270: Chapter 270 Exchange

Immediately afterwards, a strong desire for survival welled up in Chen Changqing's heart.

"What is this?" The dozen or so surviving Purple Gold Insects were releasing distress signals to him.

Chen Changqing immediately took out a stalk of fire spirit grass and handed it to them. Before long, these dozen or so Purple Gold Insects quickly devoured the fire spirit grass he had just obtained.

Fortunately, after devouring this stalk, their aura grew stronger by a fraction. Seeing that it was effective, Chen Changqing hurriedly took out all the fire spirit grass and fed it to the Purple Gold Insects together.

Li Qingling also took out some Spirit Medicine from her Storage Pouch. As an Alchemist, she always had various kinds of Spirit Medicine on hand, and in large quantities at that.

Originally, she could also refine the water origin pills herself, but the two of them feared that the longer they waited, the more complications would arise, so they chose not to refine them and instead chose to purchase them.

Once they returned this time, she must refine more Medicinal Pills to enrich her Storage Pouch.

An hour later, the Purple Gold Insects were no longer in that dying state and began to show some vitality.

Seeing this, Chen Changqing finally stored them into the Spirit Beast pouch.

Inside the Spirit Beast pouch, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse was still sleeping soundly. Over the years, it had constantly eaten Chen Changqing's Spirit Medicine, and finally advanced from the First Rank to the current High Grade Second Rank, leaving only one step away from the Third Rank.

It was just that this step was quite difficult, and it could not be cultivated simply with resources.

Over the years, it basically slept when full and ate when awake, completely unconcerned that Chen Changqing wouldn't feed it.

And having raised it for so many years, Chen Changqing had long grown accustomed to its gluttony and laziness. Having spent so long together, he had also developed an emotional bond with it.

Fortunately, it was only gluttonous and lazy; its descendants had indeed helped the Chen Family accomplish quite a few things.

"Let's go, Qingling. Although we didn't obtain much this time, being able to harvest the Purple Gold Insects ranked seventeenth on the spirit insect ranking has already exceeded my expectations," Chen Changqing explained.

"Indeed! As long as we Cultivate them well, our Family might really be able to nurture a group of Third Rank, no, Fourth Rank Purple Gold Insects. By then, even in Yan Country, our Chen Family will no longer need to worry about any danger," Li Qingling said happily.

Yet easy to say, hard to do; for the Chen Family to Cultivate Fourth Rank Purple Gold Insects, the difficulty was undoubtedly high. Besides, if those Golden Core forces found out that the Chen Family possessed Purple Gold Insects ranked seventeenth on the spirit insect ranking, they would surely come to seize them.

Chen Changqing also nodded.

The two immediately headed back the way they came, returning all the way to Yanhuo City without encountering any accidents. Viewed this way, the two of them had indeed been unlucky before.

Upon arriving at the Yanhuo Sect, they originally intended to exchange that Medium Grade Third Rank Flame Beast for a ziyu pill, but the ziyu pill originally hanging on the bounty list had already been exchanged by someone.

Chen Changqing and his companion were stunned, and immediately inquired with a deacon of the Yanhuo Sect. Soon after, they learned from the other party that someone had exchanged it using two Low Grade Third Rank Flame Beasts, and that person's Realm was as high as the eighth layer of the Purple Mansion; he was a Loose Cultivator named Xiang Zhentian.

"Xiang Zhentian?!"

"Who is this person?" Li Qingling asked in confusion.

"Could the two Seniors actually be unaware of Xiang Zhentian's great reputation?" that Foundation Establishment deacon of the Yanhuo Sect asked in surprise.

"We must trouble little friend to inform us," Chen Changqing said politely, while taking out two thousand Spirit Stones hidden in his sleeve and handing them over.

Even though the other party was merely a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, since the two of them were on the territory of the Yanhuo Sect, money that needed to be spent should still be spent.

"Senior is too polite. Actually, this matter is not considered a big deal; this Senior Xiang has a resounding reputation in Yanhuo City and even the surrounding few cities," the Foundation Establishment deacon of the Yanhuo Sect said with an even more enthusiastic tone.

"This Senior Xiang not only possesses peerless talent, but his experiences in his early years were also quite legendary.

This person was once a Disciple of a Purple Mansion Sect. Later, because that Purple Mansion Sect experienced several changes, the strength within the Sect greatly decreased, leaving only a single Purple Mansion Cultivator. Seeing that they were gradually growing weak, their enemies seized the opportunity to launch a war and annihilated the Sect."

"At that time, this Senior Xiang was still a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and he happened to be out gaining experience, so he escaped this calamity. As a result, what his enemies didn't expect was that this Senior Xiang actually Cultivated into the Purple Mansion years later, and even raised his Realm to the Middle Stage of the Purple Mansion.

That day marked the despair of his enemies. From the Purple Mansion Cultivators down to the Qi Refining Cultivators of that Sect, including even those Senior Brothers who had betrayed his Sect back then, all were brutally slaughtered.

Originally, that Sect only had two Purple Mansion Cultivators, one of whom was not far from the limit of his Lifespan. The reason they wanted to annihilate Senior Xiang's Sect was precisely for fear that Senior Xiang's Sect would strike first, because the relationship between the two Sects was already as incompatible as fire and water."

Hearing this, Chen Changqing and his companion were silent for a moment.

"As for why Senior Xiang exchanged for the ziyu pill, it is said to be because of his youngest son. Over the years, Senior Xiang settled down only after finishing his revenge, marrying a Loose Cultivator as his wife and giving birth to several children. Among them, the youngest son possessed peerless talent, no less than he himself back then."

"Therefore, Senior Xiang dotes on him quite a bit. Not only does he personally guide his youngest son everywhere during his Cultivation, but he also tilts a large amount of resources toward him. It is rumored that his youngest son is barely a hundred years old now, yet he is already a seventh-layer Foundation Establishment Cultivator." Speaking of this, the Foundation Establishment deacon of the Yanhuo Sect grew envious.

If he had such a good father, he wouldn't have reached nearly one hundred and fifty years old without even reaching the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment.

"Under a hundred years old? Seventh layer of Foundation Establishment?"

No wonder he was said to have peerless talent. How many people in Yan Country could possess such talent? Placed among those few Golden Core forces, he would be an absolute Genius.

As long as no major problems arise, he would definitely be able to attempt a Breakthrough to the Purple Mansion before turning two hundred years old, though whether he can succeed is another matter.

After thanking him, Chen Changqing and his companion proceeded to exchange for the rewards on the bounty list with him.

Among them, the two of them jointly killed one Third Rank Flame Beast and ninety-seven Second Rank Flame Beasts.

Among those, there were eighteen High Grade Second Rank, thirty-five Medium Grade Second Rank, and forty-four Low Grade Second Rank.

Since the Yanhuo Sect's list required exchanges based on fixed Realms of Flame Beasts, Chen Changqing and his companion had no choice but to use that Medium Grade Third Rank Flame Beast to exchange for three portions of Purple Mansion spiritual objects.

For the remaining Second Rank Flame Beasts, he exchanged them for a total of ten foundation establishment pills, as well as various other Second Rank Medicinal Pills, Second Rank Liuyan ore, and other treasures.

By the time everything was fully exchanged, more than an hour had passed.

Looking at the Storage Pouch returning with a full load, Chen Changqing and his companion felt joyous. For the High Grade Second Rank Liuyan ore alone, they exchanged no less than one hundred thousand catties.

Taking these Liuyan ores out for refining would yield about over a thousand catties of Liuyan stones.

And these over a thousand catties of Liuyan stones could then be used to refine no less than twenty High Grade Second Rank Flying Swords.