What makes Bai Ran puzzled is that except for the shops, there is no one everywhere here.
After pondering for a moment, he smiled dumbly.
How could he forget!
This is not a leisurely island in the Inner Star Sea. Those who have the courage to come here are not monks in the alchemy stage, but at the very least, they are immortal cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation establishment.
In addition, those scattered to other monster islands,
The monks on Ningcui Island must now go out to sea to hunt monsters!
Thinking this, Bai Ran raised his head and looked around.
Only then did I realize that this place was built against a small earth mountain.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Ran walked towards the grocery store piled with rocks.
“Are there any new maps of nearby sea areas?”
Before he came here, he already knew that all the sea maps of Monster Island were being constantly updated, so he naturally wanted to buy the latest one.
"Yes! There are two kinds, rough and fine. I wonder which one you want, senior?" The shopkeeper of the grocery store is a middle-aged man in the Qi refining stage. When he saw Bai Ran and Qu Hun coming to ask, he perked up.
He immediately explained.
"Fine" Bai Ran said without thinking.
"Exquisite sea map, one hundred spiritual stones!" The middle-aged man said loudly.
"One hundred?" Bai Ran thought there was something wrong with his ears and he heard the wrong price.
But his face immediately darkened, revealing an angry look.
Although he did not intend to cause any trouble, he would not be blackmailed by a low-level immortal cultivator.
"Senior, don't get me wrong! This price is not set here, but directly from above. We are just following orders. Moreover, when other seniors sell us new sea area topographic maps, the price is also very high.
!" The shopkeeper saw Bai Ran's face darken, and instead of showing fear, he began to pour out his bitterness.
"Above! Which business alliance are you from?" Bai Ran's anger softened slightly and he frowned and asked.
He knew very well that the merchants who could do business on Monster Island would definitely not be some small chamber of commerce? Maybe they would be the shops of the four major business alliances!
"Haha. The senior is really understanding. The junior is working under the Fengle Merchant Alliance to earn a living." The middle-aged man was slightly startled and then said with a smile.
"Fengle League, one of the four major business alliances, opened Fengle Auction House in Tianxing City?"
"That's right, senior!"
Hearing this, Bai Ran threw out a mid-level spiritual stone without any further hesitation.
Immediately, the grocery shopkeeper smiled and handed Bai Ran the jade slip.
"Are the other shops also from your Fengle Merchant Alliance?" Looking at several other shops, he put away the jade slips in vain and asked angrily.
"How is this possible? Except for the buying house in the west, all other places are opened by other business alliances and have nothing to do with our Fengle League." The middle-aged man glanced at the other shops and said with some hostility.
After hearing this, Bai Ran didn't say anything else, turned around and left with his soul.
After he took a few steps and released the kamikaze, just as he was about to fly away with his weapon, a green rainbow suddenly fell from the sky and landed right in front of a buying house diagonally opposite.
After the brilliance subsided, a burly man in the core formation stage was revealed.
"Boy Fan, your business is here." As soon as the big man appeared, he shouted to the buying house, then took out a storage bag from his arms and threw it on the ground.
After a ray of light rolled over, a strange fish body two to three feet long appeared on the ground.
It is said to be a fish just because its body surface is covered with a layer of blue fish scales. But it has a strange head like a python and a pair of huge sharp claws on its abdomen. It is split in the front of its back.
There was a bleeding hole, as if the demon pill had been removed.
"Oops! It's Senior Hao here. This Jade Phosphorus Fish Demon is very difficult to kill! Only people with great magical powers like Senior can destroy them." A Qi Refiner quickly ran out from the acquisition shop.
He was a young man in his early years, with extremely smart eyes. As he went up to inspect the body of the monster, he kept flattering him. The big man burst out laughing as he said it, and he seemed to be a heroic man.
Suddenly, the big man turned around and faced Bai Ran and Qu Hun. After a brief glance, he greeted them cheerfully:
"The two fellow Taoists are very familiar with each other. They have just arrived at Ningcui Island! Are you interested in hunting monsters together?"
With such enthusiasm, Bai Ran smiled and said nothing, but Qu Hun shook his head and refused in his heart.
Seeing this, the big man showed a trace of regret, but he still preached enthusiastically:
"Hao Yuantian is somewhat famous here on Ningcui Island. If you two change your mind in the future, you can find me again." After saying this, the big man took a bag of spiritual stones from the hands of the young man from the acquisition bank and looked at it.
After taking a quick look, he turned into a green rainbow and flew away again.
Bai Ran stood there in silence.
Judging from the enthusiastic wooing of the red-faced old man and Hao Dahan who were sent together, it is obvious that there are not many alchemy monks coming to Ningcui Island, and they have also formed their own small groups.
It seems that as we know from the information, even monks in the alchemy stage must travel together in this outer star sea to hunt monsters safely.
If he didn't have other plans of his own, he might have agreed to the invitation from one of them.
Bai Ran was thinking in his mind, while he and Qu Hun got on the divine wind boat, took off from the other direction, and flew towards the outside of the island.
On the magic weapon, Bai Ran looked carefully at the jade slip with a picture of the sea area that he had just bought, and then put it away.
Ningcui Island is not that big, and in just a moment, the divine wind boat has flown to the edge of the island.
Standing at the edge of the divine wind boat, Bai Ran looked around. After a flash of light in his eyes, he readjusted his direction and wanted to fly to the depths of the endless sea.
Bai Ran didn't dare to fly too low from the sea.
This is because some monsters with advanced cultivation levels, even if they are lurking on the bottom of the sea, can suck all the living creatures flying over the sea out of thin air across hundreds of feet of sea water. If a cultivator disturbs them, they will still be killed.
of disaster.
Bai Ran is naturally extremely careful!
But similarly, you cannot fly too high in the outer star sea, because there are not only hordes of monsters in the outer star sea, but also bird-like monsters circling in the high air. If you are targeted by them, you will also
It's an extremely dangerous thing.
Of course, this is not an absolute thing. After all, the conditions in various sea areas are still somewhat different, and there is no such thing as absolute safety.
Every year, many monks are teleported to various monster islands, dreaming of killing monsters and obtaining elixirs, but many of them have never been able to return once they left the islands.
There are even reports of monks in the Dan-formation stage failing to hunt down monsters and instead being devoured by high-level monsters.
It can be seen that although the benefits obtained from hunting monsters in the outer star sea are enviable, it also means the existence of high risks.
Therefore, monks who come out to hunt monsters will basically automatically form a fixed group with people they know well and act together.
This way, it's much safer.
But it is also taboo to gather a large number of people to hunt monsters together.
Because in the past, there had been events on Monster Island where monks from the entire island were integrated to hunt and kill monsters in groups.
As a result, these monks were only proud for a while, and they were attacked by several deep-sea monsters of level seven or above and a large group of other monsters. Not only did these monks suffer heavy casualties, but even the monster island was destroyed by these monsters.
Totally destroyed.
After this happened twice more, no one dared to gather too many monks at one time to act. At most, it was a small group of a few or a dozen people.
This has also resulted in a situation where there are many small groups on each monster island, and lone monks with advanced cultivation are easily attracted.
Based on the information obtained above, after flying out of Ningcui Island, Bai Ran immediately looked serious.
Not only did he release powerful spiritual consciousness, covering an area of tens of feet around him, but he also drove the divine wind boat with all his strength, turning into a white light and flying through the air at extremely fast speeds.
Every time Bai Ran flew for several hours, he would stop and check the direction, fearing that he was flying in the wrong direction and couldn't find where he wanted to go.
Don't tell me, Bai Ran's luck is really good!
Along the way, apart from spotting a level 5 monster playing on the sea far away, Bai Ran took a quick trip, and didn't suffer any trouble.
After flying around like this for three days, I finally saw a fiery red island.
After flying a little closer, we can see that this island is actually made up of many bright red corals, which sparkle under the sunlight. It is really beautiful and charming!
Bai Ran stopped over the island, with a look of joy on his face
Coral Island! This is the nearest coral island, let’s stay here!”
Bai Ran murmured to himself while standing on the divine wind boat, and then drove the magic weapon to quickly circle around the island and hover in the air for a while.
After confirming that there were indeed no other monks or monsters near the coral island, Bai Ran and Qu Hun slowly landed on the island.
The island is not large in area and has an irregular ring-shaped structure. It is made up of many coral reefs of different sizes, arranged one after another in the east and west.
Bai Ran stood on the smooth ground, rubbed the dark red sand-like powder under his feet with his leather boots, and raised his head to carefully examine the island's terrain.
After a while, he narrowed his eyes, revealing a thoughtful look.
Suddenly, Bai Ran gave Qu Hun an order to be on alert nearby, and he began to walk around the island.
With Quhun on guard, Bai Ran spent two days looking east and west on the island.
He inspected the entire coral island. In the end, he even dived into the seabed in the middle of the ring-shaped island and did not come out for a long time.
On the third day, Bai Ran finally stopped and had made up his mind!
He ordered Qu Hun to start setting up three large formations including the "Inverted Five Elements Formation", "Heavenly Wind Crazy Formation" and "Transformed Heavenly Luo Formation" on several selected areas.
These large formations are blocking the three necessary routes into the center of Red Coral Island.
Then, Bai Ran used all the remaining array equipment at the ring center of Red Coral Island, and then deployed several small arrays to completely seal the surrounding area.
In this way, it should be called a dragnet.
After doing all this, Bai Ran checked it carefully again, and after making sure that there were indeed no omissions, he took out a jade box from his pocket.
He stroked the surface of the jade box with one hand for a while. Bai Ran showed a mysterious smile and gently opened the lid.
Inside is a single-stem, thirteen-leaf, giant spiritual grass!
The dozens of leaves of this grass are all curled into a cylinder shape. It looks a bit strange.
But what is even more surprising is that it is completely white and exudes a faint glow, making it look extremely gorgeous and dazzling. It looks a bit like something from the fairy world.
This is the biggest killer of Bai Ran's trip, "Nishang Grass".
In fact, although this grass cannot be said to be a common thing, it is not an extremely rare thing. It can be found on coral reefs in the sky and the sea.
But if it is planted in ordinary soil and is not surrounded by brightly colored environments, the neon grass will definitely wither and die within a day or two, which is very interesting.
The most amazing thing is that the brilliance emitted by it will always be consistent with the environment in which it grows, and will change with the change of the color of the environment. It may emit red light, or it may emit blue light and other colors.
However, its medicinal effect is not important to immortal cultivators, and it is not as attractive as its appearance. It is just a medicine for refining some low-level elixirs, and generally does not attract the attention of monks.
But the other weird polar name of "Nishang Grass" - "Monster Luuring Grass", once caused quite a commotion in the world of Tianhai Immortal Cultivation.
At that time, I didn’t know which immortal cultivator accidentally discovered this extremely gorgeous herb. Although it had thirteen cylindrical curled leaves when it first appeared, one of them would gradually unfold every hundred years. The unfolding process It will last for six to seven days and give off a weird smell at the same time.
This smell has no effect on immortal cultivators, but for most monsters in the sea, it is full of incomparable temptation.
As long as they smell this smell, the monsters within a certain range will come looking for it and immediately rush to devour it.
Moreover, the older this kind of neon grass is, the wider the range it can affect when it spreads its leaves. The temptation for high-level monsters will also increase.
It is said that there was once an expert in the Nascent Soul stage who accidentally discovered a "Baoguangcao" that was more than a thousand years old in the depths of the outer star sea, and the grass had just opened its eleventh leaf.
As a result, this expert witnessed the feat of dozens of nearby level six and seven monsters charging towards him, and was so frightened that he had to run away.
So, after this discovery was made public in the world of immortal cultivation.
Many monks have the idea of using this herb to lure monsters in order to destroy them and obtain elixirs.
Because when high-level monks come to the sea to hunt monsters, the most troublesome thing is that they often wander around on the sea for several months without finding a single monster.
For most monks, level five monsters are the best targets, and level six and seven monsters are the best targets.
There is a risk of someone being killed. As for monsters above level eight, except for the beasts, monks of other levels are fleeing.
Otherwise, we are not hunting monsters, but feeding them.
There are indeed a lot of monsters in the alien sea, but as long as they don't surface, they can't lurk in the deep sea, so it's not easy to find them!
If high-level monks could control weapons tens of thousands of miles a day, and had the spiritual power to search the sea and the bottom of the sea, it would be normal for them to wander around the sky and sea for half a year without encountering a single monster.
After all, in addition to the large size of the alien sea, most monsters have their own unique hiding methods, which can be easily ignored even if you use your spiritual sense to search for them.
Now that "Neon Clothes Grass" has a miraculous effect of attracting monsters, it naturally caused a commotion in the world of immortality at that time.
The "Neon Clothes Grass" that is hundreds of years old is extremely valuable.
But these people soon discovered that this idea was simply a daydream.
First of all, they have no way of knowing the exact time when the leaves of "Nishang Grass" will unfold.
It is said that it takes a hundred years to unfold a leaf, but it is normal to deviate by two or three years. Monks like them who go to sea cannot make effective use of this time.
Secondly, they also discovered to their dismay that these colorful grasses had a strange habit of not being able to be uprooted within a hundred years after they were planted.
Otherwise, the neon grass will lose its miraculous effect of spreading its leaves and emitting scent.
As a result, their idea of taking the fast-growing neon grass with them and transplanting it to the alien sea was shattered.
Therefore, the name "demon-inducing grass" was soon abandoned by the monks, and the name "nichang grass" was restored.
Bai Ran saw relevant information recorded as a joke in a jade slip.
He had an idea at that time, and he thought of the miraculous effect of waiting and waiting through the clever combination of the magical vial and this magical herb.
He immediately purchased a batch of neon grass from the city and started testing it in his cave.
Sure enough, after the green liquid is dripped on, in as little as one or two days, as long as four or five days, the neon grass will definitely stretch out a leaf.
And during the stretching process, a strange smell was also emitted. This smell could not be said to be good or bad, but it was a strange smell that left a deep impression on people.
Bai Ran put the two blood jade spiders into the medicine garden with doubts. As a result, the two spiritual beasts immediately jumped away in excitement, and without hesitation, they nibbled several neon grasses that gave off a strange smell.
Clean and tidy.
Then the smell disappeared, and the two white spiders immediately returned to normal.
Bai Ran was pleasantly surprised and worried. After observing the blood jade spider for more than ten days, nothing abnormal appeared, so he felt relieved.
With this trump card in hand, he immediately felt confident in his journey of killing demons and obtaining pills.
After re-preparing, Bai Ran not only brought a large number of Neongrass seedlings and vials, but also specially selected the sea area of Ningcui Island, which has many coral islands, and teleported it over.
After all, only in places where there are many corals can the neon grass survive.
Now, he has set up a dragnet on this red coral island, and after the neon grass is ripened, the monsters will automatically come to his door.
Bai Ran found an isolated coral reef in the ring center of the coral island and moved the neon grass seedlings in the jade box there.
Although he knew that the older the neon grass would affect a wider area of the sea when it spread its leaves, to be on the safe side, he still started with the century-old neon grass.
Bai Ran took out a small bottle from his body and carefully dropped a drop of green liquid on the neon grass.
Then he closed his eyes and rested his mind on the nearby coral island. Qu Hun had already returned to him, and they were recharging their energy together.
On the third day, the neon grass finally showed signs of spreading its leaves under Bai Ran's eyes, and emitted a strange smell.
Without saying a word, Bai Ran suddenly flashed a light in his hand, and several formation flags with different brilliance appeared around him, and were neatly planted on the ground in front of him.
Bai Ran looked at the formation flags for a while, then closed his eyes again without moving.
He has already thought about it. If no monster appears after a few days, he will add another drop of green liquid to expand the range of the colorful clothes to lure monsters.
In this way, there will always be monsters coming to your door.