Chapter 505: Chapter 503: Trust between Cultivators?_1

“I do indeed have a fondness for cultivating spiritual plants and I feel an immediate kinship with you. However, two thousand four hundred spirit stones for just one spiritual seed is simply too expensive!”

“Two thousand spirit stones, how is that?”

Lu Xuan made the first cut.

“Holy friend, this is a fourth-grade spiritual plant from the outer domains, it’s extremely rare and hard to find there, let alone in the Cultivation World! Now I happened to come across it by chance.”

The stall owner said with a smile.

Seeing Lu Xuan’s hesitance, he gritted his teeth.

“Tell you what, let’s keep it simple. If you really want it, how about two thousand two hundred spirit stones?”

“Deal.”

Lu Xuan agreed readily. The price was within his expected range, and he was definitely interested in this so-called Dark Bone Tree Spiritual Seed. He immediately took out the spirit stones and bought the dark green spiritual seed.

“Congratulations, my friend, I wish you the best of luck in planting this rare outer domain spiritual plant.”

The stall owner said sincerely to Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan gave a bow of his hand to show gratitude, then continued leisurely wandering around the middle area.

A while later, he came to a stall displaying a huge elephant.

The stall was filled with chunks of different demon beast meats and bones. The stall owner was a bald monk and there was a violent aura all around him. It’s barely containable and one could guess how many lives he had taken.

“How do you sell this elephant’s corpse, friend?”

Lu Xuan asked the stall owner, in front of the elephant, which reached a high of about nine meters. He suddenly became interested in it.

“The Blue Cunning Elephant, a fourth-grade demon beast, its most valuable ivory has been taken away. If you want it, it can be yours for two thousand eight hundred spirit stones. And that’s the final deal.”

“This elephant demon beast has a large size and the amount of flesh it has can last quite a while.”

The bald cultivator commented slowly.

“The meat of this fourth-grade Blue Cunning Elephant sold in packages by my friend here either tastes average or doesn’t contain a lot of spiritual power. Whereas its blood and bones could be used for making charms and magic artifacts.”

“However, just a piece of ivory takes up over half the value of the elephant corpse. I won’t haggle too much – two thousand six hundred spirit stones, do we have a deal?”

The bald cultivator fell silent.

Lu Xuan’s words made sense. This huge pile of demon beast corpse was still left until now mainly because the flesh of this Blue Cunning Elephant wasn’t particularly valuable, and it was only good enough to feed some carnivorous demon beasts with no particular taste preference.

“Deal, it’s a deal.”

He hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.

Lu Xuan took out twenty-six middle-grade spiritual stones and handed them to the bald cultivator. Once he confirmed the count, Luan Xuan brushed his hand and the elephant corpse was into his storage bag.

Under the gaze of everyone, it wasn’t suitable to use the Fifth Grade Treasure Glutton Pouch, so Lu Xuan decided to move it into the Glutton Pouch after returning to his room, trying his best to keep the elephant meat fresh and retain as much vitality as possible.

This Blue Cunning Elephant’s meat might not be so valuable to the average Foundation Establishment Cultivator, but it was extremely suitable for Lu Xuan.

This pile of demon beast meat could be used to raise and cultivate the Spirit of Flesh and the Strange Longevity Peach, Thousand Qiu Hands. The organs left inside could be used to cultivate the newly acquired Five Viscera Treasure Plant. The Essence Blood could be used to water the Blood Scourge Flower and the Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng.

Regrettably, the demon beast’s soul had long since disappeared after its death, otherwise it could be directly sent to the Underworld Court for a full-course meal.

He quietly walked among the many stalls, buying anything that caught his eye. After spending several thousand spirit stones, he brought back a lot of demon beast meat and went back to his room.

“A hundred clusters of hard work, all burnt down in the blink of an eye.”

After years of painstakingly cultivating spirit plants and finally illuminating a few clusters, he had used up all the spirit stones he had gained in one go. It’s the equivalent of bitter work that culminated in a pittance.

Having spent thousands of Spirit Stones, Lu Xuan felt agonizingly thrifty. Thankfully, everything he bought was worth it, and each one had its use, which somehow balanced his heart.

After ensuring there are no prying eyes with his spiritual sense, he took out a small pile of Spirit Soil from the gluttonous insect pouch and placed his newly obtained dark green spiritual seed into it.

“Outer domain spirit plant, I wonder what distinctive characteristics it possesses…”

Lu Xuan held expectations in his heart, his consciousness focused on the dark green spiritual seed within the shallow layer of the Spirit Soil, an idea emerging in his mind.

[Ink Bone Tree, Fourth Grade Spirit Plant, a special breed from the outer domains. The cultivation process requires the nourishment from the Spirit Plant Master’s essence. Once mature, the spirit plant can be integrated into your body, refined, and merged with your bones. This gives your bones the toughness and hardness of a fourth-grade magic artifact and could possibly offer other miraculous benefits.]

[Waste seed. Due to the lack of proper cultivation for a long time and accidents during the transition between domains, the seed’s vitality and spiritual nature completely drain away, making it a waste seed.]

[Immersed in the Thousand-Year Mysterious Life Spirit Milk with a strong vitality for several years, the waste seed appears identical to a normal spirit seed on the surface.]

[Wu wu wu, life force is wasted. I am already a waste seed.]

“What??”/p>

The idea disappeared, and two large question marks emerged in Lu Xuan brain.

What do you mean by ‘waste seed’? Does it mean it looks fine but can’t actually be cultivated?”

“I spent more than two thousand spirit stones to buy a waste seed?”

He quickly cleared his thoughts, and then resentment surged in his heart.

“I’ve paid a hefty price for a supposed outer domain fourth-grade spirit seed, only to be deceived with a useless seed?”

“Where is the trust between cultivators?!”

Lu Xuan took deep breaths, finally suppressing the anger in his heart.

“Good thing I have this special ability to inspect the status of spirit plants and spirit seeds, or else I would unknowingly plant it and lose more than two thousand spirit stones!”

“That guy is really cunning. Using Thousand Year Mysterious Life Spirit Milk to soak the waste seed, so it looks exactly like a normal Spirit Seed.”

“If any Spirit Plant Master got it, they might use much time and energy, and after failing to cultivate the spirit plant from the seed, they might just think their own cultivation skills are lacking, unable to hatch this fourth-grade spiritual seed from the outer domains. They would never think that the stall owner was setting them up.”

Thinking of that well-meaning stall owner, Lu Xuan snorts coldly.

Usually, he is the one taking advantage of others, but it’s rare for someone to take so many Spirit Stones from him in such a way!

“I must reclaim this loss.”

He said to himself.

“Nevertheless, the single trip did expose me to the many dangers of cultivation world.”

Lu Xuan sighed with feeling. First, he purchased the mysterious stone coffin only to have an evil cultivator at the peak of foundation establishment snatch it away directly. Then he bought this waste seed. All these incidents have enriched his experience at the treasure fair.

In the past, his activities were mostly within Sky Sword Sect. Occasionally he would appear in Sword Gate Town to buy or exchange Spirit Seeds. Naturally, he was unaware of the dangers in the cultivation world.

“Good thing I’m strong enough. Despite these losses, I can recover on my own.”

“If you’re weak, you might not even realize you’ve been cheated. Even if you can see it, you have no way to actively recover your loss.”

Lu Xuan clenched his fists tightly, reflecting on his experiences.