Immortality and Cultivation: I Have Too Many Talents

Chapter 172 Sharp Teeth and Claws (10,000-word update, please subscribe)

"It's so much better here with Master Shen!"

"Such a wonderful place, with its talented people and beautiful women, it's a place of great comfort and ease!"

Zhu Jintang sipped the spiritual tea and sighed.

The purchase price of the Big-Headed Wolf Fish's essence blood is four thousand spirit stones.

The cost of having Tang Renhao and Zhu Jintang purchase ten Thunder Talismans is three thousand spirit stones!

It must be said that Shen Xuan is a kind and honest person.

He never mistreats his friends.

After putting away the spirit stones and thunder talismans, Zhu Jintang chatted with Shen Xuan for a few minutes.

He came in person this time not only to escort the Big-Headed Wolf Fish's essence blood, but also to discuss something with Shen Xuan.

Tang Renhao is about to break through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

He hoped that Shen Xuan could help him purchase a few high-quality sect-specific Heart-Protecting Pills.

These second-tier spirit pills, used for breaking through cultivation levels, are also strategic resources and are strictly controlled by major sects.

The vast majority of those circulating in the market are made by independent alchemists, and their quality is hard to describe.

"This is not difficult."

Shen Xuan did not refuse.

The Qingyun Sect is more lenient in its management of the Heart Protection Pill than it is with the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Products produced by a sect are, of course, not allowed to be transferred.

If someone gathers all the materials and asks the sect's alchemist to start refining, the sect will not interfere.

Compared to Foundation Building Pills, Heart Protection Pills are much easier to collect.

Shen Xuan immediately wrote a letter.

Ask Lü Zhengying to find a way to acquire three Heart-Protecting Pills and send them to Tang Renhao in Yunyuan Immortal City.

Seeing Shen Xuan's righteousness.

Zhu Jintang was deeply moved.

“Master Shen, Tang Renhao and I owe you another favor.”

Zhu Jintang expressed his gratitude and left satisfied.

Before leaving, he vowed that he would do his best to acquire the essence blood of second-tier demon beasts for Shen Xuan.

In fact, this was nothing more than a small favor for Shen Xuan.

However, for Tang Renhao and Zhu Jintang, this matter concerned their future, and they could not value it too much.

Every step a rogue cultivator takes is fraught with difficulty.

"If Tang Renhao can advance to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, the strength of the demon hunters in Yunyuan Immortal City will be raised to a new level."

Shen Xuan was pleased to see it happen.

up until now.

His collaboration with Tang Renhao was still pleasant.

Both of them were good friends of Wen Zijian.

Without sufficient benefit, one will not easily betray another.

One person at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment is equivalent to three people at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

Tang Renhao is not old; he is said to have just turned 100.

After breaking through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

He and Zhu Jintang were able to lead the demon hunters of Yunyuan Immortal City to hunt demons of higher rank and in greater numbers.

This is also advantageous to Shen Xuan.

Shen Xuan has never been a stingy person.

He believes that the best way to seize profits is to achieve mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and make the pie bigger.

Instead of constantly thinking about robbing others of what they have.

……

In the practice room.

Shen Xuan looked at the small golden characters on the mysterious jade talisman.

I'm a little confused.

[Plunderable Talents: Sharp teeth, bronze head and iron body, for life]

【一生一世】, what the heck is this?

Unexpectedly, this ugly-looking big-headed wolf fish is actually a rare, devoted lover among water monsters.

Shen Xuan can't do it!

The Big-Headed Wolffish's other innate skills, such as [Water Control], do not exceed Shen Xuan's current level and are not displayed.

Left with no other choice, Shen Xuan had to select [Sharp Teeth].

He possesses both "iron bones" and "copper head and iron body," which are related functions.

next moment.

Shen Xuan felt that his teeth had become much stronger and sharper.

Seeing those shiny, hard things always makes me want to bite them.

"A useless thing!"

"Yes, there are advantages too. I don't have to worry about damaging my teeth when eating meat or gnawing on bones. I won't have to worry about losing teeth in the future!"

"Thank goodness the White Lotus Fairy doesn't have this skill!"

Shen Xuan tried to comfort himself.

For some reason, both the Lotus Fairy and Zhu Yingying have a particular fondness for biting people.

Moreover, it was done with extra force.

If the Lotus Fairy possessed a talent skill like "Sharp Teeth"...

Shen Xuan shivered!
The hair is creepy.

Let's look at the mysterious jade talisman again.

After all, it is a second-tier water-attribute monster.

The talent skill is rather useless. It can still provide Daoist points to improve spiritual root aptitude.

Two months later, the Big-Headed Wolf Fish's essence and blood were completely depleted.

[Talent: Proficient in Sharp Teeth (16/200)]

【Daoyun: 1688】

[Spiritual Root: Water 68/100]

The water elemental root aptitude only improved by a single point!
This made Shen Xuan complain.

"It seems that second-tier low-grade demonic beasts with poor bloodline talent are not very useful!"

Shen Xuan added all his Daoist points to [Water Spirit Absorption].

[Talent: Water Spirit Absorption Mastery (36/400)]

As proficiency increases, [Water Spirit Absorption] not only accelerates cultivation speed, but the absorbed water spirit power is also purer than in previous cultivation.

Under the same conditions, the purer the spiritual energy, the faster the spell can be cast, and the greater its power.

……

The days of seclusion and intensive study passed quickly.

Many innate skills, once they reach their maximum level, will see their improvement rate slow down.

Even the newly acquired [Thor's Wrath] is the same after reaching a certain level of mastery.

Shen Xuan focused his main efforts on the [Divine Treasure Ocean Technique], [Immortal Slaying Water Qi Technique], and [Water Spirit Absorption].

On this day, I received another letter from Lü Zhengying.

"Lei Yaoyang has broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage!"

Shen Xuan felt a little disappointed.

Lei Yaoyang was always like a small mountain weighing on his heart.

In the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, spiritual power and divine sense double compared to the early stage.

Their combat strength is equivalent to that of three people.

Lei Yaoyang is both a Lei Xiu (a cultivator specializing in thunder) and a direct disciple of a Golden Core cultivator.

Its combat power far exceeds that of an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Shen Xuan guessed that Lei Yaoyang had the strength to contend with a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

If the magic weapon is powerful enough, it can kill someone in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

In addition, Lü Zhengying mentioned another matter.

Not long ago, the warships of the Gu family of Haicheng set sail.

At a considerable cost, they hunted down another Shadow Octopus.

They had Lü Zhengying speak on their behalf. Did Shen Xuan intend to make a deal?
Shen Xuan's heart stirred.

The Shadow Octopus is a mid-grade second-tier creature, much more powerful than the Silverwing Teng Snake.

Shen Xuan wrote a letter to Lü Zhengying.

He said he was interested in making a deal.

Tell the Gu family to bring the corpse of the Shadow Octopus to the Su family in Feiyun Mountain, Qingyang Prefecture, to find him.

……

The Gu family acted swiftly.

half a month later.

The two cultivators arrived at Tingyu Pavilion.

These were the same Gu family head and the Gu surname Jinfa cultivator that Shen Xuan had met before.

"Greetings, Master Shen."

The head of the Gu family politely took the lead in bowing.

Shen Xuan warmly welcomed him: "Brother Gu, please come in quickly!"

The three people took their seats as host and guest.

After taking a few sips of Zhongling tea.

Patriarch Gu got straight to the point: "Master Shen, take a look at the goods first!"

He opened the beast pouch and dumped the entire corpse of the Shadow Octopus onto the floor of the reception room.

Its main body was over ten feet in diameter, and the only remaining intact tentacle was ten feet long.

The remaining seven tentacles were broken into pieces.

Judging from the wound marks, it was clearly blasted off by a psionic cannon on the warship.

"What a pity! So many tentacles were broken."

Shen Xuan sighed softly.

“Master Shen, you may not know this. This Shadow Octopus is incredibly powerful and has an extremely tenacious life force.”

"If it weren't for the superior strength of my Gu family's warships, which lured it to the surface beforehand, no one would be its match."

Shen Xuan nodded.

The head of the Gu family did not exaggerate this point.

Even with his extensive mastery of water magic, he would likely be no match for the Shadow Octopus in the deep sea.

"Does Master Shen only want the essence blood, or the entire Shadow Octopus corpse?"

Shen Xuan asked, "What's the price of the essence blood? What's the price of the entire corpse?"

"The essence blood is worth ten high-quality lightning talismans. The entire corpse is worth one hundred high-quality lightning talismans."

If converted to spirit stones, it would be approximately five thousand and fifty thousand.

The price offered by the Gu family head was not high.

However, the success rate of creating the [Breaking Evil Divine Thunder Talisman] has improved somewhat these days.

However, in the past six months, Shen Xuan has only managed to save up forty-odd high-quality thunder talismans.

It's impossible to exchange all of it for the Gu family.

"Ten high-quality lightning talismans made from essence blood, no problem."

"I can't produce the entire corpse or a hundred high-quality lightning talismans."

(End of this chapter)