If I upgrade, I can win prizes

Chapter 496 Peeping
After the competition was over, time passed quickly as one flying boat after another left Jinfofan City, making this originally bustling place seem a little desolate.

Lu Ang naturally did not leave. He stayed in the cave with his cheap wife, meditating and practicing, upgrading and drawing lots, and waiting for news.

He knew that the world of cultivation had always been slow-paced. It took decades to refine a furnace of medicine, hundreds of years to fight between sects, and some high-ranking cultivators would go into seclusion for thousands of years. Negotiating with the Phoenix Clan to release the hostages would not be accomplished in a short period of time, and there was no telling how long it would take.

However, Lu Ang was not worried that they would not work hard to advance. After all, the time and space gate of the doomsday world would not expire on him. This group of Hedao might not know this, and they would be more or less worried that the small world might have been destroyed, and all their efforts would be in vain.

After spending time together day and night, Lu Ang felt that his relationship with his cheap wife had indeed improved a lot. Although they were all busy practicing, their occasional gatherings were obviously much more harmonious. At least his cheap wife spoke with less alienation, and her face was no longer stern, without that aloofness that kept people at a distance. Although there was still a lot of worry between her brows, her tone had become much softer.

Things were also going smoothly at the main body. Almost two months after the competition ended, the Mo Men master who was on a business trip finally returned to his loyal Jiqiao Domain.

Lu Ang was invited to negotiate with him at the first opportunity. Ju Zi expressed high recognition of Lu Ang's willingness to trade the "Giant God Soldier", and he also highly affirmed the prototype of the spiritual treasure, the Purple Lightning Hammer. He clearly stated that Mo Men would do everything in its power to help collect various thunders, work together, and complete the upgrade of the Purple Lightning Hammer.

Unfortunately, this is also a huge project that will take a long time. The disciples and elders of the Mo Sect must go to various friendly fairyland to find the sects that occupy the land of thunder, and bring back those different types of thunder through various benefits or relationships. There is no other shortcut.

Judging from what the giant said, this process will take at least several decades, or even hundreds of years. The biggest reason is not the long journey, but the fact that thunder does not exist all the time. Many thunder places have unique thunders periodically, once every few decades, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years.

Although sometimes some by-products of thunder are formed, such as lightning-struck wood, spirit stones rich in thunder power, natural treasures refined by thunder and so on, the thunder power in this form often contains impurities and is not as pure as the thunder that is directly collected by the thunder bottle on the spot.

Lu Ang naturally didn't have time to stay in the Skill Domain for hundreds or thousands of years, so after signing the Heavenly Dao Contract with the Mo Sect's leader, he left the Purple Lightning Hammer in Mo Sect, and then bought a small piece of land in Shangtong Fairy City and built a Hearthstone Hotel.

Yes, it was the Hearthstone inn that he had drawn as a golden reward before. There were ten in total. Lu Ang went in and saw that there was only one innkeeper. Each innkeeper had a different appearance. This time, he was a blonde, blue-eyed, curvy white beauty who looked a bit like Marilyn Monroe.

You can buy some basic food and drinks from her. According to the introduction, the food can restore a certain amount of life per second, and the drinks can restore a certain amount of magic.

Lu Ang also bought some and tried them. They can indeed recover from some minor injuries and speed up the recovery of mana in the body. Unfortunately, these things are not of high level, and the most expensive ones can only be used for golden elixirs. The effects are also very ordinary, far inferior to those special healing elixirs in the world of immortal cultivation. The only advantage may be that they do not contain elixir poison and can be used continuously.

Lu Ang set a retail price for all of them that was similar to that of other elixirs of the same level and type. He did not expect to make much spirit stones from these things, and he was not short of low- or medium-grade spirit stones.

The biggest purpose of building the inn is that the owner of the Hearthstone Inn will sell a thing called "Hearthstone". After using it, it takes ten seconds for a magic circle to form. Once the magic circle is formed, it can instantly teleport people back to the tavern from countless far away.

Each Hearthstone can be used ten times and is a true consumable. However, whether it is for traveling or escaping, it is undoubtedly a top-notch artifact. It also does not restrict the user's realm. As long as there is spiritual power input, it can be used even if you are at the first level of Qi Refining.

Naturally, Lu Ang did not price this thing too low. Instead, he set the price at 10 high-grade spirit stones. According to the public price of :, it is worth medium-grade spirit stones, or million low-grade spirit stones. It is shockingly expensive and absolutely not something that ordinary people can afford.

There was no other way. Lu Ang had participated in an auction in Shangtong Fairy City these days. Most of the items there were various magic weapons and puppets, but there were also life-saving items. However, looking at the effects of those life-saving items, it can be said that they are completely incomparable to this small hearthstone. Either the cost is high or the effect is poor. In the eyes of Gao Xiu, what is the difference between escaping thousands of miles away and staying where he is?
Even these things are sold at a very high price. Some of them involve the Way of the Void and can even be sold for thousands or tens of thousands of high-quality spirit stones. It's simply robbing money! Lu Ang is also seeking benefits for the majority of immortal cultivators.

However, the biggest reason why Lu Ang built this Hearthstone Inn was to reduce the time spent on the journey. The Jiqiao Domain was extremely far away from the human-demon border. Even the fastest Dream Journey Flying Boat would take one or two years to fly. How could Lu Ang have so much time to spend on the journey?
Moreover, he now has some psychological trauma about flying boats. He doesn't want to go to the Demon Realm again. He was lucky last time. If he goes again, he might encounter some giant demon and be easily defeated.

Then Lu Ang hired two Jindan female cultivators to be waiters to help the NPC boss who spoke fixed sentences to attract business. In fact, NPCs like inn owners are not out of place in Shangtong Fairy City. On the contrary, it is very normal. After all, this is the holy land of puppeteers in the entire cultivation world. The performance of NPCs can only be considered average, but with manual help, it can more or less make up for some of the shortcomings of artificial intelligence and increase sales. Anyway, the salary is not much.

After doing all this, Lu Ang took out another Hearthstone in a room on the second floor of the inn and started using it.

Ten seconds later, he returned to the Xianlian Sect and the lotus area, not far from his own cave.

Walking out of the hotel, two old dragons who heard the news appeared first, one on the left and one on the right, and began to report what had happened in the sect during this period.

At the beginning, nothing happened. There were just some conflicts on several other fairy islands outside the Xianlian Sect. There were conflicts between humans and monsters, monsters and monsters, and humans and humans. They were all minor frictions and there were not many casualties. After the two old dragons sent their dragon descendants over, the matter was quickly settled, and they also collected a lot of peacekeeping fees from both sides.

Things changed more than a month ago. According to the perception of the domain protection formation, the net inflow of population in the Sea of ​​Tears increased dramatically during this period, several times more than before.

This is very abnormal. Although the Sea of ​​Tears is an open fairyland to the outside world, unlike those behemoths that occupy the entire fairyland and only open one fairy city to external exchanges and business, all the fairy islands, big and small, in the Sea of ​​Tears are rented out to the outside world.

As long as the fairy island has not been rented out and you can pay the rent on time, you can occupy the fairy island to reproduce and develop your power. Even if you are attacked by other forces, you can ask the Fairy Lotus Sect for justice. At present, the entire human-demon border is considered a peaceful place, attracting many small sects, small families and independent cultivators who want to retire.

However, very few of these newly emerged people came to rent the fairy island. Many of them quickly escaped the supervision of the domain protection formation after entering the Sea of ​​Tears, and then disappeared. This domain protection formation was broken before, and then repaired, and it will reach the fifth-level upper grade. If the opponent is in the God Transformation Stage or above, it is really difficult to achieve complete monitoring. It seems that it really needs to be upgraded and renovated.

The disappearance of these people naturally attracted the attention of the two old dragons, and they searched for them, but the result was not good. They only caught some cats and dogs, which were all man-eating monsters, or robbery cultivators who practiced magic skills. Their realm was not high, and they just carried some magical instruments that concealed their aura.

The Xianlian Sect itself is protected by a sixth-order formation, and has recently been spied on, with some people even trying to sneak in by breaking through the formation. Fortunately, the two old dragons were alert enough and soon discovered something was wrong. They acted decisively, killing one, capturing another, and some others managed to escape with excellent escape techniques.

According to the two old dragons, those guys who tried to enter were not good guys. The one who was killed was a demon cultivator at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and he was practicing the Soul Devouring Way. He was definitely a descendant of a great demon cultivator sect. Unfortunately, he had indeed mastered some secret soul techniques, and before the old dragons could imprison him, his soul flew away. He was completely dead.

As for the one who was captured, he was a pangolin in the early stage of Return to Void, a demon. After seeing the two old dragons, he immediately lost the will to resist and decisively slid down to his knees in surrender.

According to it, a big shot of the White Tiger clan sent it to check the situation, to see how strong the Xianlian Sect is, what shortcomings of the formation are, what secrets it has, and so on.

The reason why it was chosen was simply because the tribe to which this pangolin belonged was a vassal of the White Tiger tribe. After its tribe leader was promoted to the Return to Void realm, he just happened to awaken a pair of destructive claws and was extremely good at breaking formations. The pangolin tribe was especially good at burrowing into the ground and could disappear without a trace in the soil, making them very good scouts.

Afterwards, the Red Chi Dragon King specially sent his clone to the White Tiger Clan to express the intention of the Xianlian Sect to protect his dragon clan. He also inquired about the cause of the matter. It turned out that a White Tiger clan member who was in the Spirit Transformation Stage had superb form-shifting skills and ventured to travel among the human race. He happened to watch the Tianjiao Competition and became curious, so he specially used secret methods to send a message back and asked his clansmen to help inquire.

Although the White Tiger Clan was the leader of the Tiger Clan, they did not want to be enemies with the Dragon Clan, so they decisively admitted defeat and promised not to covet the Fairy Lotus Island again. They also paid some spiritual materials as compensation before they got the pangolin back.

The Red Chi Dragon King also sent messages to dozens of large and small fairylands around the human-demon border, announcing that the Xianlian Sect was protected by the dragon clan, which greatly reduced the pressure on the demon clan.

However, the matter is not over yet, the spying on the Xianlian Sect has not stopped. Just yesterday, a clone of a Fanxu demon cultivator was sent over to test it, but was smashed by the old Dragon King. It was also discovered before that one of the spyers was most likely a demon, but unfortunately he was not caught and it is impossible to be completely sure.

It is obvious that both the demon clan and the monster clan are very interested in this genius leader of his. The monster clan is relatively easy to deal with, as the Red Dragon King is using the dragon clan as a tiger skin, so other monster clans have to think twice. However, the demon clan and the magic cultivators still need to be dealt with by himself.

There are already Void Returning level people testing us now. Even if we can stop them, what about the future? I heard that these people who practice magic are all very extreme in their psychology and are not easy to be persuaded. Maybe they will send Dao He level guys over in the future.

I am not afraid of moving. With my own strength, it is not difficult to find a sixth-level or even seventh-level spiritual vein to continue practicing. But what about the sect that has been established with great difficulty? Many buildings there cannot be moved! Even if the player can be resurrected and the resurrection point can be moved, these buildings are the foundation of the sect!

Especially the sect itself, which is a colorful reward, and there are still many buildings that can be bought and built. It would be a pity to abandon it now.

Moreover, this passive defense is definitely not a long-term solution. Even if you guard against thieves for a thousand days, there will be one chance of failure! Who knows when those crazy demons will sneak in?
Therefore, we still have to defeat them all at once!
The human-demon border is a sensitive area and is far enough away from the Demon Realm, so it is highly likely that the Demon Clan will not be alerted to send out their troops.

After all, even the most powerful demon clan does not have many Mahayana-level demons. After leaving the Demon Realm, their strength will be reduced to a certain extent. If they are attacked by the Mahayana-level demons of both the human and demon clans at this time, it is not impossible that they will die.

They should not take action for a mere genius, the so-called son of luck. After all, the genius competition is held once every hundred years. Over the years, countless brilliant people have emerged. Their performance is not too exaggerated.

Moreover, in previous Tianjiao Competitions, those responsible for hosting were only the combined forces of various major forces, with almost no Mahayana people showing up, and the level of the competition was not very high.

After comprehensive analysis, the most likely ones among these demon cultivators are at the Return to Void stage, or at most at the Integration stage, which is still within the range that he can handle!
However, this group of demon cultivators have always been sinister and ruthless, and they are good at scheming and scheming, and rarely engage in head-on combat, especially in the human-demon border area. If they are completely exposed, it will be extremely dangerous for them.

Lu Ang has Chaos in his hand, plus useful items like the gourd, which is enough to fight against ordinary He Dao. As for Fan Xu, there are not many who can defeat the two old Dragon Kings, but it is very troublesome to lure people out.

Chaos can only attack once at most. Once the enemy is alerted, the deterrent effect will be greatly reduced.

But what bait should I use to lure people out?

Just as Lu Ang was sitting in the cave thinking hard, a new situation disrupted his thoughts.

In the arcane world, in the senior student dormitory of the Intermediate Arcane Academy in the City of Miracles, a person suddenly appeared in front of Lu Ang's clone who was meditating.

It’s Yang Zhen.

(End of this chapter)