CHAPTER 63: CHAPTER 63: WATER ESCAPE TALENT

Originally, former classmate Li Chang’an, after marrying into the Yu cultivation family, had quite a few descendants.

The Yu cultivation family was merely a Qi cultivation family with limited resources, hence some family members were sent out to develop on their own.

Wang Fugui took in one, Li Chang’an’s youngest son, named Yu Zhenxiu, with an inferior spirit root, twenty-five years old, at the second level of Qi cultivation.

"I’ve taken him in for three years, it’s just right for him to stay at the shop as a clerk, how about it?"

"Such a trivial matter, no need for much discussion. Fellow Daoist Zhao just happens to be short of a helper."

On the basis of their old classmate relationship, Shen Xuan decided to agree.

Shaking off the burden, Wang Fugui was in a good mood, taking out five hundred spirit stones from the original capital to smooth things over.

In just a few days, with Wang Fugui’s help, Zhao Chunsheng and Steward Qian made a connection and rented a small shop of only forty square meters.

All the shops in Yunyuan Immortal City are under unified management, opening at dawn and closing at dusk, with the protective array activated during other times to strictly prohibit entry and exit.

Only the direct-operated shops of the Bishui Sect are open for business around the clock.

After receiving the spirit stones contributed by Shen Xuan and Wang Fugui, Zhao Chunsheng clenched his teeth and took out all his savings to renovate the shop and purchase goods.

He kept busy with his wife and children.

Shen Xuan began preparing new talismans.

This is not like Cyan Dragon Bay Market.

The late stage of Qi cultivation here is just small fry.

In the East Sea, there are even Tier Three sea demons.

Going out to hunt sea demons is too risky and not advisable.

He planned to return to his old trade of making talismans to earn spirit stones.

The first choice is the [Water Escape Talisman].

The Five Elements Escape Technique is an extremely rare skill in the cultivation realm.

Due to limitations of spiritual power and divine sense, it is hard for Qi cultivation stage cultivators to master.

Even Foundation Establishment cultivators, only a few with outstanding talent and high spirit roots, can learn escape technique skills.

Therefore, talismans related to the Five Elements Escape Technique are not easy to make and command high prices.

In Yunyuan Immortal City, near the East Sea, [Water Escape Talismans] are in high demand and easy to sell.

Shen Xuan supported Zhao Chunsheng’s shop without caring about its profitability.

Acquiring demon beast essence blood, stealing demon beast talents, and constantly enhancing spirit root talent are fundamental.

Purchasing talisman-making materials, selling talismans, and disposing of detachable spiritual artifacts are just side activities.

The [Water Escape Talisman] can use the essence blood of many sea demon beasts.

But the best is the sea swordfish.

Its appearance is similar to the azure-feathered fish, but much larger.

An adult sea swordfish is generally Tier Two.

It is over ten meters long, weighs over a thousand pounds, and its upper jaw is sharp like a long sword.

It’s the fastest in the sea, much faster than the azure-feathered fish.

Reportedly, it can reach a speed of 200 meters per second!

The essence blood of an adult sea swordfish is extremely expensive, with a bottle costing seven or eight hundred spirit stones.

Shen Xuan estimated that such a small bottle would need more than a dozen bottles to capture the talent.

However, the sea swordfish grows very quickly, starting at less than a centimeter and reaching two to three meters in a year.

At that time, it is still the juvenile stage, Tier One Upper or Top Grade.

The ocean has many powerful demon beasts, and with water cultivators capturing them, it’s not easy for the sea swordfish to grow to adulthood and become Tier Two.

Otherwise, why would it produce so many!

After Zhao Chunsheng’s shop opened, they advertised for purchasing juvenile sea swordfish essence blood.

A few days later, Zhao Erhu delivered a storage pouch containing the just purchased juvenile sea swordfish essence blood.

"Uncle Shen, my dad asked me to bring this to you. He said this little bit of essence blood cost 120 spirit stones! Should we continue purchasing?"

"Continue!"

"Alright!"

Entering the practice room, Shen Xuan poured the essence blood from the storage pouch, only a small basinful.

"Let’s see the effect!"

After a flash of gold from the mysterious jade talisman.

[Stealable Talents: Water Escape, Sharp Sword Thrust, Death Strike, Rapid Growth]

Without hesitation, Shen Xuan chose the [Water Escape] talent.

[Talent: Water Escape (12/100)]

[Water Escape Talisman: Entry Level (3/100)]

[Dao Rhyme: 128]

With such high Dao rhyme, the improvement in water escape talisman skills was unexpectedly slow.

Previously, he had practiced for half a month, consuming hundreds of talisman papers, barely reaching the entry level.

Such a large amount of essence blood only enhanced 2 points of talisman crafting skill level.

"It must be due to the high tier of the water escape technique."

Most Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot master the Five Elements Escape Technique.

Shen Xuan, having just reached the late stage of Qi cultivation, also required significant effort to grasp even the entry level.

The entry alone already cost seven or eight hundred spirit stones.

From the experience of making [Rejuvenation Talismans], the early stage certainly requires burning through money and guarantees losses.

The [Water Escape Talisman] must advance to the proficient stage to achieve a break-even point.

At the mastery stage, stable profit can be expected.

Fortunately, when leaving Cyan Dragon Bay Market, Shen Xuan had killed a tribulation cultivator and pocketed a significant amount, resulting in substantial wealth.

Otherwise, merely cultivating the [Water Escape Talisman] could lead him to bankruptcy.

Now, after investing in the shop, he still had seven thousand spirit stones left, over ten high-grade magical artifacts, and a large pile of cultivation spiritual objects, more than enough for indulgence.

After finishing his practice, Shen Xuan began writing letters to Qin Yuehan and Lv Zhengying.

He recounted his encounters at Cyan Dragon Bay Market.

He especially mentioned Elder Bai Xinghe from the Red Rainbow Sect who held a bias against him and pursued him in a spacecraft attempting to coerce him.

Taking advantage of the Longze River’s water, he narrowly escaped and settled in Yunyuan Immortal City.

His purpose in writing was to hope Qin Yuehan and Lv Zhengying would mediate and resolve the misunderstanding between him and Bai Xinghe.

Not that he feared Bai Xinghe.

After all, he was a Foundation Establishment Elder of the Red Rainbow Sect; enemies are better resolved than perpetuated.

After finishing the letters, he handed them to a servant in Yunyuan Immortal City and paid spirit stones for arranging the delivery by carrier pigeons.

However, Yunyuan Immortal City was far from the Cyan Cloud Sect.

A round trip for the letters would take about half a year.

The urgent matter at hand remained acquiring demon beast talents and enhancing power.

If he could successfully establish his Dao foundation, then even if Bai Xinghe refused reconciliation, so what!

Shen Xuan gradually became acclimated to life in Yunyuan Immortal City.

He and his wife, Ding Yuyao, rarely left their estate.

Even daily necessities like spirit rice and demon beast meat were regularly delivered by Zhao Chunsheng’s arrangement.

Usually, it was the shop’s clerk, Yu Zhenxiu, the youngest son of former classmate Li Chang’an.

Shen Xuan had a good impression of him.

Honest, taciturn, and diligently hard-working.

Every month, he settled the accounts, handing the spirit stones to him to take back to the shop.

That night, deep into the night.

The full moon hung high, stars shining brightly,

In the courtyard.

Ding Yuyao lay languidly in Shen Xuan’s arms.

Clothes in disarray.

A pink corset draped casually, revealing a large area of white skin.

The osmanthus in the courtyard emitted a faint fragrance, soothing and refreshing.

Ding Yuyao’s eyes, bright like autumn water, full of love.

Just now, she had served her husband diligently.

The flush of excitement gradually faded.

A hint of satisfaction lingered at the corners of her mouth.

As long as her husband showed interest in her, she felt content.

Her greatest fear was that her husband would despise her, ignore her, remaining as still as a dead lake.

Now, she also came to enjoy life in Yunyuan Immortal City.

The security was excellent, spiritual Qi was abundant, neighbors lived far apart with no interactions.

"Husband, what eventually happened in Cyan Dragon Bay?"

Ding Yuyao asked, full of anticipation.

"The Red Rainbow Sect supported Ding Yisi as a puppet to take over Cyan Dragon Bay, with the spirit vein and market under their control."

Ding Yuyao’s delicate body trembled slightly, her voice carrying a note of sadness: "How about my family?"