Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

Chapter 114 Six Hundred Spirit Stones

Qiu Yingxian flipped his wrist and took out two spiritual items.

One was a seed of a spiritual plant, but it appeared to be cracked. The other was a withered, yellow leaf.

Song Chuan recognized the leaf; it was an auxiliary magical artifact made from a spiritual plant called "Miasma-Avoiding Leaf," which had the ability to isolate poisonous miasma.

Qiu Yingxian pinched the barrier-avoiding leaf between two fingers and said, "Our fellow practitioners in Tenghua Valley must know about the barrier-avoiding leaf. The Spirit Seed Hall and the Weapon Casting Hall jointly created a batch of them."

This one is of high grade; it's sold in the sect's market, but I'm offering it for a much lower price. This leaf will be quite useful for fellow cultivators going out on special missions.

Then, he picked up the seed again and smiled: "This is a flower-fighting seed!"

"Impossible, isn't it? Deacon Qiu, don't take offense at my bluntness, but even if you are a deacon, you don't have any Flower Seeds to trade, do you?

"Hehe, this flower seed is a defective product. Its power is only slightly higher than that of a high-grade magic weapon, and it can still be used once more," Qiu Yingxian explained.

"Hey!" Everyone was disappointed.

Song Chuan stared at the seed. This was the Fighting Flower Seed. It was unremarkable in appearance and looked no different from ordinary spiritual plant seeds.

"I'd like to exchange these two items for a second-tier wind-element material. Any wind-element material will do," Qiu Yingxian said.

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Is this person using wind-based techniques, or are they trying to create a wind-based magical artifact? Song Chuan wondered in surprise.

"I recently acquired a piece of Wind Chasing Jade while traveling, but its quality is only so-so. Would you like to exchange it, Steward Qiu?" One of them took out a piece of jade several inches in size and shook it.

"Oh?" Qiu Yingxian glanced at him and nodded when he saw that no one else made a move.

The man stepped forward and checked the exchanged items with Qiu Yingxian, then happily returned to Pudunlian. Qiu Yingxian also sat down to the side, giving up his seat.

Then several more people took turns going up and bringing out various spiritual items needed by Foundation Establishment cultivators. Some exchanged them for the spiritual items they wanted, while others came down dejectedly.

"A single innate demonic insect crystal—its value needs no further explanation."

Song Chuan's gaze sharpened. It was the person who had been sitting alone in the corner of the cave, with an arrogant expression on his face. He had heard from his fellow disciples that this person's name was Cui Wang.

Cui Wang then took out a small box, brushed off the lid, and revealed a small piece of gold-based material inside. He said expressionlessly, "One piece of Sharp Gold Sand. Insect Crystal plus this, in exchange for one Ice Spirit Essence."

Both insect crystals and sharp gold sand are needed by orchid insects, but ice spirit essence is an ice-type cultivation material and is relatively rare among foundation-building spiritual items. Song Chuan does not have any.

He frowned slightly, silently glanced around, and saw that everyone was looking at what Cui Wang was holding without saying a word.

"Brother Cui, I'd like to get some Ruijinsha. The quality of the one you have is not bad. How about I exchange a bottle of black ointment from Fuhai County for this Ruijinsha?" Chi Chun, who was sitting next to me, suddenly asked.

"No change." Cui Wang replied decisively. He glanced at the crowd and then walked down.

While the other person went up, Song Chuan quietly transmitted his voice to Cui Wang: "Senior Brother Cui, can you exchange your insect crystals and sharp gold sand for spirit stones?"

Cui Wang glanced at Song Chuan, a mocking smile appearing on his face, and transmitted his voice, "How many spirit stones could a newly promoted Foundation Establishment cultivator like you have? I'll exchange them if you can come up with six hundred spirit stones."

Upon hearing this, Song Chuan exclaimed, "Damn, this is expensive!"

However, ordinary innate demonic insect crystals are worth a little over two hundred spirit stones, while sharp gold sand is even more expensive, being a material for top-tier magic artifacts.

His piece costs about four hundred spirit stones.

This person seemed arrogant, but didn't offer an excessively high price.

You might not be able to find these two items at the market, and even if you do, the price will be high.

Regardless of the man's attitude, he gritted his teeth and continued to transmit his voice, "Then I will buy it for six hundred spirit stones. After this is over, we will trade with Senior Brother Cui outside the cave."

Cui Wang raised an eyebrow, then looked at Song Chuan properly and nodded slightly: "If you're going to play games with me, then we can't be fellow disciples anymore."

Song Chuan ignored him and continued to watch the remaining people trade.

Half an hour later, everyone had made some trades, and Zuo Chengming even went up and exchanged some items, nothing rare.

Song Chuan remained an observer throughout the entire process and did not go up.

After exchanging polite farewells with everyone, Qiu Yingxian led them out of the cave one after another.

Chi Chun, Ke Laodao, and another person stayed behind, seemingly intending to drink and chat with Qiu Yingxian all night.

The people of Qi were known for their love of wine. Song Chuan shook his head and left the cave. Zuo Chengming immediately approached him and said, "Fellow Daoist Song, why don't you come to my cave for a couple of drinks?"

"Fellow Daoist Zuo, I'm truly sorry, but I have some urgent business to attend to. I'll definitely bring some spirit wine to drink with you another day," Song Chuan politely declined.

Zuo Chengming was slightly disappointed: "Then it's settled. We're both at the same stage of Foundation Establishment, so we should visit each other more often."

"No problem, no problem," Song Chuan waved his hand.

After finding a direction and walking for a while, Cui Wang was standing in a secluded place, looking up at the moon.

Song Chuan glanced at him. Does he still put on this act when no one's around?

When he got closer, Cui Wang slowly lowered his head and looked at Song Chuan indifferently.

Song Chuan flipped his hand and took out a small cloth bag, shaking it: "Senior Brother Cui, use your divine sense to check it."

Cui Wang glanced at the bag, his eyes showing surprise: "Not bad, I didn't expect you to have some value." He patted the storage bag, reached out and pushed, and a bug crystal and a wooden box flew towards Song Chuan.

Song Chuan reached out, examined the spirit stone, and tossed it to him.

"Then I'll take my leave," Song Chuan said, turning to leave.

Cui Wang weighed the cloth bag in his hand, chuckled softly, and strolled away.

Back in his cave, Song Chuan immediately entered the spirit beast chamber. The orchid worm teleported out and hovered around him, sometimes landing on his shoulder and scratching his cheeks with its pair of pink and white scythes, seemingly quite anxious.

Ouch! Don't make a cut and scratch my face.

Song Chuan smiled helplessly, tossed the insect crystal to the ground, and the orchid insect pounced on it, grabbing it tightly and starting to devour it in mid-air.

This meal cost two hundred spirit stones!

With a sigh, he took out the piece of sharp gold sand again. This material was no worse than the frost silver sand on his dragon-entwining spear. Just one piece of material was enough to buy a decent mid-level magic weapon.

He placed the sharp gold dust in the stone chamber, letting the orchid beetle gnaw on it. After consuming these two things, it might just advance to the late stage of the first tier.

Feeding these innate demonic insects is a bottomless pit! But it does save the time of going to the market to buy them, which is some consolation.

Aside from insect crystals and special metal-based materials, Song Chuan really didn't know what else the Orchid Insect ate. Even the old master Ling Qiu Zi hadn't mentioned it in the "Compendium of Strange Insects," but since this insect had only appeared once in the Well Kingdom, probably no one knew its specific habits.

"It's the Kingdom of Well again!" he muttered to himself, returning to his cultivation chamber, where he sat cross-legged, awaiting the arrival of the Ugly Moon.

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