novelapdf Chapter 1965 Gradually Taking the Hook
Chapter 1965 Gradually Taking the Hook
Chapter 1965 Gradually Taking the Hook
For Luo Hong, the most suitable beast core for his physical cultivation is of course the Earth-level beast core, but the Mystical-level beast core can also be used. If the quality is not enough, the quantity can make up for it.
As one Xuan-level beast core after another was refined by Luo Hong, the Xuan orifices in his body were also being lit up at an extremely astonishing speed.
In the blink of an eye, a year had passed quietly. After refining more than 3,000 Xuan-level beast cores and successfully breaking through his Xuan Dao cultivation to the middle stage of Taiyi, Luo Hong finally decided to do the real work he promised.
He took out an animal bone, opened his mouth and spit out a white-gold flame, enveloping it.
This first step alone is enough to make all the cultivators in Jilinkong Realm stare in amazement. After all, this kind of external weapon refining method should not appear here!
However, although Luo Hong used his magical powers, it was not as smooth as in the outside world. It took him ten times as long to refine the animal bones in front of him into the shape of a javelin.
At this moment, he stretched out his hand and grabbed seven mysterious beast cores, making them fall at different places on the spear.
Under the combined effects of the platinum spirit fire and the laws of space, the seven mysterious beast cores immediately softened into a silver viscous liquid and began to flow on the surface of the javelin.
Half an hour later, complex silver patterns appeared on the bone spear, emitting bursts of spatial aura.
After spending another stick of incense time to cleanse it, Luo Hong opened his mouth and sucked in all the platinum spiritual fire into his stomach.
Reaching out to catch the falling silver-patterned javelin, Luo Hong simply stimulated the blood and energy in his body slightly, causing it to emit a dazzling silver light!
"Sure enough, it's not difficult for me to refine this kind of beast core artifact."
Completely different from what Luo Hong claimed in front of Sun Tu, he successfully refined a mysterious weapon on just his first official attempt.
Luo Hong also had his own plans when he chose to refine javelins.
After all, after his physical body broke through the middle stage of Taiyi, the improvement effect of the Xuan-level beast core on him was reduced by half.
Naturally, he had to refine some mysterious weapons suitable for hunting to assist the hunting team of Baiyan City.
Therefore, Luo Hong immediately took the silver-patterned javelin that he had just refined and found the city lord Sun Tu.
"Well, Brother Luo, you really didn't disappoint me!
I wonder how many Xuan-level beast cores are needed to refine this spear?"
As soon as he got the silver-patterned javelin, Sun Tu called a hunting captain and ordered him to test the power of the javelin.
The results proved that the Silver-Striped Javelins could directly increase its strength several times, making it possible to cross a small realm and defeat the Black-Level Scaled Beast!
Sun Tu was overjoyed when he heard this. After all, the strength of the hunting team was closely related to the strength of Baiyan City.
And the richer Baiyan City is, the more benefits Sun Tu can get from the main city and improve his own strength!
So, he immediately asked about the refining cost of the Silver-Pattern Javelins, obviously intending to equip all the Golden Immortals in the city with it.
"Not counting the animal bones, refining a javelin like this would require about thirty Xuan-level animal cores."
The other party had asked him to make an offer, so Luo Hong certainly felt embarrassed not to take advantage of it.
After all, after his physical body broke through the middle stage of Taiyi, his need for a Xuan-level beast core became even greater.
"It's not expensive. I wonder how much you can refine in a month?"
Thirty Xuan-grade beast cores mean thirty golden fairy-scale beasts. For a hunting team, they basically have to go out more than forty times to capture them, which is about the output of twenty years.
But the Golden Immortal Xuanshi in the hunting team also needs Xuan-level beast cores, so it will take at least fifty years for Baiyan City to rely on a hunting team to accumulate thirty Xuan-level beast cores.
Fortunately, the silver-patterned javelin is a production tool. As long as it is invested, it can immediately improve the production efficiency of the hunting team, so it is not expensive overall.
"After figuring out the refining method, Luo just needs to work a little harder, and fifty pieces a month won't be a problem."
Luo Hong was not surprised by Sun Tu's reaction, because this was the offer he had planned.
There are more than a hundred hunting teams in Baiyan City, and the number of Golden Immortals among them is close to two hundred.
In other words, all the Golden Immortals and Mystics in the city can change their attire in four months.
"Well, that's great. Then I'll have Brother Luo work hard for four months!
Of course, I will never let you work in vain. After the task is completed, I will immediately offer you ten earth-level beast cores!"
After pondering for a moment, Sun Tu immediately nodded heavily and promised.
"Although I would rather study new mystical weapons, since this is the city lord's order, I will definitely do my best!"
Luo Hong immediately looked embarrassed, but in fact he was very happy in his heart.
If he wanted to refine silver-patterned javelins in batches, with the strength of his spiritual sense, he could easily refine ten at a time.
It would only take about ten days to make two hundred silver-patterned javelins, but he could obtain more than four thousand six hundred mysterious beast cores at once.
After refining it, Luo Hong's physical cultivation will be greatly improved!
"Haha, don't worry, Brother Luo. I will certainly not let you refine only this kind of mysterious weapon in the future. Armor, swords, arrows, etc. are all what we need!"
Sun Tu also knew that great weapon refiners didn’t like repetitive work, so he immediately spoke to comfort them.
"That's good. I will go back first. The city lord can have someone deliver the materials to my residence later."
Luo Hong smiled upon hearing this, bowed and left the hall.
As soon as the huge door of the hall closed, Sun Tu's face darkened. He no longer had the warm expression he had just had. He spoke with a bit of coldness:
"Friend Xu, how is the matter I arranged for you going?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a small door appeared from the wall at the side and Xu Yinghu stepped out.
"Reporting to the City Lord, I have already found out the situation of that Taoist Zhu. Just as the City Lord expected, he has no intention of staying in Baiyan City for a long time. He just wants to get familiar with the place for a while before heading to Xuancheng."
As he walked to the center of the hall, Xu Yinghu reported.
"Well, I haven't seen him these days. What have you been doing with him?"
Sun Tu just nodded lightly when he heard this. It was obvious that this was the result he had expected.
After all, Zhu Yan has reached the heavenly gate and has opened more mysterious orifices than him. It is naturally impossible for him to live in Baiyan City and be willing to be inferior to him.
“He first opened up a large hunting ground in the Scaled Wolf Valley, and then began to hunt Taiyi Scaled Beasts everywhere, seemingly intending to collect Earth-level Beast Cores.
I was responsible for leading him and gained a lot of benefits.”
Xu Yinghu replied without any lies.
Over the past year, he even slowed down his own recovery of blood and energy and always stayed by Zhu Yan's side.
“He plans to go to Xuancheng, so it’s natural that he wants to collect more earth-level beast cores.
The most important point is, what is his relationship with Luo Hong?"
Sun Tu nodded, not paying attention to Zhu Yan's actions, but immediately asked very seriously.
"My Lord, I have already made it very clear through indirect means that he and Luo Hong only met during their exile, and their friendship was very superficial."
Xu Yinghu immediately replied seriously.
"Haha, that's great. You continue to help him hunt the Taiyi Scaled Beast. When it's almost done, I will arrange a team to go to Xuancheng.
As soon as he leaves, we will immediately take action against Luo Hong. Only by completely controlling this mysterious weapon master can our Baiyan City get the greatest benefit from Lord Erkui!"
Sun Tu smiled immediately after hearing this, and the more he spoke, the more ambition revealed in his eyes!
Originally, he just wanted to try his best to keep Luo Hong in Baiyan City, but now he just wants to use Luo Hong's abilities to monopolize the benefits of Xuancheng, so that he can break through the sky and become a Daluo Xuanshi!
Therefore, Sun Tu will never allow Luo Hong to escape from his control!
"Xu will definitely serve the Lord of the City, but after the matter is accomplished, the Purple Spirit Fairy..."
Xu Yinghu behaved so actively, he must have his own plans, but they were not very presentable.
"As long as you work hard, you will get what you want."
There was a flash of disdain in Sun Tu's eyes, but he promised seriously on the surface.
"I will go find Fellow Daoist Zhu right away!"
Xu Yinghu showed a look of great joy, turned around and walked out of the hall excitedly.
At the same time, Zhu Yan, whom they were talking about, secretly came to Luo Hong's residence.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhu Yan took off a leather bag from his waist and placed it on the table in front of Luo Hong.
Luo Hong picked it up and weighed it. He felt it was quite heavy and a look of satisfaction immediately appeared on his face.
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, you have worked hard this year. Please take a seat."
After putting away the bag of earth-level beast cores, Luo Hong asked Zhu Yan to sit opposite him with a smile on his face.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, in addition to these beast cores, I have also revealed those words to Xu Yinghu according to your instructions.
But there is one thing I don't understand, how do you know they will definitely attack you?"
Zhu Yan knew very well that Luo Hong asked him to do that in order to lure Sun Tu into the trap so as to seize Baiyan City.
However, even if Sun Tu did not take any action, he could still gain a lot of benefits, so the bait did not seem to be tempting enough at the moment.
“Haha, Fellow Daoist Zhu, you don’t know that as long as he wants to break through the Heavenly Gate, he will definitely control me.”
Luo Hong chuckled and poured a glass of wine for Zhu Yan.
Normal cultivators in Jilinkong Realm are different from Luo Hong. If a Taiyi Xuanshi wants to improve his cultivation, he can only refine beast cores above the earth level.
When one reaches Sun Tu's realm, earth-level beast cores are of no use. Only by obtaining heaven-level beast cores, or even more scarce resources, can one's own Xuan Dao cultivation be improved.
But almost all these resources are under the control of Erkui, the lord of Xuancheng, and are the means Erkui uses to control the four subordinate cities.
Luo Hong knew very well that Erqi was a fierce man who had opened more than a thousand mysterious orifices. Sun Tu could only gain benefits within the rules set by him. He had no strength to overturn the table at all.
Therefore, Sun Tu will only continue to improve the strength of Baiyan City, so as to continuously suppress the other three affiliated cities and enjoy the biggest piece of fat from Xuancheng!
It is for this reason that Luo Hong wants to design a plan to control Baiyan City.
After all, as long as he has enough Xuan-level beast cores, he can practice step by step to the Taiyi peak of the Xuan Dao.
But relying solely on Baiyan City is obviously not enough, so the trade of mysterious weapons with the other three cities must be carried out here in Luo Hong!
There is no doubt that there is a fundamental conflict of interests between the two sides.
So, before Sun Tu set his sights on Luo Hong, Luo Hong had already set his sights on his position as city lord!
"In that case, I will try to find out what Sun Tu's methods are."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yan did not ask any more questions and decided to make some preparations first.
Then, Zhu Yan did not stay long and quietly left Luo Hong's residence again.
"Zi Ling, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Putting down the wine glass, Luo Hong suddenly spoke.
"Has Fellow Daoist Zhu left?"
Along with the soft voice, a side door was opened by a jade hand, and Zi Ling immediately walked out of the door.
Seeing that Luo Hong was the only one in the room, she immediately walked to the table and sat down, then poured herself a glass of fairy wine without any hesitation.
"Ahem, why is this wine so strong?!"
After taking just one sip, Zi Ling regretted her decision. The alcohol was much stronger than she had expected!
However, she had no intention of putting down her wine glass. After all, in this Jilin Sky Realm, having fairy wine to drink was an extremely luxurious thing.
“I’m sorry to have made you laugh, Brother Luo. I came here to ask Brother Luo to help me get some books about Puppet City.
I think those two broken puppets are interesting, but after studying them for a year, I still can't figure out how to use them.
I wonder if this will embarrass Brother Luo?"
Zi Ling also knew that Xuancheng and Kuicheng were mortal enemies, but she was practicing the laws of puppetry and did not want to waste her time in the Jilin Void Realm.
"This shouldn't be difficult. Baiyan City has been fighting with the nearby Guicheng City for countless years, so there must be corresponding spoils of war. When I see City Lord Sun next time, I will mention it to you."
It was just a small matter, Luo Hong agreed immediately.
Not long after Zi Ling thanked and left, Sun Tu sent people to deliver a large number of animal bones and Xuan-level animal cores.
After closing the door, Luo Hong immediately began to practice again, swallowing those mysterious beast cores into his stomach one by one!
In the following years, the activities of Luo Hong and the other two in Baiyan City were very stable.
Zi Ling stayed in the room all day long studying the puppetry techniques of Puppet City; Zhu Yan kept hunting earth-level beast cores according to Luo Hong's instructions, and inquired about Sun Tu's situation; Luo Hong, on the other hand, embezzled the black-level beast cores of Baiyan City.
After five years, the hunting team of Baiyan City has changed greatly. Not only are the Golden Immortals equipped with silver-patterned javelins and silver-patterned scale armor, the True Immortals also carry silver-patterned longbows, and each of them has no less than thirty mysterious arrows in his quiver.
Although this almost emptied the Xuan-level beast cores in Baiyan City's inventory, it also greatly improved the strength of each hunting team, and the number and quality of scaled beasts hunted back each time increased greatly!
Affected by this, the lives of residents below the level of Xuanshi in the city have been greatly improved, and those above the level of Xuanshi have even improved their cultivation speed a lot, which has made Luo Hong's reputation grow day by day in Baiyan City.
The most important change is that Luo Hong's Xuan Dao cultivation has broken through to the late Taiyi stage with the accumulation of a large number of Xuan-level beast cores!
But to reach the peak of Taiyi, Baiyan City alone is undoubtedly not enough.
So, Zhu Yan immediately took out five earth-level beast cores and asked Sun Tu to arrange someone to take him to Xuancheng.
PS: I had kidney stones these past two days and it was so painful that I just urinated today.
(End of this chapter)