Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

Chapter 327: Chapter 151: Heavenly Dao Decree: The Long Night is Coming!_4
 

A moment later, Chen Qiu picked up the cloak on the table that could shield one’s Divine Sense and draped it over his head, his expression showing a hint of resignation as he walked out of the inn, “I’ll go for a stroll.”

He had started to consider giving up on the aspiration for a tenth-grade or even a twelfth-grade Nascent Soul.

There was no other way.

The conditions were too harsh. The requirement for a Divinity Transformation Body had effectively blocked his path. From the current perspective, a third-grade Nascent Soul seemed to be his limit, and he had no intention of waiting for the path of the Heavenly Prides.

Having Golden Core Cultivation on the Xuantian Continent felt too insecure.

It was better to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage as soon as possible.

Take, for example, tonight’s “Long Night is Coming” Heavenly Dao event that he had no plans to attend. It was too dangerous. Having just arrived on the Xuantian Continent, it was better to keep a low profile and grow before anything else.

He had the entry “All-Knowing,” which might enable him to find some missed opportunities at the street stalls.

…

In Great Yuan City, there were many Loose Cultivators, Yuan Sect disciples, and cultivators from other sects.

At this moment, a large crowd was gathering in Great Yuan City. These were people from nearby areas looking to find refuge in the city. After dark, with “Long Night is Coming,” it could get quite dangerous outside the city.

And along the way,

nearly all the cultivators were either wearing cloaks that shielded Divine Sense or masks that did the same. Even the Yuan Sect disciples were donning masks.

Chen Qiu, in his cloak, did not look out of place. At this time, he was squatting in front of a street stall, examining every Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure for sale.

This street was akin to a small market.

Both sides were filled with vendors displaying their wares, including numerous weapon fragments and various medicinal herbs that seemed imbued with spirituality. As for the specifics of these items, that all depended on the vendor’s pitch.

“Fellow Daoist, you’ve found yourself a treasure.”

At this point, the bald vendor at the stall Chen Qiu was in front of was eyeing the sword tip fragment that Chen Qiu was handling. After glancing around cautiously, he whispered,

“Do you know of the grand battle that swept through Quzhou thousands of years ago?”

“Right!”

“My grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather witnessed that battle firsthand. It was so fierce that it darkened the skies and earth, and this sword tip fragment is a piece of a shattered weapon from that time. It contains supreme Sword Intent. If you can comprehend it, you could become the number one Sword Immortal in Quzhou!”

“How about ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones for it?”

“Hmm.”

Chen Qiu nodded lightly, his gaze casually sweeping over every item on the stall. Whenever his sight focused on an item, a panel enveloped in mist would appear above his Dantian, detailing the item’s information.

But this weapon fragment in his hand was appraised as… trash.

Everything on the stall was also trash; not a single genuine item was present. Just as he was about to stand up and leave,

he suddenly overheard a conversation nearby.

“Are you going out of the city tonight?”

“What, are you thinking of participating in tonight’s ‘Long Night is Coming’? You’d better think it through; a few years ago, during Quzhou’s ‘Long Night is Coming,’ it’s said that hundreds of Golden Core disciples died in just one night.”

“I’m still hesitant, but it’s said that tonight’s ‘Long Night is Coming’ will feature a ‘Divinity Transformation Body.’ My movement technique is very fast. What if I manage to grab it? I could directly cultivate a fourth-grade Nascent Soul. Once I break through to the Nascent Soul Stage later on, wouldn’t I be invincible among my peers?”

Hearing the voices close by,

Chen Qiu’s body tensed slightly, and his hand trembling faintly as he clutched the sword tip fragment, he turned to look at the two Loose Cultivators who were gradually walking away. Tonight’s ‘Long Night is Coming’ was actually going to feature a ‘Divinity Transformation Body’?

Then… his aspiration for a tenth-grade Nascent Soul might still be worth considering.

The first step is always the hardest. Once he obtained the first one, the rest would come naturally.

The vendor noticed his reaction and his eyes lit up, thinking that Chen Qiu had made a judgment error. He hurriedly tried to drive the point home, “Fellow Daoist, I’m telling you, this sword tip fragment is a piece from a Divinity Transformation high-grade Spiritual Treasure. If my family hadn’t fallen on hard times, I wouldn’t sell it. Ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones is truly a fair price for you.”

About to get up, Chen Qiu glanced at the vendor and said indifferently, “How about eight Mid-grade Spirit Stones? If you’re selling, I’ll take it.”@@novelbin@@

“This…”

The vendor’s breathing suddenly became uncontrollably rapid, but he still forcefully suppressed his excitement and pretended to be in a difficult position, “Fellow Daoist, I really can’t lower the price any further. You know what this thing is worth. If…”

However, before the vendor could finish speaking,

Chen Qiu stood up immediately with Fat Long and left the stall, heading toward another one.

The befuddled vendor hastily got up, watching the retreating backs of Chen Qiu and company as he shouted urgently, “I’ll sell, I’ll sell, just as you said, eight mid-grade Spirit Stones.”

But Chen Qiu and his companions did not show any sign of stopping.

“Seven!”

“Three!”

“One, just one, that should be fine, right?”

However, no matter how desperately the vendor shouted, Chen Qiu and the others kept walking away, getting further and further, until finally realizing they would not return, the vendor stood there, slapping himself repeatedly on the face, beating his chest, and crying out in regret.

Why had he tried to act tough?

If he hadn’t pretended back then, perhaps the deal for eight mid-grade Spirit Stones would have been struck.

…

At this moment, Chen Qiu was in quite a good mood, maybe because he had teased the vendor, or perhaps because he had learned that a Divinity Transformation Body would appear this very night. Anyway, he felt much better than when he first arrived.

When he first descended upon the Xuantian Continent, there was always a sense of oppression in his heart, and he felt somewhat constrained in his actions.

But now he felt much more carefree.

And just then—

He suddenly noticed that there was truly a treasure on a stall to the side.

–

“Treasure Name”: Demon Extermination Bracelet.

“Acquisition Source”: An upper-grade Earth Level Heavenly Dao Spiritual Treasure, a gift from the Heavenly Dao.

“Usage Effect”:

1: It has been heavily contaminated with resentful energy, cannot be used, requires ten pieces of Evil Wood to remove the resentful energy, and needs to be nourished in the Dantian for ten days before it can see the light of day again.

–

“…”

Chen Qiu’s expression gradually turned strange. Had he really seen a Heavenly Dao Spiritual Treasure at a stall?

The stall was littered with fragments of various weapons, some damaged Jade Scrolls, and a bunch of miscellaneous weeds posing as medicinal herbs. There were faint strands of Spiritual Energy hovering around these fragments and weeds, a common trick used by vendors.

By breaking a Spirit Stone, they let Spiritual Energy vaguely hover over these ordinary items, thus impersonating Spiritual Objects.

As for whether they could be sold, it all depended on one’s own eloquence.

And from the corner of this stall, there lay a rather rusted copper bracelet that looked extremely unremarkable, covered in dirt as if it had just been unearthed.

He stopped in his tracks, squatting in front of the stall, and after a moment, he raised his head to look at the vendor and casually said, “I’ll take this bracelet, how much is it?”

“A hundred low-grade Spirit Stones!”

The stall vendor was a female cultivator who might have been doing this for the first time, as she was somewhat inexperienced. Her voice was thick with insecurity, even trembling, “Don’t underestimate this bracelet. Do you know of the battle thousands of years ago that turned the whole of Quzhou upside down?”

“My great-great-great-grandfather was an eyewitness to that great battle, and this bracelet is from…”

Before the female cultivator could finish speaking.

Chen Qiu couldn’t help but laugh softly, waving his hand to signal Fat Long to pay before picking up the bracelet, standing up, and leaving. He tossed back a few casual remarks.

“That bald vendor up front, is he your relative?”

“You two use the same tactics.”

“When you lie, you have to look into the person’s eyes and speak with enough confidence.”

“Only if you can deceive yourself can you deceive others; if you’re not confident, how can you make others believe you?”