297: Chapter 297 Clearing the Way

Chen Hu left Daoling County.

But he did not return to Zhenlong City.

Instead, he came to the Royal Capital.

He directly activated the treasure hunting card.

He obtained a new treasure location.

Arriving at the spot, he opened the Treasure Trove and obtained items worth several million taels of silver.

After using Near and Far again to return to Zhenlong City, Chen Hu activated all the other cards that could yield items all at once.

Finally, only the intelligence card and the cultivation multiplier card remained.

He opened the intelligence card first.

Today's intelligence: Tomorrow, a scholar named Kong Jing will come to pledge his allegiance to the host; this person is not only proficient in strategy but also quite talented in administrative affairs.

Chen Hu did not feel much surprise at this.

When it came to handling administrative affairs, he had Puppet civil officials.

As for strategy?

Given his strength, he didn't need it; he could simply crush anyone through brute force.

Next, Chen Hu activated the cultivation multiplier card.

He obtained a 10x cultivation result.

Consequently, he took out a Soul Crystal, held it in both hands, and began to Cultivate the Spirit Refining Art.

An hour later, the cultivation session ended.

After merging with the new Soul Power, his Taotie Dharma Image grew a bit more.

With a thought, the System Mall appeared.

He typed into the search box: "Items suitable for Golden Core Realm combat that can be used directly."

He clicked search.

A large number of items appeared on the mall page.

Chen Hu roughly browsed through the items on the page and concluded that these things were generally divided into four categories.

The first was Talismans, the second was Magic Treasures, the third was Forbidden Treasures, and the fourth was Formation Plates.

First, the Talismans; the method of use was very simple: one only needed to input a strand of spiritual power to activate it, then throw it at the target.

The Talismans appearing on the mall page were mostly Third Rank and Fourth Rank Talismans.

Third Rank corresponded to the Golden Core Realm, and Fourth Rank corresponded to the Nascent Soul Realm.

It was very easy for those in the Golden Core Realm to activate Third Rank Talismans, while using Fourth Rank Talismans consumed more spiritual power.

However, using Fifth Rank Talismans consumed quite a lot.

Therefore, Fifth Rank Talismans did not appear on the mall page.

There were also many types of Talismans, such as Heavenly Thunder Talismans, Five Thunder Talismans, Beast Transformation Talismans, Sword Talismans, Giant Wood Talismans, and so on.

Because Talismans were only one-time items, the price was not expensive.

Third Rank Talismans cost between 30,000 and 100,000 underling points.

Fourth Rank Talismans started at 100,000 to 300,000.

Chen Hu thought for a moment and bought three Fourth Rank Talismans, costing 700,000, and also bought 10 Third Rank Talismans, costing 420,000.

Next, Magic Treasures.

The Magic Treasures of cultivators also had rankings.

The lowest grade was the Magical Artifact, which was further subdivided into Low Grade, Medium Grade, High Grade, and Peak Grade.

Currently, Chen Hu had a High Grade Magical Artifact Flying Sword, which, after being nourished by the Sword Gourd, an exotic treasure, was already transforming toward a Peak Grade Magical Artifact.

Above Magical Artifacts were Spiritual Artifacts.

Above Spiritual Artifacts were Treasure Artifacts.

Above Treasure Artifacts were Dao Artifacts.

Above Dao Artifacts were Immortal Artifacts.

However, the product page only showed Spiritual Artifacts and Low Grade Treasure Artifacts.

Those in the Qi Refining Realm and Foundation Establishment Realm used Magical Artifacts.

Over 99% of people in the Golden Core Realm used Spiritual Artifacts; being able to possess a Peak Grade Spiritual Artifact was already considered impressive within the Golden Core Realm.

As for Treasure Artifacts, they were too expensive.

Only those in the Golden Core Realm with great influence and background were qualified to possess them.

But for someone in the Golden Core Realm to drive a Treasure Artifact, the consumption was huge.

Therefore, the limit for the Golden Core Realm was to drive a Low Grade Treasure Artifact.

The price of Magical Artifacts was between 10,000 and 100,000 underling points.

The price of Spiritual Artifacts was between 100,000 and 1,000,000.

The price of Treasure Artifacts was between 1,000,000 and 10,000,000.

After thinking about it, Chen Hu decided to buy two Peak Grade Spiritual Artifacts and one Low Grade Treasure Artifact.

He currently had 21,220,000 underling points.

So, Chen Hu directly bought the two best quality Peak Grade Spiritual Artifacts.

It cost a total of 2,000,000.

The two Peak Grade Spiritual Artifacts were a Flying Sword and a small blue shield.

Next, Chen Hu spent 3,000,000 to buy a Flying Sword at the Low Grade Treasure Artifact level.

This was considered the most expensive Low Grade Treasure Artifact.

Next, Forbidden Treasures.

So-called Forbidden Treasures were actually one-time Magic Treasures.

They were useless after one use.

But they were powerful and cheap to produce.

A Fourth Rank Forbidden Treasure was only worth 100,000 underling points.

And a Fourth Rank Forbidden Treasure, in a sneak attack, could kill or severely injure a Nascent Soul expert.

Chen Hu bought 10 Fourth Rank Forbidden Treasures in one go.

He also spent 1,000,000 to buy two Fifth Rank Forbidden Treasures.

Finally, there were the Formation Plates.

A so-called Formation Plate was a treasure that carried a Formation.

As long as it was activated, a Formation could be set up in a short time.

Otherwise, setting up a Formation on the spot would be too late when encountering enemies.

Formations were also divided into First Rank, Second Rank, Third Rank, Fourth Rank, etc., corresponding to Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul, respectively.

However, Formation Plates were relatively expensive.

An ordinary Third Rank Formation Plate cost 1,000,000 underling points.

Expensive ones cost seven or eight million.

Of course, there was a reason for the high price.

As long as Spirit Stones could be replenished at any time, it could be used continuously.

He glanced at his underling points; 12,220,000 remained.

After thinking about it, Chen Hu gave up on buying one.

With Magic Treasures, Talismans, and Forbidden Treasures, he could say he was armed to the teeth.

There was absolutely no need to buy a Formation Plate.

The next moment, Chen Hu took out the Peak Grade Spiritual Artifact Flying Sword.

He started refining it directly.

In just a quarter of an hour, he had refined the Peak Grade Flying Sword and stored it directly into his Golden Core to nourish it.

Magic Treasures needed to be nourished by spiritual power; the longer they were nourished, the closer the connection with the user became.

Subsequently, Chen Hu spent some time refining the Peak Grade Spiritual Artifact blue shield.

He also stored it in his Golden Core to nourish it.

However, it took longer to refine the Low Grade Treasure Artifact Flying Sword, taking a full hour to complete.

"Let's find a place to test the power of the Spells and Magic Treasures!"

Thinking that Baoqing Prefecture was mountainous, he directly used Near and Far to arrive in front of a peak hundreds of meters high.

There were many such peaks in Baoqing Prefecture.

For example, the straight-line distance was clearly only 100 li, but because of these peaks, one had to detour, making it 300 li.

The next moment, the Peak Grade Spiritual Artifact Flying Sword appeared in Chen Hu's hand.

He pointed at the mountain peak in front of him.

The Flying Sword suddenly expanded, eventually turning into a giant sword a hundred meters long, and with a sword light hundreds of meters long, it slashed at the mountain peak in front of him.

Under Chen Hu's control, the Flying Sword slashed the mountain in half.

A brand-new canyon road also appeared.

"Awesome!"

Looking at the canyon passage he had created, Chen Hu praised silently.

This passage was about fifteen meters wide, and the mountain walls on both sides were as smooth as mirrors.

"As expected of a cultivator, I just simply drove the Peak Grade Flying Sword. If I were to drive the Myriad Sword Art, I'm afraid I could destroy the entire mountain peak with a single sword!"

Chen Hu muttered to himself.

Moreover, the consumption of that sword was not large, consuming only about one-hundred-thousandth of his spiritual power.

It meant he could slash out one hundred thousand swords.

The only speechless part was that the Origin Qi of this world did not contain attributes, so he could not replenish the consumed spiritual power from the outside world.

To restore spiritual power, he could only buy Medicinal Pills and Spirit Stones from the System Mall.

The next moment, Chen Hu disappeared again.

When he appeared, he had already arrived in front of another mountain peak.

He manipulated the Peak Grade Flying Sword to slash out again.

Another brand-new passage was carved out in the mountain peak.

Next, Chen Hu spent half an hour carving out passages in many mountain peaks.

With these passages, the road between Baoqing Prefecture and the outside world was shortened by more than 400 li.

The distance between Baoqing Prefecture and a county in Dalin Prefecture was shortened from the original 500-plus li to just over 100 li.

Moreover, the safety of the road was greatly increased.

Because the original road wound around the mountains, it was narrow and small, and the other side was a cliff; once an accident occurred, one would fall off the cliff and be smashed to pieces.