Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu-Chapter 93 - 86: I Have Wine, Do You Have a Story?

Lantern Street.

Lantern Street got its name from the sheer number of lanterns.

Looking out, nearly every possible spot to hang a lantern on the entire street was adorned with pale yellow square lanterns.

It was said that during the festival seasons, all these lanterns would be replaced with red ones.

However, Chen Qing felt that these pale yellow lanterns were more comfortable to look at, as if the stars fell to the mortal world.

Looking around, whether it was pavilions or paths, everything was brightly lit, leaving no dark corners.

This was to accommodate the vendors who set up stalls here.

Chen Qing couldn’t help but admire the owner of Lantern Street. They didn’t charge the vendors any Spirit Stones.

There were always people like Chen Qing who came here, intending to buy some inexpensive materials from the vendors.

However, true business couldn’t possibly be concluded at a loose cultivator stall; eventually, one had to enter the shops here.

As he walked, Chen Qing saw a variety of materials, red fruits, yellow flowers, green grasses, somewhat dazzling to the eyes.

Chen Qing wasn’t too confident he could find the thousand-year snake gallbladder here, but after scouring for an hour, he finally found it at the stall of a cultivator who seemed about fifty years old.

Chen Qing picked up the jade box, opened it for a glance, and judged that it was about twelve hundred years old.

In truth, a thousand-year snake gallbladder didn’t mean the snake lived a thousand years but referred to a thousand years of cultivation.

Snakes were naturally endowed with long life spans and were extremely difficult to undergo demon transformation. Moreover, snake demons had no hands, feet, or horns, and were not truly formidable within the Demon Clan.

Most demon clans preferred melee combat, but snake demons were exceptions, cultivating magic and relying on spells.

Therefore, most snake demons put all their effort into enhancing their cultivation, which was essentially their spiritual power.

Frankly, a thousand years of cultivation was only equivalent to perfection in the Qi Refining Realm.

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Seeing the stall had snake skin, snake meat, and snake spirits displayed, Chen Qing guessed they had teamed up to kill a large snake.

"How much for this snake gallbladder?"

The old man glanced at Chen Qing, sensing his Qi Refining Ninth Transformation spiritual energy fluctuation, before responding, "Three lower-grade Spirit Stones per year."

At Wanbao Pavilion, it’d cost about four thousand Spirit Stones; here, just thirty-six hundred.

Chen Qing reached into his sleeve, took out thirty-six middle-grade Spirit Stones, placed them on the stall, and stood to take the jade box, preparing to go home.

He had been in this world for over two years, and no one had ever raised the price on him when he was purchasing something, which was truly dull.

He put it in his sleeve, letting the Snake Gu consume it, and Chen Qing found a teahouse to drink tea and gather some information while waiting for the Snake Gu to digest it.

After drinking for an hour, he hadn’t gathered much news, almost all of it was things he already knew.

These days, people mostly talked about him; of course, they didn’t know his name, only that some Evil Cultivator had slain numerous cultivators in a battle...

In their stories, the number he killed in that battle at Wutong Mountain had climbed from nearly a hundred to three hundred.

It was foreseeable that in one or two more months, people might claim he had achieved a thousand slain.

It was just a mystery where Wutong Mountain and Taiping Sect were getting so many people.

He looked at the Snake Gu in his sleeve, and its advancement progress had risen by thirty-six points. At this rate, he’d need to purchase two more thousand-year snake gallbladders.

It required more than ten thousand Spirit Stones!

Nurturing a spirit Gu was indeed a pitfall.

For others, not knowing the materials needed to nurture it, especially with a newly born Gu, unlike those big forces that knew the scope of materials, ascending the First Transformation likely cost hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones.

But now, with the Spirit Stones in his hands, he was confident he could let the Snake Gu undergo Butterfly Transformation.

He visited Wanbao Pavilion to purchase two thousand-year snake gallbladders, one of which was as old as fifteen hundred years.

On the way back, as Chen Qing walked into an alley, a gentle breeze blew as he sensed two people following him.

However, before reaching a secluded spot, the pair were stopped by someone else who quietly remarked, "A Qi Refining Ninth Transformation in his twenties, if you provoke him, are you courting death?"

The two who were tracking him instantly realized, "A Qi Refining Ninth Transformation in his twenties, the lives at his hands must be countless."

"Let’s go. We better not provoke him."

Chen Qing, who was walking ahead, felt the three tracking him withdraw and couldn’t help but smile.

At last, they weren’t too stupid.

These past few days, Chen Qing had been buying materials needed for the Snake Gu’s promotion, and Wo Hu City was unlike the market at the foot of Wuyou Mountain, where only one Wanbao Pavilion had a large stock.

There were plenty of shops here.

He’d buy one item at one place and move on, not worrying about being discovered.

There were many cultivators in Wo Hu City, and with his cultivation at the Ninth Transformation of Qi Refining, no one dared to plot against him.

Spending eighty to ninety thousand Spirit Stones, the Snake Gu finally advanced to the Ninth Transformation.

[Spiritual Item Snake Gu]

Quality: Ninth Transformation

Life Span: 1/360

Effect:

Snake Swallowing Elephant: Can devour vast amounts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Spiritual Medicine, and flesh, quickly digest and absorb to enhance the body and improve cultivation.

Will not be overstuffed by ordinary food without spirituality.

Trait: Winter Storage can store nine types of items.

Growth Requirements: None

Growth Progress: 100/100

Promotion Requirements: A night without a moon, one Human Sin Money, nine threads of Lightless Breath

Lightless Breath could be bought, costing Chen Qing thirty-six thousand lower-grade Spirit Stones.

Now, the only problem was getting a Human Sin Money.

Human Sin Money referred to blood-stained Copper Coins, Silver Taels, or Gold.

It wasn’t hard to stain them with blood; the difficult part was making sure it was because of that money that the blood was shed.

It needed to be life and death karma initiated by that piece of money to be considered genuine Human Sin Money.