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Stele Area.

Thin gray mist permeated the surroundings, making the entire massive and ancient stele appear hazy and indistinct under the mist.

However, as the distance closed, the characters on the stele became clear and visible at a glance.

The two characters "Exchange" at the top of the stele directly indicated the theme of this stele.

Below the stele, three core disciples of Flying Origin Palace, dressed in black and wrapped in black bandages, were looking at the stele with anticipation.

Their gazes were all focused on the second holy object recorded on the stele.

"Just one more treasure, and we can exchange for this holy land key!"

The leader of the three was a young man with an ordinary face but a sharp aura.

At this moment, his eyes were full of excitement and strong anticipation.

Before they came, they already knew that there was an exchange-themed stele in Seven Stars Holy Land.

They even had a general understanding of the holy objects recorded on the stele.

At the same time, they also knew that the way to obtain these holy objects from the stele was by bartering.

Of course, given the value of these holy objects, even the lowest-ranked holy object on the stele would require them to offer many valuable treasures to exchange for it.

And for the number one ranked holy object, 'holy land badge. black'... the required number of treasures was even more astonishing!

It was already beyond what their Flying Origin Palace could afford.

They had planned before coming that their main goal was not the number one ranked holy land badge. black, but the second-ranked holy land key.

This holy object was extremely important to them.

It would directly relate to their Flying Origin Palace's harvest in the Holy Land this time!

For this, Flying Origin Palace spared no expense.

Before they entered Seven Stars Holy Land, they prepared a large number of treasures in advance.

The quantity of these treasures was so vast that even for Flying Origin Palace, it was enough to cause significant strain!

Although the investment was huge, if they could successfully exchange for this holy object... then everything would be worth it!

As long as they possessed this holy object, their harvest in the Holy Land would definitely exceed this investment!

At present, their three core disciples had already sacrificed all the numerous treasures they had prepared early on into the stele.

Now, only one more item was needed to meet the conditions for exchanging for the holy object, the holy land key.

Because of this, their three core disciples became excited.

Their hearts pounded faster and faster.

Just as the leading young man took out the last treasure and was about to place it into the vortex in front of the stele for sacrifice, suddenly, the entire massive stele began to vibrate.

This caused the young man's movements to pause involuntarily.

He looked up at the stele in surprise.

The other two core disciples were also stunned by this sudden situation.

Soon, they saw... as the stele trembled, some of the characters recording the holy objects on the stele began to dim.

"This is..."

The leading young man took a deep breath.

He witnessed the number one ranked holy land badge. black, change from bright to dim.

This made him widen his eyes, which were full of disbelief.

The two people behind him also had a look as if they had seen a ghost.

They clearly knew what it meant for these characters to change from bright to dim... A huge question mark appeared in everyone's mind.

They were completely stunned.

Just then, they suddenly saw that not only did the number one ranked holy land badge. black become dim, but the number two ranked holy land key also simultaneously became dim.

"This!! What's going on!!"

The leading young man's expression changed drastically.

His brain felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer, and his entire head was buzzing.

Although he was shocked that the number one ranked holy land badge. black had dimmed, he didn't feel heartbroken.

After all, they couldn't obtain the holy land badge. black anyway.

But the holy land key was different!

They had already sacrificed so many treasures, and only one last treasure was needed.

At this moment, a sudden change occurring was undoubtedly like a sharp stab to his heart.

His finger, pointing at the stele, trembled.

The other two were also terrified.

They rubbed their eyes hard, worried that they had misread it.

But no matter how they looked... the holy land key on the stele had already dimmed and was no longer bright.

This was a phenomenon that only occurred after the holy object on the stele had been exchanged.

"Impossible!! This is impossible!!"

The leading young man's body trembled, completely unable to accept such a result.

"Perhaps... perhaps this doesn't mean the holy object is gone, but rather some unknown change has occurred, but it doesn't affect us from continuing to exchange!" a core disciple behind him hastily said.

His words made the leading young man's body tremble.

It was as if a drowning person had grasped the last straw in the water.

He muttered involuntarily, "Right! It must be like this! It must be like this, no mistake!"

As he muttered, he tremblingly placed the last treasure in his hand into the vortex in front of the stele for sacrifice.

He held his breath, staring nervously at the stele.

The two core disciples behind him were also doing the same, their eyes fixed on the stele without blinking.

They waited for more than ten minutes.

The entire stele remained motionless.

As time passed, the last glimmer of hope on their faces gradually turned into despair.

"Damn it! Damn it!! Damn it!!"

The leading young man completely went berserk.

He punched the stele again and again, his entire fist splitting open, bones shattering, yet he still continuously pounded the stele.

His expression was distorted, his eyes bloodshot, and he appeared to be in a frenzy.

They had sacrificed so many treasures!

Treasures enough to cause significant strain to the entire sect!!

Yet in the end... they got nothing... Xiao Shi's mood at this moment was completely opposite to that of the three core disciples of Flying Origin Palace.

He looked at the items in his hand, his heart already blooming with joy.

["Name: holy land badge. black (Seven Stars Holy Land exclusive item)", "Type: Identity", "Grade: Qi Warrior Grade", "Description: A special badge symbolizing identity. When worn, it grants a privilege within Seven Stars Holy Land.", "Remark 1: This item is an exclusive item within Seven Stars Holy Land and can only be used within Seven Stars Holy Land. Upon leaving Seven Stars Holy Land, the item will automatically disappear.", "Remark 2: Wandering Soul privilege — After achieving a kill in Seven Stars Holy Land, there is a fifty percent chance that the spirit wraith of the deceased can become its own Wandering Soul Guardian."]

...This was another holy land badge in Seven Stars Holy Land, possessing a different privilege.

And this privilege... greatly shook Xiao Shi's heart.

By now, he had already discovered that the exclusive items in Seven Stars Holy Land were basically all related to Wandering Souls.

Although he didn't know much about Wandering Souls, through these exclusive items, he also learned a powerful characteristic that Wandering Souls possessed — they ignored all defenses, all obstructions, and all Qi Strength!

This made Wandering Souls invincible and unstoppable in their killing of these Qi Martial Realm martial artists.

Now that he possessed this Wandering Soul privilege... as long as he achieved a kill, there was a chance that the person he killed could become his own Wandering Soul Guardian!

Then, as long as he continued to kill, he might even have the opportunity to form an army of Wandering Soul Guardians here!

By then... he would undoubtedly be an invincible existence in this Seven Stars Holy Land.

The more Xiao Shi thought about it, the more excited he became.

No wonder the holy land badge was the best among many exclusive items.

The privilege brought by any holy land badge was extremely powerful!

It was just a pity that he obtained this holy land badge after killing these Seven Stars Sect disciples.

If he had obtained it earlier... after killing this group of Seven Stars Sect disciples, he would probably have directly possessed quite a few Wandering Soul Guardians.

However, the problem wasn't big. He just needed to continue killing later.

Although the Wandering Soul Finger Blade would be scrapped after its usage time expired and could no longer be used, Xiao Shi's harvest this time was not just one exclusive item.

He continued to pick up other exclusive items to examine them.

["Name: Wandering Soul Flute (Seven Stars Holy Land exclusive item)", "Type: Musical Instrument", "Grade: Qi Warrior Grade", "Description: By playing it, Wandering Souls can be summoned to form a single attack.", "Remark 1: This item is an exclusive item within Seven Stars Holy Land and can only be used within Seven Stars Holy Land. Upon leaving Seven Stars Holy Land, the item will automatically disappear.", "Remark 2: The attack of the Wandering Soul will ignore all defenses, all obstructions, and all Qi Strength.", "Remark 3: Can be played a total of ten times.", "Remark 4: All below Qi Warrior Realm Great Perfection can be killed."]

...This exclusive item was similar to the Wandering Soul Finger Blade.

Under normal circumstances, it should only be playable once.

However, under the privilege of the holy land badge. white, the number of plays was directly increased to ten times!

Xiao Shi continued to check.

Among the more than thirty items dropped this time, there were a total of seventeen exclusive items, nearly half.

Among them, three were similar to the Wandering Soul Flute, exclusive items capable of killing those below Qi Warrior Realm Great Perfection.

Four were exclusive items capable of killing those below Qi Warrior Realm Late Stage.

There was only one exclusive item similar to the previous black shadows spirit wandering soul, capable of killing those at Qi Warrior Realm Great Perfection.

Xiao Shi was not surprised by this.

He had already learned through the previous price stele that there were not many exclusive items capable of killing those at Qi Warrior Realm Great Perfection.

Basically, each stele only had one.

In addition, among the exclusive items Xiao Shi obtained, there were not only these offensive exclusive items but also other types of exclusive items.

For example, a seed in Xiao Shi's hand at this moment.

["Name: Fire Maple Flower Seed (Seven Stars Holy Land exclusive item)", "Type: Seed", "Grade: Qi Warrior Grade", "Description: The seed of the Fire Maple Flower. Once placed in the soil, it will grow and bloom on its own.", "Remark 1: This item is an exclusive item within Seven Stars Holy Land and can only be used within Seven Stars Holy Land. Upon leaving Seven Stars Holy Land, the item will automatically disappear.", "Remark 2: The Fire Maple Flower is a rare heavenly material and earthly treasure, usually taking hundreds of years to bloom, but in Seven Stars Holy Land, it only takes one hour to grow and bloom.", "Remark 3: When the Fire Maple Flower blooms, there is a certain chance of giving birth to a fiery aura."]

Xiao Shi’s eyes shone brightly.

These exclusive items are also extremely useful.

They belong to the category that can create opportunities and fortunes on their own!

Typically, such opportunities and fortunes within the Seven Stars Holy Land are already considered major ones.

They cannot be compared to the opportunities he encountered before, which could only speed up the lock-breaking process.

Whether it’s heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Or special Qi.

For Qi Martial Realm martial artists like them, they are priceless!

Even encountering such an opportunity and fortune once would yield astonishing rewards!

After all, such opportunities and fortunes are not abundant even within the Seven Stars Holy Land.

Not only does it require a certain amount of luck.

It also requires sufficient strength.

If one's strength is insufficient, even if obtained, it will quickly be snatched away by others.

Now that Xiao Shi has such exclusive items, he no longer needs to actively search; he just needs to find a random place, plant the seed, and he can obtain such a significant opportunity and fortune.

And he has far more than just one such exclusive item!

There are a total of three.

But unfortunately.

Only the [Fire Maple Flower] can both form heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and also has a chance to give birth to special fire Qi.

The other two exclusive items.

Can only give birth to special Qi.

They cannot form heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Besides the combat-type exclusive items and the opportunity-type exclusive items, the remaining ones are search-type items.

Name: opportunity guiding scroll (Seven Stars Holy Land Exclusive Item)

Type: Scroll

Grade: Qi Warrior Grade

Description: After use, it will automatically search for an opportunity within the Seven Stars Holy Land, forming a guide. You can follow the guide to the location of the opportunity.

Note 1: This item is an exclusive item within the Seven Stars Holy Land and can only be used within the Seven Stars Holy Land. Upon leaving the Seven Stars Holy Land, the item will automatically disappear.

Note 2: The guide has no time or distance limitations.

… Xiao Shi realized.

Through this [opportunity guiding scroll], he could easily find decent opportunities and fortunes within the Seven Stars Holy Land.

Its practicality is also quite high.

After all, the Seven Stars Holy Land is vast, and finding those rare, few opportunities in such a large place is a very difficult task.

However, with such an [opportunity guiding scroll], it becomes much easier.

He currently has a total of four such [Opportunity Guiding Scrolls] in his hands.

The last remaining exclusive item.

Does not belong to any of the above three categories.

This is a unique exclusive item.

There is only one such item in the entire Seven Stars Holy Land.

Name: holy land key (Seven Stars Holy Land Exclusive Item)

Type: Key

Grade: Qi Warrior Grade

Description: An important key capable of opening the hidden Seven Stars Secret Realm within the Seven Stars Holy Land.

Note 1: This item is an exclusive item within the Seven Stars Holy Land and can only be used within the Seven Stars Holy Land. Upon leaving the Seven Stars Holy Land, the item will automatically disappear.

Note 2: The Seven Stars Secret Realm is a special area that has been hidden for many years, containing more opportunities and fortunes. Only the holy land key can open it.

Note 3: After opening the Secret Realm, at least six people are required to enter.

Note 4: There might be unexpected gains inside.

… “There’s even a hidden Secret Realm?”

Xiao Shi was startled.

From the notes, he learned.

The opportunities and fortunes in this hidden Secret Realm are even more abundant than outside!

And there might be unexpected gains inside.

However, at least six people are required to enter.

Even if one person opens the Secret Realm, he cannot enter.

“Does that mean… these six people who enter the Secret Realm will exclusively enjoy all the opportunities and fortunes inside?”

Xiao Shi’s mind was instantly shaken.

If the opportunities and fortunes within the Secret Realm are more abundant than outside, and only six people can exclusively enjoy them.

Then the value of this Secret Realm is incredibly astonishing!

He mused that he could gather personnel later to open this Secret Realm.

The seventeen exclusive items harvested this time are undoubtedly an extremely significant gain.

After all, a single stele only contains a total of fifteen items.

Xiao Shi’s harvest this time alone is more than the items on one stele.

Moreover, the exchange of each item on the stele often requires a huge price.

Although Xiao Shi doesn't know the themes of the steles in the Seven Stars Holy Land, he can realize that even if they are not as cruel as the price steles, it won't be easy to obtain the exclusive items on them.

Although the core direct disciples of Flying Origin Palace know about the existence of exclusive items and will specifically go to various steles to acquire them.

It is impossible for them to obtain many exclusive items.

Especially since the exclusive items dropped after Xiao Shi killed them will disappear from the stele.

It can be foreseen… that the exclusive items these core direct disciples of Flying Origin Palace can obtain will only be fewer.

And besides exclusive items.

This time, nearly twenty ordinary items were also dropped.

Among these ordinary items.

Two Qi Warrior Grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures that Xiao Shi had always wanted appeared!

Then there were four Qi Warrior Grade weapons.

Three Secret Skills.

Four types of pills.

A Qi Warrior Grade storage bag.

Two special Qi, but unfortunately, they were not Grand Yin Qi.

The rest were various miscellaneous items.

At the same time, after Xiao Shi killed these Seven Stars Sect disciples, he also gained some things from them.

It’s just that the items on them were not very valuable, and Entering Martial Rank items were even rarer.

However, these unused items can be used for the Devouring Expansion Vortex Technique.

After Xiao Shi cultivated this Secret Skill.

He has a high demand for Qi Warrior Grade items.

In addition, among the four Qi Warrior Grade weapons dropped this time, there happened to be a good blade.

Xiao Shi looked at the relevant information about this blade.

Name: Qi Severing Blade

Type: Weapon

Grade: Qi Warrior Grade

Description: This blade has two forms: a normal form and a Qi Blade form.

Note: You can switch forms through your own Qi Strength. The normal form is suitable for close combat, while the Qi Blade form can perform long-range attacks.

… Xiao Shi looked at the [Qi Severing Blade] in his hand with bright eyes.

He briefly tried out the two different forms.

The normal form was not much different from other Qi Warrior Grade weapons.

However, when Xiao Shi switched to the Qi Blade form.

Whoosh!

The blade in his hand completely turned into Qi.

Under Xiao Shi’s Taiyin Qi Strength, it directly formed a Qi Blade composed of Taiyin Qi Strength.

The entire Qi Blade floated in front of Xiao Shi.

No need to hold it, he could manipulate it through the Taiyin Qi Strength within his body.

No wonder the note mentioned that the Qi Blade form could perform long-range attacks.

The only drawback of this form is the somewhat significant consumption of Taiyin Qi Strength.

If the [Absolute Severing Blade Technique] were to be used in Qi Blade form… then even with Xiao Shi's current Qi Vortex, it would be difficult to sustain such a massive consumption.

Fortunately, among the Secret Skills dropped this time.

There was one Secret Skill that could reduce Qi Strength consumption.

Name: Slow Qi Art (Earth Rank)

Type: Secret Skill

Grade: Qi Warrior Grade

Description: A Secret Skill created by True Person Ming Yi, which can effectively reduce Qi Strength consumption.

Note: After cultivation, when Qi Strength is consumed, it can effectively reduce the degree of consumption, approximately reducing Qi Strength consumption by one-tenth.

… “One-tenth?”

Xiao Shi pondered.

One-tenth might not seem like much.

But for the massive consumption of [Absolute Severing Blade Technique] and [Qi Severing Blade], one-tenth is not insignificant.

If he didn't have this Secret Skill.

Xiao Shi estimated that using the [Absolute Severing Blade Technique] once in Qi Blade form would completely deplete his internal Qi Strength.

But with this Secret Skill… he would at least be able to use the [Absolute Severing Blade Technique] twice in Qi Blade form.

Of course.

Xiao Shi also knew about the current problem of insufficient Qi Strength.

Ultimately.

It was still because he had opened too few Qi Vortexes.

To date, he had only opened a single Qi Vortex.

Even though his Qi Vortex was an enlarged Qi Vortex after the [Devouring Expansion Vortex Technique], it was still only one.

“It seems I need to find an opportunity to open more Qi Vortexes.”

Xiao Shi understood that opening more Qi Vortexes was the most important thing in the Qi Martial Realm.

But there was no other way.

If he wanted to open a Qi Vortex now, he could only do so through the Taiyin Qi Vortex.

Although two special Qi were successfully dropped this time, and exclusive items could also give birth to some special Qi.

But unfortunately… none of them were Grand Yin Qi.

There are many types of special Qi.

The probability of Grand Yin Qi appearing is very small.

Xiao Shi mused that he might have to use the [opportunity guiding scroll] later to search for other opportunities and fortunes.

He hoped to find Grand Yin Qi.

Besides this [Slow Qi Art] having a significant effect on Xiao Shi.

The remaining two Secret Skills were only Yellow Rank and Black Rank Secret Skills, offering little improvement.

In addition.

Among the pills dropped this time.

There were two pills that could enhance comprehension.

Name: Profound Comprehension Pill (Peerless)

Type: Pill

Grade: Qi Warrior Grade

Description: A pill that enhances comprehension.

Note: You wouldn't want the dilemma of obtaining a peerless Secret Skill but being unable to cultivate it, would you?

… Name: Secret Comprehension Pill (Perfect)

Type: Pill

Grade: Qi Warrior Grade

Description: A pill that enhances comprehension.

Note: No one can refuse the various benefits of enhanced comprehension.

… Comprehension is also very important to Xiao Shi.

This concerns his cultivation speed when practicing Secret Skills.

Xiao Shi has always attached great importance to this.

It’s just that comprehension pills are difficult to drop.

Even in the Entering Martial Realm, not many comprehension pills were dropped.

Now, two comprehension pills were dropped at once.

And one reached Peerless quality, while the other reached Perfect quality!

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