Forge your destiny into a sword, slash your soul and ascend to immortality

Chapter 34: Ten Days on the Journey to Hunzhou

With Jing Qian's current strength, even with the advantage of terrain, he would not be able to compete with him at all when [Dragon Elephant] was fully developed.

Unfortunately, the crocodile dragon's fang could not be brought into the life monument space, causing him to fight the enemy with his bare hands, which lost its sharpness and greatly reduced the effectiveness of his attack.

As a result, he had possessed the souls of the crocodile dragon and the Snow Girl for such a long time, but his skin had never been scratched.

However, as long as he can break through the opponent's defense, he can almost quickly create a crushing momentum and quickly destroy the soul.

In just half a day, he cleared out the five newly acquired souls.

A huge amount of [Life Essence] and memories rushed into his mind, and it took him another half a day to figure it out.

Jing Qian closed his eyes and concentrated, only to feel his sea of ​​consciousness swelling and overflowing with [life essence].

Looking at the life monument again, his own accumulation of [life essence] has officially broken through ten and reached twelve.

As one's own cultivation level increases, the speed of increasing [Life Essence] also slows down.

This is due to the insufficient quality of spiritual resources!
However, the four glaring [Opportunities for Forging Destiny] could not deceive anyone.

For many casual cultivators, possessing ten [White Fang Life Essences] means they have already laid the foundation for advancement to [Dragon Elephant]. They need to start studying how to refine and extract mana in order to condense the first [Green Wing Life Essence].

But at this time, Jing Qian had just embarked on the path of cultivation and still had countless tasks to do. It was a good time to lay a solid foundation.

He certainly wouldn't limit himself and seek quick promotion.

Continuing to accumulate [life essence] and forging [life character] is his next key task.

The large amount of memories obtained from the five divine souls are also quite valuable.

After Jing Qian sorted out his memories, he divided them into three categories.

One is the various secret techniques, including the [Fate] refining method and various secret techniques for nourishing the essence, which are all the most valuable knowledge for cultivation.

From these spirits, Jing Qian regained the methods to refine two [Fate Charts].

In addition to the [Monkey Heart] he already had, he also had an additional [Sheep Skull] destiny, which, if refined, could yield the power of a rank-19 [Bronze Sheep].

In addition, the [Art of Drawing Essence] contributed by Wu Yan is quite interesting.

This [Art of Bone Revival] happens to match the fate of [Monkey Heart]. It is specifically used to accumulate vitality for living beings and condense [Life Essence], and the effect is quite good.

The second is various experiences, including insights from spiritual practice, cultivation of secret techniques, accumulation of various professional skills, etc.

The third is common sense information, including sea routes and terrain, identification of objects and treasures, etc.

Although these knowledge memories cannot directly enhance combat power, they can greatly increase the depth of knowledge. It is really a pleasure to get it for free, and it will be more pleasant if you keep getting it for free!

After this period of sedimentation, Jing Qian's study of the [Art of Sealing Talismans] was finally completed.

He is about to officially start practicing the [Art of Drawing Essence].

He gathered his spirits, jumped out of the [virtual world], stepped on the waves, and returned to the boat.

He also upgraded from a raft to a broken boat.

Jing Qian partially untied A Bao's silk thread, freed his hands and feet, and then said:

"Fellow Daoist, please take the helm. Let's go back to [Hunzhou Island]."

The fat man did not dare to be negligent at all, and quickly walked to the stern to steer the ship, and then said:
"Sir, this boat requires two people to steer. Even if I steer the boat, I won't be able to steer the oars, and it won't move!"

Jing Qian nodded and said:
"Let me steer the boat, you just focus on steering and don't worry about anything else." After saying that, he slightly mobilized the power of the [Wave] destiny and added it to the small boat.

The small boat suddenly started moving on its own!
Jing Qian didn't even need the magic-driven oars; he could drive the boat forward with just the power of the [waves].

The fat man who was rowing the boat behind him was dazzled by what he saw and couldn't help but flatter him:
"The Jing family's [Tide] fate is a rare fate of mountains and seas. They are indeed best at naval battles!"

"Sir, when you advance to the [Dragon Elephant] realm, there will be a place for you among the navy officers of the Maritime Affairs Bureau!"

"Of the navy's three core warships, the [Hunling] has been destroyed. The remaining [Hunyi] and [Hunliang] will only wait until their captains run out of lifespan. With your [Wave] destiny, you will definitely be able to take the lead in the dragon boat race and compete for the captain's position!"

The fat man spoke eagerly, as if being the captain of a battleship was some great job.

Jing Qian knew almost nothing about [Hunzhou Island]. For some reason, the memories he had obtained only contained some objective knowledge, and there was no record of the humanities and social aspects.

The reason why he kept this fat man was because he had a good speaking voice, was eloquent, and seemed to be well-informed.

He just opened his mouth and asked:
"Fatty, tell me everything you know about Hunzhou."

A Bao paused for a moment, then said:
"My Lord, I don't know where to begin."

Jing Qian thought about it and realized that to understand a new world, even if one had extraordinary powers, one could only understand it from the most basic political, economic, military, cultural and other aspects.

He immediately replied:

"How long will it take us to reach Hunzhou Island at our current speed?"

Abao replied:
"Sir, we are less than 8,000 miles away from [Hunzhou]. If we don't stop day and night, we will arrive in half a month."

Jing Qian nodded and said:
"Then we'll set a ten-day deadline. Today, please start by discussing the economics!"

"Tell me, what are the prices like on Hunzhou Island? How do the residents make a living?"

"By the way, tell me first, is there a place to buy and sell this storage treasure? What is its value?"

Jing Qian didn't care much about other things, but this storage treasure was hard to find and was extremely important to his [Sumeru] destiny.

"My Lord, this kind of storage treasure is too precious. Please forgive my lowly cultivation level for not being able to access it on a normal day."

"Treasures like these are only circulated among large cultivation families, the core of the [Life Island], wealthy merchants, or high-ranking officials in government offices."

"At the very least, one must be a cultivator who has reached the great perfection of Dragon Elephant to have any chance of coming into contact with it."

"However, I do like to join in the fun on weekdays. I have also been to the Zhengdian Dharma Assembly several times."

"I only remember one incident where a great cultivator passing through from [Yunzhou] traded a ninth-grade storage treasure for an eighth-grade dragon boat."

"That dragon boat is hard currency in my land of [Hunzhou]!"

"Just an empty ship is worth a thousand gold ingots!"

"If we add some high-quality war tools and fishing gear, I'm afraid it can be sold for three thousand gold ingots."

"If you compare it this way, then even the lowest-grade storage treasure is worth a fortune!"

After listening to this, Jing Qian rubbed his fingers and did some calculations.

In terms of cash alone, I only have less than ten gold!
This third storage treasure will probably require some kind-hearted person to contribute!

(End of this chapter)