Changsheng Xiuxian: I can see through everything

Chapter 18: Shadow-winged Poisonous Insect (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Chen Xuan walked from stall to stall.

Soon, he squatted down in a stall.

"Daoyou, would you like to buy some monster insects?"

There are some weird insects displayed on this stall.

However, most of them are just curiosity and have little value.

There are only three types, which are barely acceptable.

The swallowtail butterfly can become invisible and self-destruct, producing a hallucinogenic smoke that is perfect for escaping.

The giant armored longicorn is harder than iron, good at flying, with powerful pincers and jaws that can bite through hard iron.

Lion-headed ants live in sand and have heads like lions. They can secrete venom to paralyze their prey. It is said to be the main ingredient in some kind of healing medicine.

“How much are the swallowtail butterflies?”

"Twenty spirit stones for one!"

“Well, I can’t afford it!”

The psychological price was too different, so Chen Xuan was too lazy to bargain.

The strange insect, the swallowtail butterfly, actually has little value in cultivation.

By the time he used the swallowtail butterfly to escape, the daylily was already cold.

"Fellow Daoist, don't go. Name your price!"

"Forget it, I really don't have any spirit stones!"

"Bah, poor bastard! You're wasting my breath!"

Chen Xuan turned around and left without arguing with the stall owner.

After moving into the outer city of Fangshi, he secretly used the Insect King Divine Wood Cauldron in the yard, but the number of strange insects he collected was very small, only more than a hundred.

Not to mention the essence of insect spirits, even the essence of venom is pitifully small.

The production of insect spirit essence is entirely dependent on the poisonous insect corpses sent by the Xu family, and it is a bit difficult to cultivate three strange insects.

It's not particularly valuable, so there's no need to waste precious insect spirit essence.

The three strange insects have all reached the first-level intermediate quality, and the daily insect spirit essence they need has increased several times more than before.

When Chen Xuan was practicing, he would occasionally consume some insect spirit essence to cleanse his meridians and refine his magic power.

If you want to get more insect essence, you have to catch it in the Shadow Forest.

Therefore, what he lacks now is not the strange insect, but the means to protect himself.

Chen Xuan squatted down at a stall selling old magical instruments.

Even without activating his divine eye, he could still feel the sword intent contained in the old wooden sword.

"This is……"

Chen Xuan lowered his head and activated his divine eye ability, revealing the old wooden sword clearly.

Aoki Sword, the standard sword for the inner disciples of the former Aoki Sect.

The blade is thin and dark black.

With the help of the divine power of the divine eye, Chen Xuan clearly saw that there was still a trace of green light in the Qingmu sword, forming a mysterious sword rhyme.

"How much is this old sword?"

"Take seven spirit stones!"

Chen Xuan only had four spirit stones on him.

Next, it is time for Chen Xuan to show his true strength.

After bargaining with the stall owner, the deal was finally completed at the price of four spirit stones.

"Alas, I'm still impatient. My bargaining skills need to be improved!"

Chen Xuan put away the Qingmu Sword, stood up, and sighed in his heart.

"There's no other way. I'm determined to win, so I have to give the stall owner a bargain!"

With no more money on him, Chen Xuan strolled around for a while and then went home.

"Mrs. Gu invited us to her home? To ask her husband to give us some advice?"

After hearing Jiang Yingxue's words, Chen Xuan muttered in his heart.

Madam Gu was introduced by Yu Qingsong. She has a good character and can be trusted as long as major interests are not involved.

"Let's talk about it later."

"Oh well."

Seeing that Chen Xuan didn't react positively, Jiang Yingxue didn't say much.

"Husband, didn't you say you liked practicing with a spear? Why did you buy a sword?"

"Practice swordplay during the day and spearwork at night, don't you like that?"

"I like."

Jiang Yingxue replied in a low voice.

"I have learned a few more spear techniques. I hope you can give me some guidance."

Chen Xuan said seriously.

After a delicious dinner, Jiang Yingxue taught Hu Mei how to read and breathe, so she took the Qingmu Sword to the training room. "The Qingmu Sect, a small sect that disbanded thousands of years ago, had the Qingmu Longevity Technique as its core technique. Now, I've obtained this Qingmu Sword. Could it be that I'm destined to be with the Qingmu Sect?"

Chen Xuan practiced the Qingmu Changsheng Gong, stroked the Qingmu Sword, and silently sensed the green spiritual light inside the sword.

Sure enough, as he expected, the Dao rhythm flowed on the Qingmu Divine Sword, and after wiping off the dark surface, its true green color was revealed.

It is a good sword. Its quality used to be at least top-grade. It has fallen to this level due to lack of spiritual warmth.

"If it is nurtured with spiritual stones, it should be able to recover its quality. However, this will take time."

"Qingling Sword Technique", to warm and nourish the scabbard of Qingmu Sword, at least a dozen spirit stones are needed.

After moving into the outer city of Fangshi, for more than a month, in addition to helping the Xu family extract venom essence three times, he focused his main energy on improving his realm.

Living beyond one's means will lead to financial difficulties.

Originally, I wanted to wait for Xu family's maid Ying'er to speak first.

Now it seems that I should go to Shadow Forest first and do my old job.

When visiting Madam Gu's house, you can't go empty-handed.

It's quite miserable. Not only does he have a debt of one hundred spirit stones, but as a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training, he doesn't even have a storage bag.

You still have to earn spirit stones.

……

late at night.

The spear is like a dragon, unpredictable.

This time, Chen Xuan finally won by chance.

It's not easy!

Jiang Yingxue conceded defeat.

"My husband's marksmanship is getting better and better!"

The fourth level of Qi training has entered the middle stage of Qi training. Whether it is spiritual awareness, magic power or physical endurance, there has been a qualitative improvement.

Seeing Jiang Yingxue sleeping soundly, Chen Xuan quietly got up, put on a black suit, and walked out of the residence.

At the entrance of the market, register your information and exit smoothly.

"Everyone writes about going out to practice late at night!"

As soon as he left the market, he covered his face with a black scarf, summoned the Insect King Divine Wooden Cauldron, and summoned the Poisonous Flame Golden Silkworm, the Iron-backed Mantis, and the Psychic Green Snake.

Three first-grade, mid-quality strange insects can probably hold off even a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training for a while.

On the way, they encountered a few groups of wandering cultivators, three or five in groups, all wearing black clothes and masks. When they saw the Iron-backed Mantis next to Chen Xuan, they took the initiative to give way.

It turns out that insect cultivators still have some respect in the world of independent cultivators.

He didn't know that these independent cultivators were all experienced veterans who could tell at a glance that he was a nobody.

A bug cultivator who doesn’t even have a storage bag!
After entering the Shadow Forest, under the guidance of the Ironback Mantis, he found a remote grassland and placed the Insect King Divine Wooden Cauldron.

"Master, don't worry. There are no powerful cultivators or monsters nearby."

The psychic green snake commanded the poisonous golden silkworm and the iron-backed mantis to ambush, and came to Chen Xuan alone.

"Oh, you can sense it?"

"Within a hundred feet, there's no problem."

Only then did Chen Xuan feel relieved.

He still believed in the psychic green snake's innate magical powers.

Perhaps it is the effect of the blood of the Ice Dragon that the psychic green snake is naturally intelligent and smart.

He poured his magic power into the Insect King Divine Wood Cauldron, and a strange fragrance filled the air, attracting a large number of strange insects to swarm in.

"what!"

This time, it actually attracted a group of shadow-winged poisonous insects.

First-grade inferior, good at invisibility, and extremely poisonous.

The key is that this is a strange insect that lives in groups.

The strength of a single Shadow-Winged Poisonous Insect is average, but if there are a large number of them, and they have the talent of invisibility, they can be very useful for sneak attacks on opponents.

They don't have much value for cultivation, but they are living first-grade low-quality exotic insects. There are more than a dozen of them in this group, so they should be able to be sold at a good price.

Chen Xuan took in more than a dozen shadow-winged poisonous insects and gave up those ordinary strange insects.

Ever since he refined the swamp poison frog, he realized that ordinary strange insects did not have much value in refining.

There is very little insect spirit essence, and the venom essence is of average quality.

In the past, we were so poor that we couldn’t even afford to eat, and we ate anything we wanted.

Nowadays, he doesn't even look at any rare insect that isn't of good quality.

You have to save your magic power for emergencies.

With these dozen or so shadow-winged poisonous insects, Chen Xuan was satisfied. He took the Insect King Divine Wood Cauldron and commanded the three strange insects to prepare to go back.

However, at this time, something unexpected happened again.

The sound of fighting came towards him.

　The update time has been changed to 11: pm and early morning to make it easier for night owls to read two chapters in a row.

　　
　
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