"I wonder if fellow ancient Taoists know about Qianye Dew." Bai Ran asked straight to the point without any reason to be cryptic.
"Qianye Lu?" Gu Yu looked dumbfounded, but after thinking for a moment, he quickly replied:
"This junior has some impression of this thing. It is a coincidence that if I had asked about this thing a few years ago, I would have really known nothing about it. But in the past two years, I got a classical book, and Qianye Dew was mentioned in it.
This classic has been copied into the jade slip by the junior, do you want to see it in person?" After saying these words, Gu Yu showed a cautious look.
Bai Ran was overjoyed, and a look of excitement flashed in his eyes.
"It would be better if there is a classic. If it is really what I am looking for, Qu will definitely thank fellow Taoist Daoist." Bai Ran suppressed the excitement in his heart and said with a smile.
When Gu Yu heard this, he was also overjoyed. If he could get this promise from a monk in the Dan Formation Stage, then his fortune this time was really big!
He immediately groped around on his body without hesitation, took out a light yellow jade slip, and handed it to Bai Ran with both hands.
"This is the jade slip. Senior, please take a closer look!" Gu Yu said respectfully.
Bai Ran didn't say anything more. He took the jade slip directly and quickly scanned it with his spiritual consciousness.
In just a moment, Bai Ran's expression was first excited, then confused, and finally fell into deep thought.
Li Xun carefully observed Bai Ran's every move from the side. Seeing Bai Ran's changeable expression, he couldn't help but an unknown color flashed in his eyes.
And Gu Yu became even more uneasy. He was afraid that the Qianye Dew in his jade slip was not what Senior Qu was looking for.
"Yes, this is it." Bai Ran finally pulled out his consciousness from the jade slip and said slowly. But the excitement in his eyes was much less.
"Why, is there any trouble with this Qianyelu?" The old man rolled his eyes slightly and asked tentatively.
"Qu didn't expect that this thing is so tricky and would be related to the eighth-level monster." Bai Ran showed a bitter smile on his lips.
"Eighth level monster?" Li Xun was startled and looked at Bai Ran with disbelief.
"That's right. The so-called Qianye Dew is actually the juice of the demon companion grass. However, the demon companion grass must grow next to the eighth-level monster beast to be effective." Bai Ran sighed softly and said a little helplessly.
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After Li Xun heard it clearly, he was speechless.
Of course he knew what "demon companion grass" was. Isn't it a kind of spiritual grass that grows near the lairs of some monster beasts due to being affected by the demonic aura for many years.
It stands to reason that this kind of demon companion grass can be seen everywhere. But if it is the demon companion grass next to the eighth level monster beast, it is completely different.
Although the alien sea claims to have seen even ninth-level and even tenth-level monsters, these are just rumors after all.
At least a seventh-level monster was the highest level monster he had ever seen in Black Rock City, let alone an eighth-level monster.
Li Xun looked at Bai Ran with a hint of surprise.
I wonder what kind of precious elixir this person wants to refine, but he actually needs such a heaven-defying thing.
"There are some things recorded in this jade slip that I may need to study carefully in the future. I wonder if the ancient Taoist friend can give the jade slip to Qu." Bai Ran played with the jade slip in his hand, and after a slight hesitation,
Suddenly and unexpectedly he said to Gu Yu.
"If it's useful to senior, feel free to take it!" Gu Yu was stunned for a moment, but then said without hesitation.
Seeing that the other party was so well-behaved, Bai Ran nodded slightly. Turning his hand, a small bottle and a talisman with a small yellow sword appeared in his hand.
"As a senior, I naturally won't ask for your things in vain. Here is a bottle of elixir that can improve your cultivation and a talisman. You can take it and use it." Bai Ran tossed these two things gently.
Throw it over.
"Thank you, senior, for the gift!" Gu Yu took the two items and thanked them with gifts over and over again.
These things were extremely valuable to him, a monk in the Qi Refining Stage.
"Since Fellow Daoist Qu has given you the treasure, Gu Yu, please go down for the time being." Li Xun was a little surprised by Bai Ran's generosity, but calmly let Gu Yu leave the room.
In the house, there were only two people left in the blink of an eye.
"I wonder if there is anything else that I need Li Xun's help for besides this matter? If so, please just mention it," Li Xun said in an unusually forthright manner.
"Since Fellow Daoist Li has said this, I really want to bother you with something. I wonder if there is an agate beast's horn for sale in this golden pavilion?" Bai Ran hesitated for a moment and asked thoughtfully.
"Haha! Fellow Taoist, you have really come to the right place! Although these agate horns are extremely rare, our store just bought two of them last month. If fellow Taoist needs them, Li will ask someone to send one over right away." The old man applauded.
He chuckled and gave the order without a moment's hesitation.
Bai Ran naturally looked surprised and thanked her profusely!
Not long after, a boy walked into the house holding a silver plate.
On top of the silver plate, there is an exquisite wooden box.
"Fellow Taoist, let's take a look. I wonder if this horned agate is what I want."
Bai Ran nodded solemnly, reached out to grab the wooden box, and opened the lid.
As soon as the blue light was turned on, a sharp horn about half a foot long appeared inside the box.
This object is crystal clear, in the shape of a pointed cone and spiral, with blue light emerging from the surface.
"Yes! This one is very useful. I wonder how many spiritual stones are needed for this thing?" Bai Ran showed a satisfied look and closed the wooden box again.
"This corner of our shop was purchased for five thousand spiritual stones. Since fellow Taoist really needs it, all we need to do is give you a purchase price." Li Xun, a very good person, said with a smile.
Naturally, Bai Ran would not bargain anymore. After thanking him immediately, he took out enough mid-level spiritual stones from his body and pushed them to the other party.
The old man flicked his broad sleeves and put away these spiritual stones, and then asked with a smile on his face:
"Fellow Daoist Qu, do you have any detailed plans when you arrive here? Although Daoist Daoist is very powerful, the high-level monsters here are really difficult to deal with. There are many fellow Taoists who have formed pills and were seriously injured by the monsters because they fell alone. How about that?
Li will introduce some fellow Taoists with similar cultivation levels to fellow Taoists. In this way, if everyone goes to sea together, safety will be guaranteed."
Bai Ran smiled slightly after hearing this. The other party had been so friendly from the beginning to the end, and finally said words to win over him.
"Thank you for your kind words, Fellow Daoist Li. However, Qu is going to refine some elixirs in the near future. After taking them, I am afraid he will have to retreat for a period of time. I am not in a hurry to go out to sea to hunt monsters." Bai Ran couldn't bear to reply.
However, he would not go to sea with some strange monks, so he declined politely.
"That's right. It's better to improve your cultivation first and get a little familiar with the situation here. However, if you really want to find someone in the future, Daoist Qu, don't forget to find Li!" Although there was a flash on the old man's face.
There was a hint of disappointment, but he immediately continued speaking as if nothing had happened.
Bai Ran naturally agreed wholeheartedly. After chatting with the other party for a while, he said goodbye and left.
The old man sent Bai Ran out of the door before returning to the house.
"How is it? Can this person be of use to us?" As soon as the old man sat back down, a faint voice suddenly sounded in the room.
Then a vague figure floated out strangely from a landscape painting in the house. There was actually another person always present in this house.
This man's white clothes were fluttering, and his face was covered with blue light, making him look extremely mysterious.
"Don't worry. Although I haven't talked much with him and he looks very strange, there is no doubt that this monk named Qu is a solitary cultivator. As long as he goes out to sea alone and encounters several dangers, he will naturally know what I just said.
The benefits of the suggestions will come back sooner or later." The old man said confidently.
"Humph! This is not necessarily true." The man in white said coldly, pouring cold water on him. "What? Can a monk in the early stage of forming pills really be able to hunt monsters alone in the abyss?" Li Xun shook his head, looking disapproving, "The other party should
You are not an ordinary alchemy monk. You were here just now
When we were talking in the room, although he never looked at my hiding place, for some reason, I felt like I was being watched by this person. I suspect that the other person had already discovered my existence. He just didn't reveal it." The man in white was silent.
After a while, he suddenly said solemnly.
"Are you mistaken? Your hiding technique is impossible for even a monk with a higher level of cultivation to discover. Don't tell me that this guy named Qu is actually a monk in the late stage of pill formation." After being startled, the old man became a little surprised.
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"It's hard to say! It's also possible that the other party's cultivation method is special, or he has some treasure." The man in white said somewhat unconfidently.
"Forget it. Regardless of whether this person is ordinary or special, we have tried our best to make friends with each other. There is nothing wrong with this!" Li Xun said with a frown after walking around the room a few times.
After hearing this, the man in white nodded in agreement and said nothing more.
At this time, Bai Ran had already appeared in a grocery store near Cunjin Pavilion. He bought a map of the local sea area and information about the presence of monsters from it, and then he calmly left the store and found a secluded place.
, and began to read the information carefully.
After just taking a rough look, Bai Ran couldn't help but frown.
There are too many dangerous areas marked near Qiyuan Island!
Are they all places frequented by high-level monsters?
As for the famous abyss, it's not that far away from here. As long as Bai Ran flies south at full speed for half a month, it can be seen.
However, the area of this abyss is really ridiculously large!
It is thousands of miles wide, not to mention that according to the data, this sea area is unfathomable, and no one has yet explored its specific depth.
After Bai Ran read it once, he quickly put away the jade slips containing the information, then stood there, lowering his head and thinking with a solemn expression.
I don't know how long it took, but when Bai Ran raised his head, his face returned to its normal color.
Next, he did not go to other places in Black Rock City, but left Stone City without hesitation.
As soon as he left the small town, Bai Ran immediately soared into the sky and turned into a blue rainbow, breaking through the sky and flying away.
The entire Qiyuan Island is not very big, just a medium-sized island.
And just like what Xu Yun said, except for Black Rock City, there is no second city on the island. The rest of the place is extremely desolate, without even a village.
It seems that other places on this island are also prohibited from living by mortals and monks. I don’t know why!
Bai Ran quickly flew out of Qiyuan Island, looked up at the sky from the sea, identified the people below, and flew away to the north.
For him now, the most important thing is to find an island where monks rarely appear and reestablish a cave.
Needless to say, the area near Haiyuan was definitely a place where monks gathered in caves. Bai Ran didn't want to squeeze in among them and attract anyone's attention.
Therefore, he deliberately fled in a direction away from the abyss.
There are not many large islands in the sea near Qiyuan Island, and most of them are already occupied by monks and mortals.
Bai Ran didn't stay on these islands for a moment and just passed by them without any notice.
Obviously, just as he expected, there were not many monks in the northern sea area.
After he flew out for more than ten days, he rarely saw other monks. Even if he could see them, when they saw Bai Ran's escaping light, the lower-ranking ones immediately and cautiously avoided it. The higher-ranking ones were extremely vigilant.
His face was full of alertness.
Killing people and robbing treasures here is no different from other monster islands.
Bai Ran himself was a little more careful.
After flying out for another two days, there was no trace of any other monks, and Bai Ran changed his direction and flew towards the west.
According to the chart, there should be some large and small islands with small spiritual veins in the west. Because these islands have poor spiritual veins, or are far away from Qiyuan Island, and their safety is not guaranteed, few monks live on them.
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As for mortals, they will only live on the islands near Qiyuan Island, so their safety is guaranteed.
Of course Bai Ran wouldn't care about these conditions and planned to see if there was an island he liked.
... Half a month later, Bai Ran stood above a small island only fifty or sixty miles away, looking intently below.
This is the fourth uninhabited desert island with spiritual veins that Bai Ran has discovered so far.
This island is not big, but the environment is extremely complex.
There are bare wastelands with no grass growing, dense forests with unknown trees, emerald green and colorful grasslands, and small mountains covered with hills.
Bai Ran used his spiritual consciousness to explore the entire island, and there was no trace of any monks staying on the island.
It's not that this island's spiritual veins are so inferior that other monks look down upon it.
On the contrary, although the spiritual veins on this island are very small, the spiritual energy provided is quite sufficient. Even if the spiritual veins are not top-notch, they are still in the upper-middle level.
The reason why there are no monks living on the island yet is simply because the environment around the island is so strange.
And this is what Bai Ran likes most about this island.
The island is actually surrounded by a vast expanse of white sea fog, which is not naturally formed but diffuses from some nearby rapids and whirlpools.
What's even more strange is that the white mist only spreads around the island, but not above the island at all.
Bai Ran was also extremely surprised when he saw this scene at first.
But it was only when he broke through the water nearby and dived under the island that he finally understood.
The bottom of this island is actually densely packed with countless holes as thick as a finger, and thousands of slender whitebait crawl in and out of these holes.
At first glance, these whitebait seem to be no different from ordinary small fish.
But when Bai Ran wrapped his hands with spiritual power, he grabbed one at random and put it in front of his eyes for a closer look. He found that these small fish didn't have any scales at all, and their bodies were covered with extremely sharp silver bone spurs.
If an ordinary person reached out and grabbed it, there would be no doubt blood dripping from it.
"Swallowing sea fish!" When Bai Ran saw this scene, this name immediately came to mind.
Although the name is so funny, these little fishes are actually a kind of lower-level monsters that live in groups.
In addition to making the bone spurs on their bodies as hard as iron, they also love to surface and play with themselves by spitting out seawater and spraying white mist. They can often be seen near some islands.
But there are so many "sea-swallowing fish" near this island, and the puffing fog can completely cover an island. This is really a rare thing.
Even Bai Ran himself, if he hadn't met a level four monster "Silver Winged Bird" on the way, and chased the monster into the sea of fog on a whim, he would never have been able to discover this island in the sea fog. It certainly wouldn't have been possible.
Passed by casually!
Because from a distance, this small piece of sea fog is just the most common sight on the sea. There are countless of them on the sea, so it is not surprising!
After Bai Ran circled this island several times, he quickly made up his mind to choose this island to open his own cave.
If you can’t choose such a secret island, what other island can you choose that is more suitable for you?
The spiritual vein of the island lies on the miniature mountain range, which is only more than ten miles long and thirty or forty feet high. There are only a few small peaks.
Being so short, it was naturally impossible for Bai Ran to open a cave halfway up the mountain.
He simply found a small, concave valley directly at the bottom of the mountain range and began to cut through the mountains and rocks.
With Bai Ran's current level of cultivation, it would be effortless to open a cave with the same structure as before.
After just half a day, the general outline of the cave appeared.
Bai Ran had no intention of continuing to elaborately carve the cave, but first used several sets of formation equipment he made to cover the cave and the mountains, and activated the forbidden method to form an illusion.
Looking from a distance, the mountains disappeared out of thin air, and what appeared was a lush green forest, closely connected with the real forest not far away, without any flaws.
But Bai Ran held his chin in the air and stared down for a long time, still feeling a little uneasy.
If someone is like him and happens to fly into the sea fog, these restrictions cannot be hidden from a monk with advanced cultivation.
He lowered his head and pondered for a while, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.
Bai Ran flew back to the new cave without saying a word, then sorted out the materials on his body and started to find a secret room to refine things.
Six or seven days later, when Bai Ran flew out of the cave again, there were more than a dozen identical sets of formation equipment in his hand.
These formations look very crude and crude, and they are not very clever formations.
But when Bai Ran buried a set of arrangements in various places on the island, and opened them one by one, large amounts of mist surged out from these magic circles, and the entire island suddenly became filled with mist.
Soon, the fog generated by these magic circles merged with the sea fog around the island, completely covering the entire island.
Someone breaks in at this moment. Unless flying at low altitude, it is difficult to find that there is an island below.
After looking around in the air, Bai Ran felt at ease.
Although it would consume a lot of spiritual stones to activate these multiple magic circles at the same time, he didn't care anymore.
He would rather spend money to eliminate disaster now!
Bai Ran turned into green light again and flew downwards.
Next, he would officially clean up his cave, arrange the insect chamber, and plant spiritual grass... Two days later, Bai Ran was in a stone room, holding the pale yellow jade slip given to him by the ancient jade from the Golden Pavilion, and using
He looked at the contents inside with concentration.
A solemn look on his face!
His expression changed. His consciousness had already pulled out the jade slip, but then he fell into deep thought.
After a while, he stood up and walked back and forth in the stone room a few times, but the expression on his face became more solemn.
Suddenly he reached into his storage bag and found a white jade box in his hand.
After Bai Ran looked at it for a moment, he slowly opened the lid of the box, revealing some small five-color beads.