lingbao Pill" according to the recipe of the "Liuhe Lingbao Pill".

However, although it is unlikely that there are any spiritual herbs and plants around the village, Nan Yi still wants to give it a try.

So, several people went deep into the forest, Yan Qingyun, Qiu Changsheng and Guo Lai picked some common herbs from time to time and handed them to Nan Yi. Nan Yi then activated the "Dong Zhen" and followed the flow trend of the source of heaven and earth, leading the team to explore the place where the source of qi gathered.

Although the place where source energy gathers does not necessarily contain natural treasures, the probability is always higher.

Nan Yi's "Dong Zhen" talent has a special vision that allows him to directly see the spiritual light. This is even more magical than the "Wu Xiang Zhen Jie" ability to observe the flow of Qi.

In its field of vision, extraordinary things themselves will appear with auras of varying strengths and colors, quite similar to the infrared thermal imagers of the previous life.

Relying on this feature, Nan Yi felt that he still had some chance of picking up a bargain.

After he walked for a while, he actually saw a flash of light.

The spiritual light was inconspicuous and so faint that it was almost imperceptible. When Nan Yi took first glance, he almost ignored it.

Fortunately, in Nan Yi's eyes, the extraordinary things were indeed clearly visible. He looked carefully and saw things with the "Dongzhen" vision to make sure that he was not mistaken.

So Nan Yi turned around and moved closer to the place where the spiritual light was.

After walking a hundred steps, we arrived at a shady place under the mountain wall.At a glance, I could only see the traces of someone who had been there first and had already picked away the spiritual grass here, that is, the small pit where the spiritual grass had been dug up by the roots.

However, the spiritual light was still there, as if it was under the pit, so Nan Yi dug deeper.

After digging three times, Nan Yi found an earthworm. It was called the Jade Heart Earthworm. It was slender and as clear as jade, like a flowing jade belt.

Although the jade earthworm lives in the soil, it does not appear filthy. Instead, it emits a faint fragrance.

Du Heng looked at it and said, "This is a jade heart earthworm. It should be a kind of spirit that was raised by the Qingyu Palace. Somehow, it ended up wandering outside the blessed land. Junior brother, you have a planting space, so you can put it there. It should be able to loosen the soil, increase fertilizer, and nourish the herbs."

Nan Yi nodded and immediately put the jade earthworm into the gourd space.

Although I didn't find any spiritual herbs or plants to transplant in the forest, I got the Jade Heart Earthworm, which was a good unexpected gain.

As a monster bred and raised by the Qingyu Palace, the Jade Heart Earthworm can regulate its Qi when devouring impurities in the soil, and transform part of the Qingyu Yuanqi into spiritual essence through excretion. This not only helps the growth of medicinal herbs, but also has a small chance of turning ordinary herbs into spiritual herbs by absorbing the spiritual essence.

It can be said that although the Jade Heart Earthworm may seem inconspicuous, its long-term value is definitely not inferior to one or two ordinary spiritual herbs.

Then, although the Jade Heart Earthworm and the Ink Spirit are both monsters, they are somewhat different.

Monsters like the Jade Heart Earthworm and the Spiritual Butterfly are more like "weird". They belong to a group of creatures with magical properties. Their life forms are simple and they have basically no intelligence.

But someone like Mo Jing is more like a "spirit", that is, a dead object that has been given birth to a spirit and then gained intelligence and became a spirit.

However, regardless of whether it is a "spirit" or a "monster", spirits and monsters are all lower grade yellow rank, and they only have innate magical powers or supernatural powers. Logically speaking, they cannot practice cultivation.

If a spirit breaks free from its shackles and enters the door of spiritual practice, due to the flaws in the laws of heaven and earth, it will change from a spirit into a strange monster, commonly known as a demon.

Like the water spirit before, it was the spirit of the Canghai Pearl that was awakened. It became a spirit with the body of a spiritual creature, and then entered the door of cultivation and turned into a strange monster.

Nan Yi put away the jade earthworm, took a quick stroll, transplanted the nearby herbs into the gourd space, and then started to return to the village.

In order to avoid any accidents, he returned to Qingyu Blessed Land a cup of tea in advance to wait for teleportation.

During this cup of tea, Nan Yi tried to get close to the Taoist boy on duty at the welcoming and seeing-off pavilion of Qingyu Blessed Land.

"Fellow Daoist, I heard that your palace is very good at refining pills. I wonder if your palace has ordinary pill recipes or alchemy techniques for sale?"

The Taoist boy was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect Nan Yi to ask such a question.

However, he still smiled politely and said, "Fellow Daoist, please forgive me. Although this is not a martial arts inheritance, our sect has never sold pill formulas to the outside world."

Nan Yi didn't take it seriously and casually changed the topic to: "Is the jade heart earthworm raised in your palace for sale?"

"The Jade Heart Earthworm is for sale, but we only accept barter." The Taoist boy said without hesitation, "One Xuan-level spiritual herb can be exchanged for ten Jade Heart Earthworms."

"Oh? Only the Xuan-level spiritual grass will be collected, not the yellow-level spiritual grass?" Nan Yi was a little curious and a little surprised.

He really didn't expect that the Jade Heart Earthworm, a lower-grade yellow-level monster, would be sold for the same price as black-level spiritual herbs.

Even if there is room for bargaining, it is nothing more than exchanging one Xuan-grade spiritual herb for a few more Jade-heart Earthworms.

The Taoist boy explained: "Although the rank of Jade Heart Earthworm is low, its benefits are far-reaching and its value is incomparable to that of Yellow Rank Spiritual Herbs. However, if Taoist friend can exchange it with a Yellow Rank mid-to-high-quality Weird Weapon, he can at least get a few Jade Heart Earthworms."

The market price of yellow-grade spiritual herbs is about twenty to thirty silver dollars for low-grade spiritual herbs, and one hundred silver dollars for medium-grade spiritual herbs. When it comes to high-grade yellow-grade spiritual herbs, the price starts from five hundred silver dollars and up, and it may take nearly one thousand silver dollars to get them.

As for the market price of Xuan-grade spiritual herbs, in the mortal world, gold coins are required as the general equivalent, and there is no market for them - low-grade Xuan-grade spiritual herbs seem to only cost twenty or thirty gold coins, but cultivators without a certain status and position cannot buy them even if they want to.

Moreover, this was only the market price, and it only applied to the common spiritual herbs. If there were special and extremely rare spiritual herbs and plants, such as the Ninth Grade Creation Green Lotus given by Ao Xuan, the Third Prince of the South Sea, it would be difficult to calculate the price.

As for the Yellow Rank Weird Weapons, the selling price fluctuates greatly depending on their specific effects and prices. Generally, a lower-grade Yellow Rank Weird Weapon starts at two hundred silver coins, but when it comes to a mid- to upper-grade Yellow Rank Weird Weapon, it is common to sell for thousands of silver coins.

After all, strange weapons can be used for a long time, but the so-called spiritual herbs are just consumables for alchemy.

In addition, the Qingyu Palace sits on the Qingyu blessed land and has many jade-heart earthworms that nourish medicinal herbs. Yellow-grade spiritual herbs are relatively not in short supply, and some cannot be priced high.

Therefore, when selling Jade Heart Earthworms to the outside, Qingyu Palace simply does not accept Yellow Grade Spiritual Herbs, and only exchanges them with Mysterious Grade Spiritual Herbs or Yellow Grade Weird Weapons.

Nan Yi sighed and said, "You are right, Daoist friend. However, I don't have any mysterious spiritual herbs, and I am reluctant to give up my strange weapon, so I cannot exchange it for this jade heart earthworm."

The Taoist boy didn't take it seriously. He thought Nan Yi was just asking the price casually and wasn't serious about buying it, so he naturally didn't take it to heart.

After all, he was about to be teleported away, and asking for the price at this point clearly showed that he was just asking and not buying.

And Nan Yi was just asking for a price, wanting to know the value of the unexpected jade earthworm, not really wanting to buy it.

It's not that the price offered by Qingyu Palace was too high and the jade heart earthworms were not worth the price. It's just that Nan Yi was not a cultivator from an aristocratic family who specialized in growing spiritual herbs, so he didn't need to buy too many jade heart earthworms.

His portable planting space was only about the size of one acre of land, and with a jade earthworm, it was just enough for him to slowly loosen the soil.

After asking the price, they found out that one Jade Heart Earthworm was equivalent to about two hundred and fifty silver dollars, which was higher than the ticket price they paid for this teleportation. Nan Yi was very happy and felt a sense of satisfaction as if he had picked up money unexpectedly.

Then the Taoist boy from Qingyu Palace did not doubt him and talked about the benefits of Jade Heart Earthworm. Seeing that Nan Yi had no intention of buying it, he stopped talking.

After a while, the Taoist boy signaled Nan Yi and the others to stand in front of the teleportation formation and wait.

When the time agreed upon with Junshan Blessed Land came, the Taoist boy activated the formation and sent Nan Yi and others away in an instant.

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(End of this chapter)