Gou Zai Sect Beast Taming Longevity

Chapter 8 Market Trading

Recently, the Red Serpent King has become more diligent.

It will dedicate one hour each day to cultivation.

This change occurred entirely because it saw in Yu Changsheng the hope of transcending the limits of its race.

So no one is born lazy; they are just too overwhelmed by despair to move.

With these changes, Yu Changsheng will make the Crimson Serpent King more diligent, increasing its training time from one hour to two hours, then four hours, so that it understands the joy of cultivation.

[Name]: Red Serpent King

[Realm]: First Tier, Fourth Level

[Comprehension]: 55

Current Status: Lazy

"It went from the third level of the first tier to the fourth level in just one week. The transformation of a spirit beast is truly terrifying."

Yu Changsheng watched as the Crimson Serpent King finished a plate of pork and then put it into his inner world.

At the same time, he also received a 1-point essence reward for feeding the spirit beast.

The Crimson Serpent King's bloodline level is now close to the limit of its race. To continue its transformation, it will need to consume 5000 essence points to transform from the Crimson Serpent King into the Crimson Flame Serpent, which is also its final complete form.

In addition, if you want to help the Crimson Serpent King become stronger, you can start with its fourth function: devouring bloodlines. However, Yu Changsheng currently does not have any other monster corpses available for the Crimson Serpent King to devour.

As for fusion into an ancestor, it involves combining multiple monsters together to create a more unique monster or a completely new exotic or divine beast.

This function is actually similar to many beast tamers who use monsters as materials for research, combine their offspring, and use their essence and blood to change genes, but the success rate is definitely not as high as that of the system operation.

Go outside to feed the chickens.

When Yu Changsheng returned, a number of servants had gathered in the courtyard, chatting and laughing.

"I've prepared quite a few spirit coins for this gathering, hoping to buy some cheap and effective pills. That rogue cultivator really ripped me off last time!"

"I plan to buy some books on talisman making, learn how to make talismans, and earn some money. Otherwise, I won't be able to break through a realm in three to five years relying solely on the income from this spirit field."

"Making talismans? I think we should forget about it. The talisman paper costs a lot of money, and the initial expenses are huge. If we fail to achieve anything, we'll lose a fortune."

"Haha, there are risks in everything. I'll start with the lowest level fireball talisman. If I can become a talisman maker, that would be wonderful."

"Then you might as well learn alchemy."

"The cost of alchemy is incomparable to that of talismans? Don't try to push me into a trap!"

"Haha, oh, Junior Brother Yu is here. Let's ask him if he's going."

Several handyman disciples looked at Yu Changsheng with smiles on their faces. The kind-hearted Zhuang Yan asked, "Junior Brother Yu, there's a market at the fish market down the mountain these days. Would you like to come with us and have a look?"

"A gathering?" Yu Changsheng asked with a hint of curiosity.

"It's mainly a gathering of independent cultivators who set up stalls in the Fish Market. They've organized a grander event, and every year, many cultivators and family members from other places come here to sell resources, such as the Lin family's Pure Yang Wine from Dongyang City and the Huo family's First-Rank Ice Silkworm Silk. We can't usually see these."

"Yeah, if we're lucky, we might even find some amazing weapons!"

"You're dreaming."

Beside him, a servant chuckled and said, "Divine weapons are hard to find, but there are plenty of incomplete, low-grade magical artifacts, good quality and cheap."

Upon hearing this, Yu Changsheng was intrigued.

His lack of offensive capabilities has always been a weakness; otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to defeat Huang Li last time.

Now that he has formed a contract with the Crimson Serpent, if he can find a good magical artifact, his strength will definitely increase significantly.

Yu Changsheng happily agreed.

The group walked down the mountain and arrived at Fish Market in the evening.

"This is my first time at the fish market. Is there anything I should be aware of, Senior Brother Zhuang?"

Yu Changsheng walked down the street and asked.

"Hehe, Junior Brother Yu, you've only been in the sect for a short time, so you probably don't know the weight of the Myriad Manifestations Sect. Although we are the lowest-ranking servants in the sect, in this Fish Market, we are sect disciples that others need to respect, a status that others can only envy."

"The Fish Market is a market established by the sect. These independent cultivators have to pay rent every month to live here. To put it bluntly, it's our own territory. Wearing the sect disciple badge around our waists, there's nothing we need to worry about except killing people!"

Zhuang Yan smiled, and once he left the outer peak, he seemed to become full of vigor and high spirits.

When Yu Changsheng saw that even the servants who usually kept their heads down were now standing tall and proud, he immediately understood the value of these clothes!

Fish Market City is very large. Although it is called a market, its area is larger than that of a small town. It is built on the edge of the Cloud and Mist Mountains, and the outermost shantytowns are constantly extending outwards.

The market they went to was located to the east of Fish Market. It was brightly lit, bustling with activity, and filled with the noise of people. There were even wandering cultivators hawking wooden swords, creating a very lively atmosphere.

Yu Changsheng looked at some pills sold by independent cultivators. There were common pills such as Qi and Blood Pills, Bigu Pills, Qi Returning Pills, and Spirit Gathering Pills. The prices were much cheaper than those of the sects. However, the quality of each pill was ugly. They did not look like they were produced by a pill furnace at all. Instead, they looked more like they were hand-made.

"Junior Brother Yu, although this Spirit Gathering Pill is less effective than the Spirit Enhancement Pill, it's sufficient for us cultivators at the third or fourth level of Qi Refining. Would you like some?"

A handyman disciple approached Yu Changsheng and said, "Although the appearance of this pill is not good, I have checked it. The ingredients are still sufficient. It's not a fake. There will be no problem taking it."

Buying pills from rogue cultivators is risky. Some rogue cultivators only use one-third of the ingredients and fill the rest with various similar spiritual herbs to make them fake. If you buy such pills and eat them, you might get diarrhea if you're lucky, or you might vomit blood if you're unlucky.

Although Yu Changsheng longed for pills to aid his cultivation, he was still hesitant to take this particular pill. He shook his head and said, "I'll go check out other stalls."

Seeing this, the handyman disciple didn't stop him, and with a smile, he took out about a hundred spirit coins to buy a small bottle of Spirit Gathering Pills.

They were so poor and destitute that they didn't care about such things; as long as it was useful, that was enough.

Yu Changsheng walked past stall after stall, where all sorts of strange and unusual things were sold. Even the excrement of a certain monster was being sold by cultivators, who claimed that it could be used to extract the scent and refine a spray to repel wild beasts.

"Huh? The corpse of a venomous python?"

Yu Changsheng suddenly stopped and looked at a stall next to him. There was a blue python's corpse on it. Its head and venomous gall had been bought by someone to be used as materials for refining magic weapons and poison pills. Only part of the body remained.

"How much for the rest of your venomous python?" Yu Changsheng asked.

The Poisonous Spirit Python is quite powerful among first-tier demonic beasts. Its mature form can reach the eighth level of the first tier and possesses a venom that strikes fear into the hearts of all. Only those at the late stage or peak of Qi Refining dare to hunt it.

If it were a complete corpse, it would be worth at least eighty or ninety low-grade spirit stones, something Yu Changsheng could not even dream of.

But once the most important parts—the snake's head, fangs, and gallbladder—have been sold, the remaining massive snake body has limited value. The flesh and blood contain toxins that make it unsuitable even for cooking snake dishes; at most, the scales can be used to make a soft armor.

However, the scales of the venomous python are too brittle and not hard enough. Making soft armor is not as good as buying ready-made ones, which saves time and effort.

This is why the person before only bought the head and the poison gall.

The stall owner looked up and glanced at him curiously, as if he hadn't expected anyone to want to buy from him even though he was about to close up shop.

The other party sized up Yu Changsheng's sect robes and shouted through gritted teeth.

"Ten low-grade spirit stones."

(End of this chapter)